Allow easier use of custom RequestMappingHandlerMapping in WebMvcConfigurationSupport [SPR-12746] #17343
Description
Ryan Skow opened SPR-12746 and commented
The ability to customize RequestMappingHandlerMapping by overriding protected methods was added in #12468. However, WebMvcConfigurationSupport instantiates its own RequestMappingHandlerMapping and configures it with default settings all in a single method. This makes it hard to extend WebMvcConfigurationSupport to make it return an extension of RequestMappingHandlerMapping without copying and pasting a substantial chunk of code (in the requestMappingHandlerMapping() method).
It would be simple to extract the addition of the default configuration to RequestMappingHandlerMapping to a separate method, allowing extenders to avoid this duplication of internal Spring logic. A pull request will follow this issue.
Affects: 4.1.5