This commit introduces support for attribute overrides for
@ResponseStatus when @ResponseStatus is used as a meta-annotation on
a custom composed annotation.
Specifically, this commit migrates all code that looks up
@ResponseStatus from using AnnotationUtils.findAnnotation() to using
AnnotatedElementUtils.findMergedAnnotation().
Issue: SPR-13441
After this change, with Nashorn it is possible to use either
render(template, model) or render(template, model, url).
With JRuby or Jython, specifying the 3 parameters is mandatory.
Issue: SPR-13453
This change adds a new `getDateHeader` method that converts date header
Strings to long values - making tests more readable.
This feature is also documented in the "what's new section" for 4.2.
Prior to this commit, requests with an empty body and no Content-Type
header set would fail with a HttpMediaTypeNotSupportedException when
mapped to a Controller method argument annotated with
@RequestBody(required=false).
In those cases, the server implementation considers with an
"application/octet-stream" content type and polls messageconverters for
conversion. If no messageconverter is able to process this request, a
HttpMediaTypeNotSupportedException is thrown.
This change makes sure that such exceptions are not thrown if the
incoming request has:
* no body
* no content-type header
In this case, a null value is returned.
Issue: SPR-13147
Includes a revision for consistent and defensive Servlet 3.0 method calls across Spring's web abstraction (in particular, also working in debug mode where method references may get resolved early, so ternary expressions are to be avoided).
Issue: SPR-13420
This commit improves the documentation in the reference manual for the
HtmlUnit & Selenium WebDriver integration in the Spring MVC Test
framework by mentioning the group and artifact IDs required for this
functionality.
Issue: SPR-13299
This commit picks up where 3eacb837c2
(SPR-13345) left off by adding support for transitive implicit aliases
configured via @AliasFor.
Issue: SPR-13405
