* Move Spring MVC method scanning out of the core Affordances API and into SpringMvcAffordanceBuilder to make it easy to use in Spring Data REST (where method scanning isn't needed).
* Also push attributes from Affordance into AffordanceModel to centralize the details.
* Certain serializers must be registered differently due to Jackson's rules of precedence given Spring Data REST needs to override them.
In HAL-based documents (HAL and HAL-FORMS), the "templated" property must be ignored in LinkMixin, because that's where it is applied. Removes the need for a no-op `setTemplated` method in Link.
* Test cases drafted for both HAL an HAL-FORMS to verify proper behavior.
* Jackson2HalFormsIntegrationTest migrated from Hamcrest to AssertJ assertions.
Related pull requests: #668
* Moved compilation of Regexp patterns out of methods in order to not repeat it over and over again.
* Applied soft assertions where multiple assertions where used where one failure didn't guarantee the failure of all other assertions.
* Minor formatting.
Deserializing a Link with a templated URI will cause Jackson to break due to there being no "templated" property. This adds a private, no-op `setTemplated` method to allow deserialization to occur yet not alter the Link..
By removing all Jaxb annotations, requesting data from a hypermedia-enabled endpoint inside a browser (which defaults to accept:application/xhtml+xml,*/*), Spring HATEOAS will yield HAL.
Introduce support for media type application/vnd.collection+json. Collection+JSON doesn't allow metadata at the top, so paging data can't be covered, however, everything else fits.
Also moved a little bit more into Affordance and SpringMvcAffordance to avoid using Spring MVC annotations directly in a given mediatype's AffordanceModel.
Refactored bits of HAL-FORMS to reuse the new PropertyUtils, ensuring Jackson ignore annotations are taken into consideration. Also added MockMVC tests to show HAL-FORMS and Collection+JSON working together, against the same controller.
Moved AffordanceModelFactory into core package as it's SPI. Switched to Spring Factories lookup of implementation classes so that we avoid a package dependency between the MVC package and the media type specific packages. Removed reference to MediaType from AffordanceModelFactory to AffordanceModel so that a factory can even provide models for different MediaTypes (i.e. different flavors of the same one, e.g. HAL Forms for JSON and XML). Also removed addAffordanceModel(…) from Affordance to not force the implementations into mutability. Made most of the affordance building API types package protected. HalFormsAffordanceModel now uses MethodParameters abstraction to simplify model parsing code.
Tweaked HAL forms model to work with factory methods for required properties and wither methods to add optional properties. Tweaked and inlined mixin types in Jackson module for HAL forms.
Slight API polishing on Link to make sure Affordance collecting methods are not named with….
Tweaked Lombok setup to use all caps for logger constants. Removed deprecation warnings in Jackson2HalModule.
* Introduces new Affordances API to build links related to each other to serve other mediatypes
* Introduces HAL-FORMS, which uses affordances to automatically generate HTML form data based on Spring MVC annotations.
Original pull-request: #340, #447, #581
Related issues: #503, #334, #71
Adds many additional attributes defined in RFC5988 and verifies they work properly in the neutral representation of Link while also being rendered properly in the HAL module.
Related tickets: #100, #417, #235
Previous pull requests: #240, #238, #223, #79
TempalteVariable is now a standalone class. Introduced TempalteVariables wrapper to allow easy collecting of TempalteVariable instances and rendering them in the shortest possible way.
Introduced new Links container element to group a list of links and allow parsing an RFC5988 compatible String representation of links into it. The parsing mechanism is currently regarding the rel attribute only.
Added valueOf(…) factory methods to allow Spring MVC to pick the types up out of the box.
