Release Notes 2021-06-21
Version Information
OpenEdge Release | Version Information |
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11.7.7, 11.7.8, 11.7.9, 12.2, 12.3 | Release 11.7 #66501@2021-06-21 |
OpenEdge 12.3 support!
We are pleased to announce that we are not aware of any issues using the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 12.3. We hereby declare OpenEdge 12.3 fully supported for the SmartComponent Library as of the release of November 24th 2020.
OpenEdge 12.2 support!
We are pleased to announce that we are not aware of any issues using the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 12.2. We hereby declare OpenEdge 12.2 fully supported for the SmartComponent Library as of the release of April 09th 2020.
.NET Framework Version 4.7
.NET 4.7 is not supported with OpenEdge 11.x, see: Is .NET 4.7 certified and supported for OpenEdge?
Progress has reported severy issues with OpenEdge GUI for .NET and .NET 4.7: GUI .Net Application crashes after .Net upgrade to 4.7
When using the .NET Framework 4.7, please make sure, you upgrade to OpenEdge 11.6.4 or OpenEdge 11.7.2 or later. Also, it may be required to recompile the application on a PC running .NET Framework 4.7 when applications are also executed on a PC with .NET Framework 4.7.
Introducing the SmartComponent Library developer forum
Got questions about using the SmartComponent Library? Wish to discuss feature requests with other users of the SmartComponent Library? To facilitate networking in the growing number of SmartComponent Library users and developers, we've added a developer forum on our new home-page. The developer forum can be found at: https://www.consultingwerk.com/support/forum
A login is required to participate in the forum. Don't be shy - create your account today!
Release Notes
Following the release of the OpenEdge 11.7 Release we have completed our testing of the SmartComponent Library on this release of Progress and are proud to announce formal support for the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 11.7 with the 2017-04-24 release of the SmartComponent Library. Generally we recommend customers on OpenEdge 11 to upgrade to OpenEdge 11.7 quickly. Starting the 2017-07-14 release we are supporting OpenEdge 11.7 Service Pack 1 (11.7.1).
Starting the 2015-10-09 release the Business Entity Designer will feature a start page with links to most recent release note articles on this site.
With SCL-751 we have adopted native Enums for OpenEdge 11.6. To activate this feature customers must add a definition to products.i. SCL-751 provides details for this.
With SCL-1113 we have modified the templates for SmartWindowForms and SmartTabFolderPages generated from the Business Entity Designer. We have removed the initialization of the viewer controls SmartTableIOState property (value was set to "NoDataSource" within the InitializeComponent method). Customers using their own set of templates should adopt the same fix to their templates.
OpenEdge 11.7.3 compatibility
During our tests on OpenEdge 11.7.3 we have experienced the following issues:
- [SCL-2216] - 11.7.3 Visual Designer disabling properties of ABL user controls
The issue has been resolved by Progress Software with hotfix 007 for OpenEdge 11.7.3.
OpenEdge 11.7.2 compatibility
During our tests on OpenEdge 11.7.2 we have experienced two issues:
- [SCL-2007] - Correct support for WebHandler in CcsServiceManager
- [SCL-2008] - Closing SmartWindowForm causes crash on OpenEdge 11.7.2
We consider it mandatory for customers using OpenEdge 11.7.2 to use at least the release #44166@2017-11-27 of the SmartComponent Library.
Due to an fix for
- [SCL-1924] - SmartViewerControl: copy mechanism cannot cope with clob datatype
from Progress Software for in OpenEdge 11.7.2.001 we further recommend all customers to apply this hotfix as well.
New Versions of Proparse .NET Assemblies (30 December 2018)
We have updated proparse with further enhancements in this release (see https://github.com/consultingwerk/proparse/releases/tag/4.0.1.1177). Please download the .NET Assemblies ZIP file from our ESD and replace the proparse.net.dll in your environment with the latest one. The new assembly reference is:
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As proparse is used by our Business Entity Generator, this new version of the proparse.net Assembly is also relevant for customers not doing GUI for .NET development and require support for parsing new ABL language constructs.
This version of proparse provides additional debug information when errors are thrown from proparse.net.dll.
New Version of the Consultingwerk.SmartComponents Assemly (09 January 2019)
To support the new SmartFilterControl and the "Filter" link between the SmartFilterControl/SmartDynamciFilterControl and a SmartBusinessEntityAdapter or SmartDatasetChildAdapter we have updated the Consultingwerk.SmartComponents.dll. The new Assembly reference is:
<assembly name="Consultingwerk.SmartComponents, Version=2.2.0.49856, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=10603cb31df311b3"/>
Customers need to update this Assembly in order to compile the latest releases of the SmartComponent Library.
