What I want is to have a url like:
/cache/player/1/picture
Spring 3.0 will allow this kind of thing, but for the moment there is a url rewriting filter from http://tuckey.org
The steps I used were:
1. Add a dependency to the pom file
<dependency>
<groupid>org.tuckey</groupid>
<artifactid>urlrewrite</artifactid>
<version>2.5.2</version>
</dependency>
2. Add a filter to web.xml
<filter>
<filter-name>UrlRewriteFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
3. Add a file called urlwrite.xml to WEB-INF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE urlrewrite PUBLIC "-//tuckey.org//DTD UrlRewrite 3.0//EN" "http://tuckey.org/res/dtds/urlrewrite3.0.dtd">
<urlrewrite>
<rule>
<from>/cache/player/([0-9]+)/picture$</from>
<to>/cache/player/picture?accountId=$1</to>
</rule>
Where <from> and <to> are regular expression match and replace values
4. Create a normal Spring controller and configuration to handle requests like
/cache/player/picture?accountId=1
This means that later I can cache the picture as a file and change the controller to being a 404 handler.
