Spring mvc 3 with tiles 2 gives 400 bad request - spring-mvc

Question

I'm trying to add Apache Tiles to a simple Spring MVC webapp I'm playing with and I can't seem to get it to work (it worked without Tiles). Any request I make gives back 400 bad request, nothing appears in the log (even set to DEBUG) so I'm not sure where to start debbuging. As far as I can tell the Controller mapped method is never called as there's logging in there and it doesn't appear in the log (plus before that I would get a lot of debug info from spring about resolving the mapping to the controller before it was actually called - which now doesn't appear).
My config files are as follows (all under /WEB-INF/):
web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.5" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
<display-name>myapp</display-name>
<!-- Enable escaping of form submission contents -->
<context-param>
<param-name>defaultHtmlEscape</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>classpath*:META-INF/spring/applicationContext*.xml</param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
<filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>encoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter>
<filter-name>HttpMethodFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.HiddenHttpMethodFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>HttpMethodFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- Handles Spring requests -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>10</session-timeout>
</session-config>
</web-app>
myapp-servlet.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd">
<!-- The controllers are autodetected POJOs labeled with the #Controller
annotation. -->
<context:component-scan base-package="com.myapp.controller"
use-default-filters="false">
<context:include-filter expression="org.springframework.stereotype.Controller"
type="annotation" />
</context:component-scan>
<!-- Handles HTTP GET requests for /resources/** by efficiently serving
up static resources -->
<mvc:resources location="/resources/" mapping="/resources/**" />
<!-- Allows for mapping the DispatcherServlet to "/" by forwarding static
resource requests to the container's default Servlet -->
<mvc:default-servlet-handler />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<bean id="tilesConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesConfigurer">
<property name="definitions">
<list>
<value>/WEB-INF/tiles.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.UrlBasedViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass"
value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.tiles2.TilesView" />
</bean>
</beans>
tiles.xml
<tiles-definitions>
<definition name="product_detail" template="/WEB-INF/layout/detail.jsp">
<put-attribute name="header" value="/WEB-INF/view/header.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="banner" value="" />
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/view/product.jsp" />
<put-attribute name="footer" value="/WEB-INF/view/footer.jsp" />
</definition>
</tiles-definitions>
The layout just contains one div for each part wrapping a tag. All the views contain simple code like a header or a div.
And for the controller
ProductController.java:
#Controller
#RequestMapping("/product")
public class ProductController {
protected Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(getClass());
#Autowired
private ProductService productService;
#RequestMapping(value = "/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView getProduct(#PathVariable Long id) {
logger.info("GET product " + id);
Product product = productService.find(id);
ModelAndView mv = new ModelAndView("product_detail", "product", product);
return mv;
}
}
Deploying this with maven embedded tomcat plugin and going to localhost:8080/myapp/product/1 just gives HTTP 400 code without any other indication that something went wrong. There is a product in the DB with that id and everything from the controller down works, as I tried it before adding tiles.
Sorry for the code drop but I can't get this to work for some time now, and I have no idea what else to try or where to start debugging.
Is there some way to force logging what the problem was when a 400 bad request is returned?

Answer 1

You're missing the reference to your myapp-servlet.xml in the servlet configuration.
<!-- Handles Spring requests -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>WEB-INF/spring/myapp-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>