Hello,

New release, new newsletter for developers! for your information, the Simplicité platform version 4.0 P23 Release Candidate has been made available on the Git branch pre-version of the template and as a beta Docker image.

if no questions and/or blockages are raised by 01 May 2019, this version will be considered as the P23 release version.

Thank you in advance for your help in the final validation process of this version.

[This email is a selection of the most important new features of the P23, it does not include the “fixed”. All the changes of this release are available on the dedicated page.]

What’s new in the user interface?

  • Refactored code editor for responsive UI with new features:
    • Drag and drop tabs

    • Go to object definition

Module/Object/Sources explorer on left side

  • Files compare when source has changed on server side

    • Save all tabs.
    • SVG modeler
      • implements bridges on links
      • remove dead links during a full reloading
      • ensure the context menu to be visible
      • context menu of enum field: list values and copy code to clipboard.
    • Load moment.js on startup (to be used in front constraints)
    • Link on group-by functional key to open the reference form
    • Allows creation of referenced object during a screenflow (on activity create or update)
    • Added lookup on search form to help user to select a referenced object
    • Forbidden fields are now supported in template editor
    • Floating pagination bar on list
    • Modules filtering on repository
      • new button on header for designers to limit modules visibility
      • some objects are not filtered for global reasons (system parameters, users, responsibilities)
      • applies on UI objects only (tmp or batch instances are not filtered)
      • stored in MODULE_FILTER for each user
    • HTMLTool.getCrosstabURL(obj, inst, crosstab) is now wrapped to responsive crosstab
    • Column size optimization on edit list (boolean, date… to fit the field length and not large 200px by default)
    • Navigation to related object on N,N link with pillbox rendering
    • Workflow supports now filtering on joined fields in search activity
    • Keep alive the session on form, edit list and editor (to avoid server-side inactivity and logout during update)
    • Added 2 renderings on Integer and Float:
      • Number :no spacing, ex ‘2019’
      • Monetary : same as default display with thousands separator, ex ‘1,234,567.89’ (english) or ‘1 234 567,89’ (french)
    • Refresh badge counter on tab when user make searches
    • Added trigger ui.loaded to customize UI when engine is loaded but before the home page rendering
    • New field translation template
      • Optimistic timestamp: propose to user to discard or override changes in case of ERR_UPDATED message
    • 3 view modes of internal object are now supported as ui.showViews parameter:
    • vertical tabs (default)
    • horizontal tabs
    • extended panels = split
    • collapsed and accordion are not supported
  • Template editor allows to add a joined field of referenced object
  • Hack to ensure datetime and enum picker visible on edit list
  • No sub-menu when domain contains only one item (home page, workflow, internal or external object)
  • USE_SEARCH_INDEX=no is now supported to remove the search-box on header
  • LOADING_PAGE: customizable HTML resource for the responsive disposition

  • New edit mode on list with all CRUD features:
    • Append multiple new records
    • Update the selected rows
    • Delete records if granted

Save globally the changes

  • TreeView supports now reflexive links
  • New tree rendering on child list when object has a reflexive link

New system icons to better identify features within the platform.

