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.
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.
