v0.3.0

Announcing the release of blogify v0.3.0

Additions

• New feature - Push server
  • Allows for sending of (currently basic) notifications and live-update messages
  • Currently implemented for getting new comments instantly without refreshing and for basic notifications
  • EventEmitter, EventSource, EventTarget
• New feature - Listings
  • Allows paginating through resources with (currently basic) filters and page support
• New feature - Pinned articles
  • Always appear on top of article listings
• New feature - Comment likes
• New feature - User biographies
• New feature - Ability to make users administrators from the webapp

Changes

• Comments now record a createdAtproperty
• Update to Angular 9
• Update to Ktor 1.3.2
• Update to Kotlin 1.3.72
• BREAKING - getMatching() has been removed ; please use queryListing() or getOneMatching()
• BREAKING - every pipeline handler / function MUST use RequestContext ; every default pipeline has been moved to use it
• BREAKING - service() has been removed ; please use repository() with a RequestContext or ApplicationContext instead

Improvements

• All reflection utilities now work on Mapped instead of only Resource
• Code cleanups
• Major UI improvements
  • Reworked light theme
  • Redesign of new-article and update-article
  • Redesign of single-comment
  • Improvements to show-article and single-article-box
• UI theme preference now sticks across visits
• Major build performance improvements
• More unit tests

Fixes

• update() now works properly
• "Keep me logged in" is now respected

v0.2.0

Announcing the release of blogify v0.2.0

Additions

• New feature - HTTPS support
• New feature - Article likes
• New feature - Follow users
• New feature - User cover picture
• New feature - Computed properties on Resource models
• New feature - Automatic update of Resource objects using propMap
• New feature - Configuration files

Changes

• User profile - Display @<username> next to name

• Article box display - Redesign

• BREAKING - uploadable files are now uploaded via /api/<resource class...>/upload/{uuid}?target={property}

• BREAKING - /api/article/{uuid}/commentCount has been deprecated in favor of the commentCount computed property in Article

• BREAKING - database handlers like fetchWithIdFromTable have been removed in favor of a direct implementation in Service

• Search index documents are now automatically generated form Resource model classes, and can be delegated to properties of their return type if the latter isn't compatible

• Bumped the version of several dependencies, resulting in significant performance improvements

Improvements

• Major UI Improvements
• Optimizations have been made to the core fetch/update engine and support for batch computing of immediately-computed properties has been added, resulting in 2x-3x performance improvements
  • The core fetch/update engine is however to be completely rewritten in a future version
• Code improvements
  • Pipelines: added pipeline utility functions, like optionalParam, fetchResource and fetchResources which allows building pipelines to be easier
  • Built-in pipelines: refactored to use utility functions, cleaned up and removed need to specify many functions at call site

v0.1.1

Fixes

• Fixed profile pictures not uploading properly because of invalid Content-Type specification in User model

v0.1.0

Additions

• Search
  • Article Search
  • User Search - Only on backend
• Form validation
• Comment count
• Markdown in comments

Improvements

• Auth on frontend
• UI improvements
• Backend fixes for static content
• Better frontend routes
• Article update actually works
• Fix security vulnerabilities

Experimental pre-release PRX4

This pre-release of blogify-core includes:

Additions

• Static content
  • Users can now have profile picture
• Markdown formatting
  • Article content can now be formatted
• Persistence of user login
• Endpoint for getting articles for user by username
  • /api/articles/forUser/{username} returns articles created by username
• Endpoint for getting user by username
  • /api/users/byUsername/{username} returns user with username: username
• Logout is now a thing

Improvements

• Major UI Improvements
• Code improvements
• User authentication works properly

Removals

• Endpoint for create user (POST /api/users) is removed. Use register (POST /api/auth/register) instead

Experimental pre-release PRX3

This experimental pre-release of blogify-core includes the following changes :

Additions

• Profile page now displays articles created by the user
• Comments are now shown and can be created on article page
• Resource slicer introduced : allows calls to resource endpoints to choose which fields they need using ?fields=<...>
  • This in turn reduces the number of subobjects necessary : Articles.Content and  User.PersonalInformation are no longer needed
• /api/articles/forUser/<uuid> : get all articles created by a certain user
• /api/comments/tree/<uuid>?depth=n: get a tree of comments from the root comment provided via UUID. Depth can be configured with the relevant query parameter.

Improvements

• Major UI improvements
• Major improvements to caching and query optimization : improves backend performance significantly
  • Call caching: resources fetched during a call are cached for the duration of the call, to avoid re-fetching them later in the same call
    • This means that almost every Service method can now take a callContext: ApplicationCall object on which it can do a cache lookup. If it is impossible to pass in a callContext, omitting the parameter uses theFakeApplicationCall object which disables caching.
• Improved documentation for various methods and classes/objects

Breaking changes

• /api/articles/content and /api/users/info are no longer supported. They should be replaced by a call to the root endpoint with a ?fields=<...> query parameter instead, as the properties they held are now held on the main object.

Internal

• Call handlers/wrappers now take an optional authPredicate parameter : this now has to be used instead of wrapping the whole call inside authenticatedBy { ... }
  • Some of those predicate parameters can now take functions that can also take a resource of the appropriate type as a parameter: this allows the predicate to verify data inside of the resource to do it's authentication

Experimental pre-release PRX2

This experimental pre-release of blogify-core includes the following changes :

Additions

• Major work on front end
• Front end SPA is now integrated and served by the Ktor server
• Authentication predicates
• Article categories
• User personal information in a separate class
• Many more ...

Fixes

• Various fixes

Experimental pre-release PRX1

This experimental pre-release of blogify-core includes the following changes :

• Basic authentication working