In particular, avoiding synchronized Sets and Maps wherever possible (preferring a ConcurrentHashMap even instead of a synchronized Set) and specifying appropriate ConcurrentHashMap initial capacities (even if we end up choosing 16).
- Support external Javadoc links using Gradle's javadoc.options.links
- Fix all other Javadoc warnings, such as typos, references to
non-existent (or no longer existent) types and members, etc,
including changes related to the Quartz 2.0 upgrade (SPR-8275) and
adding the HTTP PATCH method (SPR-7985).
- Suppress all output for project-level `javadoc` tasks in order to
hide false-negative warnings about cross-module @see and @link
references (e.g. spring-core having a @see reference to spring-web).
Use the `--info` (-i) flag to gradle at any time to see project-level
javadoc warnings without running the entire `api` task. e.g.
`gradle :spring-core:javadoc -i`
- Favor root project level `api` task for detection of legitimate
Javadoc warnings. There are now zero Javadoc warnings across the
entirety of spring-framework. Goal: keep it that way.
- Remove all @link and @see references to types and members that exist
only in Servlet <= 2.5 and Hibernate <= 4.0, favoring 3.0+ and 4.0+
respectively. This is necessary because only one version of each of
these dependencies can be present on the global `api` javadoc task's
classpath. To that end, the `api` task classpath has now been
customized to ensure that the Servlet 3 API and Hibernate Core 4 jars
have precedence.
- SPR-8896 replaced our dependency on aspectjrt with a dependency on
aspectjweaver, which is fine from a POM point of view, but causes
a spurious warning to be emitted from the ant iajc task that it
"cannot find aspectjrt on the classpath" - even though aspectjweaver
is perfectly sufficient. In the name of keeping the console quiet, a
new `rt` configuration has been added, and aspectjrt added as a
dependency to it. In turn, configurations.rt.asPath is appended to
the iajc classpath during both compileJava and compileTestJava for
spring-aspects.
Issue: SPR-10078, SPR-8275, SPR-7985, SPR-8896
Documented why static nested test cases in the spring-test module are
ignored, explaining that such "TestCase classes are run manually by the
enclosing test class". Prior to the migration to Gradle (i.e., with
Spring Build), these tests would not have been picked up by the test
suite since they end with a "TestCase" suffix instead of "Test" or
"Tests".
Re-enabled HibernateMultiEntityManagerFactoryIntegrationTests.
For the remaining tests that were disabled as a result of the migration
to Gradle, comments have been added to the @Ignore declarations.
Issue: SPR-8116, SPR-9398
Previously, CachedIntrospectionResults had three modes of caching, with the intermediate mode relying on WeakReferences in the JDK PropertyDescriptor implementation. Since the JDK is actually using SoftReferences there these days, losing information in case of a GC run with tough memory constraints, we want to allow for hard references in PropertyDescriptor objects and therefore use a full WeakReference for the CachedIntrospectionResults object itself.
Issue: SPR-10028
This change revisits the implementation of ExtendedBeanInfo, simplifying
the overall approach while also ensuring that ExtendedBeanInfo is fully
isolated from the BeanInfo instance it wraps. This includes any existing
PropertyDescriptors in the wrapped BeanInfo - along with being copied
locally into ExtendedBeanInfo, each property descriptor is now also
wrapped with our own new "simple" PropertyDescriptor variants that
bypass the soft/weak reference management that goes on in both
java.beans.PropertyDescriptor and java.beans.IndexedPropertyDescriptor,
maintaining hard references to methods and bean classes instead. This
ensures that changes we make to property descriptors, e.g. adding write
methods, do not cause subtle conflicts during garbage collection (as was
reported and reproduced in SPR-9702).
Eliminating soft/weak reference management means that we must take extra
care to ensure that we do not cause ClassLoader leaks by maintaining
hard references to methods, and therefore transitively to the
ClassLoader in which the bean class was loaded. The forthcoming
SPR-10028 addresses this aspect.
See the updated ExtendedBeanInfo Javadoc for further details.
Issue: SPR-8079, SPR-8175, SPR-8347, SPR-8432, SPR-8491, SPR-8522,
SPR-8806, SPR-8931, SPR-8937, SPR-8949, SPR-9007, SPR-9059,
SPR-9414, SPR-9453, SPR-9542, SPR-9584, SPR-9677, SPR-9702,
SPR-9723, SPR-9943, SPR-9978, SPR-10028, SPR-10029
In particular, the specified object name may use a placeholder for its domain part now, allowing for several instances of the MBean to be registered against the same MBeanServer from different applications.
