What is the difference between @PathParam and @PathVariable

Question

To my knowledge both serves the same purpose. Except the fact that @PathVariable is from Spring MVC and @PathParam is from JAX-RS. Any insights on

Answer 1

@PathVariable

@PathVariable it is the annotation, that is used in the URI for the incoming request.

http://localhost:8080/restcalls/101?id=10&name=xyz

@RequestParam

@RequestParam annotation used for accessing the query parameter values from the request.

public String getRestCalls(
@RequestParam(value="id", required=true) int id,
@RequestParam(value="name", required=true) String name){...}

Note

whatever we are requesting with rest call i.e, @PathVariable

whatever we are accessing for writing queries i.e, @RequestParam