Trying to create REST-ful URLs with multiple dots in the “filename” part - Spring 3.0 MVC

Question

I\'m using Spring MVC (3.0) with annotation-driven controllers. I would like to create REST-ful URLs for resources and be able to not require (but still opt

Answer 1

JFY: in Spring 4 this issue is fixed via: WebMvcConfigurerAdapter.

@Configuration 
class MvcConfiguration extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

@Override
public void configurePathMatch(PathMatchConfigurer configurer) {
    configurer.setUseSuffixPatternMatch(false);
}
}

Or via WebMvcConfigurationSupport like here.

and in Spring 5:

@Configuration
public class MvcConfiguration implements WebMvcConfigurer {

    @Override
    public void configurePathMatch(PathMatchConfigurer configurer) {
        configurer.setUseSuffixPatternMatch(false);
    }
}