[Springframework-developer] redirect prefix

[Darren D. <da...@da...>]

Hi all,

The "redirect:" prefix that was added as a feature last year enables
controllers to remain ignorant of the redirect since the String value
containing the prefix can be injected into the controller bean.  That much I
understand.

What I'm wondering is whether there was another benefit, or problem solved,=
 by
taking this route?  It seems to be a natural limitation of the choice of
ViewResolver that the problem actually solves.. if the app is using a
UrlBasedViewResolver or subclass, the redirect: prefix is needed.

However, if the app defined an [Xml|ResourceBundle]ViewResolver and ordered=
 it
first, then that could be used to resolve redirect views, falling back to t=
he
UrlBasedViewResolver for everything else.  It looks like this would mitigate
the need for the special handling of view name prefixes.

I can't see anything in the discussions or JIRA issues from around the time
this feature was added eluding to this other than a comment I made myself [=
1],
so am I missing something here?

[1] http://opensource2.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SPR-387

Regards,
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Darren Davison
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