Spring 3 RequestMapping: Get path value

Building upon Fabien Kruba's already excellent answer, I thought it would be nice if the ** portion of the URL could be given as a parameter to the controller method via an annotation, in a way which was similar to @RequestParam and @PathVariable, rather than always using a utility method which explicitly required the HttpServletRequest. So here's an example of how that might be implemented. Hopefully someone finds it useful.

Create the annotation, along with the argument resolver:

@Target(ElementType.PARAMETER)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
public @interface WildcardParam {

    class Resolver implements HandlerMethodArgumentResolver {

        @Override
        public boolean supportsParameter(MethodParameter methodParameter) {
            return methodParameter.getParameterAnnotation(WildcardParam.class) != null;
        }

        @Override
        public Object resolveArgument(MethodParameter methodParameter, ModelAndViewContainer modelAndViewContainer, NativeWebRequest nativeWebRequest, WebDataBinderFactory webDataBinderFactory) throws Exception {
            HttpServletRequest request = nativeWebRequest.getNativeRequest(HttpServletRequest.class);
            return request == null ? null : new AntPathMatcher().extractPathWithinPattern(
                    (String) request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.BEST_MATCHING_PATTERN_ATTRIBUTE),
                    (String) request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE));
        }

    }

}

Register the method argument resolver:

@Configuration
public class WebMvcConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {

    @Override
    public void addArgumentResolvers(List<HandlerMethodArgumentResolver> resolvers) {
        resolvers.add(new WildcardParam.Resolver());
    }

}

Use the annotation in your controller handler methods to have easy access to the ** portion of the URL:

@RestController
public class SomeController {

    @GetMapping("/**")
    public void someHandlerMethod(@WildcardParam String wildcardParam) {
        // use wildcardParam here...
    }

}

You need to use built-in pathMatcher:

@RequestMapping("/{id}/**")
public void test(HttpServletRequest request, @PathVariable long id) throws Exception {
    ResourceUrlProvider urlProvider = (ResourceUrlProvider) request
            .getAttribute(ResourceUrlProvider.class.getCanonicalName());
    String restOfUrl = urlProvider.getPathMatcher().extractPathWithinPattern(
            String.valueOf(request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.BEST_MATCHING_PATTERN_ATTRIBUTE)),
            String.valueOf(request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE)));

To improve upon @Daniel Jay Marcaida answer

@RequestMapping( "/{id}/**" )
public void foo( @PathVariable String id, HttpServletRequest request ) {
    String restOfUrl = new AntPathMatcher()
           .extractPathWithinPattern(
            request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.BEST_MATCHING_PATTERN_ATTRIBUTE).toString(),
            request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.PATH_WITHIN_HANDLER_MAPPING_ATTRIBUTE).toString());
}

or

@RequestMapping( "/{id}/**" )
public void foo( @PathVariable String id, HttpServletRequest request ) {
    String restOfUrl = new AntPathMatcher()
    .extractPathWithinPattern(
            request.getAttribute(HandlerMapping.BEST_MATCHING_PATTERN_ATTRIBUTE).toString(),
            request.getServletPath());
}