Previously the backend identifier derived from the URI was set as identifier on the object to be created in a PUT request. However, in case a custom entity lookup is used, this is not the identifier but an arbitrary property pointed to through user defined code, mostly a method reference.
We now use the newly introduced MethodInvocationRecorder API in Spring Data Commons to be able to obtain the property that is supposed to be used and set that to the value calculated. This requires the entity type for which the custom lookup is configured to be non-final as the invocation recording is build on top of proxies.
Related tickets: DATACMNS-1449.
We're now able to correctly identify Map keys within JsonPatch paths so that e.g. people/Dave/name properly translates into a people['Dave'].name SpEL expression.
Streamlined the design of SpelPath to avoid duplicate parsing and properly express the difference between typed and untyped paths in the type hierarchy. Slightly refactored the type hierarchy so that only methods that make sense in either untyped or typed state appear on the instance returned (getLeafType(Class) was exposed on TypedSpelPath before, which was confusing).
The lookup of the RequestMappingInfo in exposeEffectiveLookupPathKey(…) yields null for CORS preflight requests to resources that do not support OPTIONAL explicitly. We now guard against that to avoid a subsequent NullPointerException.
Previously we assumed lookup types to always result in String based values. We now loosen that constraint to also allow other scalar types, mostly targeting numeric types like long and integer.
Aligned with general request attribute naming conventions and prefixed the one we now use with the class' name. Altered the local attribute name to EFFECTIVE_REPOSITORY_RESOURCE_LOOKUP_PATH.
Renamed the constant holding the name from …_KEY to …_ATTRIBUTE.
We now expose a partially resolved PathPattern to contain the explicit repository base path so that the subpaths can be grouped around the individual repositories exposed.
Related ticket: spring-projects/spring-boot#14872
MappedProperties now exposes a factory method that uses the Jackson introspector for serialization (instead of deserialization) which now also includes read-only properties. Previously, read-only ones were not considered as they are excluded from the metadata if it is looked up for deserialization.
We now support adding a to a collection via JsonPatch expressions by using the collection's size as target index. Contrary to paths pointing to existing collection elements we cannot determine the type of the object to be created. Thus, we fall back to the common element type of all existing collection elements. We also reject indexes pointing to elements with an index greater than the current collection's size.
DomainObjectReader now aborts the recursive merges in case it encounters an entity that's described as @Immutable (just introduced in Spring Data Commons).
Fixed some generics and removed DomainObjectMerger as it's unused.
Related ticket: DATACMNS-1322.
Adapted RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration to now create a shared fallback ObjectMapper and avoid to register it as Spring Bean. Adapted test cases that previously were relying on such a bean being present.
Adapted test cases to verify on the correct ALPS document structure (see spring-projects/spring-hateoas#665).
Fixed @since tag in new converter implementation as we're going to backport the fix to Kay. Simplified converter setup in RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration to expose less API until someone actually requests access.
Original pull request: #290.
We now provide and configure a converter for String to LdapName conversion so Spring Data LDAP can be used with Spring Data REST without further configuration.
Original pull request: #290.
ResourceMetadataHandlerMethodArgumentResolver.supports(…) now properly checks for ResourceMetadata. It previously checked for RepositoryInformation which is probably a left-over from a previous state of the codebase and has been unnoticed so far as the class is only used as a direct dependency of other HandlerMethodArgumentResolvers.
ExposureConfiguration exposes methods to register AggregateResourceHttpMethodsFilter and AssociationResourceHttpMethodsFilter (both applied by type or globally) to customize the supported HTTP methods by collection, item and association resources. It also provides shortcuts for common use cases like disabling PUT for item resources etc.
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(…).
