Spring Web Flow Request Exception

In the previous post on Spring Web Flow 2.0, I mentioned that I was getting a 'Could not complete request' error as an IllegalStateException at the end of the flow. I found the issue. It was because the URL in the flow handler wasn't a context relative one. I was returning 'person/search', but that was just being added to the end of the current URL. The correct value to return is 'contextRelative:/person/search.html' (the servlet-mapping for the DispatcherServlet is '*.html'). With this working, I was able to remove the view attribute from the end-state elements in the flow. See the Simple Spring Web Flow Webapp example for more information.

@Component
public class PersonFlowHandler extends AbstractFlowHandler {

    /**
     * Where the flow should go when it ends.
     */
    @Override
    public String handleExecutionOutcome(FlowExecutionOutcome outcome,
                                         HttpServletRequest request,
                                         HttpServletResponse response) {
        return getContextRelativeUrl(PersonController.SEARCH_VIEW_KEY);
    }

    /**
     * Where to redirect if there is an exception not handled by the flow.
     */
    @Override
    public String handleException(FlowException e,
                                         HttpServletRequest request,
                                         HttpServletResponse response) {
        if (e instanceof NoSuchFlowExecutionException) {
            return getContextRelativeUrl(PersonController.SEARCH_VIEW_KEY);
        } else {
            throw e;
        }
    }
    
    /**
     * Gets context relative url with an '.html' extension.
     */
    private String getContextRelativeUrl(String view) {
        return "contextRelative:" + view + ".html";
    }

}