Added array checks to AbstractRepositoryMetadata.getReturnedDomainClass() to detect array component types. QueryMethod now considers methods returning arrays to be collection query methods.
Introduced a Slice interface which is effectively a Page without the total page information. This will allow store modules to implement slice-by-slice access without having to calculate a total number of elements.
Extracted content and Pageable related functionality into a common Chunk class which serves as base class for the two concrete implementations SliceImpl and PageImpl. Deprecated hasNextPage() etc. on Page in favor of the generic hasNext() methods.
QueryMethod now exposes an isSliceQuery() to indicate a query method will need sliced execution.
Added MappingContext.getManagedTypes() as well as ….hasPersistentEntity(Class) to access all types currently managed by the MappingContext and find out whether a type is managed by the context.
RepositoryConfigurationSupport now has a getAttribute(String) method to lookup String attributes on XML elements and annotations. The XML implementation converts the given attribute name in a lower-case, dashed representation for the lookup.
RepositoryConfigurationExtensionSupport now ha a generic postProcess(…) method to allow implementations that only need to work with String attributes unify their customizations into that single method.
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.
Added a Spring Data specific CollectionFactory that augments Spring's CollectionFactory with support for special collection types like EnumSet and EnumMap. For all other types we delegate to the wrapped class.
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.
If a Converter handed into DefaultPersistentPropertyPath.toDotPath(…) returns null or an empty string for a mapped property name, that value is skipped during path construction.
We now skip bridge methods for query method processing in order to circumvent the changed behavior of Class#getMethods() in Java 8 (when the code was compiled with target byte code level 1.8). On Java 8 this results in bridge methods being found and inspected for query method annotations. Since we currently cannot analyze generic return types of bridge methods this results in NullPointerExceptions being thrown at a later stage in AbstractRepositoryMetadata#getReturnedDomainClass(…).
Original pull request: #64.
Related issue: DATAJPA-465.
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.
The changes in 899cf25 causes Repositories not finding any repository instances in case the lookup of beans by type for RepositoryFactoryInformation if the initialization causes as cyclic reference. Even worse, we might run into cases in which the attempt to access the beans by type causes transitive object creation which results in a successful lookup on a second attempt.
This is effectively caused by the catch-block in DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeansOfType(…) which registers the suppressed exception as the method is used for lookup the beans for injection points with Lists and Maps.
We now explicitly look for bean names first and access the bean by name afterwards, which guarantees the exception to be thrown if it occurs. This will reveal the underlying issue and let user potentially deal with it. It's generally recommended to refer to Repositories in a very lazy fashion (using Provider<T>, ObjectFactory<T> or @Lazy on the injection point as of Spring 4) to avoid creating circular dependencies through by-type-lookups.
We now eagerly populate the repository factory information in Repositories to provide a read only view on the discovered repository information. Previously lookup operations could also change some maps that held information about the until then discovered repository meta data which could lead to ConcurrentModifcationExceptions in multi-threaded environments. Since we don't allow any modification after construction this won't happen anymore.
We also cache the computed RepositoryMetadata in RepositoryFactoryBeanSupport.
Original pull request: #63.
Upgraded to Spring Data Build parent 1.3.0.RC1 and Spring HATEOAS 0.9.0.RELEASE. Switched to milestone repositories. Updated changelog and adapted notice.txt.
Changed Hateoas(Pageable|Sort)HandlerMethodArgumentResolver to use newly introduced TypeVariables abstraction to avoid having to deal with string representations manually.
The registered TemplateVariables carry a "pagination.….description" key to be resolved against a MessageSource.
Moved getCrudMethods() to RepositoryMetadata to be able to add a isPagingRepository() to the interface as well. Changed DefaultCrudMethods to work with a RepositoryMetadata instead of RepositoryInformation.
DefaultRepositoryInformation now completely delegates to the ResourceMetadata given and not extend it to avoid initialization order issues.
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.
RepositoryConfigurationDelegate allows to easily trigger repository BeanDefinitions to be registered independently of the client API (XML or annotation configuration support). Refactored the existing configuration base classes to use the newly introduced class. Removed defaulting of infrastructure components needed for Spring 3.1 compatibility.
The Hateoas(Pageable|Sort)HandlerMethodArgumentResolver now receive a UriComponents instance to inspect for existing query parameters. They then refrain from adding template variables for already present parameters. Slightly modified the way the sort parameters is appended to the pagination properties (although semantically equivalent).
We now handle an IllegalArgumentException being thrown in case we deal with a templated request mapping. We simply skip the attempt to eagerly resolve the base URI for the request and rely on the assembler being capable of resolving it itself or the user effectively providing a Link instances to one of the toResource(…) overloads.
PagedResourcesAssembler now adds a LinkTemplate to every PagedResources instance created and pulls the template variable information from the registered resolvers for Pageable and Sort.
Extended PageableResourceAssemblerArgumentResolver to create a special MethodParameterAwarePagedResourcesAssembler so that the assembler will take qualifier information into account when being injected into controller methods.
Upgraded to Spring HATEOAS 0.9.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT to be able to benefit from new methods added to MethodParameters as well as the LinkTemplate class. Updated Sonargraph architecture definition to allow the web layer to access logging.
Turned the static cache of RepositoryInformations in RepositoryFactorySupport into a non-static one to avoid the instance from potentially surviving redeployments in web app scenarios.
We now also set a resource pattern on the ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider to limit the scanning for custom implementations even more and thus avoid reading a lot of unnecessary class files.
The CDI extension now eagerly instantiates repository beans that are annotated with the newly introduced @Eager annotation. This is necessary to prevent the initialization procedure from interfering with potentially already executed business logic.
To achieve this CdiRepositoryExtensionSupport provides a new method registerBean(…) that has to be called by store implementations. The extension will then keep track of beans that require eager initialization and trigger it when the container has finished validation.
Changed the design of RepositoryBeanDefinitionBuilder to receive stable dependencies in the constructor and the moving parts as method arguments. This enables us to reuse the builder instance for the creation of all repository bean definitions. Most importantly that means we can use a single CachingMetadataReaderFactory instance which will avoid reading files again when looking for custom implementation classes.
Adapted clients for XML configuration and JavaConfig accordingly.
