liquidart 5.0.0-b7

A modern HTTP server application framework, ORM and OAuth2 provider with OpenAPI 3.0 integration. Foundation for REST, RPC or GraphQL services. Revival of the AQUEDUCT Project.

5.0.0-b7

• Fixed Dart "firstWhere orElse null" issue by replacing it with for loops. Fixed some more similar errors that were not seen previously.
• Updated Dependencies, Rectifying some null check errors
• Migration to Dart Null Safety
• Migrated all packages that liquidart depended on, to Null Safety (including liquiart_test)
• Had 6000+ Errors uring Migration
• Took 4 days of work to resolve them all and migrate the framework to Null Safety.
• I also had to migrate all the packages that liquidart relied on, before migrating liquidart.
• Huge Changes and Code Refactors.

5.0.0-b6

• Fixed Dart "firstWhere orElse null" issue by replacing it with for loops.
• Updated Dependencies, Rectifying some null check errors
• Migration to Dart Null Safety
• Migrated all packages that liquidart depended on, to Null Safety (including liquiart_test)
• Had 6000+ Errors uring Migration
• Took 4 days of work to resolve them all and migrate the framework to Null Safety.
• I also had to migrate all the packages that liquidart relied on, before migrating liquidart.
• Huge Changes and Code Refactors.

5.0.0-b5

• Updated Dependencies, Rectifying some null check errors
• Migration to Dart Null Safety
• Migrated all packages that liquidart depended on, to Null Safety (including liquiart_test)
• Had 6000+ Errors uring Migration
• Took 4 days of work to resolve them all and migrate the framework to Null Safety.
• I also had to migrate all the packages that liquidart relied on, before migrating liquidart.
• Huge Changes and Code Refactors.

5.0.0-b4

• Rectifying some null check errors
• Migration to Dart Null Safety
• Migrated all packages that liquidart depended on, to Null Safety (including liquiart_test)
• Had 6000+ Errors uring Migration
• Took 4 days of work to resolve them all and migrate the framework to Null Safety.
• I also had to migrate all the packages that liquidart relied on, before migrating liquidart.
• Huge Changes and Code Refactors.

5.0.0-b3

• Rectifying some null check errors.
• Migration to Dart Null Safety
• Migrated all packages that liquidart depended on, to Null Safety (including liquiart_test)
• Had 6000+ Errors uring Migration
• Took 4 days of work to resolve them all and migrate the framework to Null Safety.
• I also had to migrate all the packages that liquidart relied on, before migrating liquidart.
• Huge Changes and Code Refactors.

5.0.0-b2

• Migration to Dart Null Safety
• Migrated all packages that liquidart depended on, to Null Safety (including liquiart_test)
• Had 6000+ Errors uring Migration
• Took 4 days of work to resolve them all and migrate the framework to Null Safety.
• I also had to migrate all the packages that liquidart relied on, before migrating liquidart.
• Huge Changes and Code Refactors.

5.0.0-b1

• Migration to Dart Null Safety
• Had 6000+ Errors uring Migration
• Took 4 days of work to resolve them all and migrate the framework to Null Safety.
• I also had to migrate all the packages that liquidart relied on, before migrating liquidart.
• Huge Changes and Code Refactors.

4.0.1-b2

• Changed Homepage link to Repository URL for now.

4.0.1-b1

• Corrected code to meet dart format specification
• Corrected Homepage link

4.0.0-b2

• Updated Package Code and Documentation Links.
• Refactored and formatted all code to meet pub.dev publishing guidelines.
• New version to correctly resolve liquidart_test dependency.

4.0.0-b1

• Renamed and refactored project to Liquidart, since the Aqueduct project has been abandoned by StableKernel Team.
  • The refactoring is astonishingly dirty and clunky.
  • Lot of commits to correct link errors and renaming nightmare and what not.
  • Not even sure if the package runs well, at this point.
• Added a new logo to the project, designed by Aldrin Mathew.

3.3.0-b1

• Adds 'liquidart build' command that generates an executable binary of an Liquidart app, with some known issues
  • Windows is not currently supported.
  • Compilation will fail for files that import relative URIs and declare at least one type that is a subclass of any of ManagedObject, ApplicationChannel, Controller, ResourceController, Configuration.
    • Convert relative URI imports to package imports to resolve.
  • Body decoding behaviors such as RequestBody.as<T> RequestBody.decode<T> have restrictions when running in compiled mode:
    • The type parameter T may be any of the five primitive types int, double, num, String, bool; Map<String, T> where T is a primitive, and List<T> where T is a primitive or Map<String, dynamic>.
    • These restrictions apply to the type of a @Bind.body parameter (you may also bind Serializable and List<Serializable>).

