http://acuriouscoder.net/tag/spring-mvc/ Recent content in Spring Mvc on A Curious Coder Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://acuriouscoder.net/optional-path-variables-in-spring-mvc/ Thu, 28 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://acuriouscoder.net/optional-path-variables-in-spring-mvc/ Sometimes you run into something that makes you think twice. While programming a Spring MVC controller I wanted to have an optional path parameter. It is possible just not as obvious as you would expect. Let’s assume we have a controller that serves persons based on a substring and all persons if you specify no substring at all. A straightforward way of implementing the controller could be something like: @RestController @AllArgsConstructor public class PersonController { private PersonRepository personRepository; @RequestMapping(path = "/persons/{substring}") public List<Person> getMatchingPersons(@PathVariable(name = "substring") String substring) { return personRepository.