Spring RESTful Routing & Static Files

one of the most important annotations is @RequestMapping

the following code snippets are from Baeldung website example make a route /ex/foos, and get it using GET method.

  @RequestMapping(value = "/ex/foos", method = RequestMethod.GET)
  //this annotation to not maps with templates and shows error
  @ResponseBody
  public String getFoosBySimplePath() {
      return "Get some Foos";
  }

the same route using POST method

  @RequestMapping(value = "/ex/foos", method = POST)
  @ResponseBody
  public String postFoos() {
      return "Post some Foos";
}

to send headers with the request see example below:

  @RequestMapping(value = "/ex/foos", headers = "key=val", method = GET)
  @ResponseBody
  public String getFoosWithHeader() {
      return "Get some Foos with Header";
  }

add path variables to request

  @RequestMapping(value = "/ex/foos/{id}", method = GET)
  @ResponseBody
  public String getFoosBySimplePathWithPathVariable(
    @PathVariable("id") long id) {
      return "Get a specific Foo with id=" + id;
  }