3.2.2-dev

• #723 Fixes issue that prevented the AuthServer from granting tokens with sub-scopes when the servers AuthServerDelegate.getAllowedScopes() didn't return AuthScope.any.
• Deprecates AuthScope.allowsScope(), use AuthScope.isSubsetOrEqualTo() instead.

3.2.1

• Fixes issue when using QueryReduce inside a transaction.
• Fixes issue when generating an OpenAPI document with ManagedObjects that have enumerated properties
• Fixes issue when generating an OpenAPI document with List

3.2.0

• Adds read method to Serializable for filtering, ignoring or rejecting keys.
• Fixes issues with Dart 2.1.1 mirror type checking changes
• Adds like matcher expression
• Escapes postgres special characters in LIKE expressions for all other string matcher expressions
• Fixes security vulnerability where a specific authorization header value would be associated with the wrong token in rare cases (credit to Philipp Schiffmann)
• Adds Validate.constant to properties that use the @primaryKey annotation.
• Allows Validate annotations to be added to belongs-to relationship properties; the validation is run on the foreign key.
• Allows any type - e.g. Map<String, dynamic> - to be bound with Bind.body.

3.1.0

• Adds the implicit authorization grant flow via the AuthRedirectController type.
• Deprecates AuthCodeController in favor of AuthRedirectController.
• Improves speed of many database CLI commands
• Improves error messaging of the CLI; no longer includes stack trace for expected errors.
• Allows self-referencing and cyclical relationships between managed objects
• Fixes bug where ManagedObjects cannot have mixins
• Adds ManagedContext.insertObject, ManagedContext.insertObjects and ManagedContext.fetchObjectWithID.

3.0.2

• Fix regression when generating OpenAPI documentation for ManagedObjects
• Adds --resolve-relative-urls flag to document commands to improve client applications
• Adds Serializable.documentSchema instance method. Removes Serializable.document static method.
• Adds optional values argument to Query constructor

3.0.1

• Controller is now an abstract class that requires implementing handle. This is a minor breaking change that should not have an impact.
• 'Serializable' can now implement static 'document' method to override component documentation behavior
• Removes liquidart setup --heroku=<name> and instead points to documentation.
• Fixes issue ORM had with transformed values (e.g. enums) and nullable columns

3.0.0

• Adds BodyDecoder.decode<T> and BodyDecoder.as<T>. This replaces existing decodeAs* and as* methods.
• Adds AuthDelegate.addClient and AuthServer.addClient.
• Adds ManagedContext.transaction to enable queries to be run in a database transaction.
• Adds 'Scope' annotation to add granular scoping to ResourceController methods.
• Adds Recyclable<T> to control whether controllers are instantiated per request or are reused.
• Adds support for storing PostgreSQL JSONB data with Document data type.
• Adds Query.insertObject.
• Adds support for OpenAPI 3.0.0 documentation generation.
  • Adds APIComponentDocumenter, APIOperationDocumenter, APIDocumentContext.
  • Removes PackagePathResolver, ApplicationOptions.isDocumenting and APIDocumentable.
• Adds MockHTTPServer.queueHandler and MockHTTPServer.queueOutage.
• Query.where behavior has changed to consistently use property selector syntax.
  • Removes methods like whereEqualTo and replaced with QueryExpression.
• Controller.generate renamed to Controller.link. Removed Controller.pipe.
• package:liquidart/test moved to package:liquidart_test/liquidart_test, which is a separate dependency from liquidart.
• Renames methods in AuthDelegate to provide consistency.
• Removes ManagedContext.defaultContext; context usage must be explicit.
• Removes HTTPResponseException. Responses can now be thrown instead.
• QueryExceptions are no longer thrown for every ORM exception. If a store chooses to interpret an exception, it will still throw a QueryException. Otherwise, the underlying driver exception will be thrown.
• Default constructor for PostgreSQLPersistentStore now takes connection info instead of closure.
• Controller.listen renamed Controller.linkFunction.
• Change default port for liquidart serve to 8888.
• Binding metadata - HTTPPath, HTTPBody, HTTPQuery and HTTPHeader - have been changed to Bind.path, Bind.body, Bind.query and Bind.header, respectively.
• Remove @httpGet (and other HTTPMethod annotations) constants. Behavior replaced by @Operation.
• Removes runOnMainIsolate from Application.start() and added Application.startOnMainIsolate() as replacement.
• Removes ManagedSet.haveAtLeastOneWhere.
• Renames RequestSink to ApplicationChannel.
  • Replace constructor and willOpen with prepare.
  • Replace setupRouter with entryPoint.
• Replaces AuthCodeController.renderFunction with AuthCodeControllerDelegate.
• Removes AuthStrategy in place of AuthorizationParser<T>.
  • Adds concrete implementations of AuthorizationParser<T>, AuthorizationBearerParser and AuthorizationBasicParser.
• Removes AuthValidator.fromBearerToken and AuthValidator.fromBasicCredentials and replaces with AuthValidator.validate<T>.
• Renames the following:
  • Authorization.resourceOwnerIdentifier -> Authorization.ownerID
  • Request.innerRequest -> Request.raw
  • AuthStorage -> AuthServerDelegate
  • AuthServer.storage -> AuthServer.delegate
  • ApplicationConfiguration -> ApplicationOptions
  • Application.configuration -> Application.options
  • HTTPFileController -> FileController
  • HTTPSerializable -> Serializable
  • HTTPCachePolicy -> CachePolicy
  • HTTPCodecRepository -> CodecRegistry
  • requiredHTTPParameter -> requiredBinding
  • ManagedTableAttributes -> Table
  • ManagedRelationshipDeleteRule -> DeleteRule
  • ManagedRelationship -> Relate
  • ManagedColumnAttributes -> Column
  • managedPrimaryKey -> primaryKey
  • ManagedTransientAttribute -> Serialize
    • Serialize now replaces managedTransientAttribute, managedTransientInputAttribute, and managedTransientOutputAttribute.
  • RequestController -> Controller
  • RequestController.processRequest -> Controller.handle
  • HTTPController -> ResourceController

