NoSuchMethodError in UrlPathHelper.skipServletPathDetermination

[FabioMarangonSMI]

Affects: 5.3.1

Launching an application that uses Spring MVC 5.3.1 on a TomCat 8.5 gives the error:

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.getHttpServletMapping()Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletMapping;
at org.springframework.web.util.UrlPathHelper.skipServletPathDetermination(UrlPathHelper.java:265) ~[spring-web-5.3.1.jar:5.3.1]
at org.springframework.web.util.UrlPathHelper.getLookupPathForRequest(UrlPathHelper.java:250) ~[spring-web-5.3.1.jar:5.3.1]
at org.springframework.web.util.UrlPathHelper.resolveAndCacheLookupPath(UrlPathHelper.java:199) ~[spring-web-5.3.1.jar:5.3.1]
at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.AbstractHandlerMapping.initLookupPath(AbstractHandlerMapping.java:567) ~[spring-webmvc-5.3.1.jar:5.3.1]
at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.AbstractUrlHandlerMapping.getHandlerInternal(AbstractUrlHandlerMapping.java:136) ~[spring-webmvc-5.3.1.jar:5.3.1]
at org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.AbstractHandlerMapping.getHandler(AbstractHandlerMapping.java:491) ~[spring-webmvc-5.3.1.jar:5.3.1]
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.getHandler(DispatcherServlet.java:1255) [spring-webmvc-5.3.1.jar:5.3.1]
at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:1037) [spring-webmvc-5.3.1.jar:5.3.1]
... 34 more

The application finds servlet-api version 4.0.1 in it's classpath (so isServlet4Present is true), but the HttpServletRequest passed to the method is actually from Tomcat's servlet 3, thus lacking the method getHttpServletMapping.

[jhoeller]

I'll refine that check for 5.3.2: towards presence of the HttpServletRequest.getHttpServletMapping method rather than the HttpServletMapping type. However, please also double-check the presence of Servlet API jars in your classpath; you shouldn't have that Servlet API 4.0.1 jar around in the first place when running on Tomcat 8.5.

[quaff]

Nice work, I have similar issue, I'm targeting servlet 4.0(Tomcat9) but I also provide embedded runtime using Jetty 9.4 which contains servlet 3.1 api, some tests is broken when I upgrade to spring 5.3.0.

[jhoeller]

@FabioMarangonSMI @quaff it'd be great to verify that the latest 5.3.2 snapshot (https://repo.spring.io/snapshot/org/springframework/spring-framework-bom/) works for your scenarios. This is now as specific and as defensive as possible, so beyond this fix, the only thing to do about mismatches in the classpath is to enforce the presence of a single Servlet API jar.

[quaff]

@jhoeller works fine for me now, thanks.

[FabioMarangonSMI]

@jhoeller yeah, working here too, good job 👍