efanRelease Notes

Release Notes

v1.4.4

• New: Added Efan.renderingStack() and associated RenderingElements to inspect what's currently being rendered.

v1.4.2

• Chg: EfanEngine generates less brittle rendering code.

v1.4.0

• New: Intelligent whitespace removal.
• Chg: Overhauled and simplified the public API, mainly the advanced classes. (Breaking change.)
• Chg: Split EfanCompiler up to create EfanEngine, a good seperation of concerns. (Breaking change.)
• Chg: Renamed EfanRenderer --> EfanTemplate. (Breaking change.)
• Chg: Renamed EfanMetaData --> EfanTemplateMeta. (Breaking change.)

v1.3.8

• Chg: Updated licence to The MIT Licence.

v1.3.6

• New: using statements can be added with <%? using ... %> notation
• New: efan tags can be escaped with <%% ... %%> notation.
• Bug: Rendering null values with debug logging turned on could cause NPEs.

v1.3.4

• Chg: Added withXtraMsg() to EfanErrs so Err msgs can be appended to.
• Chg: Internal API changes for afEfanXtra.

v1.3.2

• Chg: Moved EfanRenderer.id -> EfanMetaData.templateId
• Bug: Non ASCII templates could not be compiled.

v1.3.0

• Chg: Rejigged the public efan API.
• Chg: Removed EfanRenderer.renderEfan(...). All template rendering is done via EfanRenderer.render(...).
• Chg: Nested efan templates and body functions now return a Str, so you MUST use eval tags; <%= renderBody() %>
• Chg: Massivly simplified nested component rendering by introducing a threaded EfanCtxStack.
• Chg: Added EfanRenderer.id to make debugging efanXtra a bit more humane!

v1.2.0

• New: Runtime Errs thrown while rendering report efan template code snippets and line numbers.
• New: EfanRenderer now has an efanMetaData field with more contextual information.
• New: The class name of efan renderer instances is now configurable.
• Chg: Rejigged the efan parser.
• Chg: Efan template line numbers no longer take up a whole line of code.
• Chg: EfanCompiler now returns a const EfanRenderer instance, not a rendering type.
• Chg: Exposed (made public) the EfanErr hierarchy.
• Chg: Added optional makeFunc to EfanCompiler.compileWithModel().

v1.1.0

• New: Added EfanRenderCtx to ease efan extensions.
• Chg: Updated to use Plastic.
• Chg: EfanCompiler now returns the rendering type, not an EfanRenderer instance.
• Chg: EfanRenderer is now a mixin and is implemented by the rendering type.
• Chg: renderEfan() and renderBody() are now methods on EfanRenderer.

v1.0.0

• New: Efan templates may now be nested and can optionally render their body!
• Chg: EfanCompiler wraps the generated renderer in a sane const EfanRenderer wrapper.
• Chg: Removed dependency on BedSheet - see afBedSheetEfan for BedSheet integration.
• Chg: Removed dependency on IoC, all Plastic code has been copied in to efan.
• Chg: Updated docs.

v0.0.4

• New: Hooked error reporting into afBedSheet.
• New: EfanErr now gives code snippets and line numbers of parsing and compilation errors.
• Chg: Re-factored fantom code generation.

v0.0.2

• New: Preview release.