What's New With 6.4.0
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ColdBox 6.4.0 is more of a major than a minor release due to the amount of work we have done to bring you one of the most revolutionary features of this framework: Scheduled Tasks.
Scheduled tasks have always been a point of soreness for many developers in ANY language. Especially choosing where to place them for execution: should it be cron? windows task scheduler? ColdFusion engine? Jenkins, Gitlab? and the list goes on and on.
The ColdBox Scheduled Tasks offers a fresh, programmatic and human approach to scheduling tasks on your server and multi-server application. It allows you to define your tasks in a portable Scheduler we lovingly call the Scheduler.cfc which not only can be used to define your tasks, but also monitor all of their life-cycles and metrics of tasks. Since ColdBox is also hierarchical, it allows for every single ColdBox Module to also define a Scheduler and register their own tasks as well. This is a revolutionary approach to scheduling tasks in an HMVC application.
You can learn all about them in our two sections:
Bugs
Improvements
New Features
Fixes issues with Adobe losing App Context in Scheduled Tasks. You can now run scheduled tasks in Adobe with full app support.
When running scheduled tasks in ACF loading of contexts produce a null pointer exception
DataMarshaller no longer accepts 'row', 'column' or 'struct' as a valid argument.
Convert util to script and optimize
Add more debugging when exceptions occur when loading/unloading thread contexts
Implement caching strategy for application helper lookups into the default cache instead of the template cache.
New SchedulerService that mointors and registers application scheduled tasks in an HMVC fashion
Added out and error stream helpers to Scheduled Tasks for better debugging
newTask() method on scheduled executor to replace nameless newSchedule
New scheduler object to keep track and metrics of registered tasks
New Scheduled Task with life-cycles and metrics
New async.time package to deal with periods, durations, time offsets and so much more
Added CFML Duration and Periods to async manager so task executions can be nicer and pin point accuracy
Allow structs for query strings when doing relocations
Encapsulate any type of exception in the REST Handler in a onAnyOtherException() action which can also be overidden by concrete handlers
Add registration and activation timestamps to the a module configuration object for active profiling.
Rename renderLayout() to just layout() and deprecate it for v7
Rename renderView() to just view() and deprecate it for v7
virtual inheritance causes double inits on objects that do not have a constructor and their parent does.
onDIComplete() is called twice using virtual inheritance
New coldbox dsl => coldbox:appScheduler which gives you the appScheduler@coldbox instance
new injection dsl: wirebox:asyncManager
