Spring MVC mapping query parameters instead of URI templates values with #PathVariable - spring-mvc

Question

#RequestMapping(value = "/account/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView getAccount(#PathVariable String id)
throws ProfileNotFoundException {
System.out.println(id);
return null;
}
.../account/12345 results in null
.../account/test?id=12345 '12345' results in 12345
Not sure how to fix this but I'd like the first link to work instead of the second. Here is my webmvc-config.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">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.twheys.lexika.web.**"
use-default-filters="false">
<context:include-filter expression="org.springframework.stereotype.Controller"
type="annotation" />
</context:component-scan>
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<bean id="viewResolver"
class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="viewClass"
value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"></property>
<property name="prefix" value="WEB-INF/views/"></property>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"></property>
</bean>
</beans>

Answer 1

Just specify it as #PathVariable("id") - without that the HandlerMethodArgumentResolver responsible for resolving the value of the argument tries to figure out the parameter value by parameter name, the parameter name (id) gets lost during compilation though(unless debug symbols are on during compilation, which typically it is not).

Answer 2

#RequestMapping(value = "/authors/{authorId}")
public ModelAndView getAuthorById(#PathVariable String authorId) {
Author author = bookService.getAuthorById(authorId);
ModelAndView mav =
new ModelAndView("bookXmlView", BindingResult.MODEL_KEY_PREFIX + "author", author);
return mav;
}
Above Code works fine for me. Kindly use in similar manner.