DATAREST-93 - Further refactorings and refinements regarding the search resource mapping.

spring-data-rest-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/rest/core/Path.java

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 public class Path {
 
 	private static final String SLASH = "/";
+	private static final String MATCH_PATTERN = "/?%s";
 
 	private final String path;
 
@@ -48,6 +49,10 @@ public class Path {
 		this.path = cleanUp ? cleanUp(path) : path;
 	}
 
+	public boolean matches(String reference) {
+		return this.path.matches(String.format(MATCH_PATTERN, reference));
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Appends the given {@link String} to the current {@link Path}.
 	 * 

spring-data-rest-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/rest/core/PathUnitTests.java

@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;
 import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 import org.junit.Test;
-import org.springframework.data.rest.core.Path;
 
 /**
+ * Unit tests for {@link Path}.
+ * 
  * @author Oliver Gierke
  */
 public class PathUnitTests {
@@ -46,4 +47,19 @@ public class PathUnitTests {
 		Path builder = new Path("foo/ ").slash("/ b a r").slash("  //foobar///   ");
 		assertThat(builder.toString(), is("/foo/bar/foobar"));
 	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void matchesWithLeadingSlash() {
+		assertThat(new Path("/foobar").matches("/foobar"), is(true));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void matchesWithoutLeadingSlash() {
+		assertThat(new Path("/foobar").matches("foobar"), is(true));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void doesNotMatchIfDifferent() {
+		assertThat(new Path("/foobar").matches("barfoo"), is(false));
+	}
 }