Modify RedirectView to allow 301 Permanent Redirects [SPR-5468]

[spring-projects-issues]

Scott Murphy opened SPR-5468 and commented

There are numerous occasions where I need to use a redirect view to permanently redirect traffic based on an old url. For SEO purposes, a permanent redirect is preferred over a temporary one for transferring pagerank to the new url. (See: http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/articles/301-redirect-scripting.asp)

Please provide a way to specify the type of redirection (permanent vs temporary) via constructor argument . Temporary should still be used for form submissions, while permanent can be used for SEO purposes.

The need for this feature will be greater with the introduction of REST-style urls in 3.0.

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Affects: 3.0 M1

Issue Links:

• @ResponseStatus annotation is ignored in an @Controller redirect (RedirectView) [SPR-6144] #10812 @ResponseStatus annotation is ignored in an @Controller redirect (RedirectView)

Referenced from: commits 5b12503

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[spring-projects-issues]

Flyin Wolf commented

See http://jira.springframework.org/browse/SPR-6144 for an example that demonstrates how a @ResponseStatus( value=HttpStatus.CREATED ) annotation is ignored on a RedirectView. For this "Temporary/Permanent" status code, you would expect the annotation like below to work:

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.POST)
@ResponseStatus( value=HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_PERMANENTLY )
public View doSomethingWithResource(
@ModelAttribute("resourceForm") ResourceForm resourceForm ) {

return new RedirectView( "/rest/resources/" + resourceId + ".html" ); // in real life, make this from a factory or something

}

[spring-projects-issues]

Arjen Poutsma commented

It's now possible to set a response status code explicitly with setResponseStatus on the RedirectView.