Upgraded to Spring 4.3.3 snapshots for now to benefit from fixes in ResolvableType [0]. Upgraded to Jackson 2.7.4 on the way and added a build profile for released Spring 5 versions.
[0] https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-14648
Added a Spring 5 specific build profile and removed the references to AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter which already had been deprecated in the latest Spring 3 in favor of RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.
Updated Spring build profiles in general.
Changed invocations of constructors of the super class in Jackson Serializers to use JavaType instead of Class<?> as the constructor has been removed in some of the base classes in Jackson 2.7.
Upgraded to Jackson 2.5.5 along the way.
This commit updates Spring HATEOAS' optional dependency on the JAX-RS API to use the latest version (which uses a different artifact ID). This change will make things a little easier for the Spring IO Platform which currently provides dependency management for Jersey 2.x (which uses JAX-RS 2.0), by allowing it to stop providing dependency management for the JAX-RS 1.0 API.
Switched from overrides of the deprecated (and removed in 2.6) isEmpty(T) to isEmpty(SerializerProvider, T). Switched from deprecated @JsonSerialize(include = …) to the dedicated @JsonInclude annotation.
Introduced a dedicated value object to abstract a Hop within a relation traversal. The Hop consists of a relation name and optional local template parameters that are applied to this particular hop when traversing it.
Changed the implementation of Traverson to work with Hops instead of plain rels and merges the global template parameters with the hop-local ones before expanding the templates found.
Original pull request: #350.
We now reflectively invoke the JSONPath.compile(…) method as the method signature has changed but we need to stay compatible with 0.9 to allow the Spring Data Evans release train to upgrade to 0.17 without a major third-party dependency upgrade.
Copied the reflective method lookup from Spring's JsonPathExpectationsHelper.
Related ticket: #297, #305.
Build infrastructure to render Asciidoc and create and upload JavaDoc as well as the rendered reference documentation. EPub doesn't work for some reason.
Migrated reference documentation to Asciidoctor. Readme should be shrinked down to the most minimum once we have a release.
