More flexibility to ArributeStrategy mapping to annotation classes

• ArributeStrategy can be mapped to base classes of annotations
• Support NotEmpty and NotBlank from javax.validation.constraints
• Dropped support for Java 6 and Java 7

Support for setters that return an ancestor type

Support for setters that return an ancestor type

Population improvement

• Do not populate collections and maps with null values

Bug fix for NPE with population of maps

• Fixing NPE with population of maps.

Bugfix for raw read-only collections as values of maps

• Bugfix for raw read-only collections as values of maps

Several bugfixes

• Fixed issue with generic type resolution
• Thread-safe random
• Fixed issue with boolean primitive instantiated by strategy

AttributeStrategy API change

• AttributeStrategy is now instantiated by library user and registered to Podam
• Fixes for case of attribute with multiple validation constraints

Improvements to read-only fields handling

• If manufacturer fails to produce an object, check other manufacturers.
• Fixed distribution of random numbers to be uniform
• Fixed production of generic enumerations
• Support for @org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotBlank
• Use annotations from read-only fields too
• Do not repopulate filled arrays

Better generic types resolution

• Fixed issue with resolving generic types for nested generics

Better bean validation annotation support

• Take into account all annotations, which could be contradictory