Release 4.6.0

🚀 High level features (since the 4.5.0 release)

• 💥 Engines can decide if they want to handle a given URL (BasePath)
• 💥 SinkPaths config to manage no-response paths (like favicon.ico, etc...)
• 🚀 Added "multipart/form-data" support to TWiRLClient
• 🚀 Experimental [SingleRecord] to get a single record (instead of an array) from a dataset
• 🚀 Ability to retrieve the response content as an object (Response.Content.AsType)

🧰 Other features, changes and bugfixes

• ➕ Better management of client side exceptions (EWiRLClientProtocolException and EWiRLClientResourceException)
• ➕ New TWiRLContent.AsType overload to "fill" an existing object
• ➕ Resources can use absolute URLs ignoring those in TWiRLClientApplication and TWiRLClient
• ➕ Introduced arrays support for WiRLConverters
• 🛠️ Support for ISO date in WiRL.Data.Resolver
• 🛠️ Updated JWT library to v3.3.1
• 🛠️ Update Neon library to v3.0.0
• 🛠️ Updated OpenAPI library to v2.2.0
• 🪛 Fixed the attributes array parameter for message body reader and writer

WiRL Team

Release 4.5

🚀 High level features (since the 4.0.1 release)

• 🏛️ Support for Delphi 12 Athens
• 💥Support for use of class functions in IncludeIf.CustomFunction parameter to NeonIncludeAttribute. This enables the use of CustomFunction when generating OpenAPI schemas. Thanks to @veikkonurmonen
• 🚀 Experimental support for GraphQL
• 🚀 TWiRLClientResource can now read an array of datasets
• 🚀 TWiRLGarbageCollector now descend from TComponent so you can use it as Owner for other components

🧰 Other features, changes and bugfixes

• ➕ Refactoring of all conditional defines. Removed VERxxx in favor of HAS_* defines ().
• ➕ Support for lowercase headers, required for HTTP/2
• ➕ JWT verification is now optional, you can (trust!) and load JWT claims without verification (useful using external ID providers)
• ➕ Added IWiRLTuple interface and TWiRLTuple class
• ➕ Added EWiRLBadRequestException exception
• 🛠️ Better code in date conversion (to a TValue)
• 🛠️ Improvement on TBasicAuth and TBearerAuth
• 🛠️ The OpenAPI engine now uses the App's Neon configuration
• 🪛 Prevent TJSONHelper.JSONCopyFrom from duplicating pairs if they already exist on the Destination
• 🪛 Fixed a bug in the message body reader finding algorithm
• 🪛 Fixed the TWiRLSuperObjectProvider
• 🪛 Cleaning the application entities cache on shutdown
• 🪛 Fixed: HTTP method PATCH has also body

Release 4.0.1

💥 Major features (since the 🔖 4.0.0 release)

Core features

• ✨ Delphi 11 (Alexandria) support!
• ✨ Authorization-check algorithm refactoring. Now PermitAll checks against the presence and validity of the token (⚠️ possible breaking change)
• ✨ Added FireDAC custom Media Types (application/vnd.embarcadero.firedac*)
• ✨ New Garbage Collector!
• ✨ Now it's possible to "assign" objects to the Garbage Collector (injectable via [Context]) and leave the destruction of objects to WiRL

🌟 Minor features, changes and bugfixes

• ✨ Improved OpenAPI 3 support
• 🛠️ Updated swagger-ui bundle
• 🛠️ Now it's possible to have different OpenAPI configuration for different Apps

🐛 Bugfixes

• 🛠️ Removed RESTComponents package dependency
• 🐛 Fixed a bug in the MatchPath routine

Release 4.0.0

💥 Major features (since the 🔖 3.0.1 release)

Core features

• 💥 New TWiRLConvert class
• ✨ Currency support for WiRLConverter
• ✨ Added support for gzip content encoding

Client features

• 💥 Completely new WiRL client components
• ✨ Fluent-linke interface to invoke resource
• ✨ Simple syntax with generics to invoke requests
• ✨ New TWiRLClient with an API similar to TNetHttpClient
• 💥 New ClientResource Editor
• 💥 New TWiRLClientResource component editor
• 💥 New WiRLClient Debugger
• ✨ Support for client side filters
• ✨ Support for client exceptions
• ✨ Support for MessageBody Writers and Readers (WiRL Client)

