geiger_api 0.8.2

A Communication API for the GEIGER ecosystem. It provides a unified interface for all plugins to communicate and transfer control between the components of the ecosystem.

0.8.2 Fix Windows Support

Improvements:

• Add Windows support to example apps.
• Support for Universal Windows Platform apps.
• More flexible Win32 start configuration.
• Respect call order of api.sendMessage.

Fixes:

• Various plugin start bugs

0.8.1 Emergency Bump of Build to SDK 33 upon request

Emergency bump to build on SDK 33 and min SDK 23. Should be a drop in replacement. No code was changed.

0.8.0 Java and iOS support

Improvements:

• Improved iOS support
• Complete Java client-only implementation

Changes:

• GeigerApi does no longer do automatic plugin registration and activation
• Client plugins can no longer close or zap the storage.
• Throw error on unauthorized value addition.
• Add action to activatePlugin call for consistency.

0.7.10 Bugfixing Release and first iOS support

Added:

• iOS support added (nasty and experimental)

0.7.9 Bugfixing Release

Improvements:

• Additional linter rules to improve code quality.
• Better example app.

Fixes:

• Improved stability when an app or plugin is unexpectedly closed.

0.7.8 Bugfixing Release

Fixes:

• Fixes visibility rules of listener in the owner enforcer.
• Take the plugin's sharing declaration into account in the owner enforcer.
• Added more test to hunt down issue #22
• Adresses visibility issue of event nodes when secured (related to issue #22).

0.7.7 Bugfixing Release

Fixes:

• Fix Node deserialization when only a PassthroughController has been created.

0.7.6 Bugfixing Release

Fixes:

• Apply visibility rules for newNode in a storage change event to newNode instead of oldNode.

0.7.5 Bugfixing Release

Fixes:

• Removes the asset dependency from the GEIGER localstorage

0.7.4 Bugfixing Release [Minor Breaking Changes]

Fixes:

• Listening to MessageType.allEvents no longer returns internal messages.
• Internal message types have an ID higher than MessageType.allEvents
• Fixes GitHub issue #20 (Returning control is not possible in geiger_api:0.7.3)

Changes:

• GeigerApi.registerListener is no longer async.
• MessageType.registerListener and MessageType.deregisterListener were removed.
• The timeout optional parameter in CommunicationHelper.sendAndWait is now a named parameter.
• CommunicationHelper.sendAndWait now by default only listens for MessageType.comapiSuccess and MessageType.comapiError. This behavior can be changed using the responseTypes named parameter.

0.7.3 Bugfixing Release

Fixes:

• Various improvments to stabilize the connection between plugin and toolbox master
• Various fixes regarding speed and size constraints

0.7.2 Extension Release

Added:

• Call to get the list of registered/Authorized plugins.

0.7.1 Bugfix release

Fixes:

• The known security bug of StorageEvent leaks

0.7.0 Security features added [BREAKING CHANGES]

This is a breaking change. Menus are new not just a string but a node containing all internationalizable strings. The MenuRegistrar new takes a whole MenuItem as parameter.

Added:

• Custom message type CUSTOM_EVENT for plugins to send messages to the UI (or vice versa)
• Added call authorizePlugin(...)
• Added ownerEnforcerWrapper to guarantee that plugins get only data destined for them

Fixed:

• Exceptions stacktraces are now properly deserialized
• Github issue #9 (Typo error)

Known bugs:

• example project does not start in the background
• Storage events may leak unaccessible information when nodes are modified.

0.6.3 Bugfix Release

Added:

• Improved example code.

0.6.2 Bugfix Release (Minor breaking changes)

Minor breaking changes:

• registerChange listener is new async (BEWARE)
• activatePlugin now determines the port automatically and specification of the port is no longer required.

Fixes:

• Github Issue #7 (Get a Storage from an external plugin)
• Github issue #8 (StorageException:Whoops... error while upgrading database (offending: ALTER TABLE storage_node ADD COLUMN last_modified TEXT CHECK( LENGTH(last_modified) <= 20);)

Known bugs:

• There seems to be an intermitend issue with external change listeners missing changes
• example project does not start in the background

0.6.0 External communication release

This is the first release of the external capabilities. From this point on external communication should work.

0.5.5

Fixes:

• Flutter analyze issues detected by the new flutter framework release
• Upgrades dependencies

Adds:

• Many internal things. Mainly prep-work for the EoY release.

0.5.4

• Fixes Github issue #4 (FileSystemException: Cannot open file, path = 'GeigerApi.miCyberrangePlugin.state' (OS Error: Read-only file system, errno = 30)).
• Extends capabilities and boosts to the most recent localstore
• Fixes some dependencies (however - All mitigations for getting rid of Flutter in favor of Dart failed)

0.5.3

Added support for autodetection of the storage location. Warning: This breaks dart compatibility due to the requirement of path_provider. From here we have 'Flutter only'. Anyone knowing a sensible alternative is warmly welcomed.

0.5.2

Added PluginListener to the list of exported APIs.

0.5.1

Added support for always traceable replies in the Message class. Required for replication and waiting for related, subsequent messages.

0.5.0

• Initial version (covers only local plugin communication)