[Springframework-developer] AbstractUrlViewController -- Bug or by design?

[Roy W. <roy...@gm...>]

I was looking at the AbstractUrlViewController while experimenting
with "Pretty URL's" and noticed something that I thought was odd.

This class defines a private UrlPathHelper class variable, and exposes
two methods for setting properties on the UrlPathHelper.  However the
UrlPathHelper is not exposed to any subclasses, the variable is
private and there is no getter method for it.  Nor does the
UrlPathHelper get used any way that is visible to a Subclass.  It has
one method called on it,
this.urlPathHelper.getLookupPathForRequest(request); whose value is
then sent to the debug log.

I looks like at one point the intention was to pass the value of that
method call on to the subclass via the protected abstract method
getViewNameForRequest, but instead the request object is passed along.

Roy Wells