Lift Framework 3.0-M6
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This release features a good bit of cleanup from the previous one. It's been a busy
few months for the committers so the work is mostly in targeted improvements and
bug fixes:
Improvements
- (#1706) Thanks to @chriswebster, an up to 90% performance increase in JSON
serialization forlift-json
! - (#1693)
ParamFailure
now behaves more correctly with~>
. That operator, when
used on aFailure
, returns aParamFailure
with the passed parameter, while
preserving the rest of the originalFailure
's information. Before, invoking~>
with
a parameter on aParamFailure
would replace the existing parameter with the new
one, thus losing the previous parameter altogether. Now, we produce a copy of the
ParamFailure
with the new parameter, but we chain the previousParamFailure
to it so that it the original parameter is still accessible. - (#1698) Lift 3 sessions allow an actor proxy for client code to be created via
serverActorForClient
. This release includes some new setup configuration
when creating those actors, like providing setup and teardown functions as well
as ways to convert from application messages into client JS content. - (#1701) There is now a
LiftRules.attributeForRemovedEventAttributes
. When
Lift strips event-related attributes (e.g.onclick
,onsubmit
, etc), if this rule is
set to aString
, it will tag the element whose event attributes were removed
with the attributes that were removed. For example, setting it toSome("data-lift-removed-attributes")
might result in adata-lift-removed-attributes="onclick onmouseover"
attribute
in your HTML if that element had its click and mouseover event handlers moved
into page-specific JS. This allows you to make styling decisions based on these
attributes, if you want to. See the rule documentation for more. - (#1705) Until now,
jsonCall
would fail silently on both client and server if the
submitted data from the client wasn't valid JSON. Now, it will log (at anERROR
log level) on the server if invalid JSON is sent. Whether this log info will be printed
or not is configurable using usual logger configuration. - (#1709) You can now register to find out when a function owner no longer has
available functions bound in a session. Function owners typically (though not always)
correspond to server-side functions bound or a page rendering (e.g., form fields).
These usually expire ~2 minutes after the user is no longer on the page, but until
now there was no way to find out that a given page was no longer “in scope”. In
certain cases, that could be interesting to clean up page-related temporary assets
or resource allocations. We now provideLiftSession.onFunctionOwnersRemoved
,
which can be set during application startup so that any new sessions can register
those listeners. @andreak posted an excellent example of how they are using this
on the mailing list.
Bug Fixes
- (#1694) When generating post-page JavaScript (mostly used by Wiring), there
were some cases where null pointer exceptions could be thrown. These should
be gone. - (#1692) When binding
onclick
to an element that had anhref
, the new code
that extracts event handlers into page-specific JS was failing to bind the click
handler. This is now fixed, as is a related bug where elements that didn't need
handlers still had a random id assigned to them. - (#1677) When sending messages to comet actors before they are created (via
LiftSession.sendCometActorMessage
), they would arrive in reverse order.
This is now fixed, and the first message sent usingsendCometActorMessage
arrives first. - (#1703) When we moved away from
bind
, the CSS bindings inProtoUser
that checked password changes were incorrect, in that they never saw the
user having submitted two versions of the same password. This is now fixed,
and the change password stuff provided byProtoUser
is now correct.