2.5.0

• Adds liquidart db schema to print an application's data model.
• Adds liquidart document serve that serves the API documentation for an application.
• Adds --machine flag to liquidart tool to only emit machine-readable output.
• Adds defaultDelay to MockHTTPServer. Defaults to null for no delay.
• Adds defaultResponse to MockHTTPServer. Defaults to a 503 response instead of a 200.
• Adds option to set a custom delay for a specific response in MockHTTPServer's queueResponse function.
• Performance improvements

2.4.0

• Adds HTTPRequestBody.maxSize to limit HTTP request body sizes. Defaults to 10MB.
• Adds ManagedTableAttributes to configure underlying database table to use multiple columns to test for uniqueness.

2.3.2

• Adds Request.addResponseModifier to allow middleware to modify responses.

2.3.1

• Adds Response.bufferOutput to control whether the HTTP response bytes are buffered.
• Adds whereNot to apply an inverse to other Query.where expression, e.g. whereNot(whereIn(["a", "b"])).
• Fixes bug where subclassing ManagedObjectController didn't work.
• Renames ResourceRegistry to ServiceRegistry.
• Improves feedback and interface for package:liquidart/test.dart.

2.3.0

• Adds Request.acceptableContentTypes and Request.acceptsContentType for convenient usage of Accept header.
• Adds AuthStorage.allowedScopesForAuthenticatable to provide user attribute-based scoping, e.g. roles.
• Adds Query.forEntity and ManagedObjectController.forEntity to dynamically instantiate these types, i.e. use runtime values to build the query.
• Adds PersistentStore.newQuery - allows a PersistentStore implementation to provide its own implementation of Query specific to its underlying database.
• Adds Query.reduce to perform aggregate functions on database tables, e.g. sum, average, maximum, etc.
• enums may be used as persistent properties in ManagedObject<T>. The underlying database will store them a strings.
• Speed of generating a template project has been greatly improved.

2.2.2

• Adds ApplicationMessageHub to send cross-isolate messages.

2.2.1

• Allow HTTPCodecRepository.add to use specify default charset for Content-Type if a request does not specify one.

2.2.0

• The default template created by liquidart create is now mostly empty. Available templates can be listed with liquidart create list-templates and selected with the command-line option --template.
• Bug fixes where liquidart auth would fail to insert new Client IDs.
• joinMany and joinOne are deprecated, use join(set:) and join(object:) instead.
• HTTPCodecRepository replaces Response.addEncoder and HTTPBody.addDecoder.
• Streams may now be Response bodies.
• Request bodies may be bound in HTTPController with HTTPBody metadata.
• Adds file serving with HTTPFileController.
• Adds HTTPCachePolicy to control cache headers for a Response.
• Request.body has significantly improved behavior and has been optimized.
• Content-Length is included instead of Transfer-Encoding: chunked when the size of the response body can be determined efficiently.

