Using Spring Boot, I have a couple methods in my RegisterController which handles new user registration.
The createNewUser method is responsible for saving the new user to the database and sending a confirmation e-mail containing a link that has a unique token.
The confirmUser method handles processing the GET request for the confirmation link.
Is there a way for the createNewUser method to get the @RequestMapping value assigned to confirmUser? I'd like to use this value to generate the confirmation link instead of hard coding it.
// Process form input data
@RequestMapping(value = "/register", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public ModelAndView createNewUser(@Valid User user, BindingResult bindingResult) {
}
// Process confirmation link
// Link in confirmation e-mail will be /registerConfirmation?token=UUID
@RequestMapping(value="/registerConfirmation", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView confirmUser( @RequestParam("token") String token) {
}
I don't know of a way to get it from the @RequestMapping value but you have a couple of different options.
Option 1: Create a constant for the mapping and use that which allows you to reference it in both methods.
private final static String REGISTER_CONF_VAL = "/registerConfirmation";
@RequestMapping(value = "/register", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public ModelAndView createNewUser(@Valid User user, BindingResult bindingResult) {
}
// Process confirmation link
// Link in confirmation e-mail will be /registerConfirmation?token=UUID
@RequestMapping(value=REGISTER_CONF_VAL, method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView confirmUser( @RequestParam("token") String token) {
}
Option 2: Less ideal, but if you add registerConfirmation to your config file, you can access it like:
@RequestMapping(value="${register.conf.val}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView confirmUser( @RequestParam("token") String token) {
}
The reason this isn't ideal is because you probably don't want it to be different from environment to environment. That said, it would work.