Changes in the “core” of the platform

  • Added optional physical foreign key constraints generation, for those who need them, using the GENERATE_SQL_CONSTRAINTS system parameter (defaults to no)
  • Added support for OAuth2/OpenIDConnect login_hint argument used to suggest a login to the identity provider
  • Added Apache Maven repository endpoint to expose the Simplicite API jar refered in the pom.xml of the modules’ Git repository (the repository is a Snapshot repository for non released patch levels PXXb and a release repository for released patch levels PXX)
  • Added support for passing the API token as the _x_simplicite_authorization_ URL parameter when using the HTTP header is not possible
  • Added support for legacy Swagger v2 format for REST API publication (previously only OpenAPI v3 was supported)
  • Added errors definitions in OpenAPI and Swagger v2 schemas
  • Added RESTServiceExternalObject subclass of ExternalObject dedicated to REST webservices implementation
  • Added PDFDocumentExternalObject subclass of ExternalObject dedicated to PDF documentation implementation
  • Added ExcelDocumentExternalObject subclass of ExternalObject dedicated to Excel® documentation implementation
  • Support Java hook compilation with tomcat libs (HttpSession…) not only webapp libs
  • Added business object pooling mechanism for the API endpoint for better handling of massive concurrent calls
  • Show errors of LESS compilation during compilation on screen (not only in logs)
  • New object hook getSocialShareData to customize share data
  • Added post init platform grant hook (postPlatformInit)
  • Export list to Excel using POI: format float + rendering of currency (euro and dollar)
  • build/dynamic.jar as been deleted for isolation reasons
  • Generate one dynamic JAR per module (containing module classes and sub-classes only) in build/module-<name>-<version>.jar
  • Added support for multiple authentication methods and multiple identify providers (e.g. 2 Oauth2 providers and 3 SAML providers)
  • Added support for SQL shared code in editor and GIT export
  • XML and CSV export/import use fullinput of fields (old syntax with input tag is still supported but deprecated)
  • DOC_DIR can be changed dynamically
  • from BLOB to disk (dbdoc or absolute path) with documents serialization from m_document to disk
    from physical path to BLOB with full import into table m_document
    in case of a path renaming, designer will have to move the dbdoc directory manually
    Added a field help on list column (to explain the field definition), the previous help is used on form (to explain input rules)
  • Allows to override the placeholder in object field
  • Non-blocking timestamp to allows update even if the timestamp has changed (previous timestamps are still optimistic)
  • Actions ordering in object
  • Added configurable URI-rewriting mechanism (using the URI_MAPPING system paramteter)
  • Compatibility with JDK 11
  • Added Syntax validation for System Objects:
  • Activated by setting SYNTAX system param to true and adding a prefix at module level.
  • Available for Objects, Functions, Groups, Domains and Actions
    Added a reOrderObjectFields method on ObjectInternal for automatic ObjectField organization and ordering.
  • Added module action to generate a module documentation Markdown object
  • FieldArea icon codes can be evaluated as expressions, for example to refer to the icon of an object [EXPR:[OBJECT:MyObject].getIconCode()]
  • Added a field property to link the end date field with the start date to check the period validity (example Responsibility between rsp_start_dt and rsp_end_dt)

Fixes bugs

  • Fixed JSON content case in publication webservices (a JSON was encoded as a JSON string which was less convenient, now it is added as plain JSON)
  • Fixed pivot table & treeviews in OpenAPI schemas
  • Fixed filter not in and not like on field
  • Fixed menu in case of inheritance of states model
  • Fixed SAX parser with chunks concatenation
  • Fixed diff module with XML file and patch generation
  • Fixed createLink on copy
  • Fixed names of module publications
  • Fixed user-key unicity in case of warning during preValidate
  • Fixed copy of object in a state with read-only fields
  • Fixed sub-classes have been added to JAR modules
  • Fixed group-by count on PostgreSQL
  • Fixed postgreSQL checkColumn and checkTable
  • when DIRECT_TRANSACTION=yes
  • Fixed SVG image data URI on chrome (72.0.3626.81) and firefox (64.0.2)
  • Fixed show badge filter of hidden field on list
  • Fixed show field on reference picker when only visible on list
  • Fixed populate the file name on document
  • Fixed reset selected ids on panel when parent object has changed
  • Fixed indexsearch with context to call initRefSelect
  • Fixed a potential stack overflow at startup happening in some particular cases (after loading broken/incomplete configuration modules for instance).
  • Fixed missing inline and timestamps options on XML/ZIP object export
  • Fixed document JSON structure (missing name)
  • Fixed parent object during creation on list
  • Fixed default URL of change password alert
  • Fixed stackoverflow when linking list to itself