Add ResponseEntity.of(Optional) variant

When dealing with `Optional` values in a Controller handler (for
example, values coming from a Spring Data repository), developers might
reuse this code snippet quite often:

```
@GetMapping("/user")
public ResponseEntity<Optional<User>> fetchUser() {
  Optional<User> user = //...
  return user.map(ResponseEntity::ok).orElse(notFound().build());
}
```

This commit adds a new static method on `ResponseEntity` for that,
simplifying the previous snippet with `return ResponseEntity.of(user);`

Note that in case more specific HTTP response headers are required by
the application, developers should use other static methods to
explicitly tell  which headers should be used in each case.

Issue: SPR-17187

spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/ResponseEntity.java

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
+import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
@@ -213,6 +214,18 @@ public static BodyBuilder status(int status) {
 		return new DefaultBuilder(status);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * A shortcut for creating a {@code ResponseEntity} with the given body
+	 * and the {@linkplain HttpStatus#OK OK} status, or an empty body and a
+	 * {@linkplain HttpStatus#NOT_FOUND NOT FOUND} status in case of a
+	 * {@linkplain Optional#empty()} parameter.
+	 * @return the created {@code ResponseEntity}
+	 * @since 5.1
+	 */
+	public static <T> ResponseEntity<T> of(Optional<T> body) {
+		return body.map(ResponseEntity::ok).orElse(notFound().build());
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Create a builder with the status set to {@linkplain HttpStatus#OK OK}.
 	 * @return the created builder

spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/ResponseEntityTests.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2016 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2018 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
 import org.hamcrest.Matchers;
@@ -72,6 +73,25 @@ public void okEntity() {
 		assertEquals(entity, responseEntity.getBody());
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void ofOptional() {
+		Integer entity = 42;
+		ResponseEntity<Integer> responseEntity = ResponseEntity.of(Optional.of(entity));
+
+		assertNotNull(responseEntity);
+		assertEquals(HttpStatus.OK, responseEntity.getStatusCode());
+		assertEquals(entity, responseEntity.getBody());
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void ofEmptyOptional() {
+		ResponseEntity<Integer> responseEntity = ResponseEntity.of(Optional.empty());
+
+		assertNotNull(responseEntity);
+		assertEquals(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND, responseEntity.getStatusCode());
+		assertNull(responseEntity.getBody());
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void createdLocation() throws URISyntaxException {
 		URI location = new URI("location");