What's New With 7.2.0
November 18, 2023
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November 18, 2023
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Welcome to ColdBox 7.2.0, which packs a big punch on stability and tons of new features.
A new helper has been born that assists you with dealing with Database Schema-related methods that are very common and core to ColdBox and supporting modules. This will grow as needed and be decoupled to its own module later.
hasTable()
hasColumn()
getDatabaseInfo()
getTextColumnType()
getDateTimeColumnType()
getQueryParamDateTimeType()
allApply()
error handlersThe allApply()
is great when dealing with async operations on arrays or collections of objects. However, if something blows up, it would blow up with no way for you to log in or know what happened. However, now you can pass an errorHandler
argument which is a UDF/closure that will be attached to the onException()
method of the future object. This way, you can react, log, or recover.
All scheduled tasks now have a group
property so you can group your tasks. This is now available when creating tasks or setting them manually.
You can then get the group using the getGroup()
method or it will be added to all task metadata and stats.
everySecond()
periodA new period method shortcut: everySecond()
. Very useful so you can fill up your logs with data.
All task results, if any, are now stored in a ColdBox Optional. Which is a class that can deal with nulls gracefully and it's very fluent:
A container object which may or may not contain a non-null value. If a value is present, isPresent()
will return true
and get()
will return the value. Additional methods that depend on the presence or absence of a contained value are provided, such as orElse()
(return a default value if value not present) and ifPresent()
(execute a block of code if the value is present). See https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Optional.html
New method to get the last result, if any, from a task via the getLastResult()
method.
Lot's of great new methods and goodies so you can deal with date and times and timezones Oh My!
now( [timezone] )
getSystemTimezoneAsString()
getLastBusinessDayOfTheMonth()
getFirstBusinessDayOfTheMonth()
dateTimeAdd()
timeUnitToSeconds()
validateTime()
getIsoTime()
toInstant()
toLocalDateTime()
parse()
toLocalDate()
getTimezone()
getSystemTimezone()
toJavaDate()
duration()
period()
If in your binder you declare aspects or AOP bindings. Then WireBox will automatically detect it and load the AOP Mixer listener for you. You no longer have to declare it manually.
You can now configure CacheBox by just passing a struct of CacheBox DSL config data:
https://cachebox.ortusbooks.com/configuration/cachebox-configuration
You can now configure LogBox by just passing a struct of LogBox DSL config data:
https://logbox.ortusbooks.com/configuration/configuring-logbox
When you declare categories in LogBox you usually choose the appenders to send messages to, but you could never exclude certain ones. Now you can use the exclude
property:
You now have two new event listeners that all LogBox appenders can listen to:
preProcessQueue( queue, context )
: Fires before a log queue is processed element by element.
postProcessQueue( queue, context )
: After the log queue has been processed and after the listener has slept.
processQueueElement
receives the queueThe processQueueElement( data, context, queue )
now receives the entire queue as well as the queue
third argument.
If you use the RollingFileAppender
the default layout format of the archive package was static and you could not change it. The default is:
Now you have the power. You can set a property for the appender called archiveLayout
which maps to a closure/UDF that will build out the layout of the file name.
The full release notes per library can be found below. Just click on the library tab and explore their release notes:
COLDBOX-1248 Scheduled tasks now get a `group` property so you can use it for grouping purposes
COLDBOX-1252 New `now()` method in the DateTmeHelper with optional TimeZone
COLDBOX-1253 New datetimehelper method: getSystemTimezoneAsString()
COLDBOX-1256 New ScheduledTask helper: getLastResult() to get the latest result
COLDBOX-1257 LastResult is now a cbproxies Optional to denote a value or not (COMPAT)
COLDBOX-1258 new scheduledTask method: isEnabled() to verify if the task is enabled
COLDBOX-1259 Complete rewrite of Scheduled Task setNextRuntime() calculations to account for start end running scenarios
COLDBOX-1260 new ScheduledTask period : everySecond()
COLDBOX-1262 New SchemaInfo helper to help interrogate databases for metadata
COLDBOX-1263 Add an errorHandler to the allApply method so you can attach your own error handler to each future computation
COLDBOX-1246 casting to long instead of int when using LocalDateTime and plus methods to avoid casting issues.
COLDBOX-1247 Do not expose restful handler exception data unless you are in debug mode
COLDBOX-1250 RestHandler.cfc should catch NotAuthorized exception
COLDBOX-1254 getFirstBusinessDayOfTheMonth(), getLastBusinessDayOfTheMonth() now refactored to the dateTimeHelper
COLDBOX-1255 validateTime() is now a helper method in the DateTimeHelper
COLDBOX-1261 Migration of old tasks to new task syntax of task()
COLDBOX-1241 Scheduled Task Stats "NextRun", "Created", "LastRun" Using Wrong Timezones
COLDBOX-1244 onSessionEnd Error when using Coldbox_App_Key
COLDBOX-1245 Scheduled task isConstrainted() on day of the month was calculating the days in month backwards
COLDBOX-1251 set next run time when using first or last business day was not accounting times