[Springframework-developer] new 'RedirectViewResolver'

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

I'm working with an app (original source is not by me) that currently 
has some pretty nasty view handling. It uses TilesJstlView, but for some 
view properties the controller is actually aware that the view names 
represent a need to redirect, and in those cases the controller returns 
a new RedirectView it creates itself. I think this is pretty unclean. 
Does anybody think it's worth having a new standard view resolver of 
some sort that can be chained in front of other resolvers (such as in 
this case TilesJstlViewResolver), and can recognize view names which 
include a prefix meaning this is a redirect view? I.e. 
RedirectViewResolver would recognize view names of the nature
  redirect:/some/external/path
and use a redirectView in that case? If they don't have the prefix, it 
doesn't do anything and lets the next resolver get a whack at it.

Another standard view resolver I could see being handy is a regex view 
resolver, where there is a composite pattern being used. The resolver 
has 1 to n other view resolvers registered with it, and for each one, a 
regex. If there is a regex match, then it delegates to the view resoler 
or chain of view resolvers set up for that regex.

Colin