Added AnnotatedTypeScanner to easily scan for annotated types within a set of base packages. Picks up interfaces by default which had to be customized when using ClassPathScanningCanidateComponentProvider.
Added DirectFieldAccessFallbackBeanWrapper that will use direct field access for beans in case no accessor method can be found. This allows to easily implement bean property values through accessors first but using the field directly if the accessors aren't available.
Introduced AnnotationDetectionMethodCallback to easily find methods equipped with a given annotation.
Previously the map value type resolving algorithm checked the value type to be of type Map again to shortcut the resolution. We now weakened this to an assignment check and eagerly resolve the generic type if its bound on exactly that level already. If no concrete type argument can be found, we fall back to the general generics resolution mechanism.
In case of an unresolvable generic parameter in TypeDiscoverer's getTypeArgument(…) we check for a generic super type for the given bound and fall back to Object in case we find a parameterized type.
Suppress deprecation warnings for GenericTypeResolver for now. Added Simple(Property|Association)Handler to ease working with untyped PersistentProperty instances without having to fall back to raw types. Polished Sonargraph architecture description.
We're now rejecting invalid constructor arguments handed to ClassTypeInformation, Part, PartTree and PropertyPath. Beyond that we skip the creation of a Part for an empty path segment, so that you don't end up with an invalid Part instance for a findAllByOrderByFooAsc.
We now leniently try to lookup DefaultParameterNameDiscoverer and create an instance of it to make use of Spring 4's improved parameter name capabilities on Java 8. We fall back on a LocalVariableTableParameterNameDiscoverer if on Spring versions prior to 4.
Reverted from ConcurrentHashMap to plain HashMap where concurrency wasn't an issue and profiling showed performance hotspots. Introduced caches for ParameterizedTypeInformation.getComponentType() and the resolved raw type in TypeDiscoverer.
So far the property lookup of a nested property path (e.g. "foo.bar") failed in cases the head property was not cached already. We now recursively resolve the type information even for an unpopulated cache.