Issue: SPR-8244
Allow the body of 'arg-type' XML elements to be used as an alternative to
'match' attribute when defining a 'replace-method' in XML configuration.
This change has been introduced primarily to support the samples printed
in the Apress 'Pro Spring' book.
Issue: SPR-9812
Reverted change for @Bean methods that declare FactoryBean as their return type: The effects of trying to create the FactoryBean to find out about its implementation type are too far-reaching. It's better to recommend declaring a specific return type in the method signature if you want the container to specifically react to your implementation type.
Issue: SPR-9857
Includes a change for factory methods that declare their return type as FactoryBean: When asked for a specific type match (e.g. LoadTimeWeaverAware), we do check early singleton instances as well (reusing the instances that we create for getObjectType checks). This is necessary in order to make @Bean method introspection as capable as XML bean definition introspection, even in case of the @Bean method using a generic FactoryBean declaration for its return type (instead of the FactoryBean impl class).
Issue: SPR-9857
This change fixes further cases under JDK 6 in which setting a bridged
(e.g. String-returning) read method can conflict with an existing
corresponding bridge write method that accepts an Object parameter.
This appears to be a implementation difference between JDKs 6 and 7,
where the JDK 6 Introspector adds bridge methods and JDK 7 does not.
The solution here is to consistently null-out any existing write method
before setting the read method. We were doing this elsewhere in
ExtendedBeanInfo already, but these two changes make the approach
consistent throuhout.
Issue: SPR-8806
Autowired methods might have been skipped on subsequent creation of further bean instances due to the 'skip' flag set to false outside of the synchronized block, with another thread entering the block and setting the flag to true in the meantime.
Issue: SPR-9806
- Increase max heap size in gradle wrapper.
- Use MockProperties implementation to protect against security
exceptions.
- Replace windows CRLF with LF in various tests.
- Increase Thread.sleep times to account for lack of precision on
Windows.
Issue: SPR-9717
This commit refactors the BeanInfoFactory so that:
- supports() and getBeanInfo() are folded into one, so that getBeanInfo()
returns null if a given class is not supported.
- CachedIntrospectionResults now uses SpringFactoriesLoader
Prior to this change, CachedIntrospectionResults delegated to
ExtendedBeanInfo by default in order to inspect JavaBean
PropertyDescriptor information for bean classes.
Originally introduced with SPR-8079, ExtendedBeanInfo was designed to
go beyond the capabilities of the default JavaBeans Introspector in
order to support non-void returning setter methods, principally to
support use of builder-style APIs within Spring XML. This is a complex
affair, and the non-trivial logic in ExtendedBeanInfo has led to various
bugs including regressions for bean classes that do not declare
non-void returning setters.
This commit takes advantage of the new BeanInfoFactory mechanism
introduced in SPR-9677 to take ExtendedBeanInfo out of the default code
path for CachedIntrospectionResults. Now, the new
ExtendedBeanInfoFactory class will be detected and instantiated (per its
entry in the META-INF/spring.beanInfoFactories properties file shipped
with the spring-beans jar). ExtendedBeanInfoFactory#supports is invoked
for all bean classes in order to determine whether they are candidates
for ExtendedBeanInfo introspection, i.e. whether they declare non-void
returning setter methods.
If a class does not declare any such non-standard setter methods (the
99% case), then CachedIntrospectionResults will fall back to the
default JavaBeans Introspector. While efforts have been made to fix any
bugs with ExtendedBeanInfo, this change means that EBI will not pose
any future risk for bean classes that do not declare non-standard
setter methods, and also means greater efficiency in general.
Issue: SPR-9723, SPR-9677, SPR-8079
- Ensure that ExtendedBeanInfoTests succeeds when building under JDK 7
- Improve handling of read and write method registration where
generic interfaces are involved, per SPR-9453
- Add repro test for SPR-9702, in which EBI fails to register
an indexed read method under certain circumstances
Issue: SPR-9702, SPR-9414, SPR-9453
Before this commit, the CachedIntrospectionResults was hard-coded to
create ExtendedBeanInfos for bean classes. The ExtendedBeanInfo support
the JavaBeans property contract only.
