Form BeanRelease Notes

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New: FormBean.renderUniqueIds allows the same form to be rendered multiple times on the same page.
New: HtmlInput.validationMethod and FormField.validationMethod provide an alternative means to specifying @Validate methods.
New: Added FormBean.getByField() as convenience for formBean.formFields.get(field).
New: Added FormField.stash, handy for passing data to static validate methods.
New: Messages.clear() to clear the messages cache.
Bug: null field input types were rendered as type="null" instead of type="text".

New: FormBean.validateField() to validate individual fields.
New: FormField.populate() allows form fields be individually populated from @HtmlInput facets and messages.
New: Added hash(), equals(), & toStr() to FormField.
Chg: Changed the FormField ctor. (Potential breaking change.)
Bug: Fixed NPE in FormBean.validateRequest() when request had no Content-Type HTTP header.
Bug: Potential for Messages to throw an NPE if a pod contained resource files with no extension.
Bug: There was no default message for pattern.

Chg: File uploads now return in-memory files. Use FormBean.fileUploadHook to change this behaviour.
Chg: FormBean.formFields is no longer read only.
Chg: Removed direct dependency on IoC Config.

Chg: File uploads are no longer placed in a unique directory - it felt weird and wrong asking people to delete a directory!
((( DANGER! ))) - if upgrading from v1.1.2, DO NOT DELETE the parent directory of file uploads!
Bug: minlength input attribute was incorrectly rendered as minLength - should have been all lowercase.

New: @Validate methods for custom server side validation.
New: All attributes from @HtmlInput are pre-populated from message values and are available in FormField.
New: @HtmlInput.viewOnly attribute.
New: Messages service is now public.
New: FormFields are created via FieldInspectors.
New: FormBean.reinspectBean() method.
Chg: OptionsProvider methods now take FormField for contextual customisation. (Breaking change.)
Chg: Rejigged all the message keys, see Message Cheat Sheet for details. (Breaking change.)
Chg: Updated to work with IoC v3.0. (Breaking change.)
Chg: HtmlInput.required defaults to true if the field is non-nullable.
Chg: Messages files may also have a .props extension.