We now recommend to implement RepositoryRestConfigurer directly as its declared methods are now default methods. We also introduced a static factory method to easily create a configurer to customize RepositoryRestConfiguration via a Lambda expression.
Moved test case setups that use that deprecated API to the new one.
DelegatingHandlerMapping now implements MatchableHandlerMapping by selecting the a delegate based on the already implemented algorithm and then invoking the ….match(…) method in case the selected one is a MatchableHandlerMapping in turn.
Refactored the internals a bit to be able to reuse the selection algorithm from both ….getHandler(…) and ….match(…).
The default exposure of repository methods is now controlled via RepositoryRestConfiguration.setExposeRepositoryMethodsByDefault(…). That allows us to remove the additional API from RepositoryDetectionStrategy as the mere detection is an orthogonal topic.
Also added RepositoryRestConfiguration.disableDefaultExposure() to set the RepositoryDetectionStategy to ANNOTATED and disables default method exposure in one go. That can be exposed via a Spring Boot configuration property downstream.
Removed Lombok constructor and accessor generation to avoid having to deal with the changed default in Lombok 1.16.20 not generating @ConstructorProperties by default anymore.
Spring Framework 5.0.2 changes the default for the Allow-Credentials header to false. We now adapted our test case to that and also drop the expectation to see the request URL in the Allow-Origin header as that is only returned if Allow-Credentials is true, which it now isn't by default.
Significantly refactored the way that patch path expressions are handled and evaluated. The new design is centered around SpelPath that is aware of the original path as well as the derived SpEL expression. That SpelPath then requires clients to bind it to a type so that the original path can be validated (and rejected if invalid) and provide API to read, set, copy and move values backed by the original path. Both SpelPath and TypedSpelPath instances are cached to avoid repeated creation.
PatchOperation implementations now provide more fluent factory methods, in some cases via intermediate builders. Removed a lot of obsolete code that created JsonNodes from a list of PatchOperations as we don't actually use that functionality anywhere. Removed obsolete generics where possible.
We now inspect the user class of the given bean type in BasePathAwareHandlerMapping.isHandler(…). We can't use AnnotationUtils as @RepositoryRestController is also annotated with @BasePathAwareController but must not be handled by this mapping.
Previously the SpEL expresssion created from JSON Patch path expressions were executed without double checking whether these paths actually exist on the target object in the first place. This is now in place.
Association links now explicitly indicate projections are available in case there are projection types registered for the association target type.
Original pull request: #273.
Switched from ProxyProjectionFactory.setResourceLoader(…) to ….setBeanClassLoader(…). Some generics polishing and removal of obsolete warnings supression.
We now also catch SpelEvaluationException in the attempt to set a null value for an expression as Spring 5 now reports a failed attempt (e.g. if the target type is not nullable) using that type whereas Spring 4.3 threw a NullPointerException.
Fixed the setup of our custom ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver to conclude with a call to afterPropertiesSet() to make sure it's properly initialized.
We now expose the constructor that takes a RelProvider in RepositoryResourceMappings so that clients can tweak the default relation names. Changed the order of constructor parameters of (previously) non-public constructors for consistency.
The RelProvider to be used with the mappings can now be configured via RepositoryRestConfiguration and defaults to the EvoInflector based one.
When a PATCH call using JSON Patch tried to append an item to an empty collection, it previously failed to look up the type to unmarshal the incoming payload to. We now inspect the declared types on the wrapped object's property to determine that type for append operations.
Also, an uninitialized collection is now initialized using Spring's CollectionFactory.
Additional cleanups in QuerydslAwareRootResourceInformationHandlerMethodArgumentResolver to make sure a QuerydslRepositoryInvokerAdapter is only applied if the QuerydslPredicateBuilder actually exposes a predicate. Extracted a couple of methods to make sure the mapping pipeline reads nicely.
