Add a static factory method that can be used to create an array
TypeDescriptor with a specific element type. Allows array types
with generic elements to be constructed.
Issue: SPR-9792
Also introduces consistent use of getBean(Class) for similar use cases across the framework, accepting a locally unique target bean even if further matching beans would be available in parent contexts (in contrast to BeanFactoryUtils.beanOfType's behavior).
Issue: SPR-10160
JDK 5 introduced an XML-based properties file syntax. This commit
ensures that when such files are supplied as the underlying resource
for a ResourcePropertySource instance, they are routed appropriately
to Properties#loadFromXML as opposed to Properties#load.
Issue: SPR-9896
ConfigurableWebEnvironment was introduced in 3.2.0.M1 with SPR-9439 in
order to break a cyclic dependency. At the same time, certain signatures
such as AbstractRefreshableWebApplicationContext#getEnviroment and
GenericWebApplicationContext#getEnvironment were updated to take
advantage of covariant return types and return this newer, more narrow
type and providing cast-free calls to ConfigurableWebEnvironment methods
where necessary. Similar changes were made to HttpServletBean in
3.2.0.M2 with SPR-9763.
Narrowing #getEnvironment signatures in this fashion required enforcing
at the #setEnvironment level that any Environment instance provided
(explicitly or via the EnvironmentAware callback) must be an instance of
ConfigurableWebEnvironment. This is a reasonable assertion in typical
web application scenarios, but as SPR-10138 demonstrates, there are
valid use cases in which one may want or need to inject a non-web
ConfigurableEnvironment variant, e.g. during automated unit/integration
testing.
On review, it was never strictly necessary to narrow #getEnvironment
signatures, although doing so did provided convenience and type safety.
In order to maintain as flexible and backward-compatible an arrangement
as possible, this commit relaxes these #getEnvironment signatures back
to their original, pre-3.2 state. Namely, they now return
ConfigurableEnvironment as opposed to ConfigurableWebEnvironment, and in
accordance, all instanceof assertions have been removed or relaxed to
ensure that injected Environment instances are of type
ConfigurableEnvironment.
These changes have been verified against David Winterfeldt's Spring by
Example spring-rest-services project, as described at SPR-10138.
Issue: SPR-10138, SPR-9763, SPR-9439
For testing purposes in which an Environment implementation is required
but a ConfigurableEnvironment is not desirable.
All methods are no-ops and return null, therefore NPEs are likely.
Update JodaTimeConverters in include support for Date to String
conversion.
The JodaTimeFormattingTests and DateFormattingTests have been extended
to ensure that Date to String conversion is supported with or without
Joda.
Issue: SPR-10198
Juergen Hoeller
Phillip Webb
Rossen Stoyanchev
Chris Beams
Sam Brannen