No. It is just that django gives you the option to name your views in case you need to refer to them from your code, or your templates. This is useful and good practice because you avoid hardcoding urls on your code or inside your templates. Even if you change the actual url, you don’t … Read more
url-pattern is used in web.xml to map your servlet to specific URL. Please see below xml code, similar code you may find in your web.xml configuration file. <servlet> <servlet-name>AddPhotoServlet</servlet-name> //servlet name <servlet-class>upload.AddPhotoServlet</servlet-class> //servlet class </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>AddPhotoServlet</servlet-name> //servlet name <url-pattern>/AddPhotoServlet</url-pattern> //how it should appear </servlet-mapping> If you change url-pattern of AddPhotoServlet from /AddPhotoServlet to /MyUrl. … Read more
The .jsf extension is where the FacesServlet is during the JSF 1.2 period often mapped on in the web.xml. <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>facesServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> The .xhtml extension is of the actual Facelets file as you’ve physically placed in the webcontent of your webapp, e.g. Webapp/WebContent/page.xhtml. If you invoke this page with the .jsf extension, e.g. http://localhost:8080/webapp/page.jsf … Read more
If an URL pattern starts with /, then it’s relative to the context root. The /Admin/* URL pattern would only match pages on http://localhost:8080/EMS2/Admin/* (assuming that /EMS2 is the context path), but you have them actually on http://localhost:8080/EMS2/faces/Html/Admin/*, so your URL pattern never matches. You need to prefix your URL patterns with /faces/Html as well … Read more
This is a path pattern that is used in Apache Ant library. Spring team implements it and uses it throughout the framework. Back to your problem. According to the Javadoc for AntPathMatcher, it only has 3 rules: ? matches one character * matches zero or more characters ** matches zero or more ‘directories’ in a … Read more
In my experience, GET /users/{id} GET /users/email/{email} is the most common approach. I would also expect the methods to return a 404 Not Found if a user doesn’t exist with the provided id or email. I wouldn’t be surprised to see GET /users/id/{id}, either (though in my opinion, it is redundant). Comments on the other … Read more
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> The /* on a servlet overrides all other servlets, including all servlets provided by the servletcontainer such as the default servlet and the JSP servlet. Whatever request you fire, it will end up in that servlet. This is thus a bad URL pattern for servlets. Usually, you’d like to use /* on a Filter … Read more