Get request only works with trailing slash (spring REST annotations)

I have a Spring REST controller:

@RestController
@RequestMapping(value = "/myresource")
public class MyResourceController {
  ...
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

With the request method GET:

@RequestMapping(method = GET, value = "/{value1}/{value2}/{value3}", produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE + ";charset=UTF-8")    
public ResponseEntity<MyResponseType> getMyResource(
  @ApiParam(value = "...",...)
  @PathVariable("value1") String value1,
  @ApiParam(value = "...",...)
  @PathVariable("value2") String value2,
  @ApiParam(value = "...",...)
  @PathVariable("value3") String value3) {
//...
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

I would expect this method to be called with:

http://myserver:8080/myresource/value1/value2/value3

      

        
        
        
      

    

But it is only available with a trailing slash:

http://myserver:8080/myresource/value1/value2/value3/

      

        
        
        
      

    

Why is this so or what is causing it?

Swagger assumes there are no forward slashes and now I cannot submit a swagger request.

What can I do to make only the first url, but not the second one?

Thanks a lot for your comments and responses.

Edited 2:

I found out that without the slash, the value3 information is incomplete. Value3 should be an email address, but everything from the endpoint is disabled. So instead of " myemail@something.de " I get "myemail @something".

This explains why I cannot get the correct result (no content and HTTP 404 status code). But I still don't understand why this is happening. Moreover, if I have a 3-letter email address in a top-level domain (eg .com), the request never reaches the "getMyResource" GET method ....

Edited 1: My web.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">
<display-name>(my) Services</display-name>
<filter>
    <filter-name>SetCharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter</filter-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>encoding</param-name>
        <param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
        <param-value>true</param-value>
    </init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>SetCharacterEncodingFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

<!-- Provide ServletContext -->
<listener>
    <listener-class>my.ServletContextUtils</listener-class>
</listener>

<!-- Expose request to current thread (required for session and request-scoping) -->
<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
</listener>

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>spring-mvc</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
        <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
        <param-value>
            WEB-INF/config/spring-mvc-servlet.xml
        </param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>spring-mvc</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

      

        
        
        
      

    

And my spring-mvc-servlet.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"   xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:env="http://my/schema"
xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.1.xsd
    http://my/schema
    http://my/schema/env-0.3.xsd">

<env:initialization />
<context:annotation-config />
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>
<context:component-scan base-package="my.myresource.restapi" />

<context:property-placeholder
    ignore-unresolvable="true"
    location="
        WEB-INF/config/${my.environment}/webapp.properties" />

<!-- Swagger -->

<!-- swagger config -->
<bean class="my.restapi.swagger.SwaggerConfig"/>

      

        
        
        
      

    

webapp.properties doesn't contain much:

swagger.include-pattern=/(?!api-docs|version).*