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RepositoryRestConfigurerAdapter was superceded by RepositoryRestConfigurer and its default methods a long time ago.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.
Instead of registering the PathPatternParser on DelegatingHandlerMapping via WebMvcConfigurer.configurePathMatch(…) we now consume the bean exposed in context of the fix for spring-projects/spring-framework#26427.
We also use the newly introduced RequestMappingInfo.mutate() to add our customizations of the produces clause for Spring Data REST's mappings.
Fixes GH-1965.
NestedEntitySerializer now skips the wrapping into an EntityModel if the target serializer is a JsonValueSerializer as EntityModel requires the value to ultimately resolve into key value pairs as it's only enriching something that's rendered as JSON document with hypermedia elements.
We actually do not want to inherit all the functionality implemented in AbstractHandlerMapping. The sole reason we did so before was to override the method to propagate the PathPatternResolver to the downstream HandlerMappings. We now just declare the method on DHM directly.
Fixes GH-1955.
Switch to ObjectProvider for all component dependencies in the constructor of RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration. Made the bean definition of AnnotatedEventHandlerInvoker a static bean as it's an application listener and it being an instance method causes extend initialization of the configuration class trickling down into unnecessary bean lookups that early in the lifecycle.
Fixes GH-1921.
