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feat(object-mapping): support mapping types with restricted access - #1670

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The updated Object Mapping implementation attempts to make constructors with restricted access available to it. If successful, it considers them during the constructor search. However, it prefers constructors that are accessible by default when they have the same number of matched and mismatched properties.

Given the objective of providing an easy and type-safe way of accessing user-defined values in MapAccessor, it would would sometimes to convenient to define the target type and map to it within the same method. For example:

record Movie(String title, String tagline, long released) {}

var movies = driver.executableQuery("MATCH (movie:Movie) RETURN movie")
        .execute()
        .records()
        .stream()
        .map(record -> record.get("movie").as(Movie.class))
        .toList();

However, such Java record has restricted access from Object Mapping implementation perspective. This update makes it possible to map to such types.

In addition, the following bugs have been fixed:

  • null type name was used in exception message when local record mapping failed
  • nonexistent properties were considered as matched on nodes and relationships

…eo4j#1668)

The updated Object Mapping implementation attempts to make constructors with restricted access available to it. If successful, it considers them during the constructor search. However, it prefers constructors that are accessible by default when they have the same number of matched and mismatched properties.

Given the objective of providing an easy and type-safe way of accessing user-defined values in `MapAccessor`, it would would sometimes to convenient to define the target type and map to it within the same method. For example:

```java
record Movie(String title, String tagline, long released) {}

var movies = driver.executableQuery("MATCH (movie:Movie) RETURN movie")
        .execute()
        .records()
        .stream()
        .map(record -> record.get("movie").as(Movie.class))
        .toList();
```

However, such Java `record` has restricted access from Object Mapping implementation perspective. This update makes it possible to map to such types.

In addition, the following bugs have been fixed:
- `null` type name was used in exception message when local `record` mapping failed
- nonexistent properties were considered as matched on nodes and relationships
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injectives merged commit 816522a into neo4j:5.0 Jul 8, 2025
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