Spring Controller

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I am trying to follow the Spring tutorial, but keep receiving a 404 error. Below is my Controller class:

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/updatedescription.htm")
public class UpdateDescriptionController {
    /** Logger for this class and subclasses */
    protected final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());

    @Autowired
    private ProductManager productManager;

    @RequestMapping(value="/{description}", method=RequestMethod.GET) 
    public String updateDescription(@PathVariable("description") String description, Model model) {       
        return "redirect:/hello.htm";
    }

    @Autowired
    public UpdateDescriptionController(ProductManager productManager) {
        this.productManager = productManager;
    }
}

When I try and go to "http://localhost:8505/baseSpringMVC/updatedescription.htm/Chair" I get a 404 error.

I've setup my web.xml file to point all *.htm traffic to the DispatcherServlet...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
    xmlns:javaee="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
    xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" 
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_5.xsd" version="2.5">   
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>baseSpringMVC</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>baseSpringMVC</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

baseSpringMVC-servlet.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
        xmlns:oxm="http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
                http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm/spring-oxm-3.0.xsd">

    <!-- the application context definition for the springapp DispatcherServlet -->

    <context:component-scan base-package="springapp.controllers"/>

    <!-- Load dummy data -->
    <bean id="productManager" class="springapp.model.SimpleProductManager">
        <property name="products">
            <list>
                <ref bean="product1"/>
                <ref bean="product2"/>
                <ref bean="product3"/>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="product1" class="springapp.model.Product">
        <property name="description" value="Lamp"/>
        <property name="price" value="5.75"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="product2" class="springapp.model.Product">
        <property name="description" value="Table"/>
        <property name="price" value="75.25"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="product3" class="springapp.model.Product">
        <property name="description" value="Chair"/>
        <property name="price" value="22.79"/>
    </bean>

    <!--  pull in messages from <classpath>/messages.properties -->
    <bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
        <property name="basename" value="messages"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
        <property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/>
        <property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/"/>
        <property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
    </bean>

</beans>

Any help would be great.

Thank you!

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 21 '12 at 16:37

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It's not *.htm when you add /Chair onto the end of it. Post your web.xml so we can debug it.

answered Aug 21 '12 at 16:37

nsayer

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GriffeyDog · Answer 2 · 2012-08-22T21:09:42.107

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Your class-level request mapping should not have ".htm". That is, change:

@RequestMapping("/updatedescription.htm")

to

@RequestMapping("/updatedescription")

If that doesn't fix it, we may need to see your Spring configuration file.

EDIT:

The top of your Spring config file, including the MVC namespace, should look something like this:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" 
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:oxm="http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm" 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd 
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm/spring-oxm-3.0.xsd">

edited Aug 22 '12 at 21:09

answered Aug 21 '12 at 19:25

GriffeyDog

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Tried that as suggested below. I'll add my *-servlet.xml file – Dan Aug 21 '12 at 19:28
Try adding this to your Spring config file: `` – GriffeyDog Aug 21 '12 at 20:04
Stacktrace: org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 14 in XML document from ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/baseSpringMVC-servlet.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The prefix "mvc" for element "mvc:annotation-driven" is not bound. at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:396) at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:334) – Dan Aug 22 '12 at 12:16
You need to define the mvc namespace at the top of the file. So you need `xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"` and within `xsi:schemalocation` you need `http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd`. – GriffeyDog Aug 22 '12 at 14:22
Can you please clarify so I can cut and paste. – Dan Aug 22 '12 at 19:22
Ok... do I still need to add the tag? – Dan Aug 23 '12 at 15:47

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 21 '12 at 17:14

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Change method to POST, test it and let me know so that we can debug further

@RequestMapping(value="/{description}", method=RequestMethod.POST)

answered Aug 21 '12 at 17:14

Java P

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That's not working either. It's coming from a link, so I believe it has to be a GET. – Dan Aug 21 '12 at 17:17
Do you have below line: – Java P Aug 21 '12 at 17:41
Yes, that's within the baseSpringMVC-servlet.xml file – Dan Aug 21 '12 at 17:50
No, I am at work and they block those sites here. It's coming from the Spring tutorial though – Dan Aug 21 '12 at 18:12
Do you have in your configuration – Java P Aug 21 '12 at 18:27

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 21 '12 at 17:24

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Remove the top level RequestMapping annotation on the controller. Your updateDescription method will dictate the request mapping.

answered Aug 21 '12 at 17:24

KnownSubset

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http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/reference/mvc.html#mvc-handlermapping section 15.3.2. Says you can have the top level controller with each method having another mapping – Dan Aug 21 '12 at 17:28
updated link http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/reference/mvc.html#mvc-ann-requestmapping – Dan Aug 21 '12 at 17:34
Yes you can, but it at least should not have the ".htm" extension in it. You should make the URL equivalent to "http://localhost:8505/baseSpringMVC/updatedescription/Chair". – KnownSubset Aug 21 '12 at 17:36

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