Throw UnsupportedOperationException when a projected value cannot be returned.

We now throw UnsupportedOperationException when a projected value cannot be returned because it cannot be brought into the target type, either via conversion or projection.

This exception improves the error message by avoiding throwing IllegalArgumentException: Projection type must be an interface from the last branch that falls back into projections.

Closes #2290.
Original Pull Request: #2291

Author: mp911de

src/main/java/org/springframework/data/projection/ProjectingMethodInterceptor.java

@@ -104,8 +104,14 @@ protected Object potentiallyConvertResult(TypeInformation<?> type, @Nullable Obj
 			return projectMapValues((Map<?, ?>) result, type);
 		} else if (conversionRequiredAndPossible(result, type.getType())) {
 			return conversionService.convert(result, type.getType());
-		} else {
+		} else if (ClassUtils.isAssignable(type.getType(), result.getClass())) {
+			return result;
+		} else if (type.getType().isInterface()) {
 			return getProjection(result, type.getType());
+		} else {
+			throw new UnsupportedOperationException(String.format(
+					"Cannot convert value '%s' of type '%s' to '%s' and cannot create a projection as the target type is not an interface",
+					result, ClassUtils.getDescriptiveType(result), ClassUtils.getQualifiedName(type.getType())));
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -155,7 +161,7 @@ private Map<Object, Object> projectMapValues(Map<?, ?> sources, TypeInformation<
 	}
 
 	@Nullable
-	private Object getProjection(Object result, Class<?> returnType) {
+	private Object getProjection(@Nullable Object result, Class<?> returnType) {
 		return result == null || ClassUtils.isAssignable(returnType, result.getClass()) ? result
 				: factory.createProjection(returnType, result);
 	}

src/test/java/org/springframework/data/projection/ProjectingMethodInterceptorUnitTests.java

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.*;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;
 
+import java.math.BigInteger;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.EnumSet;
@@ -95,6 +96,21 @@ void considersPrimitivesAsWrappers() throws Throwable {
 		verify(factory, times(0)).createProjection((Class<?>) any(), any());
 	}
 
+	@Test // #2290
+	void failsForNonConvertibleTypes() throws Throwable {
+
+		MethodInterceptor methodInterceptor = new ProjectingMethodInterceptor(factory, interceptor, conversionService);
+
+		when(invocation.getMethod()).thenReturn(Helper.class.getMethod("getBoolean"));
+		when(interceptor.invoke(invocation)).thenReturn(BigInteger.valueOf(1));
+
+		assertThatThrownBy(() -> methodInterceptor.invoke(invocation)) //
+				.isInstanceOf(UnsupportedOperationException.class) //
+				.hasMessageContaining("'1'") //
+				.hasMessageContaining("BigInteger") //
+				.hasMessageContaining("boolean");
+	}
+
 	@Test // DATAREST-394, DATAREST-408
 	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
 	void appliesProjectionToNonEmptySets() throws Throwable {
@@ -213,6 +229,8 @@ interface Helper {
 
 		long getPrimitive();
 
+		boolean getBoolean();
+
 		Collection<HelperProjection> getHelperCollection();
 
 		List<HelperProjection> getHelperList();