drift3_preview 3.0.0-alpha.1

In-development preview of breaking changes planned for drift version 3.

3.0.0-alpha.1

Changes from drift versions 2.x:

• Breaking change: Rework connection APIs.
  • The QueryExecutor class has been removed. Use DriftSession instead.
  • DatabaseConnection has been renamed to DriftConnection and is always opened lazily now.
  • NativeDatabase has been removed, use sqliteConnectionPool from package:drift_sqlite/native.dart.
  • WasmDatabase is now part of package:drift_sqlite/wasm.dart and requires a new worker.
• Breaking change: On expressions, isBiggerThan has been renamed to isGreaterThan; isSmallerThan to isLessThan.
• Breaking change: Top-level join methods (innerJoin and others) are now named constructors on a Join class.
• Breaking change: Constant has been renamed to Literal.
• Breaking change: Remove DatabaseConnectionUser.customSelectQuery.
• Breaking change: SQLite-specific constructs are now exposed through package:drift_sqlite:
  • The storeDateTimesAsText option is now enabled by default.
  • The InsertMode parameter is now available as a .mode() extension on InsertStatement.
• Breaking change: Make tables STRICT by default. This can be reverted with drift options in build.yaml.
• Breaking change: Drift manager APIs are now part of the drift_manager package, and no longer generated by default.
• Add json columns as a builtin type. THey use a binary format by default, this can be changed to text.
• In Dart table definitions, the trailing () for columns is no longer required.