Spring MVC: @SessionAttributes shared among controllers?

Question

I have an abstract controller support class for searches and result lists:

@Controller
@SessionAttributes(\"query\")
public abstract class SearchController&l         


        

Answer 1

I just tried this on Spring 3.0.2 and the session attributes are not shared between controllers. In fact I was looking for the opposite effect and that's how I found out.

Answer 2

Using @SessionAttributes this objects will be stored in your HttpSession with the same name and they will be accessible (shared) from different controllers. So, Spring is acting correctly.

I think the best approach in your scenario is rename this attribute in every subclass ("BookQuery", "AutorQuery", ...). Not very elegant at all :(