So far, PropertyPath inevitably uncapitalized the property names it was created for. We now check, whether the source name is all uppercase and prevent uncapitalization in this case.
RepositoryBeanDefinitionRegistrarSupport not implements BeanClassLoaderAware and ResourceLoaderAware as Spring 3.2 will regard these callback interfaces and inject the resources. We still default these injected resources upon invocation to be able to run on Spring 3.1 as well.
The bean name is now resolved through inspecting Spring stereotype annotations and @Named on the repository interface. If none found we're still using the uncapitalized simple interface name as we did until now.
Switched from implementing ApplicationEventPublisherAware to ApplicationContextAware to get a reference to an ApplicationContext to fix comparison of the event source.
Improved/fixed JavaDoc. Made orders property final. Fixed formatting here and there. Deprecated Order.create(…) factory method as new Sort(…) can be used instead.
Refactored persistent field discovery by extracting the FieldFilter implementation and improving the way excluded fields are detected. We now exclude all fields named "this$*" as well as a metaClass field of type groovy.lang.MetaClass explicitly.
The ResourceReaderRepositoryPopulator now throws an RepositoriesPopulatedEvent after the population was finished. This indicates the data provided through the resources having been inserted into the database and the repository setup (including population) being completed.
Separated ConfigurableTypeInformationMapper from MappingContextTypeInformationMapper. The latter now lazily picks up the alias information if the cached values do not contain aliases.
Polished JavaDocs and clarified meaning of null values.
Before actually adding a type as PersistentEntity, AbstractMappingContext will call shouldCreatePersistentEntityFor(TypeInformation<?> type) now. The default implementation will just consider the SimpleTypeHolder for that decision. However as adding a Converter to the context will render the converted object to be treated as simple, one might want to override this method to be more precise and only rule out store-specific simple types at this stage.
ClassTypeInformation does not resolve nested array types anymore as a multidimensional array in fact has a component type of an array of one dimension less, e.g. String[][].getComponentType() -> String[].
There have been a few dependencies which we depended on on compile time but which were pulled into the classpath transitively. Declaring these dependencies now explicitly. Keeping them optional to allow minimal footprint.
Merged mapping.context and mapping.event packages. Moved MappingContext event into context package. Updated Sonargraph architecture description and completed package and dependency mapping.
If an @EnableRepository annotation does not carry an @Inherited annotation and the annotation is used in a JavaConfig inheritance scenario the ImportBeanDefinitionRegistrar gets invoked without the annotation metadata available. The RepositoryBeanDefinitionRegistrarSupport now guards against that case and will not invoke registration of repository bean definitions. It's strongly recommended to equip @EnableRepository annotations with @Inherited to accommodate this scenario.
Added guards to PropertyDescriptor access to prevent NullPointerExceptions in cases it is not given in the first place. Polished JavaDoc for test case.
MappingContextEvent now has an wasEmittedBy(MappingContext<?, ?> context) method to allow identifying whether the event was emitted by the given MappingContext. Useful if multiple MappingContexts are in place and one wants to react on the events emitted by a particular one only.
PersistentProperty now exposes getGetter() and getSetter() methods which restrict the methods being returned to return or accept type compatible values to the actual properties type. Thus when you implement a custom getter or setter which - by the definition of the JavaBean spec - would qualify as read or write method for a particular property, we now ensure that they are only considered if they match the type of the field exposed.
Completely rewrote namespace bean definition parsing to be extendable more easily. Separated XML concerns from annotation based configuration. The central point to extend the namespace parsing for a certain module is now hidden behind the RepositoryConfigurationExtension interface (have a look at the RepositoryConfigurationExtensionSupport base class as well).
