Updated change log so far. Upgraded to latest dependency versions. Polished porject information in pom.xml. Added Spring dependencies that we directly depend on. Adapted test cases to changes in Jackson 2 output format. Updated ChangelogCreator to latest milestone and repository URI.
Upgraded to Spring 3.2.3 to be able to use inlined CGLib directly. We now use Objenesis to create the proxy instances which avoids the need for a default constructor.
The String value handed into the UriTemplate created through mock method invocations now uses a DefaultFormattingConversionService to consider formatting annotations on the controller method parameters.
The annotation registers supporting application components as Spring beans based on the configured hypermedia type. Currently supported are the default rendering as well as HAL. We register a matching LinkDiscoverer implementation as well as the appropriate Jackson modules (if present on the classpath) to support HAL.
Upgraded to Spring 3.1.4 to benefit from fix to prevent multiple invocations of ImportBeanDefinitionRegistrars (see SPR-9939 / SPR-9925).
LinkDiscoverer exposes an API to find Links by their relation types in representations. Added JSONPath based base class and a DefaultLinkDiscoverer that finds Links based on the default rendering of our Jackson mappings.
Added Jackson 1 and 2 modules to render Link objects in a HAL-compliant way. Introduced custom Jackson mixins to avoid introducing new value objects for the representation model.
The rendering can be activated by simply registering Jackson1HalModule or Jackson2HalModule with the Jackson ObjectMapper.
Added Jackson 2 dependencies. Doubly annotated representation model classes with both Jackson 1 and Jackson 2 annotations. Added Integration tests for Jackson 2 marshaling provided by Jon. Polished template.mf.
EntityLinks allow accessing LinkBuilders or even Link instance based on components exposing REST resources for a particular domain type. The core implementation is ControllerEntityLinks that assumes a particular URI structure so that it can derive the URIs to be asked for per domain type. The domain type managed will be inspected from the @ExposesResourceFor annotation on a controller class. We provide a factory bean to allow configuring instances of ControllerEntityLinks based on a mapping annotation and LinkBuilderFactory.
Added infrastructure to activate automatic discovery of EntityLinks implementations through @EnableEntityLinks. This will automatically register ControllerEntityLinks instances for Spring MVC controllers annotated with @ExposesResourceFor as well as JAX-RS resources if JAX-RS is on the classpath. The mechanism essentially registers a DelegatingEntityLinks instance leveraging the Spring Plugin PluginRegistry mechanism to delegate to the actual EntityLinks instance actually registered for the entity type. It will become the primary EntityLinks bean in the ApplicationContext so that they can be autowired into client components safely.
Introduced Resource and Resources value objects. The former captures single entity instances but adds links to it. The latter does the same for a collection of entities. Added SPI interfaces ResourcePostProcessor and ResourcesPostProcessor to allow manipulating Resource and Resources instances.
Set version number to 0.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT to quickly allow releases while not doing an 1.0.0 release in the first place. Added Bundlor to generate an appropriate OSGi manifest.
