java - Unused URI template variable - can I replace it with a wildcard? -

i have code along following lines in spring mvc webapp:

@requestmapping("/{somevariable}/apath/apage.do") public void serveapage() {     dostuff(); } 

we want "somevariable" in url, aren't interested in capturing , using value of it. there way of replacing wildcard, e.g. /*/apath/apage.do?

yes, @requestmapping accepts ant-style patterns http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/bind/annotation/requestmapping.html#params()

so works:

@requestmapping(value="/*/test2.do") public void getmeta5(httpservletrequest request, httpservletresponse response) throws ioexception {     final printwriter writer = response.getwriter();     writer.print("requesturi:" + request.getrequesturi());     writer.flush(); } 

this assumes servlet-mapping in web.xml maps url path dispatcherservlet, e.g.

<servlet>     <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>     <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.dispatcherservlet</servlet-class>     <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping>     <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>     <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>