Spring RequestMapping Supported Method Arguments
28-06-2014The following are the supported method arguments:
- Request or response objects (Servlet API) Choose any specific request or response type, for example
ServletRequest
orHttpServletRequest
.
-
Session object (Servlet API) of type
HttpSession
. An argument of this type enforces the presence of a corresponding session. As a consequence, such an argument is nevernull
.
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Session access may not be thread-safe, in particular in a Servlet environment. Consider
setting the |
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org.springframework.web.context.request.WebRequest
ororg.springframework.web.context.request.NativeWebRequest
. Allows for generic request parameter access as well as request/session attribute access, without ties to the native Servlet/Portlet API.
-
java.util.Locale
for the current request locale, determined by the most specific locale resolver available, in effect, the configuredLocaleResolver
in a Servlet
environment.
-
java.io.InputStream
/java.io.Reader
for access to the request’s content. This value is the raw InputStream/Reader as exposed by the Servlet API.
-
java.io.OutputStream
/java.io.Writer
for generating the response’s content. This value is the raw OutputStream/Writer as exposed by the Servlet API.
-
org.springframework.http.HttpMethod
for the HTTP request method.
-
java.security.Principal
containing the currently authenticated user.
-
@PathVariable
annotated parameters for access to URI template variables. See the section called “URI Template Patterns”.
-
@MatrixVariable
annotated parameters for access to name-value pairs located in URI path segments. See the section called “Matrix Variables”.
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@RequestParam
annotated parameters for access to specific Servlet request parameters. Parameter values are converted to the declared method argument type. See the section called “Binding request parameters to method parameters with @RequestParam”.
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@RequestHeader
annotated parameters for access to specific Servlet request HTTP headers. Parameter values are converted to the declared method argument type.
-
@RequestBody
annotated parameters for access to the HTTP request body. Parameter values are converted to the declared method argument type using
HttpMessageConverter
s. See the section called “Mapping the request body with the @RequestBody annotation”.
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@RequestPart
annotated parameters for access to the content of a "multipart/form-data" request part. See Section 16.11.5, “Handling a file upload request from programmatic clients” and Section 16.11, “Spring’s multipart (file upload) support”.
-
HttpEntity<?>
parameters for access to the Servlet request HTTP headers and contents. The request stream will be converted to the entity body using
HttpMessageConverter
s. See HttpEntity">the section called “Using HttpEntity”.
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java.util.Map
/org.springframework.ui.Model
/org.springframework.ui.ModelMap
for enriching the implicit model that is exposed to the web view.
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org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.support.RedirectAttributes
to specify the exact set of attributes to use in case of a redirect and also to add flash attributes (attributes stored temporarily on the server-side to make them available to the request after the redirect).RedirectAttributes
is used instead of the implicit model if the method returns a "redirect:" prefixed view name orRedirectView
.
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Command or form objects to bind request parameters to bean properties (via setters) or directly to fields, with customizable type conversion, depending on
@InitBinder
methods and/or the HandlerAdapter configuration. See thewebBindingInitializer
property onRequestMappingHandlerAdapter
. Such command objects along with their validation results will be exposed as model attributes by default, using the command class class name - e.g. model attribute "orderAddress" for a command object of type "some.package.OrderAddress". TheModelAttribute
annotation can be used on a method argument to customize the model attribute name used.
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org.springframework.validation.Errors
/org.springframework.validation.BindingResult
validation results for a preceding command or form object (the immediately preceding method argument).
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org.springframework.web.bind.support.SessionStatus
status handle for marking form processing as complete, which triggers the cleanup of session attributes that have been indicated by the@SessionAttributes
annotation at the handler type level.
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org.springframework.web.util.UriComponentsBuilder
a builder for preparing a URL relative to the current request’s host, port, scheme, context path, and the literal part of the servlet mapping.
The Errors
or BindingResult
parameters have to follow the model object that is being bound immediately as the method signature might have more that one model object and Spring will create a separate BindingResult
instance for each of them so the following
sample won’t work:
BindingResult and @ModelAttribute"
Invalid ordering of BindingResult and @ModelAttribute.
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST) public String processSubmit(@ModelAttribute("pet") Pet pet, Model model, BindingResult result) { ... }
Note, that there is a Model
parameter in between Pet
and BindingResult
. To get
this working you have to reorder the parameters as follows:
@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST) public String processSubmit(@ModelAttribute("pet") Pet pet, BindingResult result, Model model) { ... }