Allow overriding DateTimeProvider via Bean Definition

[ZIRAKrezovic]

The default DateTimeProvider is set to CurrentDateTimeProvider.INSTANCE which returns LocalDateTime.now().

We have to override it when using OffsetDateTime as JPA will throw an error.

According to https://docs.spring.io/spring-data/jpa/reference/auditing.html#jpa.auditing.configuration it is already possible to override AuditorAware by simply defining a bean.

However, the same is not true for DateTimeProvider. I have tried defining a bean of type DateTimeProvider, but it was not picked up. I was only able to specify it via @EnableJpaAuditing(dateTimeProviderRef = "...")

(note, I used EnableJpaAuditing, but AuditingHandlerSupport is part of spring-data-commons)

[mp911de]

AuditingBeanDefinitionRegistrarSupport enables autowire by type if auditorAwareRef isn't set. I think we should be able to generally set autowrite mode to AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE and back off from setting dateTimeProvider to CurrentDateTimeProvider.INSTANCE if no reference is configured as AuditingHandlerSupport initializes itself with CurrentDateTimeProvider.INSTANCE.

[ghgh415263]

hello ! Would it be okay if I try?

[mp911de]

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