Spring 3.2 mvc, how to rewrite url within controller as part of redirectview with permanent status code sent

Question

 @RequestMapping(value = \"/Foo/{id}/{friendlyUrl:.*}\", method = RequestMethod.GET)
 public ModelAndView getFoo(@PathVariable final Long id, @PathVariable final String          


        

Answer 1

In your code you have

foo = fooService.get(id); //use id from pathvariable
redirectView = new RedirectView(foo.getCorrectUrl()); //set url to correct url, not that in path
redirectView.setStatusCode(HttpStatus.MOVED_PERMANENTLY); //moved permanently
modelAndView = new ModelAndView(redirectView);
modelAndView.setViewName("myFoo.jsp");
return modelAndView;

The call to modelAndView.setViewName("myFoo.jsp"); effectively replaces the value of View (redirectView reference) that was passed to ModelAndView contructor. So you should not call setViewName in this case.