CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

v7.5.1 (2024/12/16)

• add possibility to provide a default value to method arguments that will be used by a FlowRunner

v7.5.0 (2024/11/29)

• change serialization method params in the JSDoc, the tag paramDef can contain UI representation options

v7.4.27 (2024/10/23)

• add a new JSDoc tag metaInfo to collect additional data about an API Method

v7.4.26 (2024/10/23)

• fix parsing JSDoc for API Methods

v7.4.25 (2024/10/22)

• fix parsing JSDoc for API Methods

v7.4.24 (2024/10/22)

• fix parsing JSDoc for API Methods

v7.4.23 (2024/10/16)

• fix parsing Date/Checkbox config items

v7.4.22 (2024/09/12)

• rework URL encoding

v7.4.21 (2024/09/10)

• fix ordering for API Service configuration items

v7.4.20 (2024/09/02)

• revert changes introduced by v7.4.17 (URL encoding)

v7.4.18 (2024/08/30)

• add a new attr @systemNonBillableRequest to specify an API method that shouldn't be counted in the billing

v7.4.17 (2024/08/28)

• rework URL encoding

v7.4.16 (2024/08/15)

• add a ability to specify serviceInfo for an API Service

v7.4.15 (2024/07/25)

• add a new attr @executionTimeoutInSeconds to specify an API method execution time

v7.4.14 (2024/07/18)

• add support for the action block color properties

v7.4.13 (2024/07/02)

• keep backward compatibility for API Service arguments

v7.4.12 (2024/07/01)

• improve defining API Methods Arguments

v7.4.11 (2024/06/28)

• upgrade "backendless": "^7.3.3"

v7.4.10 (2024/06/10)

• upgrade "backendless": "^7.3.2"

v7.4.9 (2024/05/16)

• add support for setting multi cookies in response headers

v7.4.8 (2024/04/24)

• add support for the argsMappings tag

v7.4.7 (2024/03/26)

• support setting automation URL

v7.4.6 (2024/03/05)

• do not clean env for workers in PRO

v7.4.5 (2024/02/26)

• upgrade "backendless": "^7.2.4"

v7.4.4 (2024/02/16)

• change xml encoding to UTF-8

v7.4.3 (2024/01/16)

• operationName should always be present

v7.4.2 (2024/01/10)

• upgrade "backendless": "^7.2.2"
• add an ability to specify for API Methods operationName description registerAsAutomationAction

v7.4.1 (2023/11/02)

• do not send logs if global logger is OFF

v7.4.0 (2023/10/30)

• upgrade "backendless": "^7.2.0"
• fix running workers in local env

v7.3.7 (2023/10/03)

• upgrade "backendless": "^7.1.0"

v7.3.6 (2023/10/02)

• install with NodeJS 18.x

v7.3.5 (2023/09/25)

• BKNDLSS-33936 Fix services broadcasting for the Status Service

v7.3.4 (2023/09/19)

• upgrade "backendless-js-services-core": "0.0.24"

v7.3.3 (2023/09/19)

• upgrade "backendless-js-services-core": "0.0.23"

v7.3.2 (2023/08/24)

• fix default logger is not applied to logging config

v7.3.1 (2023/08/15)

• add an ability to TEXT type in Service Config Items

v7.3.0 (2023/08/01)

• add workers for debugging

v7.2.0 (2023/07/20)

• add support for NodeJS v18.x

v7.1.1 (2023/07/17)

• add an ability to specify description for API Service Method arguments
• fix the beforeDownload event handler for File Service

v7.1.0 (2023/06/29)

• add new beforeDownload event handler for File Service

v7.0.2 (2023/06/28)

• upgrade "backendless": "^7.0.3"

v7.0.1 (2023/06/22)

• upgrade "backendless": "^7.0.2"

v7.0.0 (2023/05/18)

• apply LogLevels in the JSCodeRunner from the context

v6.7.4 (2023/04/18)

• fix resolving local config in the debug mode

v6.7.3 (2023/04/18)

• fix initializing config for the StatusService

v6.7.2 (2023/04/17)

• fix reconnection to the redis

v6.7.1 (2023/03/27)

• fix Consul config

v6.7.0 (2023/03/27)

• integrate with the Status Service
• upgrade "backendless": "^6.7.0"

v6.6.4 (2023/02/27)

• upgrade "backendless-consul-config-provider": "^2.0.2"

v6.6.3 (2023/02/21)

• cleanup logs

v6.6.2 (2023/02/16)

• cleanup env variables for workers

v6.6.1 (2023/02/13)

• upgrade "backendless": "^6.6.5"
• BKNDLSS-31341 Error during logs flushing Session timeout

v6.6.0 (2023/01/02)

