URLMapping stripping .text from the url

Have you tried setting this to false in grails-app/conf/Config.groovy?:

grails.mime.file.extensions = false

Just to elaborate in Config.groovy tthere is this definition:

grails.mime.types = [ html: ['text/html','application/xhtml+xml'],
                      xml: ['text/xml', 'application/xml'],
                      text: 'text/plain',

Note how "text" is one of the formats that is handled. If you remove "text" from that list your code will work. Alternatiavely you can do this:

def showContent = {
render "${params.uri}.${request.format}"
}

I tried to set
grails.mime.file.extensions = false
and it indeed resolves the issue.

My only worry is that it is for the whole application. I think I have a controller which is very specific and needs the full uri unprocessed (which is somewhat expressed by my mapping). But if I have other controllers that need this feature then it won't work.

Ideally you would want to express it per mapping or per controller.

I cannot use $

.$

because I need to be able to handle anything.

I understand that this may be a very specific use case... for now I prefer to leave the config unchanged and I use the following workaround:

private URI extractURI(request)

Not ideal but it works.

Ok we'll see if we can make it configurable per mapping, btw for your code above you can also use:

String uri = request.forwardURI

There is no scope / time to resolve these remaining lower priority issues for 1.2 so moving to 1.3

for 1.2 final only issues considered blocking will now be fixed