This change should be the final piece in the puzzle to let SmartInstantiationAwareBeanPostProcessor's predictBeanType predict a FactoryBean-produced type, effectively as a semantic alternative to its postProcessBeforeInstantiation-related role.
Issue: SPR-10517
Spring 3.2.2 introduced a change to avoid closing the response stream
in HttpMessageConverters (SPR-10095). However, the InputStream of
resources being written, for example as part of a multi-part request
should be closed. This change ensures that.
Issue: SPR-10460
If type conversion turns an empty request parameter value (i.e. "") to
null, we should treat it as a missing value. By default the
ConversionService doesn't change empty strings and therefore one must
explicitly convert them to null for example by registering a
StringTrimmerEditor with emptyAsNull=true.
Issue: SPR-10402
A recent change in FormTag to prepend the context and servlet paths if
not present, causes issues when used in portlet applications.
This change introduces a servletRelativeAction form tag attribute that
must be used for the context and servlet paths to be prepended.
Issue: SPR-10382
Previously ContentNegotiationManager continued with the next
ContentNegotiationStrategy only if the current one returned an empty
list. Now it also does that if the current ContentNegotiationStrategy
returns "*/*". Since the absence of an Accept header and "*/*" have
the same meaning, this allows a default content type to be used in
either case.
Issue: SPR-10513
Refactor ConfigurationClassEnhancer so that BeanFactory instances are
not held against CGLIB Callback objects. Enhanced @Configuration classes
now use the BeanFactoryAware interface in order to obtain a BeanFactory.
This change has the additional benefit that a static final field can
now be used to hold all Callback instances.
Issue: SPR-10307
Change ContextHierarchyDirtiesContextTests to obtain beans whilst the
ApplicationContext is still open, rather than trying to obtain them
after the context has been closed.
Introduce new @Conditional annotation that can be used to filter
which @Configuration classes or methods are loaded. @Conditional
can be used directly or as a meta-annotation. Condition implementations
are provided via the 'Condition' interface and are free to filter based
on any criteria available at the time that they run. The
ConditionalContext provides access to the BeanDefinitionRegistry,
Environment and ConfigurableListableBeanFactory along with a
ResourceLoader and ClassLoader.
The existing @Profile annotation has been refactored as a @Conditional
with the added benefit that it can now be used as a method level
annotation.
Update AnnotationMetadata and MethodMetadata to extend from a new
AnnotatedTypeMetadata base interface containing the methods that are
common to both. Also introduce new getAllAnnotationAttributes methods
providing MultiValueMap access to both annotation and meta-annotation
attributes.
Existing classreading and standard implementations have been
refactored to support the new interface.
Add PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer.getAppliedPropertySources() to
allow access to the PropertySources that were actually applied.
Issue: SPR-10545
Update ServletContextAwareProcessor to allow subclasses to support late
binding of the ServletConfig and/or ServletContext. Allows for the
post-processor to be registered before the servlet environment has been
initialized.
Issue: SPR-10381
Change FrameworkServlet so that it can also be used as a bean within an
existing ApplicationContext. Primarily added to support use with
embedded servlet containers where Spring bootstraps the servlet
container, rather than the servlet container bootstrapping Spring.
Issue: SPR-10381
Removed spring-beans.dtd (the 1.x variant) and spring-oxm-1.5.xsd (pre-Spring-Framework variant), in order to raise the backwards compatibility limit a little bit at least. We'll keep supporting the 2.0 and 2.5 xsd versions for the time being, as well as spring-beans-2.0.dtd.
Removed the ref 'local' attribute in spring-beans-4.0.xsd since 'local' lost its differentiating role to a regular bean ref back in the 3.1 days when we started allowing for the same bean id to reappear in a different beans section of the same configuration file (with a different profile).
Issue: SPR-10437
Add temporary Assume.canLoadNativeDirFonts() method allowing failing
jasper report tests to be bypassed on OSX.
This should be revisited when JDK 8 is released.
Issue: SPR-10537
Allow classes that are annotated with @Import to be considered as 'lite'
@Configuration candidates. Allows the AnnotationConfigApplicationContext
to directly register @Import beans even if they are not @Components.
Issue: SPR-10533
Implementations of Spring's ImportSelector interface may
now implement any of the following *Aware interfaces and have their
respective methods called prior to #registerBeanDefinitions:
- BeanFactoryAware
- BeanClassLoaderAware
- ResourceLoaderAware
Issue: SPR-10530
Specifically set the source level in generated eclipse projects to 1.7
rather than 1.8. Allows the current eclipse milestone (4.3 M6) in
combination with JDK 8.0 to be used for Spring 4.0 development.
Rossen Stoyanchev
Rob Winch
Juergen Hoeller
Sam Brannen
Phillip Webb
Chris Beams