How to pass URL as parameter in Spring mvc

Question

I am trying to pass an URL from jsp to controller on a button submit

JSP Code:

<input type="button" onClick="window.location='<c:url value="/tools/serverLogs/${logsPath}/"/>'" name="serverLogsPage" value="View all logs"/>

Controller:

@RequestMapping(value="/tools/serverLogs/{logsPath}",method=RequestMethod.GET)
public String showLogs( Model m, @PathVariable String logsPath) { 
 return "tools/ServerLogs";
}

I tried passing the path in different formats, but i am getting error while going to the controller.

Example:

logsPath = "C:\\abc\\def\\ght";

logsPath = "C:\\abc\\def\\ght" (In this case i am not getting any error but in controller the path looks like C: abc def ght);

logsPath = "C://abc//def//ght";

logsPath = "file://abc/def/ght";

Answer 1

You could encode the logsPath before passing it on the view and decode it when retrieving content

logsPath = "C:\abc\def\ght";
logsPath = URLEncoder.encode(logsPath, "UTF-8"); // Or "ISO-8859-1"