It seems that LinkSource invokes onPassivate() which (I assume) is where the request parameter comes from
from the javadocs: Creates a render link for the page. If an activation context is supplied then that context is built into the URI. If no activation context is supplied, then the activation context is obtained from the page itself, by triggering a passivate event on its root component. When the activationContext is an empty array, the targeted page is checked to see if it can provide an activation context. This is accomplished by triggering a "passivate" event on the targeted page. If the override parameter is true, this will not occur (even when the activation context is empty). I think you might want to call this instead: ComponentEventLinkEncoder.createPageRenderLink(PageRenderRequestParameters)
