Spring MVC 3, Interceptor on all excluding some defined paths

Question

Is it possible to apply an interceptor to all controllers and actions, except some that are defined?

Just to be clear, I am not interested in applying an interceptor

Answer 1

When configuring an interceptor, you can specify a path pattern. The interceptor will be invoked only for controllers which the path matches the interceptor path pattern.

ref: http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html#mvc-config-interceptor

But as you probably noticed it, the path pattern doesn't support exclusion.

So I think the only way is to code a blacklist of paths inside the interceptor. When the interceptor is invoked, retrieve the HttpServletRequest.getRequestURI() and check if the path is blacklisted or not.

You can build the blacklist inside a @PostConstruct annotated method of the interceptor, and so get the blacklisted path from a property file for instance.