Adapt SortHandlerMethodArgumentResolver after changes to sort parameter.

Since the introduction of 6e22ffd, the sort parameter has been rendered as composite parameter which will cause the comma used to delimit property from direction potentially be encoded by clients following the URI template RFC. Thus, we need to defensively decode the source parameter value before parsing.

Related ticket: GH-2531.

src/main/java/org/springframework/data/web/SortHandlerMethodArgumentResolver.java

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  */
 package org.springframework.data.web;
 
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
 import org.springframework.core.MethodParameter;
@@ -23,8 +24,8 @@
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 import org.springframework.web.bind.support.WebDataBinderFactory;
 import org.springframework.web.context.request.NativeWebRequest;
-import org.springframework.web.method.support.HandlerMethodArgumentResolver;
 import org.springframework.web.method.support.ModelAndViewContainer;
+import org.springframework.web.util.UriUtils;
 
 /**
  * {@link HandlerMethodArgumentResolver} to automatically create {@link Sort} instances from request parameters or
@@ -61,6 +62,10 @@ public Sort resolveArgument(MethodParameter parameter, @Nullable ModelAndViewCon
 			return getDefaultFromAnnotationOrFallback(parameter);
 		}
 
-		return parseParameterIntoSort(Arrays.asList(directionParameter), getPropertyDelimiter());
+		var decoded = Arrays.stream(directionParameter)
+				.map(it -> UriUtils.decode(it, StandardCharsets.UTF_8))
+				.toList();
+
+		return parseParameterIntoSort(decoded, getPropertyDelimiter());
 	}
 }

src/test/java/org/springframework/data/web/SortHandlerMethodArgumentResolverUnitTests.java

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 import org.springframework.web.context.request.NativeWebRequest;
 import org.springframework.web.context.request.ServletWebRequest;
+import org.springframework.web.util.UriUtils;
 
 /**
  * Unit tests for {@link SortHandlerMethodArgumentResolver}.
@@ -259,6 +261,18 @@ void mergedQualifierIsUsedInParameterLookup() {
 		assertSupportedAndResolvedTo(getRequestWithSort(reference, "merged"), parameter, reference);
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	void readsEncodedSort() {
+
+		var request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
+		request.addParameter("sort", UriUtils.encode("foo,desc", StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+
+		var parameter = getParameterOfMethod("supportedMethod");
+		var encoded = UriUtils.encode("foo,desc", StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+
+		assertSupportedAndResolvedTo(new ServletWebRequest(request), parameter, Sort.by("foo").descending());
+	}
+
 	private static Sort resolveSort(HttpServletRequest request, MethodParameter parameter) throws Exception {
 
 		var resolver = new SortHandlerMethodArgumentResolver();