We now prevent the superfluous creation of a MethodParameter and TypeDescriptor instance in repository method execution in case the value to be returned already is an instance of the expected method return type.
In CustomRepositoryImplementationDetector, we now immediately hand the Environment to the constructor of ClassPathScanningCandidateComponentProvider instead of setting it afterwards. This prevents a default StandardEnvironment from being created in the previously used constructor.
We now deploy a custom BeanPostProcessor to customize RequestMappingHandlerAdapter instances by prepending a ProxyingHandlerMethodArgumentResolver (requiring a @ModelAttribute) to the list of resolved HandlerMethodArgumentResolvers to make sure the settings defined in the annotation are applied but the projecting way of data binding is still used.
Introduced RepositoryFactorySupport.getProjectionFactory(…) to create a ProjectionFactory to be used for repository instances created. The default implementation uses the SpelAwareProxyProjectionFactory.
The ProjectionInformation implementation is now a named class so it can be used for more specialized implementations.
Original pull request: #243.
Related issue: DATAJPA-1173.
Previously, a call to AbstractMappingContext.getPersistentEntity(PersistentProperty) would've added potentially leniently added the type of the given PersistentProperty, no matter whether it's actually considered to be an entity in the first place. We now defensively check for whether the given property is to be considered an entity (taking potentially registered converters into account) before the potentially entity-creating by-type lookup.
We now eagerly resolve a generics declaration chain, which we previously - erroneously - expected GenericTypeResolver to do for us. Simplified TypeVariableTypeInformation implementation. Renamed ParameterizedTypeUnitTests to ParameterizedTypeInformationUnitTests.
Previously, the publication of the event that indicated a PersistentEntity having been added to it took place before the write lock over the entities had been released. We now keep the lock smaller and publish the addition event *after* the lock has been released.
Tweaked newly introduced RepositoryConfiguration.getImplementationBasePackage() to not require a parameter but use internal information instead (the repository interface in DefaultRepositoryConfiguration).
Original pull request: #248.
Custom repository implementation scan uses the repository interface package and its subpackages and no longer scans all configured base packages. Scan for fragment implementations defaults to the fragment interface package. Using the interface package for scanning aligns the behavior with the documentation.
Declaring the implementation along with the interface in the same package is an established design pattern allowing to limit the scanning scope. A limited scope improves scanning performance as it can skip elements on the classpath, that do not provide that particular package.
Previously, we scanned for implementations using the configured base packages that were also used to discover repository interfaces. These base packages can be broader for applications that spread repository interfaces across multiple packages.
Original pull request: #248.
When trying to determine if a parameter is a dynamic projection parameter, i.e. the parameter of type Class that determines the projection to use, now the type parameter of that method parameter gets compared with the unwrapped return type. Therefore this works now not only for Maps and Collections but also for the various wrappers defined in QueryExecutionConverters.
Moved the method for unwrapping the return type from AbstractRepositoryMetadata to QueryExecutionConverters in order to make it available to every class needing it. This also puts it closer to the data it is working on.
Original pull request: #249.
We now prefer to inspect the arguments handed to save(…) methods over inspecting the return value as the invocation of the actual method is free to exchange the instance handed into it and return a completely new one with the events contained in the parameter completely wiped.
