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REST Expanders 3.18.0

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Frédéric Hannes
Frédéric Hannes
R&D Engineer

Changes and improvements​

Refactoring Options.Option​

As net.democritus.sys.Options.Option is being phased out, this version of rest-expanders replaced the vast majority of its uses with java.util.Optional. All of these changes are located in the validation system and may affect custom code.

Migration guide​

Updating to Optional<T>​

  • ValidationResult.getFirstError() now returns Optional<T>. This method is used in most generated endpoints. If the implementation was copied to custom code, this should be adapted as well.

    Original
    if (validateUrlResult.isValidationFailed()) throw new ResourceNotFoundException(validateUrlResult.getFirstError().getValue());
    Migrated
    if (validateUrlResult.isValidationFailed()) throw new ResourceNotFoundException(validateUrlResult.getFirstError().get());

  • Any implementation of database validators that call generated methods in DatabaseValidator class should be adapted if they use the return value of those methods. They have been changed to return Optional<T>. This applies to:

    • DatabaseValidator.existsProjection()
    • DatabaseValidator.existsDataRef()
    • DatabaseValidator.isUniqueProjection()
    • DatabaseValidator.isUniqueDataRef()
    • DatabaseValidator.connectedProjection()
    • DatabaseValidator.connectedDataRef()

  • Any calls to a CommonDataValidator's exists methods or the exists/unique methods in the other DataValidators should be refactored to also handle the new Optional<T> return value. This applies to:

    • <dataElement>CommonDataValidator.validate<dataElement>Exists()
    • <dataElement><operation>DataValidator.validate<dataElement>Exists()
    • <dataElement><operation>DataValidator.validate<dataElement>Unique()