(Quick Reference) # 8.4.8 Mapping Wildcards Version: 3.2.8 ## 8.4.8 Mapping Wildcards Grails' URL mappings mechanism also supports wildcard mappings. For example consider the following mapping:
    static mappings = {
        "/images/*.jpg"(controller: "image")
    }
This mapping will match all paths to images such as `/image/logo.jpg`. Of course you can achieve the same effect with a variable:
    static mappings = {
        "/images/$name.jpg"(controller: "image")
    }
However, you can also use double wildcards to match more than one level below:
    static mappings = {
        "/images/**.jpg"(controller: "image")
    }
In this cases the mapping will match `/image/logo.jpg` as well as `/image/other/logo.jpg`. Even better you can use a double wildcard variable:
    static mappings = {
        // will match /image/logo.jpg and /image/other/logo.jpg
        "/images/$name**.jpg"(controller: "image")
    }
In this case it will store the path matched by the wildcard inside a `name` parameter obtainable from the params object:
    def name = params.name
    println name // prints "logo" or "other/logo"
If you use wildcard URL mappings then you may want to exclude certain URIs from Grails' URL mapping process. To do this you can provide an `excludes` setting inside the `UrlMappings.groovy` class:
    class UrlMappings {
        static excludes = ["/images/*", "/css/*"]
        static mappings = {
            ...
        }
    }
In this case Grails won’t attempt to match any URIs that start with `/images` or `/css`. | Quick Reference (hide)