I have some controllers which have nothing in them, i am just setting the viewname to model object and returning it . In the absence of these methods, does SpringMVC do the mapping directly through the tile definition? If yes, can you please tell how to do that.
Thanks in Advance..
You can use a combination of org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping & org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.UrlFilenameViewController:
SimpleUrlHandlerMapping gives the ability to route an URL directly to a controller,UrlFilenameViewController transform the received URL directy into a view name (e.g. URL: /test.html → View name: test).Hereunder, the required Spring configuration:
<?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:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa http://www.springframework.org/schema/data/jpa/spring-jpa-1.2.xsd">
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles3.TilesView" />
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/tiles/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".tiles" />
<property name="order" value="1" />
</bean>
<!-- For direct mapping between URL (i.e. index.html ←→ index) and the JSP
to render -->
<bean id="urlFilenameViewController" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.UrlFilenameViewController" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
<property name="order" value="1" />
<property name="mappings">
<util:map>
<entry key="/test.html" value-ref="urlFilenameViewController" />
</util:map>
</property>
</bean>
</beans>
Be careful of the <mcv:default-servlet-handler /> tag in your Spring configuration, it can make the above configuration failing (not returning null and default handler priority set to Interger.MAX_VALUE as explained in the Spring documentation).
