Spring HandlerInterceptor Redirect

I've created a form of a servlet filter using spring's HandlerInterceptor overriding the postHandle method.

The problem started to show up when I wanted to flash message to a redirect back as the localization filter is picky about the Request URI. (redirects are important)

What I was finding was that the interceptor was being called twice when a "redirect:" string was returned. This was odd because you would think it would just skip to the next request.

Salvation came when doing a search on the subject and I found this link.

If you don't skip the entire process when it's a redirect (the if statement) then the flash attributes will disappear because it will be considered rendered.

    @Override
    public void postHandle(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Object handler, ModelAndView modelAndView) throws Exception {
        if(modelAndView != null && !modelAndView.getViewName().startsWith("redirect:")) {
            String userTimeZoneId = SecurityUtils.getUserTimeZoneId();
            modelAndView.getModel().put(MODEL_ATTR_NAME_TIME_ZONE_ID, userTimeZoneId != null ? userTimeZoneId : defaultTimeZoneId);
        }
    }

I'm waiting for when there is a RedirectAttributes parameter in Interceptors to make this more intuitive.