PersistentEntity now has a isConstructorArgument(…) allowing to find out whether a PersistentProperty is referred to from a constructor argument. The PreferredConstructor abstraction now keeps track of the PersistentEntity it is built for and thus allows finding out whether a constructor Parameter maps a PersistentProperty.
Removed bean creation responsibility from BeanWrapper and introduced EntityInstantiator abstraction to allow the entity instantiation mechanism be short circuited via custom implementations. The reflection based implementation from BeanWrapper is now residing in ReflectionEntityInstantiator.
Fixed edge case scenario where the lookup for repository implementation classes picked up multiple classes if they ended with the same suffix (e.g. FooRepoImpl, AnotherFooRepoImpl). We're now expecting the classname to be an exact match but still allow nested packages. Changed the parser to reject multiple found implementation classes strictly now to at least avoid undiscoverable errors in case an ambiguity is popping up.
Added custom CDI extension to use repositories in a CDI environment. Base class picks up all Spring Data repository interfaces and allows working with qualifiers to bind beans to be created to qualifiers.
Introduced @ReadingConverter and @WritingConverter to allow to resolve disambiguates that might arise when implementing custom Converters.
Suppose we implemented a Converter<String, Class> and the store is able to handle both String and Class as native types. In this case there's no way to determine whether the converter shall actually be used to convert String properties into Class instances when writing or to create Class instances from Strings when reading. Thus the @ReadingConverter comes in handy in this case to tell the infrastructure to consider the converter for reading only.
Documented verify() to throw a MappingException in case verification fails. Let this exception flying cause the PersistentEntity already added to the cache be removed from it in turn.
Fixed execution of integration tests and tests in classes starting with Abstract* along the way. Upgraded to Mockito 1.8.5.
ClassTypeInformation now holds a cache for Class<?> to TypeInformation<?> mappings. It also exposes constants for Object, Collection, Set, List and Map TypeInformations.
We now use an exclusive upper bound of 4.0.0.RELEASE for Spring dependencies. With the snapshot repository removed we now get the latest release milestone to build on. Changed repository links to use http://repo.springframework.org to route dependencies through our Artifactory instance. Fixed some plugin dependency versions along the way.
The former getNestedTypeToAdd(…) method in AbstractMappingContext is now located in PersistentProperty to allow easier customization of the implementation. We also not only support returning one type from it but rather an Iterable of them to prepare handling of custom types implementing Collection interfaces.
Introduced version range for Spring dependency of [3.0.6.RELEASE, 3.1.0.RC1]. This causes Maven to scan the metadata in the configured repositories to find the latest version up to Spring 3.1.0.RC1. For users having the Spring Milestone repo configured this will resolve against 3.1.0.RC1 then. All others will get the latest one from Maven Central which is 3.0.6. To let Bundlor still use 3.0.6 I've created a org.springframework.version.30 property and let template.mf use that.
Removing Number from SimpleTypeHolder's default Set of types results in
Number sub-types not explicitly listed not being considered as simple
by default.
Fixed SimpleTypeHolder.isSimpleType(Class<?> type) for calls where the Class object handed in is derived from an Enum that implements an abstract method. These Class objects return false for a call to isEnum(). So an ….isAssignableFrom(…) check is safer.
Refactored the definition of what domain class is returned from a query method into a common AbstractRepositoryMetadata and moved ClassUtils.getReturnedDomainClass into RepositoryMetadata. Moved test cases accordingly. Added getReturnType(Method method) to TypeInformation.
Oliver Gierke
Dirk Mahler
Mark Pollack
Jean-Pierre Bergamin