This commit introduces a test that will fail if SynthesizedAnnotation is
not public as is required by the contract for getProxyClass() in
java.lang.reflect.Proxy.
Issue: SPR-13057
Enable public visibility on SynthetizedAnnotation to allow annotation
outside its package to be proxied properly. This commit is pending a
unit test that actually reproduces the problem.
Issue: SPR-13057
This commit introduces first-class support for aliases for annotation
attributes. Specifically, this commit introduces a new @AliasFor
annotation that can be used to declare a pair of aliased attributes
within a single annotation or an alias from an attribute in a custom
composed annotation to an attribute in a meta-annotation.
To support @AliasFor within annotation instances, AnnotationUtils has
been overhauled to "synthesize" any annotations returned by "get" and
"find" searches. A SynthesizedAnnotation is an annotation that is
wrapped in a JDK dynamic proxy which provides run-time support for
@AliasFor semantics. SynthesizedAnnotationInvocationHandler is the
actual handler behind the proxy.
In addition, the contract for @AliasFor is fully validated, and an
AnnotationConfigurationException is thrown in case invalid
configuration is detected.
For example, @ContextConfiguration from the spring-test module is now
declared as follows:
public @interface ContextConfiguration {
@AliasFor(attribute = "locations")
String[] value() default {};
@AliasFor(attribute = "value")
String[] locations() default {};
// ...
}
The following annotations and their related support classes have been
modified to use @AliasFor.
- @ManagedResource
- @ContextConfiguration
- @ActiveProfiles
- @TestExecutionListeners
- @TestPropertySource
- @Sql
- @ControllerAdvice
- @RequestMapping
Similarly, support for AnnotationAttributes has been reworked to
support @AliasFor as well. This allows for fine-grained control over
exactly which attributes are overridden within an annotation hierarchy.
In fact, it is now possible to declare an alias for the 'value'
attribute of a meta-annotation.
For example, given the revised declaration of @ContextConfiguration
above, one can now develop a composed annotation with a custom
attribute override as follows.
@ContextConfiguration
public @interface MyTestConfig {
@AliasFor(
annotation = ContextConfiguration.class,
attribute = "locations"
)
String[] xmlFiles();
// ...
}
Consequently, the following are functionally equivalent.
- @MyTestConfig(xmlFiles = "test.xml")
- @ContextConfiguration("test.xml")
- @ContextConfiguration(locations = "test.xml").
Issue: SPR-11512, SPR-11513
Prior to this commit, the documentation in AnnotationUtils was
inconsistent, and at times even misleading, with regard to finding
annotations that are "present" or "directly present" on annotated
elements.
This commit defines the terminology used within AnnotationUtils and
introduces the explicit notion of "meta-present" to denote that
annotations are present within annotation hierarchies above annotated
elements.
Issue: SPR-13030
This commit updates the "get semantics" search algorithm used in
`AnnotatedElementUtils` so that locally declared 'composed annotations'
are favored over inherited annotations.
Specifically, the internal `searchWithGetSemantics()` method now
searches locally declared annotations before searching inherited
annotations.
All TODOs in `AnnotatedElementUtilsTests` have been completed, and all
ignored tests have been reinstated.
Issue: SPR-11598
This commit improves the documentation for AnnotationUtils and
AnnotatedElementUtils by explaining that the scope of most annotation
searches is limited to finding the first such annotation, resulting in
additional such annotations being silently ignored.
Issue: SPR-13015
In general, the Spring Framework aims to construct error message
strings only if an actual error has occurred. This seems to be the
common pattern in the codebase and saves both CPU and memory. However,
there are some places where eager error message formatting occurs
unnecessarily.
This commit addresses this issue in the following classes:
AdviceModeImportSelector, AnnotationAttributes, and
ReadOnlySystemAttributesMap.
The change in ReadOnlySystemAttributesMap also avoids a potential
NullPointerException.
Issue: SPR-13007
Prior to this commit, the `getAnnotation()` method in `TypeDescriptor`
only supported a single level of meta-annotations. In other words, the
annotation hierarchy would not be exhaustively searched.
This commit provides support for arbitrary levels of meta-annotations
in `TypeDescriptor` by delegating to `AnnotationUtils.findAnnotation()`
within `TypeDescriptor.getAnnotation()`.
Issue: SPR-12793
Prior to this commit, AntPathMatcher would not correctly combine a path
that ends with a separator with a path that starts with a separator.
For example, `/foo/` + `/bar` combined into `/foo//bar`.
Specifically, this commit:
- Removes the duplicated separator in combined paths
- Improves RequestMappingInfo's toString() representation
- Fixes Javadoc formatting in AntPathMatcher
- Polishes AntPathMatcherTests
- Polishes Javadoc in AbstractRequestCondition
Issue: SPR-12975
Sam Brannen
Sebastien Deleuze
Juergen Hoeller
Stephane Nicoll
Philippe Marschall
Arjen Poutsma