How to set base url for rest in spring boot?

Question

I\'m trying to to mix mvc and rest in a single spring boot project.

I want to set base path for all rest controllers (eg. example.com/api) in a single place (I don\'

Answer 1

I couldn't believe how complicate the answer to this seemingly simple question is. Here are some references:

• Spring JIRA Ticket
• Another SO question
• Yet another SO question
• Very nice GitRepository that showcases the problem

There are many differnt things to consider:

1. By settingserver.context-path=/api in application.properties you can configure a prefix for everything.(Its server.context-path not server.contextPath !)
2. Spring Data controllers annotated with @RepositoryRestController that expose a repository as rest endpoint will use the environment variable spring.data.rest.base-path in application.properties. But plain @RestController won't take this into account. According to the spring data rest documentation there is an annotation @BasePathAwareController that you can use for that. But I do have problems in connection with Spring-security when I try to secure such a controller. It is not found anymore.

Another workaround is a simple trick. You cannot prefix a static String in an annotation, but you can use expressions like this:

@RestController
public class PingController {

  /**
   * Simple is alive test
   * @return 
{"Hello":"World"}
   */
  @RequestMapping("${spring.data.rest.base-path}/_ping")
  public String isAlive() {
    return "{\"Hello\":\"World\"}";
  }
}