From d1ebe04d494ece51d09d9b4b22bd6a0e733db833 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Gierke <ogierke@pivotal.io>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 10:50:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] #520 - Polishing in RequestParamParameterAccessor.

---
 .../hateoas/mvc/ControllerLinkBuilderFactory.java           | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/mvc/ControllerLinkBuilderFactory.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/mvc/ControllerLinkBuilderFactory.java
index 48463498..3a48f4d2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/mvc/ControllerLinkBuilderFactory.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/hateoas/mvc/ControllerLinkBuilderFactory.java
@@ -322,11 +322,11 @@ public class ControllerLinkBuilderFactory implements MethodLinkBuilderFactory<Co
 				return value;
 			}
 
-			if (annotation.required()) {
-				return annotation.defaultValue().equals(ValueConstants.DEFAULT_NONE) ? SKIP_VALUE : null;
+			if (!annotation.required()) {
+				return SKIP_VALUE;
 			}
 
-			return value == null ? SKIP_VALUE : value;
+			return annotation.defaultValue().equals(ValueConstants.DEFAULT_NONE) ? SKIP_VALUE : null;
 		}
 	}
 }