Asset pipeline creates and overrides grailsLinkGenerator created by ControllersPlugin

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grailsLinkGenerator is created by the UrlMappingsPlugin

Since the asset-pipeline-grails depends on this plugin,

asset-pipeline/asset-pipeline-grails/build.gradle

Line 119 in 5a7b347

implementation("org.grails:grails-plugin-url-mappings")

this code doesn't do anything useful and can be deleted:

asset-pipeline/asset-pipeline-grails/src/main/groovy/asset/pipeline/AssetPipelineGrailsPlugin.groovy

Lines 120 to 122 in 6c58b3b

	grailsLinkGenerator(cacheUrls ? CachingLinkGenerator : LinkGenerator, serverURL) { bean ->
	bean.autowire = true
	}

Causes:

Overriding bean definition for bean 'grailsLinkGenerator' with a different definition: replacing [Root bean: class=null; scope=; abstract=false; lazyInit=null; autowireMode=3; dependencyCheck=0; autowireCandidate=true; primary=false; fallback=false; factoryBeanName=org.grails.plugins.web.mapping.UrlMappingsAutoConfiguration; factoryMethodName=grailsLinkGenerator; initMethodNames=null; destroyMethodNames=[(inferred)]; defined in class path resource [org/grails/plugins/web/mapping/UrlMappingsAutoConfiguration.class]] with [Generic bean: class=asset.pipeline.grails.CachingLinkGenerator; scope=singleton; abstract=false; lazyInit=false; autowireMode=1; dependencyCheck=0; autowireCandidate=true; primary=false; fallback=false; factoryBeanName=null; factoryMethodName=null; initMethodNames=null; destroyMethodNames=null]

Should probably check if bean exists before creating a new one and overriding existing behavior, but I don't understand a scenario where the bean would not exist because this plugin depends on grails-plugin-url-mappings which creates it 😕