SpringMVC Redirect Error

[Alan Faulkner]

Hi all,

Rebuilding an old SpringMVC app of mine, this time using Hibernate and annotation-based configuration. I've set up a controller class with the following URL mappings:

@Controller 
public class RESTPosterView {

	private JdbcEventDao eventDao;

	public JdbcEventDao getEventdao() {
		return eventDao;
	}

	@Autowired
	public void setEventdao(JdbcEventDao eventDao) {
		this.eventDao = eventDao;
	}

	@RequestMapping(value = "/event" , method = RequestMethod.GET)
	public ModelAndView getEvent(HttpServletRequest request, 
			HttpServletResponse response){
		String eventId = request.getQueryString();
		int id = Integer.parseInt(eventId);
		ModelMap modelmap = new ModelMap();
		Event event = eventDao.viewOne(id);
		modelmap.addAttribute("Name", event.getName());
		modelmap.addAttribute("Venue", event.getVenue());
		modelmap.addAttribute("Date", event.getDate());
		modelmap.addAttribute("Poster", "URL/"+ id);
		modelmap.addAttribute("Acts", event.getArtists());

        return new ModelAndView("hello", "model", modelmap);
		//return new ModelAndView("eventXmlView", BindingResult.MODEL_KEY_PREFIX, modelmap);
	}
	}

Now, I'm new to annotation based controllers, so the following is the line I believe should be included in the applicationContext in order for the container to detect annotated controllers:

<context:annotation-config/>
<context:component-scan base-package="springapp.RESTWeb"/> 

Right, so here's the problem. When I try and access the URL from firefox, it returns an error page stating that "The page isn't redirecting properly".

I tried increasing the redirect limit on firefox to no avail. I also used the 'LiveHTTPHeaders' plugin to check out the redirect headers:

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily

Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1

Location: http://localhost:8080/spring-FlyPOST v5.0/event

Content-Type: text/html

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 19:11:17 GMT


From the full readout, it would seem that every redirect points to the same URL that I enter in the first place. Anyone have any idea whats goin on here?