Comments on Captain Debug's Blog: A Footnote on Accessing Request Parameters using Spring 3 MVC

The automapping feature is core to the functionali...

2015-03-17T16:27:45.051+00:00

The automapping feature is core to the functionality of the grails framework, which is built around spring by teams at springsource/pivotal.

From my experimentation if you leave off the @Requ...

2013-10-13T22:26:44.333+01:00

From my experimentation if you leave off the @RequestParam then it does not become a required parameter anymore. This of course can be bad if the method expects that value to not be null.

But the second approach (automapping technique) ha...

2013-10-12T09:03:10.023+01:00

But the second approach (automapping technique) has much cleaner code....and if it is somewhere documented in spring, i am glad to see the automapping technique...

I don't really like to use RequestParam annotation, as I find it redundant... But I also agree to the fact that you have specified here... that using undocumented features might be risky... :)

I totally agree, the proposed solution may be more...

2012-09-30T11:30:50.930+01:00

I totally agree, the proposed solution may be more concise but it's a pain in the ass to read such a code. Instead reading a @RequestParam makes it obvious of what it is, and not some argument coming from an HandlerMethodArgumentResolver.

Cheers