Is it possible to wire a Spring MVC Interceptor using annotations?

Question

Is it possible to wire a Spring MVC Interceptor using annotations and if so could someone provide me with an example of how to do so?

By wire via annotation I am referring to doing as little in the XML configuration as possible. For example in this configuration file I found at http://www.vaannila.com/spring/spring-interceptors.html;

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping" p:interceptors-ref="loggerInterceptor" />
<bean id="loggerInterceptor" class="com.vaannila.interceptor.LoggerInterceptor" />

How little configuration could you get away with there? I imagine an @Autowired would remove the need to explicitly declare the bean in line 2, but would it be possible to get rid of line 1 with an annotation as well?

Answer 1

Stumbled upon this question while searching exactly this. Finally I found out that it works in Spring 3.1 using @EnableWebMVC in conjunction with WebMvcConfigurerAdapter.

Simple Example:

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@ComponentScan(basePackages="webapp.base.package")
public class WebApplicationConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {

    @Override
    public void addInterceptors(InterceptorRegistry registry) {
        registry.addInterceptor(new LoggerInterceptor());
    }

}