Server features

• 💥 Full support for OpenAPI 3.0 document generation
• 💥 Complete Swagger UI support
• 💥 Added CORS filter and CORS app configuration
• 💥 Added Compression configuration. Now to use compression you have to configure the plugin
• 💥 New WiRL Server wizard
• ✨ Added support for PreMatchingResourceAttribute Filters

🌟 Minor features, changes and bugfixes

• ✨ Added support for gzip content encoding
• ✨ MessageBody Readers can now use existing object
• 🛠️ Better handling of HTTP calls
• ✨ Support for client parameters (QueryParams and PathParams) other than string (and bug fixes)
• ✨ Now it is possible to use TWiRLConverter with TWiRLResource (PathParam, QueryParam)
• ✨ Better support for context injection
• 🛠️ Several tests added

🐛 Bugfixes

• 🛠️ Modified params decoding to accept international floating point notation
• 🐛 Fixed memory leak on TWiRLClient using NetHttp components
• 🐛 Fixed a configuration bug on TWiRLConvert
• 🐛 Fixed an issue in TDictionary enumeration which led to the wrong composition of the URL string
• 🐛 Fixed bug #29: Parameters default is lost
• 🐛 Fixed TWiRLURL injection and a memory leak Workaround for Delphi issue: RSP-11620
• 🐛 Fixed memory leak setting JSON Schema as TJSONObject
• 🐛 Fixed memory leak in TWiRLWriterRegistry.ProducesAcceptIntersection

Release v3.0.1

This is a bugfix release

🌟 Other features, changes and bugfixes

• 🐛 Fixed bug in TWiRLAuthBasicResource.ExtractData
• 🐛 Updated Neon Packages
• 🐛 Fixed bug in Neon.Core.Persistence.Swagger.pas (TNeonSchemaGenerator must serialize directly TStream and TDataSet)

Release v3.0.0

This is a major release, with some breaking changes in the configuration area (servers, engines, & apps). Please refer to the documentation page about configuration

✨ High level features (since the 🔖 2.6.0 release)

• ✨New engine to use WiRL as a HTTP Proxy
• ✨JSONP support to help with the "Same origin policy" restriction
• 💥 Support for generic configuration
• ✨Generic configuration provided for: Auth, JWT, Neon
• ✨Support for exceptions mapping
• ✨Initial support for SuperObject

🌟 Other changes and bugfixes

• 🛠️ Batch files to build demos
• 🐛 Various improvements and bugfixes

Release v2.6.0

High level features (since the 2.5.0 release)

• Swagger documentation improved! Now generates models for all types, better tags grouping (of paths)
• Now the TPosixDaemon.Setup accept a redirection parameter
• Added support for multipart/form-data
• Added JSONP support
• Now it's possible to use RSA signed JWT tokens
• Updated submodules Libs/JWT and Libs/Neon

Other changes and bugfixes

• Various improvements and bugfixes

Comments

The next release will be a major release, with some breaking changes in the configuration area (servers, engines, & apps)

Release v2.5.0

High level features (since the 2.0.1 release)

• Using Neon Serialization Library

Other changes and bugfixes

• Various bugfixes

Release v2.0.1

High level features (since the 2.0 release)

• Added UseUTCDate as configuration for the TWiRLApplication
• TParamReader now handles boolean params
• TParamReader now handles record params (MessageBodyParam)
• License changed to Apache License 2.0
• New Demo (17) showing the use of different types of parameters

Other changes and bugfixes

• The MessageBodyReader was not "injected" before its execution
• The TWiRLObjectProvider.ReadFrom method did not take into account the serializer configuration
• TSimpleTypesMBWriter.WriteTo now handles correctly ordinal types
• In 10.3 Rio the JSON Pair enumerator if of type TJSONObject.TEnumerator
• Now all the exceptions are passed to the IWiRLHandleException Listener objects (EWiRLWebApplicationException.HandleException now it's called two times)

Release v2.0.0

High level features (since 1.0 release)

• Added complete serializer library (soon to be renamed Neon)
• Added support for Linux
• Custom engines feature for the client (Indy, NetHttp)
• Design time editors for resources, filters, writers and readers
• FireDAC delta management
• Windows service example
• Added support for redirection directly in a resource's definition
• Added support for Delphi 10.3 Rio
• Updated JWT library

Other features, changes and bugfixes

• Performance imporvement
• General bugfix