Expose Configuration for ControllerLinkBuilder #400
Description
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.