We now don't prematurely drop fields that don't have a persistent property exposed in DomainObjectReader. Doing so dropped values for transient fields as the latter are not exposed as persistent property in the first place. We still skip any nested merging though.
Original pull request: #240.
We now explicitly manually merge array nodes that contain complex objects. Previously arrays would've been skipped and the subsequent Jackson update would wipe out all properties not contained in the original document even on PATCH requests.
Previously, MappedProperties didn't handle Jackson properties correctly, that do not expose a PersistentProperty, e.g. transient ones. That led to potential nullPointerExceptions in clients as the guarding hasPersistentPropertyForField(…) still answered true, as the backing cache contained an entry with a null value. We now skip those properties completely.
Revert changes introduced by DATAREST-883 - Jackson-aware field translation in Sort and DATAREST-906 - Consider default pageable if Sort is null. The way how Sort translation was implemented breaks Sort and Pageable argument resolution for custom controllers as a domain type is always required. Argument resolution fails if the related domain type cannot be resolved.
Related pull requests: #231, #222.
We now resolve default configured Pageable without dropping them if their Sort is empty. Previously, any default Pageable was dropped if its Sort was empty which caused null being handed to controller methods of @RepositoryRestController instances.
Original pull request: #231.
We now use the explicit identifier of the person just created, not a fixed 1 as other tests might have used that identifier already and that entity is not available anymore as a transaction rollback occured in those tests.
Switched to use @RequiredArgsConstructor where possible. Slightly rearranged test cases. Inlined JacksonMappingAwareSortTranslator to not expose it as bean unless necessary. Use static Jackson BeanClassIntrospector to avoid unnecessary recreation.
Original pull request: #222.
We now consider Jackson field names when resolving Sort arguments. Domain model properties annotated with @JsonProperty("sales") can be specified by their Jackson-mapped field name in sort arguments. Field names are mapped to their according persistent property names to be used in repository query method sorting. Unknown field names are silently dropped.
Original pull request: #222.
PUT requests are supposed to replace the state of the resource with the request payload. However, Spring Data REST already handles a couple of domain object propoerties in a special way as theri values map to dedicated HTTP features: identifiers (URIs), last-modified dates (header) etc.
For users, it might be worthwhile to exclude other properties from being set by applying the payload, like properties that are completely under the control of the server, e.g. creation user and date, last modifying user etc. So far, users didn't have any means to exclude those properties as the handling of PUT requests treated every missing property of the payload as null value.
DomainObjectMerger now checks whether a property is actually writable before applying the implicit null value. The application can be disabled by annotation a property with @ReadOnlyProperty.
Spring 4.3's HeaderContentNegotiationStrategy switched from looking up the Accept header via the method returning a single (potentially comma separated) one to the method returning multiple headers in the first place. We now added an override of HttpServletRequestWrapper.getHeaders(…) to out custom adapter defaulting the media type to make sure the defaulting is visible and thus the right handler methods are looked up.
That previously missing caused the DelegatingHandlerMapping selecting the redirect to the HAL browser in case a request to the API root was sent without an accept header as the defaulting of the header to application/hal+json wasn't properly exposed anymore and the redirect to the browser — declaring a produces clause of text/html — was not causing any media type mismatch anymore.
Previously we handed the original entity to the AfterSaveEvent. This should work in most cases but actually repositories are allowed to return a completely different instance so that we now hand over the instance returned by the repository interaction to avoid potentially occurring issues.
We now use the APIs in place in Spring MVC to make sure we create proper redirects for requests that carry proxy headers so that the redirect target is still going through the proxy.
Upgraded to Groovy 2.4.4. Polished sample domain types and repositories. Removed obsolete format registration in test cases for schema creation. Keep inlined null checks to make sure the IDE doesn't create unnecessary can-be-null warnings.
Original pull request: #206.
