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release: true apache: true title: 1.3.1 date: 2023-09-12 summary: > Adds debugger, data editor and intellisense improvements along with package upgrades and bug fixes.

source-dist: - “apache-daffodil-vscode-1.3.1-src.zip”

binary-dist: - “apache-daffodil-vscode-1.3.1.vsix”

This release contains new features and fixes listed below.

New Features & Fixes

• Upgrade to Daffodil version 3.5.0.
• Use jsonc-parser when reading in JSON files, allows for the file to not be strict JSON.
• Fix bug where, when using "useExistingServer": true, some functionality would be lost.
• Fix bug where, the AskForProgramName and AskForDataName commands were not setting program and data properly.
• Debugger updates:
  • Log to console and file.
  • Allow setting the log level of the debugger.
  • Allow setting the log filepath of the debugger.
  • Change default log level from DEBUG to INFO.
  • Default log filepath is /tmp/daffodil-debugger.log.
  • Extracted debugger zip is packaged instead of the zip.
  • Binds to localhost interface vs 0.0.0.0.
  • Support JDK 17 + JAXB reflection at runtime.
  • Allow some errors to not cause the session and debugger to stop.
• Launch Wizard Updates:
  • Fix duplicate descriptions.
  • Copying configuration items inconsistent.
  • Add items for daffodil debugger log level and log filepath.
  • Fix issue where debug classpath items would linger from different configs.
• Intellisense updates:
  • Add element items: xs:pattern, xs:totalDigits, xs:fractionDigits, dfdl:property and xs:enumeration.
  • Add missing xs:restriction child elements.
  • Add missing dfdl:escapeScheme element and the escapeScheme attributes.
  • Add additional missing dfdl:format attributes.
  • Add a preceeding space if missing when auto completing an attribute.
  • Add additional missing attributes.
  • Add a space after inserting an attribute if missing.
  • Add missing attribute items dfdl:binaryBooleanTrueRep and dfdl:binaryBooleanFalseRep.
  • Add missing dfdl:newVariableInstance element, also add it as a child of the xs:appinfo element.
  • Add additional hierarchy levels to determine dfdl elements to suggest.
  • Add dfdl:element to list of suggestions for xs:element/annotation/app.
• Data Editor updates:
  • Add support for large file editing and “infinite” scrolling.
  • Added support for editing in several Data Editors simultaneously.
  • Implement Incremental Search and Replace, and Save As functionality.
  • Consolidate single-byte and multi-byte view and edit modes.
  • Values are editable in the Data Inspector.
  • Content-type discovery using Apache Tika.
  • Initial implementation of a data profiler.
  • Implement “overwrite only” mode that will keep the file size the same, even when performing operations like Search and Replace where the token sizes aren't the same.
• Add semantic highlighting for XPath expressions.
• Fix bug of TDML generation on Windows creating bad paths.
• Rename DataEditor hierarchy varibles in Launch Config:

  • From:

    "dataEditor": {
        "logFile": "${workspaceFolder}/dataEditor-${omegaEditPort}.log",
        "logLevel": "info"
    }
    

    To:

    "dataEditor": {
        "logging": {
            "logLevel": "info"
            "file": "${workspaceFolder}/dataEditor-${omegaEditPort}.log",
        }
    }
    

• Code refactoring and cleanup.
• Packaging process improvements.

Closed Issues

GitHub v1.3.1 Closed Issues