The new jdiff task generates a report of API differences between the
current version (i.e. the value of `version` in gradle.properties) and
any older version of the framework, as specified by -DOLD_VERSION at
the command line, or defaulting to `previousVersion` in
gradle.properties.
Running the command requires a separate clone directory pinned to the
desired old version, as specified by -DOLD_VERSION_ROOT at the command
line. This creates challenges from a build automation perspective,
largely because Gradle doesn't (yet) have APIs for working with Git.
This task may be further automated and included in nightly CI runs, but
in the meantime, a number of reports back to 3.1.3.RELEASE have been
generated manually and uploaded to [1], where one can now find the
following entries in the directory listing:
- 3.1.3.RELEASE_to_3.2.0.RC1
- 3.2.0.M1_to_3.2.0.M2
- 3.2.0.M2_to_3.2.0.RC1
- 3.2.0.RC1_to_3.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT
Ideally, the final entry there would be kept up-to-date on a daily
basis - again we may revisit doing so in the future. Going forward,
reports will be generated and uploaded manually on an as needed basis
and as part of the release process.
The goal of these reports are as follows:
- to ease the process of ensuring backward compatibility
- to aid in code reviews, particularly when reviewing large pull
requests
- to ease the process of creating migration guides for project
maintainers, i.e. to help us remember what's changed
- to allow ambitious end-users to discover what's been changing at the
API level without without needing to wait for detailed "what's new in
version X" and/or migration guide documentation
See documentation in jdiff.gradle for usage details.
Note that the jdiff-1.1.1 distribution as downloaded from [2] has been
added wholesale to the source tree under gradle/jdiff instead of
uploading JDiff jars to repo.springsource.org as we would normally do.
This is due to some unfortunate limitations in the implementation of the
jdiff ant task that require a phisical JDIFF_HOME directory. Checking in
the jars and various resources represents the simplest and most
pragmatic solution to this problem, though ambitious contributors are
free to do what's necessary to arrive at a more elegant arrangement.
[1]: http://static.springframework.org/spring-framework/docs
[2]: http://sourceforge.net/projects/javadiff/files/latest/download
Issue: SPR-9957
Previously the publish-maven.gradle only supported having a single
artifact be marked as optional or provided. This causes problems now
that we are building modules that support multiple versions of an
artifact. For example, we compile against two versions of Tiles
artifacts with identical names, both of which need to be marked
optional.
This updates publish-maven.gradle to find all the artifacts and mark
them as optional as apposed to the first entry.
The change to support generic @RequestBody arguments introduced in
3.2 M2 also introduced a regression in reading arguments that are
type variables. This change fixes the issue.
Issue: SPR-9964
Update SpEL boolean operators to always call the ConversionService
for null values. Primarily to allow null values to be treated as
false by overriding GenericConversionService.convertNullSource().
Issue: SPR-9445
Replace reference to aspectjrt.jar with aspectjweaver.jar since
aspectjrt is a subset of aspectjweaver and the full jar is required
by Spring.
Issue: SPR-8896
Update reference manual with details of Java configuration @Enable*
annotations. Examples of Java style @Configuration is provided
when appropriate alongside existing XML samples.
Several existing @Configuration samples have been changed to placing
the @Enable annotation below the @Configuration annotation.
This has been done to provide consistency with existing Javadoc.
Issue: SPR-9920
When a controller method declares Callable or DeferredResult as its
return value, and returns null, async processing will not start and
the request will be considered "handled" by the controller method.
Issue: SPR-9951
Tiles 3 has modified packages and classes as well as additional
dependencies, notably "tiles-request-api", which is a request/response
abstraction independent of Servlet and JSP APIs.
In order to have both Tiles 2 and Tiles 3 integrations, the source for
the Tiles 3 integration is in a separate project spring-webmvc-tiles3.
The build process merges the compiled Tiles 3 integration classes into
the spring-webmvc module so in effect it contains both the Tiles 2 and
the Tiles 3 integrations.
This change originated as a pull request at spring-framework-issues:
https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-framework-issues/pull/30
And was additionally updated:
1f64be4aa5
Issue: SPR-8825
Update Javadoc to indicate that the getAsyncExecutor() method may be
optionally annotated with @Bean and in such circumstance the
executor.initialize() method need not be called.
Issue: SPR-9934
Modify ReflectivePropertyAccessor so that it no longer considers
bridge methods when finding getters or setters. This should help
to prevent subtle errors that can occur when particular JDK
implementations happen to return bridge methods before non-bridge
methods when calling Class.getMethods()
Issue: SPR-9994
This change ensures that the location attribute of a resource mapping
and the path attribute of an interceptor mapping support SpEL
expressions.
Issue: SPR-9291, SPR-9848
Implementations of Spring's ImportBeanDefinitionRegistrar interface may
now implement any of the following *Aware interfaces and have their
respective methods called prior to #registerBeanDefinitions:
- BeanFactoryAware
- BeanClassLoaderAware
- ResourceLoaderAware
Issue: SPR-9568
The change removes the use of concrete Matcher implementations and thus
the dependency on hamcrest-lib leaving hamcrest-core as the only
(optional) hamcrest dependency.
Issue: SPR-9961
This commit increases the sleep time in
ScheduledAndTransactionalAnnotationIntegrationTests with the hope of
improving the robustness of the test suite on the CI build server.
This commit refactors the logic in DateTimeFormatterFactory's
createDateTimeFormatter() method to ensure forward compatibility with
possible future changes to the ISO enum.
This commit also polishes the Javadoc for DateTimeFormatterFactoryBean.
Issue: SPR-9959
