This tutorial explains how to redirect to a new URL inside the Spring MVC controller. There is attribute “redirect” which can be prefixed to the view name to indicate that the new request should be a redirected one.
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1. Spring MVC Controller
SpringMVCController.java
package javabeat.net.spring.controller; import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller; import org.springframework.ui.Model; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping; import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod; @Controller @RequestMapping("/springtest") public class SpringMVCController { @RequestMapping(value="/redirectTest", method = RequestMethod.GET) public String redirectTest() { //some stuff here return "redirect:/springtest/redirectedUrl"; } @RequestMapping(value="/redirectedUrl", method = RequestMethod.GET) public String redirection(Model model) { //some stuff here model.addAttribute("msg", "Spring Redirection Test"); return "hello"; } }
2. Views
hello.jsp
<html> <body> <h1>JavaBeat Spring MVC Examples</h1> <h2>Spring MVC Examples : ${msg}</h2> </body> </html>
3. Spring Configurations
spring-dispatcher-servlet.xml
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:websocket="http://www.springframework.org/schema/websocket" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/websocket http://www.springframework.org/schema/websocket/spring-websocket-4.0.xsd"> <context:component-scan base-package="javabeat.net.spring.controller" /> <bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver"> <property name="prefix"> <value>/WEB-INF/jsp/</value> </property> <property name="suffix"> <value>.jsp</value> </property> </bean> </beans>
4. Web Deployment Descriptor
web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0"> <display-name>Spring MVC 4.0 Web Application</display-name> <servlet> <servlet-name>spring-dispatcher</servlet-name> <servlet-class> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet </servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>spring-dispatcher</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app>
5. Demo
When you run the above example, you would see the following output.