see org.apache.wicket.request.target.coding.IndexedParamUrlCodingStrategy, its exactly what you want.
-igor On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Andrew Easter<andrew.eas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've got a interesting requirement and, being only a complete newbie to > Wicket, I'm not 100% sure I can achieve it. Basically, assume you have the > following URL to display a product: > > app/products/1234 > > I know I can use bookmarkable links and URL mounting in Wicket to allow such > "pretty" URLs. However, something that is extremely common on the Web these > days is including additional path information in a URL that further > identifies the contents of the page - mainly for search engine > optimization/marketing reasons. > > For example, the product with code 1234 might be the book "Wicket in > Action". So what I'd really want is for the following URL to work: > > app/products/1234/Wicket-in-Action.html > > Now, what you'll find in most cases is that the web application completely > ignores the URL after the product code so, even if I navigated to > app/products/1234/blah-blah-blah.html, it would still be the correct product > page for the Wicket in Action book. > > So, my question is, does this requirement sound like something that would be > easily possible in Wicket (maybe with some custom URL mounting strategy)? > > I can easily do something like this with the REST support in Spring MVC 3.0 > because I can simply map a Spring MVC Controller to a URL using wildcarding. > With the annotation support in Spring MVC, I can do something like this: > > @RequestMapping( value = "/products/{productId}/*", method = > RequestMethod.GET ) > public ModelAndView getProduct( @PathVariable( value = "productId" ) String > productId) { ... } > > What this example shows is that the0 method getProduct() will be invoked > with any URL that starts with /products/[productId]. So it doesn't matter if > the invoker has added additional path information, it will just be ignored. > > I'd be keen to understand a bit more about URL mounting and whether I could > achieve something similar to this with Wicket. Maybe if there was some kind > of wildcarding strategy? It is also important that I can build bookmarkable > links in Wicket pages that could include the additional path information. > > Thanks for any help you can give me, > > Andrew > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org