Changelog 2022

December 2022

New Features

Configuration Enhancements

• Added ShowAppInformation config option

• Added UseRichLogs config for enhanced logging

• Added more IVidyanoConfiguration comments for better documentation

User Rights Management

• Added OnlyGroupRights feature (#348)

• Better control over permission inheritance

Fixes

• Fixed issue when setting lazy loaded references to null

• Fixed IUpdateableLog.Append/Prepend adding extra newlines (RavenDB)

• Fixed some issues when AsDetail is used on virtual PO

• Fixed issue with SetComputedAttribute not working when using proxy entities

Maintenance

• Dropped .NET Core 3.1 support (end of life)

• Updated packages including Newtonsoft.Json security update

• Repeating jobs improvements

• GetLabel tweaks for better label handling

November 2022

New Features

.NET 7 Support (#351)

• Added .NET 7.0 support

• Take advantage of latest framework improvements

Mail Improvements

• Enhanced mail functionality

• Better email handling

User Management

• Added IUser.ToggleGroup for easier group management

Diagnostics

• Added application/json support for /diagnostics (#352, #354)

Developer Experience

• Inform administrator when application had errors or warnings at startup

• Show extra developer information on PO in management

Fixes

• Fixed issue with User/NullableUser not showing for Guid/Guid? properties

• Fixed issue when GetCollectionName returns null (RavenDB)

• Fixed text search issue when label was also used as referenced property

• Fixed issue with Azure verbose logs not supporting viAudit syntax

• Fixed issue with Web3 not triggering Manager.Initialize correctly

Maintenance

• Add dummy services for mocking/console apps

• Proxy tweaks, trust localhost by default

• RavenDB: Profiler shows when request was from cache

• MultiString and IsEmail tweaks

• ServiceLocator changes

• Improved Web3 detection

October 2022

New Features

API Enhancements

• Allow IAsyncEnumerable<> API methods

• Async streaming support for APIs

Query Features

• Added QueryResultItem.GetOriginalValue

• Better access to original data

Security

• Added Security GroupComments

• Better documentation for security groups

Management

• Added Manager.OnInitialized hook

• Handle Enum KeyValueList

Helper Methods

• Added CustomActionArgs.EnsureParent/EnsureQuery

• Easier parent and query access

Fixes

• Fixed performance issue with keeping 1 IRepositoryUserStore in memory

• Fixed issue when textsearch was replacing invalid labels

• Fixed Excel issue missing last row

• Only filter on SortExpression if it has the same property type

Maintenance

• Removed Web2Assembly support

• Handle ICollection as detail query

• IRepositoryIdDeterminer is singleton

• RequestScopeProvider is a singleton

• TypeCache lazy should use PublicationOnly instead of None

• Scoped cache for SQL user store

• Don't save security.json on startup when creating database users/groups

• Updated packages

September 2022

New Features

Report Enhancements

• Added ReportTokenGenerator

• Allow per-deployment Report tokens

• Report/Register expects User

Helper Methods

• Added DoIf conditional execution helper

• Automatic handling of SortExpression based on naming

Fixes

• IDataProtectionProvider is only needed for useDataProtection

Maintenance

• Added Manager.EnsureUserExists

• Consistent EOL for .json files

• Updated packages

• Unneeded Regex.Replace usage removed

August 2022

New Features

Excel Enhancements

• Extra Excel hooks for customization

• Better Excel export control

Helper Methods

• Added CustomQueryArgs.EnsureParent helper

• Easier parent object access

Fixes

• Fixed issue #347

• Also use POA SortExpression when filtering

Maintenance

• Security update: Bump System.Security.Cryptography.Xml (#349)

