@RequestMapping does not work on methods when I have annotated the controller

Question

I have annotated the controller with a requestmapping. I also annotated the method with another requestmapping, however it doesn't seemed to get mapped. I am using Spring 2.5.

@RequestMapping("/animals")
@Controller
public class AnimalController {
    @RequestMapping(value="/tiger")
    public void doSomething(...) {..}
}

Shouldn't this give me the path /animals/tiger? I have these in the context config:

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter" />

I only get a exception saying that it isn't mapped.

Answer 1

You will need the @Controller annotation above the class definition. But in addition to that you need to specify the type of Request. eg is is POST or GET. An example is shown below:

@RequestMapping(value = "tiger", method = RequestMethod.GET)

Also, note that a forward slash is not needed before the String 'tiger'. This is automatic.