4b36f79 introduced a regression by consuming registered RepositoryRestConfigurer instances via ApplicationContext.getBeansOfType(…).values() which, unlike the previous consumption via a List<RRC> in an @Bean method, is losing the declared order of the RRC instances as ….getBeansOfType() is a Map.
We now rather use an ObjectProvider and its ….orderedStream() method to consume the registered instances ordered properly.
Fixes#1995.
Introduce AggregateReferenceResolvingModule to be registered with the default ObjectMapper instance that will allow to materialize aggregate instances from URIs for incoming web requests. We do not apply this for aggregate roots themselves as they're already handled by the AssociationUriResolvingDeserializerModifier.
Nested entities that contain a reference to an aggregate root get a link to that attached to their representation. Previously, the creation of those links assumed that the reference is a materialized instance of the remote aggregate. That's now altered to be able to deal with associations, use identifiers directly or materialize to an intermediate aggregate instance to potentially use a custom lookup.
We now don't import XML configuration located in classpath*:META-INF/spring-data-rest/**/*.xml anymore. This is primarily to not trigger the XML subsystem in Spring Framework which we don't need at all actually. Users still relying on that import can just declare the import themselves.
Improving the configuration situation for RRCD, whose bean declaration required access to all RepositoryRestConfigurer instances while implementing the interface itself, too. We now rather hide the creation of that instance in a Lazy as it doesn't need any kind of lifecycle management.
We're now registering an HttpMessageConverter to render requests for HAL FORMS using the HalFormsConfiguration present in the application.
We're currently not adding any affordances yet. The change solely enables user code to add affordances explicitly, e.g. via RepresentationModelProcessor implementations.
Fixes: #1991.
RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter was superceded by RepositoryRestConfigurer and its default methods a long time ago. Update the ref docs to properly use the new interface.
Fixes#1983.
We now properly handle jMolecules Identifier instances by integration with the corresponding Converter implementations provided by the jmolecules-spring integrations library.
Fixes GH-1982.
RepositoryRestConfiguration now defaults the LinkRelationProvider instance to a delegating one considering both AnnotationLinkRelationProvider and EvoLinkRelationProvider so that @Relation annotations on entity types.
Instead of registering the PathPatternParser on DelegatingHandlerMapping via WebMvcConfigurer.configurePathMatch(…) we now consume the bean exposed in context of the fix for spring-projects/spring-framework#26427.
We also use the newly introduced RequestMappingInfo.mutate() to add our customizations of the produces clause for Spring Data REST's mappings.
Fixes GH-1965.
