Spring 5 Design Patterns

Mapping requests with @RequestMapping

The previously defined HomeController class has only one handler method, and this method is annotated with the @RequestMapping annotation. Here, I have used two attributes of this annotation--one is value to map the HTTP request to the / pattern, and the other attribute is a method for supporting the HTTP GET method. We can define multiple URL mappings with one handler method. Let's see this in the following code snippet:

    @Controller 
    public class HomeController { 
    
     @RequestMapping(value = {"/", "/index"}, method = RequestMethod.GET) 
     public String home (){ 
         return "home"; 
    } 
   } 

In the preceding code, the @RequestMapping annotation has an array of string values for the value attribute of this annotation. Now, ...