Prior to this commit, binding a `@ModelAttribute` object as a Controller
handler paramater would instantiate the object and set all its
properties, fetching data from the request. When no data is available,
the WebDataBinder tries to bind default "empty" values:
* Boolean.FALSE for boolean types
* empty arrays for array types
* null by default
This commit adds the new default empty values:
* empty Collections for Collection types
* empty Maps for Map types
Rather than using empty implementations provided by `Collections.empty`
(which are not mutable), we're using the closest possible target type
and real implementations, provided by the `CollectionFactory`.
Issue: SPR-13502
This commit introduces a boolean alwaysProcesses() method in the
Processor API which allows for simplification across all search
algorithms within AnnotatedElementUtils.
Specifically, it is no longer necessary for process() methods to verify
that the supplied annotation is actually the sought target annotation.
In addition, duplicated code has been extracted into common methods
(e.g., hasMetaAnnotationTypes()) and common Processor implementations
(e.g., AlwaysTrueBooleanAnnotationProcessor).
This commit picks up where 2535469099 left off with added support for
"get" search semantics for merged repeatable annotations.
Specifically, this commit introduces a new
getMergedRepeatableAnnotations() method in AnnotatedElementUtils.
Issue: SPR-13973
This commit picks up where a5139f3c66 left off with added support for
"get" search semantics for multiple merged annotations.
Specifically, this commit introduces a new getAllMergedAnnotations()
method in AnnotatedElementUtils.
Issue: SPR-13486
Prior to this commit, AnnotationUtils supported searching for
repeatable annotations even if the repeatable annotation was declared
on a custom stereotype annotation. However, there was no support for
merging of attributes in composed repeatable annotations. In other
words, it was not possible for a custom annotation to override
attributes in a repeatable annotation.
This commit addresses this by introducing
findMergedRepeatableAnnotations() methods in AnnotatedElementUtils.
These new methods provide full support for explicit annotation
attribute overrides configured via @AliasFor (as well as
convention-based overrides) with "find semantics".
Issue: SPR-13973
Prior to this commit, HTTP Range requests were only supported by the
ResourceHttpRequestHandler when serving static resources.
This commit improves the ResourceHttpMessageConverter that
now supports partial writes of Resources.
For this, the `HttpEntityMethodProcessor` and
`RequestResponseBodyMethodProcessor` now wrap resources with HTTP
range information in a `HttpRangeResource`, if necessary. The
message converter handle those types and knows how to handle 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-13834
Just like SPR-13252 addressed this issue for the "Pragma" header, this
issue resets the HTTP 1.0 "Expires" header.
When such a header has been set (by a filter, for example) and HTTP
caching has been configured at the WebContentGenerator, this header
value is reset to "". In this case, "Cache-Control" and "Expires" might
have inconsistent values and we consider that the HTTP caching
configuration should take precedence.
Depending on the servlet container chosen to deploy the application,
this might result in empty "" header values or no header set at all.
Issue: SPR-14053
