How to specify prefix for all controllers in Spring Boot?

If you want to add prefix just for some controllers I found two others solutions

Option 1 - Use spring SpEL to add a prefix variable for your controllers

@RestController
@RequestMapping(path = "${v1API}/users")
public class V1FruitsController {

    @GetMapping(path = "")
    @ResponseBody
    public String list(){
        return "[\"Joe\", \"Peter\"]";
    }
}

application.properties

v1API=/api/v1

Option 2 - Create a custom controller annotation

@Target({ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Component
@RequestMapping("/api/v1")
public @interface V1APIController {
    @AliasFor(annotation = Component.class)
    String value() default "";
}


@V1APIController
public class UserController {

    @RequestMapping("/users")
    @ReponseBody
    public String index(){
        return "[\"Joe\", \"Peter\"]";
    }
}

then test it

curl -X GET localhost:8080/api/v1/users

If you are using spring boot 2 (spring framework 5), there is a replacement of the property in your application.properties:

server.contextPath

for:

server.servlet.context-path=

Add your default path in the application.properties as:

server.servlet.contextPath=/mainPath

Here /mainPath will be the prefix for all the controller

You can provide a mapping to root context path of your spring boot application to /api/* in your custom configuration.

import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.web.DispatcherServletAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.ServletRegistrationBean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet;

@Configuration
public class DispatcherServletCustomConfiguration {

    @Bean
    public DispatcherServlet dispatcherServlet() {
        return new DispatcherServlet();
    }

    @Bean
    public ServletRegistrationBean dispatcherServletRegistration() {
        ServletRegistrationBean registration = new ServletRegistrationBean(
                dispatcherServlet(), "/api/");
        registration.setName(DispatcherServletAutoConfiguration.DEFAULT_DISPATCHER_SERVLET_REGISTRATION_BEAN_NAME);
        return registration;
    }
}

or add this to your application.properties in src\main\resources folder

server.contextPath=/api

EDIT

As of Spring Boot 2.x the property has been deprecated and should be replaced with

server.servlet.contextPath=/api

More you find here Spring Boot Context Root and here Add servlet mapping to DispatcherServlet