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
This change makes it possible to use the RestTemplate to read an HTTP
response into a target generic type object. The RestTemplate has three
new exchange(...) methods that accept ParameterizedTypeReference -- a
new class that enables capturing and passing generic type info.
See the Javadoc of the three new methods in RestOperations for a
short example.
To support this feature, the HttpMessageConverter is now extended by
GenericHttpMessageConverter, which adds a method for reading an
HttpInputMessage to a specific generic type. The new interface
is implemented by the MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter and also by a
new Jaxb2CollectionHttpMessageConverter that can read read a generic
Collection where the generic type is a JAXB type annotated with
@XmlRootElement or @XmlType.
Issue: SPR-7023
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
ASM 4.0 is generally compatibile with Java 7 classfiles, particularly
including 'invokedynamic' instructions. This is important when
considering that Spring's component-scanning support is internally
ASM-based and it is increasingly likely that component classes having
invokedynamic instructions may be encountered and read by ASM.
This upgrade, then, is primarily preventive in nature.
Changes include:
- upgrade from ASM 2.2.3 to ASM 4.0
- adapt to ASM API changes as necessary throughout spring-core,
resulting in no impact to the public Spring API.
- remove dedicated spring-asm module
- use new :spring-core:asmRepackJar task to repackage
org.objectweb.asm => org.springframework.asm as per usual and write
repackaged classes directly into spring-core jar
The choice to eliminate the spring-asm module altogether and instead
inline the repackaged classes directly into spring-core is first to
eliminate an otherwise unnecessary second jar. spring-core has a
non-optional dependency on spring-asm meaning it is always on the
application classpath. This change simplifies that situation by
consoliding two jars into one. The second reason for this choice is in
anticipation of upgrading CGLIB to version 3 and inlining it into
spring-core as well. See subsequent commit for details.
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
For legacy reasons, a MockEnvironment implementation already exists in multiple places within Spring's test suite; however, it is not available to the general public.
This commit promotes MockEnvironment to a first-class citizen in the spring-test module, alongside the existing MockPropertySource.
In addition, the following house cleaning has been performed.
- deleted MockPropertySource from the spring-expression module
- deleted MockEnvironment from the "spring" integration testing module
- updated test copies of MockPropertySource and MockEnvironment
- documented MockEnvironment and MockPropertySource in the testing
chapter of the reference manual
Issue: SPR-9492
Prior to this change, PropertySourcesPropertyResolver (and therefore
all AbstractEnvironment) implementations failed to resolve nested
placeholders as in the following example:
p1=v1
p2=v2
p3=${v1}:{$v2}
Calls to PropertySource#getProperty for keys 'p1' and 'v1' would
successfully return their respective values, but for 'p3' the return
value would be the unresolved placeholders. This behavior is
inconsistent with that of PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer.
PropertySourcesPropertyResolver #getProperty variants now resolve any
nested placeholders recursively, throwing IllegalArgumentException for
any unresolvable placeholders (as is the default behavior for
PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer). See SPR-9569 for an enhancement that
will intoduce an 'ignoreUnresolvablePlaceholders' switch to make this
behavior configurable.
This commit also improves error output in
PropertyPlaceholderHelper#parseStringValue by including the original
string in which an unresolvable placeholder was found.
Issue: SPR-9473, SPR-9569
PropertySourcesPropertyResolver#containsProperty now
calls #containsProperty on each underlying PropertySource instead of
calling #getProperty and checking for null.
Issue: SPR-9529
Currently, if a factory method is parameterized and the corresponding
variable types are declared on the method itself instead of on the
enclosing class or interface, Spring always predicts the return type to
be Object, even if the return type can be explicitly inferred from the
method signature and supplied arguments (which are available in the bean
definition).
This commit introduces a new resolveParameterizedReturnType() method in
GenericTypeResolver that attempts to infer the concrete type for the
generic return type of a given parameterized method, falling back to the
standard return type if necessary. Furthermore,
AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory now delegates to
resolveParameterizedReturnType() when predicting the return type for
factory methods.
resolveParameterizedReturnType() is capable of inferring the concrete
type for return type T for method signatures similar to the following.
Such methods may potentially be static. Also, the formal argument list
for such methods is not limited to a single argument.
- public <T> T foo(Class<T> clazz)
- public <T> T foo(Object obj, Class<T> clazz)
- public <V, T> T foo(V obj, Class<T> clazz)
- public <T> T foo(T obj)
Issue: SPR-9493
Previously (since Spring 3.1.1) RecursiveAnnotationAttributesVisitor
logs at level WARN when ASM parsing encounters an annotation or an (enum
used within an annotation) that cannot be classloaded. This is not
necessarily indicative of an error, e.g. JSR-305 annotations such as
@Nonnull may be used only for static analysis purposes, but because
these annotations have runtime retention, they remain present in the
bytecode. Per section 9.6.1.2 of the JLS, "An annotation that is present
in the binary may or may not be available at run-time via the reflective
libraries of the Java platform."
This commit lowers the log level of these messages from warn to debug,
but leaves at warn level other messages dealing with the ability
reflectively read enum values from within annotations.
Issue: SPR-9233
The following syntax is now supported
<beans profile="p1,!p2">
@Profile("p1", "!p2")
indicating that the <beans> element or annotated component should
be processed only if profile 'p1' is active or profile 'p2' is not
active.
Issue: SPR-8728
Prior to this change, AbstractApplicationContext#setParent replaced the
child context's Environment with the parent's Environment if available.
