This commit introduces the following changes.
1) It adds a new Spring @NonNull annotation which allows to apply
@NonNullApi semantic on a specific element, like @Nullable does.
Combined with @Nullable, it allows partial null-safety support when
package granularity is too broad.
2) @Nullable and @NonNull can apply to ElementType.TYPE_USE in order
to be used on generic type arguments (SPR-15942).
3) Annotations does not apply to ElementType.TYPE_PARAMETER anymore
since it is not supported yet (applicability for such use case is
controversial and need to be discussed).
4) @NonNullApi does not apply to ElementType.FIELD anymore since in a
lot of use cases (private, protected) it is not part for the public API
+ its usage should remain opt-in. A dedicated @NonNullFields annotation
has been added in order to set fields default to non-nullable.
5) Updated Javadoc and reference documentation.
Issue: SPR-15756
Prior to this commit, HTTP Range requests were only supported by the
ResourceHttpRequestHandler when serving static resources.
This commit improves the `HttpEntityMethodProcessor` and
the `RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor`. They now extract
`ResourceRegion`s from the `Resource` instance returned by the
Controller and let the Resource-related message converters
handle the writing of the resource (including partial writes).
Controller methods can now handle Range requests for
return types that extend Resource or HttpEntity:
@RequestMapping("/example/video.mp4")
public Resource handler() { }
@RequestMapping("/example/video.mp4")
public HttpEntity<Resource> handler() { }
Issue: SPR-15789, SPR-13834
Includes general streamlining of dependency declarations with reduced version variables, direct use of EclipseLink 2.7 and its implicit JPA 2.2 dependency in spring-orm, mixed use of Hibernate 5.2.10 and 5.1.10 for integration tests, as well as an upgrade to Jetty 9.4.7 RC0 and a downgrade to Groovy 2.4.12 (since Groovy 2.5 won't be final in time for Spring Framework 5.0).
Issue: SPR-15879
Issue: SPR-15880
This commit ensure that null-safety is consistent between
getters and setters in order to be able to provide beans
with properties with a common type when type safety is
taken in account like with Kotlin.
It also add a few missing property level @Nullable
annotations.
Issue: SPR-15792
ContentNegotiationManagerFactoryBean now provides an option to
explicitly set the strategies to use vs customizing a fixed
list of default strategies.
Issue: SPR-11114
This commits extends nullability declarations to the field level, formalizing the interaction between methods and their underlying fields and therefore avoiding any nullability mismatch.
Issue: SPR-15720
Supporting ScriptEngine#eval(String, Bindings) when no render function
is specified allows to support use cases where script templates are
simply evaluating a script expression with an even more simplified
configuration.
This improvement also makes it possible to use script engines that
do not implement Invocable.
Issue: SPR-15115
This commit also removes nullability from two common spots: ResolvableType.getType() and TargetSource.getTarget(), both of which are never effectively null with any regular implementation. For such scenarios, a non-null empty type/target is the cleaner contract.
Issue: SPR-15540
Beyond just formally declaring the current behavior, this revision actually enforces non-null behavior in selected signatures now, not tolerating null values anymore when not explicitly documented. It also changes some utility methods with historic null-in/null-out tolerance towards enforced non-null return values, making them a proper citizen in non-null assignments.
Some issues are left as to-do: in particular a thorough revision of spring-test, and a few tests with unclear failures (ignored as "TODO: NULLABLE") to be sorted out in a follow-up commit.
Issue: SPR-15540
With the new `ParsingPathMatcher` implementation, new patterns are now
allowed, such as `"/foo/{*bar}". The `"{*bar}"` segment will capture
everything until the end of the given path. Adding other elements after
that segment is illegal and will throw exceptions.
One can configure on a `PathMatchConfigurer` various options like
`useTrailingSlashMatch` and `useSuffixPatternMatch`; those options, when
enabled, will try to append suffixes like `".*"` and `"/"` to existing
path patterns. In case of a "capture the rest" pattern segment, those
options won't be honored.
This is why this commit ensures that an exception is thrown at the start
of the application if an illegal configuration is applied to the
`PathMatchConfigurer`.
Issue: SPR-15303, SPR-15558
