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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/24/15 4:04 AM, Daniel Lutz wrote:<br>
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I think that this depends on the component: If it's a system component,
like our SPNEGO controller, the deployer shouldn't change the mapping.
Else, he would risk that it doesn't work anymore, because this may
break the interface between the flow and the controller. (This interface
is fixed, in our case.)
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That's true. Although if the path is configurable, then I'd expect
the flow bean(s) to also allow configuration of the path/URL to the
controller so that they could be made to match.<br>
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BTW, to add an annotations based controller, it's sufficient to
declare it as a bean, e.g. in system/conf/mvc-bean.xml, like this:
<bean id="shibboleth.SPNEGOAuthnController"
class="net.shibboleth.idp.authn.impl.spnego.SPNEGOAuthnController" />
No <context:component-scan> element is required.
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I thought that was the case, but hadn't tested. I think the
controller class still has to have the @Controller annotation, right
(or a class-level @RequestMapping)? I believe that's how MVC
identifies that it is a controller bean (via an annotation-based
HandlerMapping impl). [1]<br>
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The "org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter"
will still find the controller (by scanning the known beans, I assume).
An alternative to the annotations based request mapping would be
an explicitly configured request mapping via
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I think with that you still need the method-level @RequestMapping,
right?
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[1] Btw, I noticed that they still default in their own
DispatcherServlet.properties the DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping,
despite the Javadocs noting that it's been deprecated since Spring
3.2 in favor of RequestMappingHandlerMapping. If we're going to
continue supporting this mechanism, we should consider switching to
the newer class in our mvc-beans.xml.<br>
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