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A question mark within a @PathVariable in Spring MVC?

Within the @Controller of a search engine:

@RequestMapping(value = "/search/{query}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public String search(@PathVariable String query) {}

If a user wants to search /search/w?rld (which should match world, warld, whrld, etc.), the variable query equals w, because of the question mark which indicated a GET var.

I tried "/search/{query:.+}", but still doesn't work.

Any idea how to solve that problem?

Solution

  • The problem is not in the Spring configuration. It's in the URL. The question mark is the symbol indicating the start of the query String. If it's part of the URL, it must be encoded:

    /search/w%3Frld