How to map several segments of URL to one PathVariable in spring-mvc?

Question

I\'m working on a webapp, one function of which was to list all the files under given path. I tried to map several segments of URL to one PathVariable like this :

Answer 1

In REST each URL is a separate resource, so I don't think you can have a generic solution. I can think of two options

• One option is to change the mapping to @RequestMapping("/list/**") (path parameter no longer needed) and extract the whole path from request
• Second option is to create several methods, with mappings like @RequestMapping("/list/{level1}"), @RequestMapping("/list/{level1}/{level2}"), @RequestMapping("/list/{level1}/{level2}/{level3}")... concatenate the path in method bodies and call one method that does the job. This, of course, has a downside that you can only support a limited folder depth (you can make a dozen methods with these mappings if it's not too ugly for you)