Hybrid Realm now using IAuthenticationService
We've updated the SmartHybridRealm class used for http authentication to leverage the IAuthenticationService. It is therefor required that for AppServers requiring http Authentication (e.g. REST or Web) the correct IAuthenticationService implementation is registered (using service.xml files).
Customers relying on the previous behavior should ensure that the Consultingwerk.SmartFramework.Authentication.AuthenticationService is regsitered as the IAuthenticationService. This implementation will auhtenticate users against the password stored in the SmartUser database table.
When users with no Login Company set should be able to login using the SmartHybridRealm, it's required to set the Login Company Tennant Domain (similar to the field in the Login Company Maintenance) in the .restapplicationsettings / .applicationsettings, e.g.:
"DefaultAuthenticationDomain": "consultingwerk" |
This is required as the Hydrid Realm Interface from Progress does not provide the domain name to the authentication method.
Web Handler overview
This is an overview of the web handlers supported by this release
defaultHandler=OpenEdge.Web.CompatibilityHandler handler1=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CatalogWebHandler: /Catalog/{EntityName} handler2=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CatalogsWebHandler: /Catalogs/{PackageName} handler3=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CountWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/count handler4=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.ResourceSubmitWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/SubmitData handler5=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.InvokeMethodWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/{MethodName} handler6=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.ResourceWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName} handler7=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.BusinessServicesWebHandler: /BusinessServices/{OutputFormat}/{PackageName} handler8=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMenuWebHandler: /SmartMenu/{MenuStructureId} handler9=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMenuStructureWebHandler: /SmartMenuStructure handler10=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartRoutesWebHandler: /SmartRoutes handler11=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{EntityName}/{ViewName}/{DetailTemplate} handler12=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{EntityName}/{ViewName} handler13=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{CustomViewName} handler14=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartViewerWebHandler: /SmartViewer/Viewer/{EntityName}/{ViewName} handler15=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartViewerWebHandler: /SmartViewer/Viewer/{ObjectName} handler16=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartFormWebHandler: /SmartForm/{FormTemplate}/{EntityName}/{ViewName} handler17=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartFormWebHandler: /SmartForm/{FormTemplate}/{ObjectName} handler18=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMessageWebHandler: /SmartMessage/{MessageGroup}/{MessageNumber} handler19=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.GetImageWebHandler: /Image/{FileName} handler20=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartValueListWebHandler: /ValueList/{ValueList} handler21=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartAttachmentsWebHandler: /Attachments/{Table}/{KeyValues} handler22=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartAttachmentWebHandler: /Attachment/{Guid} handler23=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SessionContextWebHandler: /SessionContext handler24=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ContextPropertiesWebHandler: /ContextProperties/{PropertyName} handler25=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ContextPropertiesWebHandler: /ContextProperties handler26=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SessionInfoWebHandler: /SessionInfo handler27=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.FileSearchWebHandler: /FileSearch/{FileName} handler28=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ExecuteAblWebHandler: /ExecuteAbl handler29=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartLanguagesWebHandler: /Languages handler30=Consultingwerk.OERA.RestResource.RestEntitiesWebHandler: /Entities handler31=Consultingwerk.OERA.Swagger.SwaggerWebHandler: /Swagger/{EntityName} handler32=Consultingwerk.OERA.Swagger.SwaggerRestEntitiesWebHandler: /SwaggerEntities/{OutputType} handler33=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTokenSecurityCheckWebHandler: /TokenSecurityCheck/{ObjectName} handler34=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTokenSecurityCheckWebHandler: /TokenSecurityCheck handler35=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartEntityTableMappingHandler: /EntityTableMapping/{EntityName}/{TableName}/{UiTypeCodes} handler36=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTreeRootNodeWebHandler: /SmartViews/TreeRootNode/{rootnodeid} handler37=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTreeChildNodesWebHandler: /SmartViews/TreeChildNodes/{parentnodeid} handler38=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartSecurityCheckWebHandler: /IsRestricted/{SecurityRealmCode}/{SecurityItemGuid} handler39=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartFieldSecurityCheckWebHandler: /RestrictedFields/{TableName} handler40=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.GetImageNamesHandler: /ImageNames |
UTF-8 based deployments available
Starting August 14th 2016 we ship our source code also as UTF-8 encoded. The ZIP files ending with _utf8.zip contain the source code encoded with that code page. The source code in the remaining archives is still encoded in ISO8859-1. Also on Github there is a new branch containing the OpenEdge 11 based source code in UTF-8.
