Bond v8.0.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2018-05-30 // almost 6 years ago
    • gbc & compiler library: 0.11.0.0
    • IDL core version: 3.0
    • C++ version: 8.0
    • C# NuGet version: 8.0

    gbc and Bond compiler library

    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking change The deprecated Bond Comm functionality has been removed. This includes all gbc options related to Comm and the Comm codegen templates in the Haskell library. Issue #824
    • ๐Ÿšš C++ codegen now properly generates move assignment operators. Previously, this was broken for some cases.
    • C++ codegen no longer generates checks for C++11, except for MSVC 2013 workarounds.
    • C++ codegen no longer generates data member initialization that invokes a constructor accepting Comparer for associative containers.
    • ๐Ÿšš C++ codegen can now generate copy and move constructors with an allocator argument when a custom allocator is used and --alloc-ctors is passed to gbc.
    • C++ codegen can now generate type aliases that correspond to ones in IDL when the --type-aliases flag is passed to gbc.
    • C++ codegen can now use std::scoped_allocator_adaptor for strings and containers when a custom allocator is used and the --scoped-alloc flag is passed to gbc.
    • C++ codegen now generates lazily constructed enum name-to-value and value-to-name maps. Additionally, a user-defined map type can now be provided to GetNameToValueMap and GetValueToNameMap.
    • C++ codegen now applies the --export-attribute to the ToString, FromString, ToEnum and FromEnum functions.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a bug in C++ codegen that incorrectly applied the export attribute to generic gRPC services.
    • C++ codegen now generates an allocator_type typedef for a struct when the --allocator option is passed to gbc, instead of specializing std::uses_allocator.
    • import statements can now end with an optional semicolon.
    • ๐Ÿ’ป File and directory paths on the command line, in response files, or in import statements can now use a mix of forward and backslashes. Issue #869
    • gbc is now Authenticode dual-signed with both SHA-1 and SHA-2.

