Add pathPattern Factory Methods

Closes gh-17476

etc/checkstyle/checkstyle.xml

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 		<property name="avoidStaticImportExcludes" value="org.springframework.security.web.csrf.CsrfTokenAssert.*" />
 		<property name="avoidStaticImportExcludes" value="org.springframework.security.web.servlet.TestMockHttpServletRequests.*" />
 		<property name="avoidStaticImportExcludes" value="org.springframework.security.web.util.matcher.AntPathRequestMatcher.*" />
+		<property name="avoidStaticImportExcludes" value="org.springframework.security.web.servlet.util.matcher.PathPatternRequestMatcher.*" />
 		<property name="avoidStaticImportExcludes" value="org.springframework.security.web.util.matcher.RegexRequestMatcher.*" />
 		<property name="avoidStaticImportExcludes" value="org.springframework.core.annotation.MergedAnnotations.SearchStrategy.*" />
 		<property name="avoidStaticImportExcludes" value="org.assertj.core.api.InstanceOfAssertFactories.*"/>

web/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/web/servlet/util/matcher/PathPatternRequestMatcher.java

@@ -70,6 +70,40 @@ public final class PathPatternRequestMatcher implements RequestMatcher {
 		this.pattern = pattern;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Construct a {@link PathPatternRequestMatcher} using the {@link PathPatternParser}
+	 * defaults.
+	 * <p>
+	 * If you are configuring a custom {@link PathPatternParser}, please use
+	 * {@link #withPathPatternParser} instead.
+	 * @param pattern the URI pattern to match
+	 * @return a {@link PathPatternRequestMatcher} that matches requests to the given
+	 * {@code pattern}
+	 * @since 7.0
+	 * @see PathPattern
+	 */
+	public static PathPatternRequestMatcher pathPattern(String pattern) {
+		return pathPattern(null, pattern);
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Construct a {@link PathPatternRequestMatcher} using the {@link PathPatternParser}
+	 * defaults.
+	 * <p>
+	 * If you are configuring a custom {@link PathPatternParser}, please use
+	 * {@link #withPathPatternParser} instead.
+	 * @param method the HTTP method to match, {@code null} indicates that the method does
+	 * not matter
+	 * @param pattern the URI pattern to match
+	 * @return a {@link PathPatternRequestMatcher} that matches requests to the given
+	 * {@code pattern} and {@code method}
+	 * @since 7.0
+	 * @see PathPattern
+	 */
+	public static PathPatternRequestMatcher pathPattern(@Nullable HttpMethod method, String pattern) {
+		return withDefaults().matcher(method, pattern);
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Use {@link PathPatternParser#defaultInstance} to parse path patterns.
 	 * @return a {@link Builder} that treats URIs as relative to the context path, if any