The build script now declares the Jackson Hibernate 4 as optional dependency to avoid being registered in a non-Hibernate environment. Tightened auto-registration checks to also check for Hibernate 4 presence at all.
We automatically activate verbose date rendering when registering the Joda Time module.
This commit introduces support for HAL rendering and making it the default rendering option. The configuration now registers an additional MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter with the according HAL modules registered and makes this the default JSON renderer if the default media type is configured to HAL (which it is by default). To change this, set RepositoryRestConfiguration.setDefaultMediaType(…) back to application/json.
Refactored the PersistentEntityJackson2Module to turn the PersistentEntityResource into it's correct shape (turning associations into links) and the delegate to the default rendering, so that the HAL customizations provided by Spring HATEOAS can kick in. Adapted test cases to the change in default representation format.
Upgraded to Jackson 2.3.0, Spring 3.2.6 and Spring HATEOAS 0.9.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT. Upgraded to Gradle 1.10.
Merged core and repository modules into core. Renamed some packages for consistency in naming and in preparation to break up some package cycles. Removed @BaseUri and the according resolver. Refactored controllers a bit to have more reusable chunks of code.
Use configuration hook to force all Spring Framework dependencies into a particular version. Disabled caching for dynamic versions to hopefully let Gradle pick up snapshot dependencies finally.
Simplified new RepositoryMappings infrastructure. Integrated EvoInflectionRelProvider to build collection resource rels. Bumped version number to 2.0 as we're going to break backwards compatibility with the next release to straighten out the rel construction and mapping.
Upgraded to Spring 3.2.3.RELEASE, Spring HATEOAS 0.6.0.RELEASE and snapshot versions of Spring Data Commons, JPA, Mongo, and Neo4j. Fixed JUnit dependency. Finally removed JMock completely.
Additional changes include:
* Re-wrote the monolithic Controller into separate controller classes that have a more narrow focus.
* Implemented common functionality as a `HandlerMethodArgumentResolver` rather than as a helper method in a controller class.
* Re-implemented JSONP functionality as an HttpMessageConverter rather than inline within a controller class.
* Updated to Jackson 2 for all JSON handling.
* By relying on spring-data-commons, spring-data-rest now handles all supported Repository types: JPA, MongoDB, and GemFire.
Added support for MongoDB and GemFire repositories by relying on spring-data-commons to provide the metadata rather than maintaining internal metadata information that is store-specific.
Replaced Spock spec tests with JMock unit and integration tests. Started integrating Jetty 8 into the testing so MVC testing can be done against a live server.