    C++

    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking change The deprecated Bond Comm functionality has been removed. This includes all gbc options related to Comm and all Comm APIs and header files. Issue #824
    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking change Only versions of Boost released in the past two years (1.61 and newer) are supported. Bond will likely continue to work with older versions, but it is no longer tested with anything older than 1.61. Test coverage for Boost versions 1.61–1.66 has been improved. Issue #771
    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking change Constructors accepting a Comparer have been removed from the bond::maybe and bond::nullable types.
    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking change The bond::is_blob and bond::is_nullable traits have been removed. The blob and nullable types are not customizable, so these where never needed or used. The related functionality provided by bond::get_list_sub_type_id remains.
    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking change Removed a dangerous implicit conversion operator from bond::maybe<T> to const T&. To access a bond::maybe<T> value, use one of the bond::maybe<T>::value functions.
    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking change The nested pointer, const_pointer, reference and const_reference typedefs have been removed from bond::nullable<T>.
    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking change The Allocator (second) type parameter has be removed from bond::nullable<T> and now it is always deduced from T.
    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking change The bond::capped_allocator and related types have been moved to the bond::ext namespace and the "bond/ext" include directory.
    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking changes in Bond-over-gRPC (based on real-world use and feedback). Check the updated examples to see how to use the changed APIs.
      • The generated ClientCore and ServiceCore class templates and the Client and Service convenience typedefs have all been replaced with normal classes named Client and Service. The ThreadPool type parameter has been removed in favor of a simplified runtime representation of a Scheduler.
      • The Scheduler concept and the bond::ext::gRPC::thread_pool implementation now use operator() instead of a schedule() member function.
      • The bond::ext::gRPC::server_core class template and the bond::ext::gRPC::server convenience typedef have been replaced with the normal class bond::ext::gRPC::server.
      • The generated Client::Async* functions now accept the std::shared_ptr<grpc::ClientContext> argument as the last parameter instead of as the first. This makes is easier to omit this parameter when no context customization is needed.
      • The client callback now directly accepts bond::ext::gRPC::unary_call_result<Response> (drops the std::shared_ptr). Also the unary_call_result now exposes read-only getters rather than fields. This simplified the type that clients need to deal with.
      • The bond::ext::gRPC::wait_callback::arg_type has been removed.
      • The client_callback.h header file has been renamed to unary_call_result.h to align with its contents.
      • The bond::ext::gRPC::server_builder has been replaced by the bond::ext::gRPC::server::Start factory function which now returns a plain bond::ext::gRPC::server object and accepts service instances managed by std::unique_ptr. This properly models the lifetime requirements. Service implementations must now pass a Scheduler to the generated Service base class which is no longer default constructible.
      • The generated method reflection information no longer uses a redundant bonded<T> wrapper for input_type and result_type typedefs.
      • The bond::ext::gRPC::unary_call no longer requires bonded<T> wrapper for request type.
      • The bond::ext::gRPC::unary_call::FinishWithError has been renamed to Finish. Overloads that take a status can be used to signal an error.
      • The grpc::Status second argument has been removed from bond::ext::gRPC::unary_call::Finish. gRPC does not support sending a response with a non-OK status, so the payload was being droped anyway.
      • Fixed bond::ext::gRPC::unary_call, bond::ext::gRPC::shared_unary_call and bond::ext::gRPC::unary_call_result types to properly use void and bond::reflection::nothing instead of the bond::Void empty struct. Also removed unnecessary functions from unary_call and shared_unary_call for those cases when they are not applicable (e.g. Finish is not available when return type is nothing).
    • gRPC v1.12.0 is now required to use Bond-over-gRPC.
      • This version include a number of memory leak fixes that users of Bond-over-gRPC were encountering. Issue #810
      • This version include some Windows-specific performance improvements for loopback connections.
    • ๐Ÿ—„ The bond::ext::gRPC::wait_callback has been deprecated in favor of additionally generated client functions that return std::future.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed includes for gRPC services with events or parameterless methods. Issue #735
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a bug which would read an unrelated struct's field(s) when deserializing a base struct. Issue #742
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a bug in bond::MapTo<T>::Field that failed to pass the Protocols type parameter to bond::Apply.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a race condition when bond::ext::gRPC::io_manager::shutdown and bond::ext::gRPC::io_manager::wait are called concurrently.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a race condition during bond::ext::gRPC::unary_call destruction.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed the broken move constructor of bond::bonded<T, Reader&>.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed the move constructor of bond::value to actually move the underlying reader.
    • โž• Added the bond::blob_prolong helper function that will return a bond::blob with a copied data if the original one does not own the memory.
    • The bond::OutputBuffer::GetBuffers now can accept arbitrary STL-like containers.
    • bond::maybe<T> has been overhauled.
      • Fixed a bug that default initialized an instance of T even when a maybe held nothing.
      • Added noexcept variants of bond::maybe<T>::value.
      • Added bond::maybe<T>::emplace to construct a maybe's value in place.
      • Added various rvalue-reference and allocator-aware constructors and assignment operators.
      • Added operator==(const bond::maybe<T>&, const T&) and operator==(const T&, const bond::maybe<T>&) to compare directly to instances of T.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed an issue with the ToString, FromString, ToEnum and FromEnum functions that were previously not exported from a DLL when the --export-attribute option was passed to gbc. Issue #861
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a bug in bond::nullable<T, Alloc> where it was not propagating an allocator to T when allocator_type was not explicitly defined.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a bug in bond::make_box where const T& was not handled correctly.
    • The use of bond::check_method has been replaced with less restricting expression SFINAE checks on supported compilers. Issue #896
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a bug where bond::ext::gRPC::io_manager could cause a thread to join itself.
    • The preferred namespace for Bond-over-gRPC is now bond::ext::grpc. The previous namespace, bond::ext::gRPC, continues to work.
    • โž• Added a Windows-specific implementation of a thread pool.

    C#

    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking change The deprecated Bond Comm functionality has been removed. This includes all gbc options related to Comm and all Comm APIs, assemblies, and NuGet packages. Issue #824
    • ๐Ÿ’ฅ Breaking change The Bond.CSharp and Bond.Compiler.CSharp NuGet packages perform implicit codegen when the simplified .NET Core .csproj format is used. This breaking change does not affect projects using the classic .csproj format. Any .NET Core projects that encounter the build error "Duplicate BondCodegen items were included." and were explicitly listing BondCodegen items will either need to rely on implicit codegen or disable all implicit inclusion. To set per-item metadata, use the item update syntax. Issue #636
    • ๐Ÿ›  The C# attribute Bond.Attribute can now be applied to methods. This fixes broken codegen when attributes are used on service methods. Issue #617
    • Bond Attributes on service methods are now present on all the client overloads for the methods. Previously, just the "friendly" method had the attributes.
    • Grpc.Core v1.12.0 is now required to use Bond-over-gRPC.
      • This version include a number of memory leak fixes that users of Bond-over-gRPC were encountering. Issue #810
      • This version include some Windows-specific performance improvements for loopback connections.
    • ๐Ÿ’ป BondCodegen items will now appear in the Visual Studio 2017+ UI in .NET Core projects.
    • The .NET Standard assemblies are fully strong-name signed. Previously, they were inadvertently only public strong-name signed.
    • The .NET assemblies are now Authenticode dual-signed with both SHA-1 and SHA-2.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Fixed a bug in the codegen targets when using gbc from $PATH on macOS and Linux that prevented the C# compiler from finding the generated C# files.
    • Preview: Added preliminary support for generating types with constructors with parameters for each field. This functionality will change in the future and may be removed. Pull request #857