Spicy Spring: Inject your custom method argument in Spring MVC using HandlerMethodArgumentResolver

Posted on June 17, 2016 by Willem Cheizoo

In Spring MVC we get some method argument types resolved by default and injected in Spring MVC controller methods. Some examples are Model, Locale and OutputStream.
What if we want to inject a custom argument in Spring MVC controller methods? In this example we extract the X-Application-Version HTTP header from the request and inject that as a method argument called version.

Our controller class will look like the following:

@RestController
public class MyController {

    @RequestMapping("/persons")
    //I want the version to be automatically injected
    public List<Person> getPersons(String version) {
        .....
        return someList;
    }
}

@RestController

public class MyController {

@RequestMapping("/persons")

//I want the version to be automatically injected

public List<Person> getPersons(String version) {

.....

return someList;

}

This is where we need to write our own HandlerMethodArgumentResolver implementation which is responsible for extracting the X-Application-Version from the HttpHeader.

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Grails Goodness: Using Closures for Select Value Rendering

Posted on December 10, 2013 by mrhaki

To generate an HTML select we can use the Grails tag <g:select .../>. We use the optionValue attribute to specify a specific property we want to be used as the value. But we can also define a closure for the optionValue attribute to further customize the value that is shown to the user.

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Grails Goodness: Render Binary Output with the File Attribute

Posted on September 6, 2013 by mrhaki

Since Grails 2 we can render binary output with the render() method and the file attribute. The file attribute can be assigned a byte[], File, InputStream or String value. Grails will try to determine the content type for files, but we can also use the contentType attribute to set the content type.

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Grails Goodness: Set Request Locale in Unit Tests

Posted on August 20, 2013 by mrhaki

There is really no excuse to not write unit tests in Grails. The support for writing tests is excellent, also for testing code that has to deal with the locale set in a user’s request. For example we could have a controller or taglib that needs to access the locale. In a unit test we can invoke the addPreferredLocale() method on the mocked request object and assign a locale. The code under test uses the custom locale we set via this method.

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