Added HandlerMethodArgumentResolver implementations for Pageable and Sort exposing a new default set of properties (page, size, sort) to resolve pagination and sorting information from the request. To mimic the legacy behavior we expose a (deprecated) LEGACY constant in PageableHandlerMethodArgumentResolver. Clients should move to the new properties structure ASAP. Added unit tests to verify old and new defaulting behavior.
Introduced new annotations @SortDefault (with @SortDefaults wrapper annotation) and @PageableDefault (superseding the legacy @PageableDefaults). The new annotations have more speaking attribute names and the HMAR implementations transparently alias the generic value attribute into a more semantic one (size).
The HMAR implementations implement Spring HATEOAS' UriComponentsContributor to be able to turn Pageable / Sort instances back into URIs created through the MethodLinkBuilderFactory API in Spring HATEOAS.
Extracted common API between legacy PageableArgumentResolver and PageableHandlerMethodArgumentResolver into common helper class.
Upgraded to Spring Hateoas 0.5.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.
For some reasons the <repository /> and <pluginRepository /> elements get stripped from the Spring Data parent pom during the deployment onto Artifactory so they do not end up in the pom.xml published although defined in the source pom.xml.
We now use an exclusive upper bound of 4.0.0.RELEASE for Spring dependencies. With the snapshot repository removed we now get the latest release milestone to build on. Changed repository links to use http://repo.springframework.org to route dependencies through our Artifactory instance. Fixed some plugin dependency versions along the way.
Added custom TransactionAttributeSource that favors interface transaction configuration over the implementation configuration. This allows us configuring repository implementations with @Transactional but allow overriding this configuration at the user's repository level as well.