Related article (Progress K-Base): How to get Progress Developer Studio to save in UTF-8 encoding
New Feature Documentation
- Support for RESTful invocation of Business Task and Business Entity Methods
- Invalid Proparse code-page setting corrupts temp-table field labels during "Refresh from Include"
- Generic Factory Service
- Using Invokable Business Entity Methods with Dataset Model Classes
- Using the Business Entity method FetchDataByKeyTable
- PASOE management scripts
- Business Entity Designer Launcher
- Searching data using ROWID's within the SmartBusinessEntityAdapter
- Business Entity Count Method
- SmartFramework ERD Designer
- Changes to the SmartDB and SmartDB upgrade and migration utility
- How to implement dynamic initial values
- How do I control the amount of details provided for error messages caused by our web handler
- Using custom log entry types
- Strong-typed Query Support
- Swagger REST API Documentation for RESTful Services
- Swagger REST API Documention for JSDO Generic Service
- Scaffolding utility for common helper classes
- RESTful services
- JSON Configuration File Format
- Common Component Specification (CCS)
Download Link
http://esd.consultingwerkcloud.com/
https://github.com/consultingwerk/SmartComponentLibrary
Overview of included tickets
Bug
SCL-3403 Fixed missing SmartSupportedInstanceObject record in deployment to customer
Description:
We have resolved an issue with missing data in our deployment. The missing data was preventing a customer to add an dockable pane instance to a repository based form.
Improvement
SCL-3393 Enhanced QueryString error message
Description:
We have enhanced the error message raised when the Data-Source query of a DataAccess class cannot be processed to include the name(s) of the Data-Source buffers along with the client's request query string, source-default query and prepare-query string.
SCL-3398 Implemented further options when SmartBusinessEntityAdapter submits changes
Description:
We have added the new event BeforeSubmitChangesToBackend with the event args class BeforeSubmitChangesToBackendEventArgs to the SmartBusinessEntityAdapter class.
This event is raised before the SmartBusinessEntityAdapter submits changes to the backend. Through properties of the event arg a developer can control:
- cancelling the submit operation
- sending the request to a different class name (e.g. a Business Task instead of the Business Entity), and/or a different method
- sending the complete Dataset from the client to the backend, instead of changes only
SCL-3400 Improved ServiceInterface invokable method and business task invocation
Description:
The Service Interface InvokeMethod and InvokeTask (dynamic-invoke-workaround.i) use
oMethod = AblReflectionHelper:GetInvokableMethod (oBusinessEntity:GetClass(), pcMethodName, 1) .
to determine the method reference in the Business Services based on the number of dataset parameters. This was a rather expensive method, as it's using a GenericList to retrieve all methods with the given name first.
We have be improved the AblRefectionHelper to return the method without relying on AblReflectionHelper:GetMethodsByName.
SCL-3401 Implemented JsonSerializable support for Progress.Lang.Enum properties
Description:
Previously our JsonSerailizable class supported serialization of properties that are of a native Enum type - however not serialization of properties defined as the class Progress.Lang.Enum. For those we now serialize the value as
"EnumTypePackage.EnumTypeClass:EnumMember"
This allows for deserialization as we know the enum member type as well. The serialization of Properties defined as actual Enums has not changed. Those will be serialized just by the Enum member name.
SCL-3402 Added new method to GenericDictionary that retrieves an item by the key without failing
Description:
We have added a new method to the GenericDictionary classes. The new method GetItemOrUnknown retrieves an item from the dictionary by the key. Difference to the classic GetItem method is that it does not fail when the key is not a valid key in the dictionary.
This can speed up applications that otherwise would have to call ContainsKey and then GetItem to avoid an error being thrown.
SCL-3404 Exposing launch once/multiple to angular clients through Menu structure
Description:
The maintenance of menu-functions for the Angular user interface now contains a new property that controls if a form should be launched only once or multiple. This information is also returned with the menu structure to the client.
SCL-3414 Add support for OpenEdge 12.4 to ProVersion Enum, Business Entity Designer config and CLI tools
Description:
In preparation for the release of OpenEdge 12.4 we have added support for OpenEdge 12.4 to the ProVersion Enum, the batch scripts launching various command-line utilities and the Business Entity Designer launcher configuration.
New Feature
SCL-3394 Rename/move utility for Class Files
Description:
We have implemented a new class that supports rename and move operations for class files: Consultingwerk.Studio.Refactor.RenameMove
This class has two public methods: RenameClass and MoveClass. Those methods accepts the .cls file name of a class and the new class name (for rename class) or the new .cls file name (for moving).
THe utility will refactor the class name and package in the classes source code and move/rename the .cls file.
The utility is based on recent modifications to the proparse.net.dll and thus requires Version 4.1.0.1220 of that assembly.