Spring URL when both controller and method do not have @RequestMapping values

Question

I'm being asked to take over a piece of code. Being that I am not an seasoned Spring developer, I have a question on what is the URI when both the controller and method does not specify a value for @RequestMapping.

For example, the code looks like this:

@Controller
public class FooController {

    @RequestMapping
    public String getThis(String input) {
        return "This";
    }
}

So what is the URL that I need to access the getThis method?

check the web.xml or spring-config.xml files to see if there is a default controller being specified or if the named controller (in your case FooController is being named or mapped to a specific URL/URI — blurfus

Dilip Kumar Dilip Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-29T20:36:06

Sometime back i also had the same doubt. Am thinking that Controller without @RequestMapping will throw an exception (am not sure).

For method case:

If you don't have any values in @RequestMapping, method will listen on Controller path and you dint specify any method so it will listen ALL HTTP Methods.

Spring URL when both controller and method do not have @RequestMapping values

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