Regex in spring controller

Question

I am trying to build a request filter that will only get used if it matches a pattern of the letter e, then a number. However I cannot seem to get it to work. I keep gettin

Answer 1

You should use:

 @RequestMapping("/e{number:\\d+})

Notice the "escaped slash" before the \d digit specifier.

Answer 2

According to the documentation, you have to use something like {varName:regex}. There's even an example :

@RequestMapping("/spring-web/{symbolicName:[a-z-]+}-{version:\\d\\.\\d\\.\\d}{extension:\\.[a-z]+}")
  public void handle(@PathVariable String version, @PathVariable String extension) {
    // ...
  }
}