Removed unnecessary CustomPostForm.js from HAL Explorer. HAL Explorer natively supports Spring Profiles. Update link in README.adoc to the HAL Explorer section in the reference docs Correct typo and incorrect description in HAL-Explorer section.
Fixes#2005.
We now also implement MatchableHandlerMapping.getPatternParser() to expose the PathPatternParser we use. This is needed to detect that DelegatingHandlerMapping uses a PathPatternParser from the outside as the Spring MVC request processing pipeline treats those HandlerMappings in a special way. This is especially important in the context of spring-projects/spring-framework#26814 as that makes the HM implementations work properly in CORS preflight requests.
When used with Spring Security in place, CORS preflight requests are inspected through the HandlerMappingIntrospector, that looks up the CORS configuration for the handler to serve the actual request. That lookup previously failed as Spring MVC was unable to detect that Spring Data REST's DelegatingHandlerMapping works with a PathPatternParser and didn't properly set up the processing pipeline to eventually end up in an invalid state, produce an exception that caused the handler method lookup to fail and cause Spring Security to fail with a 403, claiming the request was invalid.
Fixes#2007.
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.
RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter was superceded by RepositoryRestConfigurer and its default methods a long time ago.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.
RepositoryRestConfiguration now defaults the LinkRelationProvider instance to a delegating one considering both AnnotationLinkRelationProvider and EvoLinkRelationProvider so that @Relation annotations on entity types.
