Bingo, works perfectly. Is that mechanism described in the wiki? I don't see it. I think I remember seeing this in the JAX-RS spec, but I noticed at one time that I couldn't find some of the features described in the spec in the CXF wiki.
From: Sergey Beryozkin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 2:18 PM To: [email protected] Cc: KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) Subject: Re: Possible to have controller handler method that matches if nothing else matches? Hi On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:00 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I have a controller with a root "@Path()" annotation. I have controller handler methods in that class with "@Path()" annotations. If I supply a valid URL that matches the controller and one of the handler methods, it works fine. If I supply a URL that matches at least the root Path for the controller, but not any of the handler methods, it understandably gets a 404 back. Is there any way I can write a handler method, along with the all-important "@Path" annotation, which will match any request that isn't matched by any of the other handler methods? CXF allows customizing the selection algorithm [1] but it might useful when several matching root resources or methods are available. You might want to introduce a resource method with a Path value containing a regular expression, say: @Path("{id:.*}") This Path will capture everything but the method will be selected only if no other, more specific matches have been found. Give it a try please. Cheers, Sergey [1] http://cxf.apache.org/docs/jax-rs-basics.html#JAX-RSBasics-Customselectionbetweenmultipleresources
