Merge pull request #11659 from chaos2418/JAVA-8981

JAVA:8981: verify spring.mvc.pathmatch.matching-strategy property usage

spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics-5/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/web/config/WebConfig.java

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
     /** Static resource locations */
     @Override
     public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
-        registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**/*")
+        registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**")
           .addResourceLocations("/", "/resources/")
           .setCachePeriod(3600)
           .resourceChain(true)

spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics-5/src/main/resources/application.properties

@@ -1,3 +1 @@
 server.servlet.context-path=/spring-mvc-basics
-
-spring.mvc.pathmatch.matching-strategy=ant-path-matcher

spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics/src/main/java/com/baeldung/spring/web/config/WebConfig.java

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
     /** Static resource locations including themes*/
     @Override
     public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
-        registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**/*")
+        registry.addResourceHandler("/resources/**")
             .addResourceLocations("/", "/resources/")
             .setCachePeriod(3600)
             .resourceChain(true)
@@ -118,8 +118,7 @@ public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
      */
     @Override
     public void configureContentNegotiation(final ContentNegotiationConfigurer configurer) {
-        configurer.favorPathExtension(true)
-            .favorParameter(true)
+        configurer.favorParameter(true)
             .parameterName("mediaType")
             .ignoreAcceptHeader(false)
             .useRegisteredExtensionsOnly(false)

spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics/src/main/resources/application.properties

@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
 server.servlet.context-path=/spring-mvc-basics
 
 ### Content Negotiation (already defined programatically)
-#spring.mvc.contentnegotiation.favor-path-extension=true
 #spring.mvc.contentnegotiation.favor-parameter=true
-#spring.mvc.contentnegotiation.parameter-name=mediaType
-spring.mvc.pathmatch.use-suffix-pattern=true
-spring.mvc.pathmatch.matching-strategy=ant-path-matcher
+#spring.mvc.contentnegotiation.parameter-name=mediaType

spring-web-modules/spring-mvc-basics/src/test/java/com/baeldung/web/controller/EmployeeControllerContentNegotiationIntegrationTest.java

@@ -19,20 +19,6 @@ public class EmployeeControllerContentNegotiationIntegrationTest {
     @Autowired
     private MockMvc mockMvc;
 
-    @Test
-    public void whenEndpointUsingJsonSuffixCalled_thenJsonResponseObtained() throws Exception {
-        this.mockMvc.perform(get("/employee/1.json"))
-            .andExpect(status().isOk())
-            .andExpect(header().string(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE));
-    }
-
-    @Test
-    public void whenEndpointUsingXmlSuffixCalled_thenXmlResponseObtained() throws Exception {
-        this.mockMvc.perform(get("/employee/1.xml"))
-            .andExpect(status().isOk())
-            .andExpect(header().string(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE));
-    }
-
     @Test
     public void whenEndpointUsingJsonParameterCalled_thenJsonResponseObtained() throws Exception {
         this.mockMvc.perform(get("/employee/1?mediaType=json"))