Support nested Sort properties [DATAREST-910]

[spring-projects-issues]

Mark Paluch opened DATAREST-910 and commented

Allow usage of nested Sort properties applying Jackson-aware field to property mapping. Currently, nested sort properties are filtered because sort mapping considers only top-level properties.

Jackson-field to property mapping should be relaxed and fall back to non-translated properties if the domain type can not be resolved

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Issue Links:

• DATACMNS-918 Provide interfaces for Pageable and Sort method argument resolvers
  ("depends on")
• DATAREST-912 DomainObjectReader removes unwrapped properties

Referenced from: pull request #232

Backported to: 2.6 RC1 (Ingalls)

[spring-projects-issues]

Michael S commented

Hi guys, are there any updates on this ticket and PR? I'm asking because we're updating our apps to spring-cloud Camden release train and spring boot 1.4 - and nested Sort properties used to work prior to SDR 2.4.4. I am not sure whether sorting by nested properties was an unintentional feature, but our app was relying on it (and on the error message on unknown sort property that gets silently ignored now). Anyway, this commit for 2.4.5 removed this feature. We can get around it by extending RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration and overriding defaultMethodArgumentResolvers using the pre-2.4.5. resolvers.