[java] How to get request URI without context path?

The Method request.getRequestURI() returns URI with context path.

For example, if the base URL of an application is http://localhost:8080/myapp/ (i.e. the context path is myapp), and I call request.getRequestURI() for http://localhost:8080/myapp/secure/users, it will return /myapp/secure/users.

Is there any way we can get only this part /secure/users, i.e. the URI without context path?

If you use request.getPathInfo() inside a Filter, you always seem to get null (at least with jetty).

This terse invalid bug + response alludes to the issue I think:

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28323

I suspect it is related to the fact that filters run before the servlet gets the request. It may be a container bug, or expected behaviour that I haven't been able to identify.

The contextPath is available though, so fforws solution works even in filters. I don't like having to do it by hand, but the implementation is broken or

request.getRequestURI().substring(request.getContextPath().length())

getPathInfo() sometimes return null. In documentation HttpServletRequest

This method returns null if there was no extra path information.

I need get path to file without context path in Filter and getPathInfo() return me null. So I use another method: httpRequest.getServletPath()

public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException
{
    HttpServletRequest httpRequest = (HttpServletRequest) request;
    HttpServletResponse httpResponse = (HttpServletResponse) response;

    String newPath = parsePathToFile(httpRequest.getServletPath());
    ...

}

With Spring you can do:

String path = new UrlPathHelper().getPathWithinApplication(request);

May be you can just use the split method to eliminate the '/myapp' for example:

string[] uris=request.getRequestURI().split("/");
string uri="/"+uri[1]+"/"+uris[2];

A way to do this is to rest the servelet context path from request URI.

String p = request.getRequestURI();
String cp = getServletContext().getContextPath();

if (p.startsWith(cp)) {
  String.err.println(p.substring(cp.length());
}

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