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Mapping requests overview

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- [Instructor] Mapping requests overview. Request mapping in Spring MVC refers to the process of associating incoming HTTP requests with specific controller methods. This allows your application to handle different types of requests and route them to the appropriate handlers. So as we've seen in our previous examples, some common HTTP methods that Spring MVC provides shortcut annotations for are the get, post, put, delete, and patch mapping. These annotations are equivalent to using @RequestMapping with the corresponding HTTP method. The @RequestMapping annotation is the primary mechanism for mapping requests to controller methods in Spring MVC. It provides various attributes to match requests based on a few number of things. I'll start off with URL patterns. So it matches specific URLs or patterns. In the example here, the value attribute specifies the URL or URL pattern that the method handles. For example, the hello maps to the sayHello method. The next attribute would be HTTP…

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