The default exposure of repository methods is now controlled via RepositoryRestConfiguration.setExposeRepositoryMethodsByDefault(…). If set to true (the default), a repository that is detected for exposure (which in turn can be controlled via RepositoryDetectionStrategy) will have default resources exposed in case of the mere presence of CRUD methods. Setting this to false will require you to explicitly annotated those methods with @RestResource.
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.
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 expression 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 check is now in place.
