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.
Introduce Traverson as means to traverse hypermedia based APIs by providing a set of relation names to discover and follow to access the final representation. Traverson allows to specify a parameter map that will be used to potentially expand the URIs discovered.
We currently support LinkDiscoverer based relation discovery, which means that relations in HAL representations can be found by simply stating their names. Alternatively JSON path expressions can be used (starting with a $).
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.
