Removed dependency from Parameter to Parameters as it is obsolete. Let ClassUtils return component type for Iterables piped into getReturnedDomainClass(…).
The query parsing subsystem now supports using IgnoreCase when referencing String parameters, e.g.:
findByUsernameIgnoreCase(String username);
Both 'IgnoreCase' and 'IgnoringCase' are supported. If you'd like to entirely ignore cases for all String property references add 'AllIgnoreCase' or 'AllIgnoringCase' to the query method.
We have to lock PersistentEntity creation as instances could be prematurely handed out and iteration over the properties might interfere new properties being added to the Set iterated over.
QueryMethod now provides a protected method to allow customization of the Parameters instance being used. Removed final modifier from Parameters and Parameter classes to allow extension. Refactored Parameter to be based on Spring's MethodParameter for more encapsulation. Added callback method to Parameters to allow customizing Parameter instance creation. Added protected method to ParametersParameterAccessor to get any parameter value by index.
AbstractQueryCreator is now more lenient. We're now allowing instantiation without a ParameterAccessor for implementations that don't want to do parameter binding during query creation. We additionally provide a createQuery(Sort) now to allow handing in a dynamic Sort parameter taken from a query method to apply sorting even in case we don't bind parameters directly.
Added a method to Parameters to discover whether we potentially sort dynamically which simply tests for a Sort or Pageable parameter in the method signature.
Upgraded to Hamcrest 1.2.1. Removed obsolete Log4J transitive dependency exclusions as 1.2.16 does not include these dependencies anymore. Using Mockito and JUnit dependencies not containing Hamcrest types.
BasicPersistentEntity now has a constructor taking a Comparator and holds PersistentProperty instances in a TreeSet if a COmparator is given at construction. Removed getPersistentPropertyNames() from PersistentProperty interface as it's not used anywhere.
Added NamedQueries abstraction to hide a map of names to manually defined queries. Added PropertiesBasedNamedQueries to hold the named queries in a Properties instance. Extended resolveQuery(…) method in QueryLookupStrategy to take a NamedQuery instance to allow query creation callback use the named queries.
Added optional 'named-queries-location' attribute to the repositories namespace the bean definition parser loads the properties from to populate a PropertiesBasedNamedQueries instance and pipe it into the repository factory. Store implementations have to default the name to lookup in their RepositoryConfiguraion class (see CommonRepositoryConfigInformation.getNamedQueriesLocation()).
