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
>

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