java - Can I find the URL for a spring mvc controller in the view layer?

Question

I think what I need is called reverse url resolution in Django. Lets say I have an AddUserController that goes something like this:

@Controller
@RequestMapping("/create-user")
public class AddUserController{ ... }

What I want is some way to dynamically find the url to this controller or form a url with parameters to it from the view (JSP), so I don't have to hardcode urls to controllers all over the place. Is this possible in Spring MVC?

Answer 1

Have you considered having a bean that aggregates all of the controller URLs you need into a HashMap and then adding this controller/URL Map to any model that requires it? Each Spring controller has the ability to call an init() method, you could have each controller add it's name and URL to the controller/URL map in the init() methods so it would be ready to use when the controllers go live.