bind Spring HandlerInterceptor only to one controller

Question

Using Spring 3.0.2.RELEASE. I\'m having 2 Controllers in package com.myCompany. The Controllers are activated via Component-scan

Answer 1

When you inject interceptors into a HandlerMapping bean, those interceptors apply to every handler mapped by that HandlerMapping. That was fine in the pre-annotation days, since you'd just have configure multiple HandlerMapping beans. However, with annotations, we tend to have a single DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping that maps everything, so this model doesn't work.

The solution is to use <mvc:interceptors>, where you explicitly map paths to interceptor beans. See the docs, and this example:

<mvc:interceptors>
    <mvc:interceptor>
        <mvc:mapping path="/secure/*"/>
        <bean class="org.example.SecurityInterceptor" />
    </mvc:interceptor>
</mvc:interceptors>