This has the negative effect of potentially changing the type of the
child context's Environment, and in any case causes property sources
added directly against the child environment to be ignored. This
situation could easily occur if a WebApplicationContext child had a
non-web ApplicationContext set as its parent. In this case the parent
Environment type would (likely) be StandardEnvironment, while the child
Environment type would (likely) be StandardServletEnvironment. By
directly inheriting the parent environment, critical property sources
such as ServletContextPropertySource are lost entirely.
This commit introduces the concept of merging an environment through
the new ConfigurableEnvironment#merge method. Instead of replacing the
child's environment with the parent's,
AbstractApplicationContext#setParent now merges property sources as
well as active and default profile names from the parent into the
child. In this way, distinct environment objects are maintained with
specific types and property sources preserved. See #merge Javadoc for
additional details.
Issue: SPR-9444, SPR-9439
A set of resolved placeholder references is used for circular
placeholder prevention. For complex property definitions this mechanism
would put property values with unresolved inner placeholder references
in the set, but would try to remove property values with placeholders
resolved, leaving the set in an invalid state and the mechanism broken.
This fix makes sure that the value that is put in the set is same one
that is removed from it, and by doing so avoids false positives in
reporting circular placeholders.
Issue: SPR-5369
This patch fixes several compiler warnings that do not point to code
problems. Two kinds of warnings are fixed. First in a lot of cases
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked") is used although there are no unchecked
casts happening. This seems to be a leftover from when the code base
was on Java 1.4, now that the code base was moved to Java 1.5 these are
no longer necessary. Secondly there some places where the raw types of
List and Class are used where there wildcard types (List<?> and
Class<?>) would work just as well without causing any raw type warnings.
These changes are beneficial particularly when working in Eclipse or
other IDEs because it reduces 'noise', helping to isolate actual
potential problems in the code.
The following changes have been made:
- remove @SuppressWarnings where no longer needed
- use wildcard types instead of raw types where possible
Even though the Javadoc for Constants#toCode and #toCodeForSuffix
specifies that a null value for the 'namePrefix' and 'nameSuffix'
parameters are respectively allowed, before this change passing a null
to either would result in a NullPointerException.
This change fixes constant name lookup for null values of these params
as if an empty string had been passed instead. This way of handling a
null value is consistent with the rest of Constants class API.
Issue: SPR-8278
Previously, StringUtils#parseLocaleString would parse locale strings
having the same lowercase token for both language and country
incorrectly, e.g. 'tr_tr' would parse to 'tr_TR_tr' as opposed to the
expected 'tr_TR'.
This commit fixes this behavior by using using String#lastIndexOf
instead of String#indexOf when determining the location of the country
code token.
Issue: SPR-9420
In AnnotationUtils#findAnnotation(Method, Class), the search for a
method annotation fails if:
- the original method does not have the annotation
- an abstract superclass does not have an equivalent method declared
- an interface implemented by the superclass has the method and
the annotation -> this should be found, but is not!
This happens because the try-catch block in #findAnnotation is too wide:
cl.getDeclaredMethod() can throw NoSuchMethodException and skip the
'#searchOnInterfaces' call prematurely.
The try-catch block was made narrower to allow #searchOnInterfaces to
be called even if the abstract class does not have the method declared
at all.
Issue: SPR-9342
Prior to this change, Spring's MethodParameter#getParameterAnnotations
called java.lang.Method#getParameterAnnotations on every invocation.
The latter ends up contending for a monitor inside (Sun) JDK code. This
is problematic when dealing with the high number of @RequestMapping
invocations that can occur in a Spring MVC @Controller.
This commit eliminates this contention by caching values returned by
java.lang.Method#getParameterAnnotations in a static ConcurrentMap.
Note that only Method parameter annotations are cached, while
Constructor parameter annotations are not. This is because the
issue of primary concern is, as mentioned above, @RequestMapping
methods. By nature, constructors are called much more infrequently, and
in most cases in a single-threaded fashion.
Issue: SPR-9298
Before this change there were numerous javadoc warnings being reported
while building Spring framework API.
This commit resolves most of the javadoc warnings, reducing the total
number from 265 to 103.
Issue: SPR-9113
Prior to this commit, MutablePropertySources#get(String) would throw
IndexArrayOutOfBoundsException if the named property source does not
actually exist. This is a violation of the PropertySource#get contract
as described in its Javadoc.
The implementation now correctly checks for the existence of the named
property source, returning null if non-existent and otherwise returning
the associated PropertySource.
Other changes
- Rename PropertySourcesTests => MutablePropertySourcesTests
- Polish MutablePropertySourcesTests for style, formatting
- Refactor MutablePropertySources for consistency
Issue: SPR-9179
Due to changes made in commit 2fa87a71 for SPR-9118,
AbstractResource#contentLength would fall into an infinite loop unless
the method were overridden by a subclass (which it is in the majority of
use cases).
This commit:
- fixes the infinite recursion by refactoring to a while loop
- asserts that the value returned from #getInputStream is not null in
order to avoid NullPointerException
- tests both of the above
- adds Javadoc to the Resource interface to clearly document that the
contract for any implementation is that #getInputStream must not
return null
Issue: SPR-9161
This renaming more intuitively expresses the relationship between
subprojects and the JAR artifacts they produce.
Tracking history across these renames is possible, but it requires
use of the --follow flag to `git log`, for example
$ git log spring-aop/src/main/java/org/springframework/aop/Advisor.java
will show history up until the renaming event, where
$ git log --follow spring-aop/src/main/java/org/springframework/aop/Advisor.java
will show history for all changes to the file, before and after the
renaming.
See http://chrisbeams.com/git-diff-across-renamed-directories
Arjen Poutsma
Chris Beams
Sam Brannen
Juergen Hoeller
Dave Syer
Stevo Slavic
Philippe Marschall
Petr Janecek
Nikita Tovstoles
Rossen Stoyanchev