This commit introduces the BeanInfoFactory, a strategy for creating
BeanInfos. Through this strategy, it is possible to support
beans that do not necessarily implement the JavaBeans contract (i.e.
have a different getter or setter style).
BeanInfoFactories are are instantiated by the
CachedIntrospectionResults, which looks for
'META-INF/spring.beanInfoFactories' files on the class path. These files
contain one or more BeanInfoFactory class names. When a BeanInfo is to
be created, the CachedIntrospectionResults will iterate through the
factories, asking it to create a BeanInfo for the given bean class. If
none of the factories support it, an ExtendedBeanInfo is created as a
default.
This commit also contains a change to Property, allowing BeanWrapperImpl
to specify the property name at construction time (as opposed to using
Property#resolveName(), which supports the JavaBeans contract only).
Issue: SPR-9677
CGLIB 3 has been released in order to depend on ASM 4, which Spring now
depends on internally (see previous commit).
This commit eliminates spring-beans' optional dependency on cglib-nodep
v2.2 and instead repackages net.sf.cglib => org.springframework.cglib
much in the same way we have historically done with ASM.
This change is beneficial to users in several ways:
- Eliminates the need to manually add CGLIB to the application
classpath; especially important for the growing number of
@Configuration class users. Java-based configuration functionality,
along with proxy-target-class and method injection features now
work 'out of the box' in Spring 3.2.
- Eliminates the possibility of conflicts with other libraries that
may dependend on differing versions of CGLIB, e.g. Hibernate
3.3.1.ga and its dependency on CGLIB 2.1.3 would easily cause a
conflict if the application were depending on CGLIB 3 for
Spring-related purposes.
- Picks up CGLIB 3's changes to support ASM 4, meaning that CGLIB is
that much less likely to work well in a Java 7 environment due to
ASM 4's support for transforming classes with invokedynamic
bytecode instructions.
On CGLIB and ASM:
CGLIB's own dependency on ASM is also transformed along the way to
depend on Spring's repackaged org.springframework.asm, primarily to
eliminate unnecessary duplication of ASM classfiles in spring-core and
in the process save around 100K in the final spring-core JAR file size.
It is coincidental that spring-core and CGLIB currently depend on the
exact same version of ASM (4.0), but it is also unlikely to change any
time soon. If this change does occur and versions of ASM drift, then
the size optimization mentioned above will have to be abandoned. This
would have no compatibility impact, however, so this is a reasonable
solution now and for the forseeable future.
On a mysterious NoClassDefFoundError:
During the upgrade to CGLIB 3.0, Spring test cases began failing due to
NoClassDefFoundErrors being thrown from CGLIB's DebuggingClassWriter
regarding its use of asm-util's TraceClassVisitor type. previous
versions of cglib-nodep, particularly 2.2, did not cause this behavior,
even though cglib-nodep has never actually repackaged and bundled
asm-util classes. The reason for these NoClassDefFoundErrors occurring
now is still not fully understood, but appears to be due to subtle JVM
bytecode preverification rules. The hypothesis is that due to minor
changes in DebuggingClassWriter such as additional casts, access to
instance variables declared in the superclass, and indeed a change in
the superclass hierarchy, preverification may be kicking in on the
toByteArray method body, at which point the reference to the missing
TraceClassVisitor type is noticed and the NCDFE is thrown. For this
reason, a dummy implementation of TraceClassVisitor has been added to
spring-core in the org.springframework.asm.util package. This class
simply ensures that Spring's own tests never result in the NCDFE
described above, and more importantly that Spring's users never
encounter the same.
Other changes include:
- rename package-private Cglib2AopProxy => CglibAopProxy
- eliminate all 'cglibAvailable' checks, warnings and errors
- eliminate all 'CGLIB2' language in favor of 'CGLIB'
- eliminate all mention in reference and java docs of needing to add
cglib(-nodep) to one's application classpath
Issue: SPR-9669
- renamed resolveParameterizedReturnType() to
resolveReturnTypeForGenericMethod()
- fleshed out Javadoc for resolveReturnType() and
resolveReturnTypeForGenericMethod() regarding declaration of formal
type variables
- improved wording in log statements and naming of local variables
within resolveReturnTypeForGenericMethod()
Issue: SPR-9493
Juergen Hoeller
Chris Beams
Sam Brannen
Gareth Davis
Phillip Webb
Arjen Poutsma