Inconstant behavior for name/value property of @RequestParam

According to the documentation for @RequestParam the value property acts as an alias for the name property.

Unfortunately there is an inconstant behavior when generating links by using the name property.

Here is my dummy controller:

@Controller
public class MyController {

    @GetMapping("/foo")
    public ResponseEntity<String> methodWithRequestParamNamedByValue(@RequestParam(value="age") int a){
        return null;
    }

    @GetMapping("/foo")
    public ResponseEntity<String> methodWithRequestParamNamedByName(@RequestParam(name="age") int a){
        return null;
    }
}

And here is the test to this controller:

public class MyControllerTest {

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        ServletRequestAttributes requestAttributes = new ServletRequestAttributes(new MockHttpServletRequest());
        RequestContextHolder.setRequestAttributes(requestAttributes);
    }


    @Test
    public void methodWithRequestParamNamedByValue() throws Exception {
        Link link = linkTo(methodOn(MyController.class).methodWithRequestParamNamedByValue(1)).withSelfRel();
        assertThat(link.getHref(), is("http://localhost/foo?age=1"));
    }


    // FAILING with "http://localhost/foo?a=1"
    @Test
    public void methodWithRequestParamNamedByName() throws Exception {
        Link link = linkTo(methodOn(MyController.class).methodWithRequestParamNamedByName(1)).withSelfRel();
        assertThat(link.getHref(), is("http://localhost/foo?age=1"));
    }
}