This tutorial will show you how we use @PathVariable annotation with Regular Expressions in Spring Web MVC. Sometimes you need more precision in defining URI template variables. The @RequestMapping and @GetMapping annotations support the use of regular expressions in URI template variables. The syntax is {varName:regex} where the first part defines the variable name and…

This tutorial will show you how to use @PathVariable annotation in Spring MVC. The @PathVariable annotation is used on a method argument to bind it to the value of a URI template variable. You can also make this path variable optional in the URI. path variable can appear in any path segment of the URI.