Expose Configuration for ControllerLinkBuilder

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ControllerLinkBuilder uses some configurable components but they are not exposed for clients. For example, if one is using a domain object in a controller method and wants to generate a URI from the method, they cannot do so. For example:

BookSearch search = new BookSearch("author:johnson genre:technical");
Link link = linkTo(methodOn(BookController.class).fetchBooks(search)).withSelfRel();

The above, without the ability to get into the internal factory of ControllerLinkBuilder and configure a custom UriComponentsContributor, the resulting URI would look like this:

/books

When it is expected to look like this:

/books?search=author:johnson%20genre:technical

I've tried a bunch of techniques to solve this and so far the only solution is very bad: create a bean that will use reflection to get access to the internal factory and register UirComponentsContributors during startup.