We are happy to announce v5.03 of our popular middleware for Delphi and C++Builder.
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This release is fairly large and brings several new features:
Automatic database upgrade to match your ORM classes (please test carefully before deploying to production environments containing existing data!)
New! Template based binary parser for advanced bit fiddling
New! Detailed metadata extraction and creation on many supported databases, including SQLite, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Interbase, Firebird
New! Virtual fields and tables in ORM
New! Thread safe configuration system for easy one style read/write access to configuration files and registry.
New! Debug visualizers for kbmMWNullable and kbmMWDateTime values.
New! CHM help files with 24800+ topics.
+ Many many more additions and improvements and bugfixes for reported bugs
Please look in the end of this post for a detailed change list.
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5.03.00 Sep 16 2017
Important notes (changes that may break existing code)
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* Fixed Delphi C++ HPP generator errors related to kbmMWNullable.pas and kbmMWDateTime.pas
The changes needed to fix it for kbmMWNullable.pas unfortunately require
us to default unsupporting assigning of a variant directly to a kbmMWNullable.
However if you are using Delphi ONLY and will never use the C++Builder header files
you can add {$DEFINE KBMMW_DELPHI_ONLY} in kbmMWConfig.inc.
Then you can still assign a variant directly to a kbmMWNullable in Delphi.
The changes in kbmMWDateTime is using overloaded versions of methods
instead of using default value Math.NaN which is translated incorrectly
by the HPP emitter.
* Removed PrependTableName from all metadata classes and thus it may
error with missing property on opening forms/datamodules containing
metadata components. Ignore that specific property missing error and save.
New stuff
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– Added support for defining root type for marshalled objects. Array or Object.
– Added support for using nth next best marshalling type if primary is not registered in known types.
– Added log to AutoRegisterServices in kbmMWServer.pas
– Added support for bit values in YAML. A bit value starts with b or B and contains only 0 or 1’s
– Added support for default metadata class for database adapters. It will be used when
no explicit metadata component has been linked to the connection pool.
– Added OnLoginSuccess and OnLoginFail events to TkbmMWAuthorizationManager.
– Added support for understanding bit values in TkbmMWObjectNotation.
– Added Path method to TkbmMWONCustomObject which will take a delimited path and
traverse the tree optionally adding needed objects on the way.
– Added support for custom properties and basic properties in AMQP.
– Added support for Default date/time in TkbmMWDateTime.
– Added Reset method to TkbmMWDateTime, completely clearing its value.
– Added additional constructors to TkbmMWDateTime allowing direct timezone information.
– Added Memory2Binary and a number of BitCount methods to TkbmMWPlatformMarshal.
– Added support for reference counted data in TkbmMWAutoValue.
– Added kbmMWGetApplicationVersionInfoAsString and kbmMWBackupFile global methods to kbmMWGlobal.pas.
– Added support for specifying quote in kbmMWQuoteString and kbmMWUnquoteString.
– Added support for different start and endquote in kbmMWImplode.
– Added kbmMWDigitCount2Multiplier, kbmMWUnsignedDigitCount, kbmMWSignedDigitCount and
kbmMWExplodeFloat to kbmMWGlobal.pas, which determines metadata of a float value.
– Added kbmMWBitStringToInteger and kbmMWIntegerToBitString to kbmMWGlobal.pas
– Added overloaded Get method to TkbmMWSmartClientORM requesting dataset from server,
returned as an object/list, and providing custom arguments.
– Added overloaded RunSQL methods to TkbmMWMemSQL allowing executing SQL directly on
one or more provided TDataset sources.
– Added support for multistatement execution in TkbmMWMemSQL. Statements are separated by semicolon.
– Added support for salting initial string or byte keys in kbmMWCipherHash.pas.
– Added Clone method to TkbmMWCustomDef in kbmMWConnectionPool.pas
– Added support for detecting deleted fields in TkbmMWFieldDefs.
– Added MetaGetDef and MetaRename functions to TkbmMWCustomMetaData.
– Added significant changes to TkbmMWCustomSQLRewriter, including datatype mapping
and rewriting of numerous statement types.
– Added DefaultMetaData and CurrentMetaData properties to TkbmMWCustomConnectionPool to
allow for using kbmMW specified default metadata, alternative specific assigned on.
