Even though the JSR-107 spec forbids to store null values, our cache
abstraction allows that behaviour with a special handled (and this is
the default behaviour).
While this was working fine with our own set of annotations, the
JSR-107 interceptor counterpart was interpreting the spec sensu strictu.
We now allow for that special case as well.
Issue: SPR-13641
This commit expands the range of whitelisted extensions by checking
if an extension can be resolved to image/*, audo/*, video/*, as well
as any content type that ends with +xml.
Issue: SPR-13643
Prior to this change, the HttpEntityMethodProcessor would try to process
conditional requests that are undefined by the spec, such as:
* an HTTP GET request with "If-None-Match:*"
* a request with both "If-None-Match" and "If-Match"
* a request with both "If-None-Match" and "If-Unmodified-Since"
This commit skips the processing of those requests as conditional
requests and continues with normal request handling.
Issue: SPR-13626
The URI template is now manually parsed vs using a regex to extract
URI variable names and to create a pattern for matching to actual URLs.
This provides more control to deal with nested curly braces.
Issue: SPR-13627
The goal is to avoid String name comparisons in favor of annotation type identity checks wherever possible. Also, we avoid double getDeclaredAnnotations/getAnnotations checks on anything other than Classes now, since we'd just get the same result in a fresh array.
Issue: SPR-13621
Improve the performance of the `getMergedAnnotationAttributes` and
`isAnnotated` methods in `AnnotatedElementUtils` by returning
immediately when the element had no annotations.
Issue: SPR-13621
Add new MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_UTF8 and
MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_UTF8_VALUE constants for
"application/json;charset=UTF-8" content type in order to make it
easier to override @RequestMapping "produces" attribute without
losing the default JSON charset (UTF-8).
Issue: SPR-13600
