SB 3.5.x compatibility

[silviuburceadev]

SB 3.5.0 comes with a breaking change, a method was renamed, which causes method not found at start-up:

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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:

An attempt was made to call a method that does not exist. The attempt was made from the following location:

    org.springdoc.core.providers.HateoasHalProvider.isHalEnabled(HateoasHalProvider.java:81)

The following method did not exist:

    'boolean org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.hateoas.HateoasProperties.getUseHalAsDefaultJsonMediaType()'

The calling method's class, org.springdoc.core.providers.HateoasHalProvider, was loaded from the following location:

    jar:file:/Users/silviu.burcea/.m2/repository/org/springdoc/springdoc-openapi-starter-common/2.8.8/springdoc-openapi-starter-common-2.8.8.jar!/org/springdoc/core/providers/HateoasHalProvider.class

The called method's class, org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.hateoas.HateoasProperties, is available from the following locations:

    jar:file:/Users/silviu.burcea/.m2/repository/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-autoconfigure/3.5.0/spring-boot-autoconfigure-3.5.0.jar!/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/hateoas/HateoasProperties.class

The called method's class hierarchy was loaded from the following locations:

    org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.hateoas.HateoasProperties: file:/Users/silviu.burcea/.m2/repository/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-autoconfigure/3.5.0/spring-boot-autoconfigure-3.5.0.jar

getUseHalAsDefaultJsonMediaType is now called isUseHalAsDefaultJsonMediaType. I have reported the issue to Spring team as well, see spring-projects/spring-boot#45648, I'm not sure if they will revert the change or if you need to bump minor version to have SB 3.5.x compatibility. I'm happy to contribute once it's clear which project needs to change.

[straurob]

According to this comment, Spring Boot will not implement a workaround for this.

spring-projects/spring-boot#45648 (comment)

[mschout]

Seems upstream is unlikely to fix, so either should bump min required spring boot version to 3.5.0 or use reflection to support older versions. I'll make an MR for the later shortly in case you want to go that route. Guessing this is a quick fix.