1.0.0-Beta25

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Release notes - BoxLang - 1.0.0-Beta25

Improvement

BL-682 Method does not expect a return value

BL-706 Add missing controls for session cookie

BL-760 Add line number information to bytecode generated with ASM

BL-766 Make ASM default/only stock boxpiler

BL-784 Update all replaceAll() as much as possible with pre-compiled patterns

BL-787 Consolidate logging startups and configuration for servlets and non-servlets

BL-788 Implement this.componentPaths for implicit mapping support

BL-791 Support `enabled` in the boxlang.json for modules so they can be enabled or disabled and remove `disabled` double negative

BL-809 Create Forms Module

BL-812 Allow re-assignment of scope to a struct

BL-822 prefix IClassRunnable methods to avoid collisions

BL-830 Add defensive coding for module unloading in case they fail, so the runtime can gracefully shutdown.

BL-831 struct collectors not returning IStruct but Struct

BL-838 Add generic casting to all global service methods so method chaining is possible and cleaner syntax

BL-839 Add a way for module class loaders to be able to delegate the location of certain parent classes to the parent ONLY, espeically for logging

Bug

BL-495 ACF arraySlice shorthand not supported

BL-694 Fix tests that fail when using ASM

BL-732 structsort with callback errors

BL-742 Cleanup ASM tests that aren't passing

BL-759 BoxLang debugger not able to read source maps from child VM

BL-762 testbox fails running with asm flag

BL-807 Java BoxPiler not correctly escaping all characters in string literals

BL-813 local scope in thread context lookup not working

BL-815 this.javaSettings is not accounting for mappings

BL-817 Missing visibility on module service functions

BL-818 Child with three levels of inheritance and no constructor on the child: init args calling super.init() on grandparent with without args re-calls parent with empty args.

BL-819 Cannot parse `MMMM d yyyy HH:mm` format in compat

BL-820 DecodeBinary fails to Decode JWT prefix created by jwtCFML

BL-821 this.timezone in Application.bx/cfc is not being promoted to request-level config setting

BL-823 cfquery with final unquoted attribute value parse error

BL-824 isJSON returns false negative when content contains Java Regex escape characters

BL-825 DateConvert utc2Local and local2utc should be opinionated about zone when input contains no zone information

BL-826 Coldbox CacheBox Reaping Tasks fail with NullPointerException

BL-827 BOM not being stripped on fileRead, which causes issues parsing JSON files with

BL-834 Dump Top Updates will not dump certain classes without a top argument, top shows as reached for subsequent dumps

BL-835 Defensive coding when doing getConfig() overrides in request box context from Application settings

BL-836 When `include` is called within function, the UDFs in the mixin are not present.

BL-840 GetSystemSetting BIF is overriding Coldbox Env function and producing different results

BL-841 Stack frames in console output are outputting HTML entities.

BL-845 Transformers unecessary creating new script contexts for doing interface implementations, this was old code still left but broke all orm and context class loaders

New Feature

BL-94 Create query of queries support

BL-121 createObject() classloading arguments

BL-310 Spread operator

BL-311 Implement Array Destructuring assignment

BL-699 Schedulers now have a startupTask( task ) to dynamically startup a task by name or task object

BL-749 Modularize the JavaBoxPiler so we can have ASM as core

BL-794 Add json encoder for json based logging to all appenders and root

BL-828 scheduler logs are now being reported

BL-829 modules logs are now being used

BL-832 onConfigurationLoad new event life-cycle for IServices

BL-833 compat assignments need to "see" null variables

BL-843 Move defaultCache to the caches section as default, verify it exists, else create it anyways

BL-846 New logging setting: statusPrinterOnLoad for much needed debuging of the logging configs

Task

BL-217 ColdBox Test Suite

BL-220 Quick Test Suite

BL-548 Parser performance and removing ambiguity

BL-767 CFcasts Suite

BL-837 UnleashSDK Certification

Story

BL-237 Phase II : Update all the toAST() methods to the new and consolidated approach

BL-238 Phase III : Performance tests for phase I + II toolchains

BL-239 Phase V : Create the QoQ SQL grammar, parser, and ast