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.
Added PageableHandlerArgumentResolver to supersede the now deprecated PageableArgumentResolver. The latter still stays available for Spring 3.0.x based deployments. Updated reference documentation to mention the newly introduced type as well as possible configuration options.
AnnotationBasedPersistentProperty now caches direct annotations on construction but still tries to lookup an annotation as meta-annotation if not found in cache on later requests. Extended try/catch block in AbstractMappingContext.addPersistentEntity(…) to invalidate cache on exceptions during property creation as well.
Refactored BasicMappingContext into AbstractMappingContext that now only contains the general algorithm to build PersistentEntity and PersistentProperty instances. The algorithm delegates to two template methods that are responsible for instantiating concrete implementations of those classes.
Extracted an AnnotationBasedPersistentProperty that now contains all annotation references so that AbstractPersistentEntity does not take annotations into account in the first places. BasicPersistentEntity now does PreferredConstructor lookup as well.
Removed unnecessary methods from MappingCOntext and PersistentEntity interface. Added a verify() method to BasicPersistentEntity that AbstractMappingContext calls to verify validity of the entity. This will be used by the Mongo module for example to make sure @Document annotated entities have an @Id property.
Refactored getValueAnnotation() to getSpelExpression() to not imply we're using annotations in every case.
Added shortcut in TypeDiscoverer.createInfo(…) to prevent endless loop in case a type has a field of it's very same type.
TypeDiscoverer now returns the plain compound type for arrays now, which means you get String for String[], String[][] and so on. Opened up signature of AbstractMappingContext.setInitialEntitySet(…) to allow effortless programatic invocation.
Unified IsNewAware and IdAware to EntityMetadata. Refactored base repository support to use this abstraction. Introduced RepositoryMetadata and DefaultRepositoryMetadata implementation to capture all the additional information that we need around a repository interface. Adapted factory API to use this abstraction. Opened up method parameter and return types to prepare enabling the usage of the infrastructure for interfaces that do not extend Repository interface.
Query method names now support Distinct in method name prefixes. Beyond that I laxed the prefix constraints a little so that it can potentially contain anything before a 'By' separator:
- findByLastname -> simply query
- findUsersByLastname -> simple query
- findUsersDistinctByFirstname -> distinct query
- findDistinctUsersByFirstname -> distinct query
- findDistinctByLastname -> distinct query
