Trying to bind request parameters to nested object with spring controller using the dot notation and I keep getting a bad request error - spring

Question

I have searched and everything seems to say as long as you use spring 4+ I should be able to use dot notation to bind request parameters to a pojo.
This is what my request looks like:
And this is what my controller looks like:
And my dto:
I even tried adding #RequestParam("p.page") int page in the controller to make sure my endpoint was getting hit and it does. Am I missing something obvious or am I not allowed to use dot notation to populate a pojo with a spring controller?
And the parent class:
public class JhmPageableDto
{
private String query;
private int page;
private int size;
private String sort;
private boolean sortAsc;
public String getQuery()
{
return query;
}
public void setQuery(String query)
{
this.query = query;
}
public int getPage()
{
return page;
}
public void setPage(int page)
{
this.page = page;
}
public int getSize()
{
return size;
}
public void setSize(int size)
{
this.size = size;
}
public String getSort()
{
return sort;
}
public void setSort(String sort)
{
this.sort = sort;
}
public boolean isSortAsc()
{
return sortAsc;
}
public void setSortAsc(boolean sortAsc)
{
this.sortAsc = sortAsc;
}
}