How to get requested url in Spring boot

Question

I have the following controller:

@Controller
public class MyErrorController implements ErrorController {

    @RequestMapping("/error")
    public String handleError(HttpServletRequest request, Model model) {

        Object url = request.getRequestURL()
        model.addAttribute("url", url)
        return "404";
    }

}

However, the above url always gives me the url "/error", even if the user has went to the page "http://mywebsite.com/does-not-exist". How would I retrieve the url as entered in by the user before generating the error page?

Answer 1

You should be able to pull it from request.getAttribute(RequestDispatcher.FORWARD_REQUEST_URI)

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