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.
This change is to essentially prevent people from subclassing Resource and call the default constructor which wrecks the assumption of content never being null. For custom resources extend ResourceSupport.
Added missing license header in ResourcesMixin.
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.
Added correct equals(…)/hashCode() methods to PagedResource, PageMetadata. Polished toString() methods of ResourceSupport, Resource, Resources and PagedResources. Added factory method to PagedResources to easily create a plain instance from a set of entities.
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.
