Remove all xsd versions from the reference manual samples in favor of
"versionless" XSDs. For example, spring-beans-3.0.xsd becomes
spring-beans.xsd
Issue: SPR-10010
Prior to this commit many imagedata elements were duplicated in
order to configure PDF sizes. Since HTML generation is configured
to ignore image scaling altogether this was unnecessary duplication.
Issue: SPR-10033
Convert all docbook XML files to well-formed docbook 5 syntax:
- Include xsi:schemaLocation element for tools support
- Convert all id elements to xml:id
- Convert all ulink elements to link
- Simplify <lineannotation> mark-up
- Fix misplaced </section> tags
- Fix <interface> tags to <interfacename>
- Cleanup trailing whitespace and tabs
Issue: SPR-10032
Update reference manual with details of Java configuration @Enable*
annotations. Examples of Java style @Configuration is provided
when appropriate alongside existing XML samples.
Several existing @Configuration samples have been changed to placing
the @Enable annotation below the @Configuration annotation.
This has been done to provide consistency with existing Javadoc.
Issue: SPR-9920
The AbstractDispatcherServletInitializer now provides support for
the registration of filters to be mapped to the DispatcherServlet.
It also sets the asyncSupported flag by default on the
DispatcherServlet and all registered filters.
Issue: SPR-9696
A new @MatrixVariable annotation allows injecting matrix variables
into @RequestMapping methods. The matrix variables may appear in any
path segment and should be wrapped in a URI template for request
mapping purposes to ensure request matching is not affected by the
order or the presence/absence of such variables. The @MatrixVariable
annotation has an optional "pathVar" attribute that can be used to
refer to the URI template where a matrix variable is located.
Previously, ";" (semicolon) delimited content was removed from the
path used for request mapping purposes. To preserve backwards
compatibility that continues to be the case (except for the MVC
namespace and Java config) and may be changed by setting the
"removeSemicolonContent" property of RequestMappingHandlerMapping to
"false". Applications using the MVC namespace and Java config do not
need to do anything further to extract and use matrix variables.
Issue: SPR-5499, SPR-7818
Rename ExceptionHandlerSupport to ResponseEntityExceptionHandler and
emphasize the contrast to DefaultHandlerExceptionResovler -- i.e.
one returns a ResponseEntity and relies on message converters while
the other returns a ModelAndView and relies on view resolution.
Issue: SPR-9290
An @RequestBody or an @RequestPart argument can now be followed by an
Errors/BindingResult argument making it possible to handle validation
errors (as a result of an @Valid annotation) locally within the
@RequestMapping method.
Issue: SPR-7114
The new class is functionally equivalent to the
DefaultHandlerExceptionResolver (i.e. it translates Spring MVC
exceptions to various status codes) but uses an @ExceptionHandler
returning a ResponseEntity<Object>, which means it can be customized to
write error content to the body of the response.
Issue: SPR-9290
Classes with this annotation can contain @ExceptionHandler,
@InitBinder, and @ModelAttribute methods that apply to all controllers.
The new annotation is also a component annotation allowing
implementations to be discovered through component scanning.
Issue: SPR-9112
The MVC Java config and the MVC namespace now support options to
configure content negotiation. By default both support checking path
extensions first and the "Accept" header second. For path extensions
.json, .xml, .atom, and .rss are recognized out of the box if the
Jackson, JAXB2, or Rome libraries are available. The ServletContext
and the Java Activation Framework may be used as fallback options
for path extension lookups.
Issue: SPR-8420
Update section on exception handling in Spring MVC chapter to include
more guidance on exception handling when implementing a REST API.
Issue: SPR-9290
Before this change @ExceptionHandler methods could be located in and
apply locally within a controller. The change makes it possible to have
such methods applicable globally regardless of the controller that
raised the exception.
The easiest way to do that is to add them to a class annotated with
`@ExceptionResolver`, a new annotation that is also an `@Component`
annotation (and therefore works with component scanning). It is also
possible to register classes containing `@ExceptionHandler` methods
directly with the ExceptionHandlerExceptionResolver.
When multiple `@ExceptionResolver` classes are detected, or registered
directly, the order in which they're used depends on the the `@Order`
annotation (if present) or on the value of the order field (if the
Ordered interface is implemented).
Issue: SPR-9112
The HTTP PATCH method is now supported whereever HTTP methods are used.
Annotated controllers can be mapped to RequestMethod.PATCH.
On the client side the RestTemplate execute(..) and exchange(..)
methods can be used with HttpMethod.PATCH. In terms of HTTP client
libraries, Apache HttpComponents HttpClient version 4.2 or later is
required (see HTTPCLIENT-1191). The JDK HttpURLConnection does not
support the HTTP PATCH method.
Issue: SPR-7985
Jackson 2 uses completely new package names and new maven artifact ids.
This change adds Jackson 2 as an optional dependency and also provides
MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter and MappingJackson2JsonView for use
with the new version.
The MVC namespace and the MVC Java config detect and use
MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter if Jackson 2 is present.
Otherwise if Jackson 1.x is present,
then MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter is used.
Issue: SPR-9302
* 3.1.x: (61 commits)
Compensate for changes in JDK 7 Introspector
Avoid 'type mismatch' errors in ExtendedBeanInfo
Polish ExtendedBeanInfo and tests
Infer AnnotationAttributes method return types
Minor fix in MVC reference doc chapter
Hibernate 4.1 etc
TypeDescriptor equals implementation accepts annotations in any order
"setBasenames" uses varargs now (for programmatic setup; SPR-9106)
@ActiveProfiles mechanism works with @ImportResource as well (SPR-8992
polishing
clarified Resource's "getFilename" method to consistently return null
substituteNamedParameters detects and unwraps SqlParameterValue object
Replace spaces with tabs
Consider security in ClassUtils#getMostSpecificMethod
Adding null check for username being null.
Improvements for registering custom SQL exception translators in app c
SPR-7680 Adding QueryTimeoutException to the DataAccessException hiera
Minor polish in WebMvcConfigurationSupport
Detect overridden boolean getters in ExtendedBeanInfo
Polish ExtendedBeanInfoTests
...
Problems
- Eliminate — in favor of —
— was causing 'no such entity' errors during docbook
processing; — produces the equivalent output.
- Fix column issues in appendices
column counts were set to 3, when they are in fact 4. This passed
under DocBook 4 and Spring Build for unknown reasons, but caused a
hard stop under DocBook 5 and the docbook-reference-plugin.
- Add jdbc callout section in docbook 5-friendly style
use <co/> tags as advertised in DocBook documentation.
- Set correct widths for PDF ref doc images
images were rendering larger than the PDF page; just set all to
width=400 and everything looks good.
Polish
- Update reference doc copyright to 2012
- Remove "work-in-progress" language from ref docs
- Update maven URLs to repo.springsource.org
- Update javadoc urls from 3.0.x/javadoc-api => current/api
- Replace hardcoded "3.1" with ${version} in ref doc
This change eliminates the spring-framework-reference subproject, moving
these sources into the root project's own src directory.
This makes sense because the reference docs span all submodules, and
also because api Javadoc is created at the root project level as well.
This means that both api and reference documentation output will now
reside in the root project's 'build' directory. This is more consistent
and easy to discover.
Rossen Stoyanchev
Phillip Webb
Oliver Gierke
Chin Huang
Chris Beams