Strang issue with NamedVariablePatternMatcher

[Kevin Jones]

I'm using Struts2, REST with the Convention plugin and the
NamedVariablePatternMatcher along with some code that Jeromy Evans
provided for a "HierarchicalRestActionMapper" and all my controllers
are model driven. This nearly all works!

Let's say I'm building a blog so I want URLs like /blogs/1/posts to
get all the posts for blog 1. To set this up I have a BlogsController
and a PostsController. The PostsController looks like this

@ParentPackage("default")
@Namespace("/blogs/{blogId}")
public class PostsController implements ModelDriven<Object>
{
        private String                          id;
        private Integer                         blogId;
        private List<Object>                    posts; // = new List<Object>()
        SinglePostViewModel                     postVM  = new 
SinglePostViewModel();

        public void setId(String id)
        {
                this.id = id;
        }

        public void setBlogId(Integer blogId)
        {
                this.blogId = blogId;
        }

        public Object getModel()
        {
                return posts != null ? posts : postVM;
        }

        public String index(){}

        public String editNew(){}

        public String create()  {}
}

If I browse to http://.../blogs/1/posts then I see odd behaviour

If getModel returns a List<Object> then setBlogId is called, however
if getModel returns null or a postVM object then setBlogId is never
called.

I'm hoping somebody has seen this before and can point me in the right
direction.

Thanks,

-- 
Kevin

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