-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris,
On 8/24/2011 10:56 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > For example, let's say I have a web service located at: > > http://myhost/books Your REST guys are a fun bunch :) > The web service is just backed by a Java Servlet Okay. > I get my JSON listings from the web service in the above example is > to pass a special request parameter called "category", and set > its value equal to the requested category, like: > > http://myhost/books?category=fiction That's pretty standard. > What I would like to be able to do is to set up, via configuration, > the ability to map a new URL, say: > > http://myhost/fictionbooks > > To > > http://myhost/books?category=fiction > > In effect, creating a default URI mapping. Is there a way in Tomcat > to do this via configuration, and if not, I'm interested in > contributing it, and any recommendations on the best places to > look to do so would be sincerely appreciated. As Chuck points out, this is (somewhat) easily done using Tuckey's urlrewrite, but you may find that you are writing /lots and lots/ of mappings. I think the real question is this: would you rather use query-string semantics in your URLs, or would you rather use "path-info" (so-called because it uses the "path info" of the request) semantics to communicate with your server? I guess you could support both, but people usually tend to pick one and stick with it. If you want to completely change to path-info, a code-based solution is probably better (either modifying your servlet(s) or writing a Filter to make it look like everything is in the query string -- we can help you with either of these techniques). If you just want to pretend that you support path-info, then you are probably better off using lots and lots of url-rewrite rules. Hope that helps, - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5VQmMACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBlngCdFMWCM3Kcf0lnO71ENwJgSHta ID4AoJQIfqopMAgGK05Wc2CHs6QwUD8d =Ezh3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
