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Release 5.0.0.7

Date: Jan 20, 2013

Juno 5.0.0.7 is a major update.

Core API updates​

  • Combined previous 3 libraries into a single library.

  • New ParserListener class. Adds ability to find and process unknown bean properties during parsing.

  • Enhancements to XmlParser:

    • Coalescing support
    • Validations support
    • Support for replacing entity references
    • Resolver support
    • Event allocator support
    • Trim-whitespace support

  • Enhanced XML support:

    • New @Xml.format annotation. Controls how POJOs get serialized to XML. Also allows you to collapse collections and arrays.
    • New @Xml.namespaces annotation. Namespaces can be defined at package, class, method, or field levels.
    • New @Xml.nsUri annotation. Shortcut for specifying namespace URIs.
    • New @Xml.valAttr annotation. Serializes a bean property value as an attribute.
    • Ability to override XS and XSI namespaces on XML and RDF/XML serializers.
    • Ability to override RDF namespace on RDF/XML serializer.
    • New more-efficient namespace resolution.

  • New configurable property classes for everything are now structured better and easier to locate and identify through the following new classes:

  • Enhancements to BeanContext:

    • Ability to mark bean properties as hidden using @BeanProperty(hidden) so that they don't get serialized.
    • Simplified ClassType ClassMeta API. Combined 4 classes into a single class.
    • New @Bean.filter and @BeanProperty.filter annotations. Used for defining filters on bean classes and bean properties instead of just globally through BeanContext.addTransforms(Class[]).
    • New PropertyNamer API / @Bean.propertyNamer annotation. Used for customizing bean property names.
    • New @BeanProperty.beanUri and @BeanProperty.id annotations. Used for associating beans with URLs and IDs. Used by XML serializer to add a url attribute on a bean element. Used by RDF/XML serializer to construct rdf:resource attributes.
    • New BeanProperty.properties() annotation. Used for limiting properties on child elements.

  • Automatic support for URL and URI objects.

    • Converted to hrefs in HTML.
    • Converted to url attributes in XML.
    • Converted to resource:about attributes in RDF/XML.

  • Improvements to Javadocs.

  • Improved PojoQuery support.

REST client updates​

  • GZIP compression support.

  • Bug fixes.

REST server updates​

  • Support for overriding bean context and serializer properties in a REST method call through new RestResponse.setProperty(String,Object) method. For example, allows you to control whitespace options on a per-request basis.

  • Several new annotations on REST servlets:

    • @RestResource.filters - Associate post-formatting filters on a resource level.
    • @RestResource.guards - Associate resource-level guards.
    • @RestResource.messages - Associate a resource bundle with a REST servlet. Comes with several convenience methods for looking up messages for the client locale.
    • @RestResource.properties - Override default bean context, serializer, and parser properties though an annotation.

  • Several new annotations on REST methods:

    • @RestMethod(filters) - Associate post-formatting filters on a method level.
    • @RestMethod(guards) - Associate method-level guards.

  • New annotations on REST method parameters with automatic conversion:

    • @Attr - A parameter or URL variable value as a parsed POJO.
    • @Param - A query parameter value as a parsed POJO.
    • @PathRemainder - The remainder after a URL pattern match as a String.
    • @Header - An HTTP header value as a parsed POJO.
    • @Content - The HTTP content as a parsed POJO.
    • @Method - The HTTP method name as a String.

  • HTTP response content POJOs can now simply be returned from methods instead of calling RestResponse.setOutput(Object).