ControllerLinkBuilder can not handle alwaysUseFullPath=true

[Laures]

• the servlet mapping is "players/*"
• the PlayerController has the request mapping "/players/"
• the HandlerMapping is configured with alwaysUseFullPath=true

Then a links to the PlayerController will look like:

http://localhost:8080/players/players/1

the easiest solution would be if i could (globaly?) configure the ControllerLinkBuilder to ignore the servlet-mapping when creating the builder initially. then the call path(mapping) would not add the servlet-mapping a second time.

[timc]

Is there a way around this? I have the same problem.

[Laures]

implement your own helper for link creation. the ControllerLinkBuilder that is used by spring-hateoas uses the current request to construct links. thats great but with alwaysUseFullPath active you need to clear the path of the request before doing that because the path of the request is already part of you request mapping annotation.

i workarounded this by implementing my own ResourceAssembler that uses my own RootControllerLinkBuilder. I copied the normal builder but changed the getBuilder() method to return builder.path(null).

[timc]

Thanks, done similar. Cheers.

[Laures]

update:
in the current spring version the call to remove the servlet-path part needs to be builder.replacePath(null). It looks like the method changed.

[gregturn]

Current solution leverages the servlet request combined with the @RequestMapping annotation's link, making this issue out of date.