java - How to customize parameter names when binding Spring MVC command objects?

Question

I have a command object:

public class Job {
    private String jobType;
    private String location;
}

Which is bound by spring-mvc:

@RequestMapping("/foo")
public Strnig doSomethingWithJob(Job job) {
   ...
}

Which works fine for http://example.com/foo?jobType=permanent&location=Stockholm. But now I need to make it work for the following url instead:

http://example.com/foo?jt=permanent&loc=Stockholm

Obviously, I don't want to change my command object, because the field names have to remain long (as they are used in the code). How can I customize that? Is there an option to do something like this:

public class Job {
    @RequestParam("jt")
    private String jobType;
    @RequestParam("loc")
    private String location;
}

This doesn't work (@RequestParam can't be applied to fields).

The thing I'm thinking about is a custom message converter similar to FormHttpMessageConverter and read a custom annotation on the target object

Answer 1

This solution more concise but requires using RequestMappingHandlerAdapter, which Spring use when <mvc:annotation-driven /> enabled. Hope it will help somebody. The idea is to extend ServletRequestDataBinder like this:

 /**
 * ServletRequestDataBinder which supports fields renaming using {@link ParamName}
 *
 * @author jkee
 */
public class ParamNameDataBinder extends ExtendedServletRequestDataBinder {

    private final Map<String, String> renameMapping;

    public ParamNameDataBinder(Object target, String objectName, Map<String, String> renameMapping) {
        super(target, objectName);
        this.renameMapping = renameMapping;
    }

    @Override
    protected void addBindValues(MutablePropertyValues mpvs, ServletRequest request) {
        super.addBindValues(mpvs, request);
        for (Map.Entry<String, String> entry : renameMapping.entrySet()) {
            String from = entry.getKey();
            String to = entry.getValue();
            if (mpvs.contains(from)) {
                mpvs.add(to, mpvs.getPropertyValue(from).getValue());
            }
        }
    }
}

Appropriate processor:

/**
 * Method processor supports {@link ParamName} parameters renaming
 *
 * @author jkee
 */

public class RenamingProcessor extends ServletModelAttributeMethodProcessor {

    @Autowired
    private RequestMappingHandlerAdapter requestMappingHandlerAdapter;

    //Rename cache
    private final Map<Class<?>, Map<String, String>> replaceMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<Class<?>, Map<String, String>>();

    public RenamingProcessor(boolean annotationNotRequired) {
        super(annotationNotRequired);
    }

    @Override
    protected void bindRequestParameters(WebDataBinder binder, NativeWebRequest nativeWebRequest) {
        Object target = binder.getTarget();
        Class<?> targetClass = target.getClass();
        if (!replaceMap.containsKey(targetClass)) {
            Map<String, String> mapping = analyzeClass(targetClass);
            replaceMap.put(targetClass, mapping);
        }
        Map<String, String> mapping = replaceMap.get(targetClass);
        ParamNameDataBinder paramNameDataBinder = new ParamNameDataBinder(target, binder.getObjectName(), mapping);
        requestMappingHandlerAdapter.getWebBindingInitializer().initBinder(paramNameDataBinder, nativeWebRequest);
        super.bindRequestParameters(paramNameDataBinder, nativeWebRequest);
    }

    private static Map<String, String> analyzeClass(Class<?> targetClass) {
        Field[] fields = targetClass.getDeclaredFields();
        Map<String, String> renameMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
        for (Field field : fields) {
            ParamName paramNameAnnotation = field.getAnnotation(ParamName.class);
            if (paramNameAnnotation != null && !paramNameAnnotation.value().isEmpty()) {
                renameMap.put(paramNameAnnotation.value(), field.getName());
            }
        }
        if (renameMap.isEmpty()) return Collections.emptyMap();
        return renameMap;
    }
}

Annotation:

/**
 * Overrides parameter name
 * @author jkee
 */

@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
public @interface ParamName {

    /**
     * The name of the request parameter to bind to.
     */
    String value();

}

Spring config:

<mvc:annotation-driven>
    <mvc:argument-resolvers>
        <bean class="ru.yandex.metrika.util.params.RenamingProcessor">
            <constructor-arg name="annotationNotRequired" value="true"/>
        </bean>
    </mvc:argument-resolvers>
</mvc:annotation-driven> 

And finally, usage (like Bozho solution):

public class Job {
    @ParamName("job-type")
    private String jobType;
    @ParamName("loc")
    private String location;
}