Jersey – Case-insensitive @Path URLs

By default in JAX-RS, ALL URLs specified in @Path annotations are CASE-SENSITIVE. In this tutorial, I am giving a simple example of CASE-INSENSITIVE URLs which cane be used inside @Path annotation on any Jersey JAX-RS REST API.

How to make URLs case in-sensitive

To make URLs case-insensitive, change the @Path URLs like below:

@Path("/{employees}")
public class JerseyService 
{
	//Code
}

Change above declaration to this:

@Path("/{employees : (?i)employees}")
public class JerseyService 
{
	//Code
}

Now above @Path annotation will be able to match any variation of lowercase and UPPERCASE letters in employees.

Demo Usage

Here, I am modified the sourcecode of my previous example of Jersey RESTful Client Examples.

I sent following requests to HTTP GET /{employees : (?i)employees} path, and all paths matches correctly.

http://localhost:8080/JerseyDemos/rest/EMPLOYEES

http://localhost:8080/JerseyDemos/rest/EmPlOyEEs

http://localhost:8080/JerseyDemos/rest/employees

Feel free to contact in you find any problem in this example.

Happy Learning !!