This release should be fully backward compatible with 1.1.0.RELEASE for applications using the library. Libraries that extend the core Connectors library should be recompiled against 1.2.0 RC1, and may encounter a few small extension API changes. Barring any issues, this will be the only RC before 1.2.0.RELEASE.

Here’s an overview of what’s new in 1.2.0:

Spring Cloud Connectors Core

AMQP

• AmqpServiceInfo no longer validates that the path element of a URI contains a value, which allows the default RabbitMQ vhost to be used.
• URL validation in AmqpServiceInfo was relaxed such that QPID URL format is supported as well as RabbitMQ URL format.
• AmqpServiceInfo now supports holding a list of URIs for providers that support multiple host connections.

Cloud Foundry Connector

Relational Databases

• All relational database ServiceInfo parsers now honor a jdbcUrl field in the credentials contained in VCAP_SERVICES. If a jdbcUrl is found, its value is provided by RelationalServiceInfo.getJdbcUrl without modification. If a jdbcUrl is not found, then a JDBC URL will be constructed by RelationalServiceInfo as before.

AMQP

• The AMQP ServiceInfo parser now supports multiple URIs as provided by Pivotal’s RabbitMQ for Pivotal Cloud Foundry version 1.4.
• The AMQP ServiceInfo parser now parses the management API and makes it available to clients.
• amqps was added as a valid scheme when detecting an AMQP service based on a url field in the credentials contained in VCAP_SERVICES.

Spring Connector

Java Configuration

• There was an issue with nested @Configuration classes that extend AbstractCloudConfig triggering ClassNotFound exceptions when spring-data-jpa, spring-data-mongodb, spring-data-redis, or spring-amqp are not present on the runtime classpath. This issue has been resolved, so only the dependencies actually needed by the application are required at runtime.

Relational Databases

• The HikariCP connection pooling library is now supported when creating a DataSource, along with Tomcat and Apache Commons pooling libraries.

RabbitMQ

• RabbitConnectionFactoryConfig will now accept a map of key/value pairs to allow setting arbitrary properties of the created ConnectionFactory. This can be used by Java configuration or XML configuration.

Redis

• RedisConnectionFactoryConfig will now accept a map of key/value pairs to allow setting arbitrary properties of the created RedisConnectionFactory. This can be used by Java configuration or XML configuration.
  MongoDB
• MongoDbFactoryCreator now passes the authSource from the URI to the MongoDbFactory.
• MongoDbFactoryCreator now accepts a URL that contains a list of replica sets.