ANN: kbmMW Professional and Enterprise Edition v. 5.04.30 released!

We are happy to announce v5.04.30 of our popular middleware for Delphi and C++Builder.

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We strive hard to ensure kbmMW continues to set the bar for what an n-tier product must be capable of in the real world!

This release fixes reported bugs and adds a number of new features:

• Support for DEFAULT column values in ORM.
• Support for kbmMW_HTTP attribute for http services.
• Lots of improvements.

Please look in the end of this post for a detailed change list.

Professional and Enterprise Edition is available for all with a current active SAU. If your SAU has run out, please visit our shop to extend it with another 12 months.

CodeGear Edition is available for free, but only supports a specific Delphi/Win32 SKU, contains a limited feature set and do not include source.

Please visit https://portal.components4developers.com to download.

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5.04.30 Nov 19 2017

        Important notes (changes that may break existing code)
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        * Renamed elements of TkbmMWSQLResolverNameCase to
          (mwncUnaltered,mwncUpper,mwncLower).
          This is a breaking change that require you to open/save all
          forms/datamodules on which metadata components are placed to avoid
          property name error issues at runtime.

        New stuff
        =========
        - Added unittest project in Enterprise Edition, testing kbmMWORM,
          kbmMWDateTime, kbmMWNullable and kbmMWConfiguration. It require
          DUnitX.
        - Added Default column value support to ORM, kbmMW_Field attribute and
          metadata/rewriters.
          A Default value is required if the field is declared not null and
          kbmMW shall upgrade the table storage automatically. Syntax example:
          [kbmMW_Field('name:fld4, unique:true, default:0',ftFloat)]
          [kbmMW_NotNull]
        - Added public List property to TkbmMWServers.
        - Added OnServiceDefinition to TkbmMWServer which is called whenever
          a service definition is created due to registration of a service using
          AutoRegisterServices.
        - Added protected ProcessCustomAttributes to
          TkbmMWCustomServiceDefinition. It allows custom service definitions to
          process attributes upon AutoRegisterServices.
        - Added Multiply operator overload to TkbmMWDateTime.
        - Added ExceptOnPersistError boolean to TkbmMWORM.
          If true, it will throw exceptions if any persist/insert/delete/modify
          fails. Else persist errors are silent.
        - Added overloaded Insert, Delete, Modify and Persist methods to
          TkbmMWORM that takes additional anonymous AFunction that will be
          called if persistence fails.
        - Changed ValuesByField procedure on TkbmMWCustomResolver to take
          additional const AWhat:TkbmMWResolverSetValues which controls which
          version of the record should have its value set.
        - Changed GetDefAsArray and GetDefAsObject of TkbmMWONObject to take
          additional argument: const AAutoCreate:boolean = true. If false nil is
          returned if no array or object is found for the property.
        - Added support for using simplified inline YAML syntax for RTTI
          settings attributes.
        - Added new kbmMW_HTTP attribute for TkbmMWCustomHTTPSmartService.
          Syntax:
          [kbmMW_HTTP('accept:[f,...], root:[c:path,...], template:[c,...],
                      mimeTypes:["BIN=application/octet-stream",...],
                      charSets:["DOC=utf-16",...])]
          where f can be unknown, get, put, head, post, delete, trace, connect,
          options, patch
          c can be html,css,script,media,other each followed by a path
          accept controls which types of operations should be accepted by the
          service.
          root controls which directory to look for the given resource type.
          template controls if a resource type should be considered a template
          and thus subject to macro replacement.
          mimeTypes add/overwrites to the existing known mimetypes.
          charSets add/overwrites to the existing charset types. Example:
          [kbmMW_HTTP('accept:[get], root:[media:"c:\someimages",
            html:"c:\somehtml"]')]
          TMyHTMLService = class(TkbmMWCustomHTTPSmartService)
        - Added properties EnabledFileCategories and EnabledFunctions to
          TkbmMWHTTPServiceDefinition.
          Controls which functions and file categories the service will handle.
        - Added SimplifiedInline:boolean (default false) property to
          TkbmMWYAMLStreamer.
          It allows for syntax like this: [ a:b, c:d ] which is not accepted
          standard YAML syntax.
          Standard YAML would write [ a:{b}, c:{b} ]. Hence simplifiedinline
          should be used with care if at all, since it is not standard YAML
          syntax and can have sideeffects.
          But it is good for kbmMW's settings attributes syntax.
        - Added ADenyWrite:boolean property to TkbmMWFilePool.Access method to
          allow better control over share rights to file handles.
        - Added overloaded HTTPResponseFromFile methods to
          TkbmMWCustomHTTPService.
          Allows for easily naming file for receiving browser and for deciding
          if to map file path or not.
        - Added SetResponseFileName to TkbmMWCustomHTTPService to define
          content-disposition, filename header field.
        - Added public property OnException to TkbmMWCustomClient. If an event
          handler is provided, any exceptions within the request operation of a
          TkbmMWCustomClient will be catched and forwarded to the eventhandler,
          else the exception will be thrown as usual.

        Fixes
        =====
        - Fixed TDateTime vs TkbmMWDateTime issues in TkbmMWServer.
        - Fixed kbmMW Database adapter wizard adding missing AOwner argument to
          API methods.
        - Fixed invalid properties in TkbmMWCustomHTTPService.dfm
        - Fixed warnings in kbmMWPassword, kbmMWHashSHA512, kbmMWHashFNV1A and
          kbmMWRandom.
        - Fixed MetaExists declaration in DBISAM3 and DBISAM4 adapters.
        - Removed explicit operator overload from TkbmMWDateTime.
        - Fixed ORM UpdateGeneratorFields issue when it was overwriting
          preassigned value of a field with generator attribute, if any other
          fields needed auto generator assistance.
        - Fixed UpdateGeneratorFields to handle update statements where original
          field with generator attribute is null.
        - Fixed WaitRuns bug in TkbmMWScheduler.
        - Fixed too early clearing ChildEvents in TkbmMWScheduler.
        - Fixed a couple of YAML parsing bugs.
        - Fixed raising exception if TkbmMWCustomFileClient errors and no
          OnAccessException is defined.

       	Changes/minor additions
        =======================
        - Changed so kbmMWGetFileSize do not require file to be exclusively
          available.
        - Renamed elements of TkbmMWSQLResolverNameCase to
          (mwncUnaltered,mwncUpper,mwncLower).
          This is a breaking change that require you to open/save all
          forms/datamodules on which metadata components are placed to avoid
          property name error issues at runtime.