2.1.1

• Adds ResourceRegistry: tracks port-consuming resources like database connections to ensure they are closed when an application shuts down during testing.

2.1.0

• Fixes race condition when stopping an application during test execution
• Adds validation behavior to ManagedObjects using Validate and ManagedValidator and ManagedObject.validate.
• ManagedObjects now have callbacks willUpdate and willInsert to modify their values before updating and inserting.
• Fixes issue with liquidart serve on Windows.

2.0.3

• Fixes issue with liquidart document for routes using listen
• Fixes issue when using TestClient to execute requests with public OAuth2 client
• Enables database migrations past the initial liquidart db generate.
• CLI tools print tool version, project version (when applicable)

2.0.2

• Allow binding to system-assigned port so tests can be run in parallel
• Change liquidart serve default port to 8081 so can develop in parallel to Angular2 apps that default to 8080
• Remove SecurityContext reference from ApplicationConfiguration. SSL configured via new liquidart serve arguments ssl-key-path and ssl-certificate-path, or overriding securityContext in RequestSink.

2.0.1

• Fixes issue where some types of join queries would access the wrong properties
• Fixes issue where an object cannot be inserted without values; this matters when the inserted values will be created by the database.

2.0.0

• Added RequestController.letUncaughtExceptionsEscape for better debugging during tests.

• Persistent types for ManagedObjects can now have superclasses.

• ManagedRelationships now have a .deferred() constructor. This allows ManagedObjects to have relationships to ManagedObjects in other packages.

• Added RequestSink.initializeApplication method to do one-time startup tasks that were previously done in a start script.

• RequestSink constructor now takes ApplicationConfiguration, instead of Map.

• Added configurationFilePath to ApplicationConfiguration.

• Improved error reporting from failed application startups.

• Automatically lowercase headers in Response objects so that other parts of an application can accurately read their values during processing.

• Added HTTPBody object to represent HTTP request bodies in Request. Decoders are now added to this type.

• ORM: Renamed Query.matchOn to Query.where.

• ORM: Removed includeInResultSet for Query's, instead, added joinOn and joinMany which create subqueries that can be configured further.

• ORM: Allow Query.where to reference properties in related objects without including related objects in results, i.e. can fetch Parent objects and filter them by values in their Child relationships.

• ORM: Joins can now be applied to belongsTo relationship properties.

• ORM: Matchers such as whereNull and whereNotNull can be applied to a relationship property in Query.where.

• ORM: Renamed ManagedSet.matchOn to ManagedSet.haveAtLeastOneWhere.

• ORM: Added matchers for case-insensitive string matching, and added case-insensitive option to whereEquals and whereNotEquals.

• Auth: Added liquidart/managed_auth library. Implements storage of OAuth 2.0 tokens using ManagedObjects. See API reference for more details.

• Auth: Improved error and response messaging to better align with the OAuth 2.0 spec, especially with regards to the authorization code flow.

• Auth: Added distinction between public and confidential clients, as defined by OAuth 2.0 spec.

• Auth: Improved class and property naming.

• Tooling: Added liquidart auth tool to create client ID and secrets and add them to a database for applications using the liquidart/managed_auth package.

• Tooling: Added more user-friendly configuration options for liquidart db tool.

• Tooling: Added liquidart setup --heroku for setting up projects to be deployed to Heroku.

• Tooling: Added liquidart serve command for running Liquidart applications without having to write a start script.

• Tooling: Added liquidart document command to generate OpenAPI specification for Liquidart applications, instead of relying on a script that came with the template.

1.0.4

• BREAKING CHANGE: Added new Response.contentType property. Adding "Content-Type" to the headers of a Response no longer has any effect; use this property instead.
• ManagedDataModels now scan all libraries for ManagedObject<T> subclasses to generate a data model. Use ManagedDataModel.fromCurrentMirrorSystem to create instances of ManagedDataModel.
• The last instantiated ManagedContext now becomes the ManagedContext.defaultContext; prior to this change, it was the first instantiated context. Added ManagedContext.standalone to opt out of setting the default context.
• @HTTPQuery parameters in HTTPController responder method will now only allow multiple keys in the query string if and only if the argument type is a List.

1.0.3

• Fix to allow Windows user to use liquidart setup.
• Fix to CORS processing.
• HTTPControllers now return 405 if there is no responder method match for a request.

1.0.2

• Fix type checking for transient map and list properties of ManagedObject.
• Add flags to Process.runSync that allow Windows user to use liquidart executable.

1.0.1

• Change behavior of isolate supervision. If an isolate has an uncaught exception, it logs the exception but does not restart the isolate.

1.0.0

• Initial stable release.