– Added support for piping outcome of query thru internal SQL statement as postprocessing
in TkbmMWCustomPooledDataset. Syntax: somequery <!PIPE!> somepipestatement
somequery is the query sent to the backend database. The resultset from that
is the piped thri the kbmMW SQL type somepipestatement.
Use constant KBMMW_QUERYPIPE to add pipe statement.
– Added support for mwfdctStrictPrecision and mwfdctStrictSize in TkbmMWFieldDefs.ChangedFields.
Strict indicates values must match exactly.
– Added DeletedFields, DeleteByFieldName and GetByFieldName to TkbmMWFieldDefs.
– Added additional overloaded Rewrite methods to TkbmMWCustomSQLRewriter.
– Added Terminate to TkbmMWScheduledEvent to prematurely terminate ongoing execution.
– Added Delay method to IkbmMWScheduledEvent which can be called at any time
including during execution of the said event to add additional delay to the
coming run’s of the event.
– Added support for multistatements in kbmMWSQLite.pas
– Vastly expanded TkbmMWCustomSQLMetaData.
– Added support for readonly and virtual field attribute in TkbmMW_FieldAttribute (kbmMW_Field)
– Added new TkbmMW_VirtualFieldAttribute (kbmMW_VirtualField) to indicate field
which will show up in resultset but do not exist in datastore.
– Added CreateDBDataset to TkbmMWORM which will generate a TDataset
matching the referenced TkbmMWORMTable.
– Added CompatibleTable, GetUpgradeTableStatements, UpgradeTable to TkbmMWORM which
are used for checking if a class is compatible with the underlying datastore,
and which can either directly upgrade the underlying datastore or suggest
statements to make the upgrade happen. Use with caution on production systems!
– Vastly expanded kbmSQLRewriter.pas to support metadata, indexes, new statements etc.
– Added Reset method to kbmMWNullable to reset its contents.
– Added PrettyChar to TkbmMWCustomLogFormatter to be able to selectively
choose what each byte value should display in the log.
– Added additional Warning, Error and Fatal overloaded methods to TkbmMWLog.
– Added support for property AutoSplitLines in TkbmMWStringsLogManager.
– Added support for providing HTTP related values (mwatURL, mwatHost, mwatUserAgent,
mwatHeader (named item), mwatCookie (named item) as argument in smart services.
– Added support for new kbmMWConfiguration unit which provides access to automatically
load and optionally save configurations to various storages.
Either use Config.As…. methods directly, or specify attribute
[kbmMW_Config(‘path:a.b.c.value, direction:rw’)] on any
property or field in a class.
If the class descends from TkbmMWConfigurableObject, the field/property
will automatically receive the value as defined in the Config object,
when the class is instantiated, and similarly store the value back
to the Config object when the class instance is destroyed.
Classes not descending from TkbmMWConfigurableObject can also
take advantage of the attribute. Just make sure to
call Config.ReadConfig(TValue.From(self)); or Config.WriteConfig(TValue.From(self));
for example in AfterContruction and BeforeDestruction methods of your class.
Also register your class as a kbmMW known class.
– Added support for using kbmMW_Config attribute for arguments in smart services.
– Added new unit kbmMWBinaryParser which can be used for parsing binary data
according to a custom template. Check the blogs on http://www.components4developers.com
for info.
– Added new debug visualizers for kbmMWDateTime, kbmMWNullable,
kbmMWDuration and TkbmMWAutoValue values during debug.
– Added Object Notation based stats (kbmMWONStats) unit for
registering statistics in object notation format, which
hence can be saved and loaded as any of the object notation
streaming formats.
Fixes
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– Fixed scheduler so exceptions will not stop execution threads.
– Fixed incorrect Args[0] in REST transport stream. Now correctly contains called URL.
– Fixed detection of added and changed fields in TkbmMWFieldsList, and added detailed info about differences.
– Fixed XML namespace crash issue.
– Fixed REST streamformat incorrectly double translating UTF8
– Fixed deletemessage and rejectmessage when provinding a message already tentatively
popped resulted in message not being deleted/rejected, but instead leaked.
– Fixed TkbmMWDynamicLockFreeHashArray and siblings related to deadlock (due to using
locking without escalation support for performance reasons) and due to incorrect
management of capacity of GC generations.
