Add schema for web configuration (handler mappings) [SPR-1725]

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Alef Arendsen opened SPR-1725 and commented

Using the new schema support we can greatly simplify the configuration of Spring Web MVC. I'll be adding schema and parsers incrementally over the next couple of days.

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Issue Links:

• configuring a SimpleUrlHandlerMapping through a schema [SPR-2764] #7452 configuring a SimpleUrlHandlerMapping through a schema ("is duplicated by")
• Add mvc namespace for simplifying setup of Spring MVC [SPR-6306] #10972 Add mvc namespace for simplifying setup of Spring MVC ("is duplicated by")

4 votes, 6 watchers

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Alef Arendsen commented

First up: an element for the SimpleUrlHandlerMapping

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Juergen Hoeller commented

To be revisited for 2.0 RC1

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Grant Gochnauer commented

Juergen,
Any reason this was dropped from 2.1?

Thanks!

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Rick Evans commented

Hi Grant

(Copying text from #7452)

After some discussion internally it has been decided to 'shelve' the MVC-specific tags indefinitely (or until enough folks in the community vote on this issue). The reason for shelving this issue (for now) is that there doesn't seem to be enough 'value-add' provided by these new tags to warrant doing them, simple as that.

Cheers
Rick

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Grant Gochnauer commented

Thanks Rick for the update.

-Grant

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Mike Youngstrom commented

I hope this makes it in to rc2.

One feature I hope will make it into the handler is the ability to set in one place "alwaysUseFullPath". In my project the way that I manage my servlet mappings I have to add the following:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping">
	<property name="alwaysUseFullPath" value="true" />
</bean>

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
	<property name="alwaysUseFullPath" value="true" />
</bean>

It would be nice to simply make "always-use-full-path" a single default attribute for the default Handlers.