• Updated packages

• Code formatting improvements

July 2022

New Features

LookupReference Enhancements

• Added generic ILookupReference

• LookupReference.Comment support

• LookupReference implements IReadOnlyList directly

TranslatedString Features

• Added TranslatedString.FromValue

• Added TranslatedString.IsEmpty

Persistent Object Features

• Added IPersistentObjectAdvanced.ForceFromAction

• Added POA.RemoveRules and PO.RemoveAttributes overloads

Value Objects

• Easier support for split value objects

• Added SplittedValueObjectHandler by default

Caching

• Added IAdvancedSessionOperations.AggressivelyCache extension method

Fixes

• Improve error messages when ValueObject mapping fails for custom queries

Maintenance

• Use NullabilityInfoContext for .NET 6.0

• Added TotalItemArgs.OnCreated

• TypeCache changes

• TODOs and comments

June 2022

New Features

Web3 Support

• Use web3 by default

• Improved Web3 detection

• Web2Cdn improvements for Web3

Binary File Support

• Add support for BinaryFile/Image on AsDetail

• Better file handling in detail views

Date Search

• Improved date search on SQL/Raven using date ranges when possible

• Better date handling and nullable logic

Development Tools

• Added .editorconfig for consistent code style

• Use global using for project target context type

• Library logic for generators

Fixes

• Fixed issue in SystemReferenceData

• LookupReference serialization issue

• Issue with PluginManager

Maintenance

• Allow multiple FromIndex

• Removed legacy projects

• Removed unused TypeCache code

• Helper DatabaseSettings.CreateStore

• Shorten ImpersonateMessage message

• Word added extra helpers

• Tweaked NewUserArgs to use fixed Id for new user

May 2022

New Features

Navigation System

• Added NavigationHints

• More backend<>frontend information exchange about navigation

Entity Framework Core

• Fixed issue with computed attributes not being mapped

• Disable AsNoTracking()

Query Enhancements

• Added OnConstructForColumns hook

• Auto show queries when adding to PO

• Allow ExecuteQuery to pass ForReferenceAttribute

Helper Methods

• Added IAuthenticatedRequest for better nullability handling

• Better handling of generic model entities

• Helper methods on PO/POA

• PO Advanced expose Metadata

Fixes

• Fixed issues when filtering a nullable enum

• AzureStorageAccount/Container parse issue when appsetting was empty

• Show more information when KeyValueList query isn't found

Maintenance

• RavenDB: Hide unused system settings

• RavenDB: Keep existing id for reference if we can't load it

• RavenDB: Combine DB entries

• Updated packages

• Optimize use cache

• Prefer none lazy thread safety mode

April 2022

New Features

Notification System

• Introduce NotificationType.Critical

• Critical notifications support

Verbose Logging

• Added option to tweak verbose log content (replace sensitive content)

• Enable outgoing logging for specific Api call (POST/PUT/etc)

• Datadog include verbose log id

Azure Enhancements

• Use LinqTunnel attribute

• Azure improvements and TODOs

Fixes

• Include web2 cdn response status code

Maintenance

• Prefer lazy constructor with direct value if possible

• Datadog log 400 as warning instead of error

March 2022

New Features

API Enhancements

• Added BinaryFileConverter

• Added ILookupReference interface

• Added ExecuteQueryReason

Configuration

• Added IVidyanoConfiguration.ApplicationWebsiteRoot as fallback WebsiteRoot

• Added AsyncFlow.IsWeb2OrGreater

Helper Methods

• Added SetChangedValue(WithRefresh)

• Expose RepositoryVerboseLogStore.SwapResponseBodyBack

Fixes

• Handle /api call with invalid request ContentType

• Don't set new string property to "" if nullable

• Allow referenced properties from other assemblies

• Allow changed attribute names directly for UpdateCalculated

Maintenance

• Removed .NET 5.0 support

• XML comment ambiguous reference fixes

• Prefer new() calls

• Word nullability improvements

• Updated packages

• Datadog: Added Heartbeat, extended hooks (breaking change)

February 2022

New Features

Azure Storage

• Azure storage added more places to retry before failing

• Improved retry logic

Value Objects

• Added ValueObjects.PreferFullRootId

• Sample code for handling root property on value objects

API Security

• Added ApiArgs.GenerateSignedRequest helper

• Make sure we use the same logic for IsValidSignature

Fixes

• Fixed issue #314

• Fixed issue #323

• Fixed issue #325

• IExceptionService tweaks

Maintenance

• Nullability improvements

January 2022

New Features

.NET 6 Features

• .NET 6 typed headers support

• Prefer .NET 6.0 one-shot methods where possible

Azure Storage

• Added AzureStorageContainer

• Better Azure storage integration

Builder Support

• Allow TranslatedString for builder

Fixes

• Fixed ApiArgs.IsValidSignature

• Fixed issue where POA.SortExpression has other type

• RavenDB enum searching fixes

• RavenDB: Always set obj.ObjectId after storing in context

Maintenance

• IHostApplicationLifetime is a singleton

• Show extra info when IUpdatableLog is in progress

• Comments Web² vs web 3

• Performance fix Manager.GetTranslatedMessage without args

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Note: Commits marked with (test) or [skip ci] have been excluded from this changelog as they are internal testing commits.