– Fixed potential leaks happening on exceptions in certain places in kbmMWORM.
– Fixed occational A/V due to reporting triggering memory logging.
– Fixed REST handling of returned objects (bug introduced in 5.0.2)
– Fixed DOA adapter related to LOB
– Fixed TkbmMWStringBuilder.GetLastChar which amongst others affected YAML parsing.
– Fixed scheduler clean shutdown of defined events when removing them.
– Fixed initialdelay not respected in Scheduler.
– Fixed destruction shutdown bugs in Scheduler.
– Fixed YAML null parsing bug (hazeltine).
– Fixed various parsing bugs in YAML.
– Fixed time to execute calculation in kbmMWScheduler.pas.
– Fixed string offset issues for Linux.
– Fixed IOS TkbmMWTiming timebase issues.
– Fixed A/V bug in TkbmMWDOMXMLNameSpaceList during destruction, due to
non owned namespaces.
– Fixed IBO adapter compile errors.
– Fixed Delphi C++ HPP generator errors related to kbmMWNullable.pas and kbmMWDateTime.pas
The changes needed to fix it for kbmMWNullable.pas unfortunately require
us to default unsupporting assigning of a variant directly to a kbmMWNullable.
However if you are using Delphi ONLY and will never use the C++Builder header files
you can add {$DEFINE KBMMW_DELPHI_ONLY} in kbmMWConfig.inc.
Then you can still assign a variant directly to a kbmMWNullable in Delphi.
The changes in kbmMWDateTime is using overloaded versions of methods
instead of using default value Math.NaN which is translated incorrectly
by the HPP emitter.
– Removed PrependTableName from all metadata classes and thus it may
error with missing property on opening forms/datamodules containing
metadata components. Ignore that specific property missing error and save.
– Fixed some TkbmMWORM.ExistsTable overloads incorrectly calling CreateTable.
– Fixed TkbmMWORM.ListFromDataset returning undefined value upon error.
– Added UTCAsVariant, LocalAsVariant, LocalDateAsVariant and LocalTimeAsVariant
properties to TkbmMWDateTime.
– Fixed warning at installation of designtime package related to smart service setup.
Changes/minor additions
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– Improved shutdown of transport, and scheduled events.
– Checked encryption and updated SQLite Server/Client demoes to support compression.
– Updated AMQPClient demo with sending with properties sample.
– Set AnonymousResult to default true for REST attributes.
– Improved kbmMWGetFileVersionInfoAsString to also support Android.
– Improved server side ForwardMessage, ForwardRequest, ForwardResponse when original message comes from client messaging transport.
– Improved client transport disconnect.
– Updated Metaxxxx methods on database adapters to take AOwner argument.
Typically it will be empty, but with index relations, it will hold table name.
– Improved support for providing NodeID in server side messaging transport, even
though contents is encrypted.
– Cleaned up kbmMWGlobal.pas by grouping all kbmMWTextxxxx methods as class methods in TkbmMWTextPChar,
and added similar set handling bytes as class methods in TkbmMWTextPByte.
– Improved kbmMWGetComputerName and kbmMWGetComputerModel to support additional platforms.
– Changed Save and Load methods of TkbmMWCustomStat to not take any field names.
Specialized versions of TkbmMWCustomStat will handle that.
– Improved REST streamformat marshalling.
– Improved TkbmMWClientTransactionResolver.
– Renamed TkbmMWCustomRewriter to TkbmMWCustomSQLRewriter.
– Improved stability of event execution in kbmMWScheduler.pas during exceptions.
– Optimized TkbmMWLockFreeHashArray to use generational garbage collection for
higher performance and concurrency.
– Starting to converting some utility threads (garbage collection and such) to
use be kbmMWScheduledEvent instead.
– Improved object marshalling.
– Changed default log level filter in TkbmMWCustomLogManager to [mwllBasic,mwllNormal].
– Changed default flush value in TkbmMWStreamLogManager to 0 (force each write to disk)
– Improvements added to kbmMWRTTI.pas
– Improved kbmMWDebugMemory.pas to detect when reporting is happening to avoid deadlocks.
– Enhanced TkbmMW_ArgAttribute (kbmMW_Arg) to allow for referencing specific argument index alternatively specific named argument.
