Projection types annotated with @ProjectedPayload can now be used as parameters for @RequestBody annotated Spring MVC controller method parameters.
Accessor methods will be translated into JSON path property expressions which can be customized by using the @JsonPath annotation. The methods are allowed to return simple types, nested projection interfaces or complex classes which will will be mapped using a Jackson ObjectMapper.
QueryMethods now expose a ResourceProcessor which is exposes information about the final to be created object types which can either be DTOs containing a persistence constructor (see @PersistenceConstructor) or projection interfaces. The former are analyzed for constructor properties so that store implementations can use that information to create projected queries that return exactly the fields required for that DTO.
Projection interfaces are inspected, their properties are considered input properties and the same projection queries can be issued against the data store. If a projection contains dynamically calculated properties (i.e. it uses SpEL expressions via @Value) the original entities have to be queried and can be projected during post processing.
ProjectionFactory now exposes a more advanced ProjectionInformation that has additional meta information about the projection type. ProxyProjectionFactory now refers to the BeanClassLoader instead of the ResourceLoader.
RepositoryFactory(Bean)Support now also implement BeanFactoryAware to forward the BeanFactory to the SpelAwareProxyProjectionFactory which in turn now gets handed into the QueryLookupStrategy as well as the QueryMethod.
Parameter now knows about a dynamic projection type, which is a query method parameter of type Class bound to a generic method parameter and will be used to determine the projection to be used on a per call basis.
Original pull request: #150.
Switched to new Querydsl 4 artifacts and adapted to changed package names and API changes.
Cleaned up some JavaDoc and APIs in QuerydslBindingsFactory and QuerydslBinderCustomizer.
Added basic infrastructure for repositories on top of key-value data stores. For more details see the original pull request.
Original pull request: #95.
Introduced BytecodeGeneratingEntityInstantiator which dynamically generates classes to speed up the dynamic instantiation of objects. Since we cannot support every use case with byte code generation we gracefully fallback to the ReflectiveEntityInstantiator.
BytecodeGeneratingEntityInstantiator has support for unboxing of constructor parameters and more robust handling for cases where we cannot generate a custom ObjectInstantiator.
Original pull request: #98.
Added a converter to process a NullableWrapper into a Future by producing an AsyncResult. This is to support repository methods annotated with @Async and returning a Future<T>. With Spring's asynchronous method invocation support activated this will cause the repository method being executed asynchronously.
Note, that this currently only works on Spring 4 as Spring 3.2.8 async support is not discovering the introduction on the repository proxy and thus fails to discover the @Async annotation on the repository method. This will be resolved in Spring 3.2.9, see the related tickets.
Related tickets: DATACMNS-483, SPR-11725, DATACMNS-499.
The repository method invocation mechanism now post-processes the result of the actual method invocation in case it's not type-compatible with the return type of the invoked method and invokes a conversion if applicable. This allows us to register custom converters for well-known wrapper types. We currently support Optional from both Google Guava and JDK 8.
Implementation notice
We use some JDK 8 type stubs from the Spring Data Build project to be able to compile using JDKs < 8. This is necessary as we need to remain compatible with Spring 3.2.x for the Dijkstra release train and our test executions still run into some issues with it a Java 8 runtime (mostly ASM related). These issues were reported in [0, 1] and we'll probably get off the hack for Dijkstra GA by upgrading to Spring 3.2.9.
[0] https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-11719
[1] https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-11718
Updated links and vendor-information in readme. Updated author information. Fixed some typos, added ids to sections updated examples and descriptions. Added and referenced description of repository populator namespace element.
Original pull request: #65.
Added necessary infrastructure to use Jackson 2 with repository populators. Expose a jackson2-populator XML element in the namespace to setup a Jackson2 based repository populator.
Added PagedResourcesAssembler to easily convert Page instances into a PagedResource instance and automatically build the required previous/next links based on the PageableHandlerMethodArgumentResolver present in the MVC configuration. The assembler can either be injected into a Spring MVC controller or a controller method. The latter will then assume the controller methods URI to be used as pagination link base.
Added @EnableSpringDataWebSupport to automatically register HandlerMethodArgumentResolvers for Pageable and Sort as well as a DomainClassConverter that will allow the usage of domain types being managed by Spring Data repositories in controller method signatures. In case Spring HATEOAS is present on the classpath, we'll also register a PagedResourcesAssembler for injection as well as the appropriate HandlerMethodArgumentResolver for injection into controller methods.
Adapted Sonargraph configuration accordingly. Upgraded to Spring HATEOAS 0.6.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.
This change was introduced to ease the upgrade of STS to recent Spring Data Commons versions, originally introduced to enable Spring 4 compatibility (see DATACMNS-324).