• BKNDLSS-31251 Dispose idle cached workers

v6.5.8 (2022/10/17)

• upgrade "backendless": "^6.5.0"

v6.5.7 (2022/10/07)

• upgrade "backendless": "^6.4.0"

v6.5.6 (2022/09/28)

• BKNDLSS-29914 fix an issue hanging receiving tasks after parsing tasks fail
• BKNDLSS-29791 kill cached workers that were finished by timeout

v6.5.5 (2022/06/10)

• fix creating a UnitOfWork instance in before/after Transaction event handlers

v6.5.4 (2022/06/07)

• add optional logs for the ManagementServer

v6.5.3 (2022/04/01)

• upgrade "backendless": "^6.3.14", fix Error during logs flushing regeneratorRuntime is not defined

v6.5.2 (2022/04/01)

• upgrade "backendless": "^6.3.9"

v6.5.1 (2022/03/24)

• attach some HTTP Headers from received tasks to all requests from the coderunner

v6.5.0 (2022/03/18)

• improve logging by splitting verbose options on two debug and verbose
• add truncation for long log messages
• stop processing outdated tasks from the queue
• add a specific heartbeat timeout option for ANALYSE_SERVER_CODE tasks

v6.4.5 (2022/03/16)

• fix parsing tasks when compression is enabled

v6.4.4 (2022/03/10)

• fix ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE error when there is no task result and compression is enabled

v6.4.3 (2022/03/03)

• update configs locations for config/coderunner/compression

v6.4.2 (2022/03/03)

• update modules
• update configs locations for config/coderunner/rateLimit

v6.4.1 (2022/03/02)

• add an ability to limit tasks for apps

v6.3.10 (2022/01/14)

• add compression.threshold config

v6.3.9 (2022/01/12)

• add support for before/after Upsert/UpsertBulk events

v6.3.8 (2021/11/25)

• do not cache worker if it fails due to FS error

v6.3.7 (2021/11/24)

• fix generating a zip file for deploying

v6.3.6 (2021/11/24)

• upgrade NPM modules to the latest versions

"commander":                 "^2.12.2" => "^8.3.0"
"glob":                      "^6.0.4"  => "^7.2.0"
"ioredis":                   "^4.9.0"  => "^4.28.1"
"jszip":                     "^2.6.1"  => "^3.7.1"
"winston":                   "^3.2.1"  => "^3.3.3"
"winston-daily-rotate-file": "^3.8.0"  => "^4.5.5"
"chai":                      "^4.2.0"  => "^4.3.4"
"eslint":                    "^4.19.1" => "^7.32.0"
"mocha":                     "^8.4.0"  => "^9.1.3"
"should":                    "^13.2.1" => "^13.2.3"
"supertest":                 "^3.1.0"  => "^6.1.6"

v6.3.5 (2021/11/12)

• fix pre running idle workers when the caching enabled

v6.3.4 (2021/11/11)

• add pre running idle workers

v6.3.3 (2021/11/03)

• improve logging for the master process
• fix using sentinel auth
• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.3.2

v6.3.2 (2021/11/02)

• enable using sentinel auth

v6.3.1 (2021/10/07)

• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.3.1

v6.3.0 (2021/09/22)

• fix the problem with timeout when deploying a big business logic, change deployment process to asynchronous
• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.2.25

v6.2.1 (2021/07/27)

• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.2.22

v6.2.0 (2021/07/10)

• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.2.20
• add "before/afterGroup" and "before/afterCountInGroup" Event Handlers for the Data Service
• add support for Event Handlers of the Cache and AtomicOperation Services

v6.1.12 (2021/05/20)

• temporary rollback changes related to customDomain
• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.2.11

v6.1.11 (2021/05/19)

• fix using of httpProtocol for initializing the JS-SDK

v6.1.10 (2021/05/19)

• add an ability to init the JS-SDK with custom domain only

v6.1.9 (2021/03/15)

• fix killing stuck workers

v6.1.8 (2021/03/15)

• add appId to the process title

v6.1.7 (2021/02/23)

• improve the performance of json stringification
• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.2.3
• upgrade backendless-consul-config-provider module to v1.0.15

v6.1.6 (2020/12/17)

• remove legacy GEO API
• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.1.8
• upgrade backendless-consul-config-provider module to v1.0.14

v6.1.5 (2020/11/12)

• improve getting current statistics about workers
• resolve worker only after app logs are flushed to the server
• add an observer for workers load to detect when there are not enough workers

v6.1.4 (2020/11/03)

• add support for before/after OAuth login/register events

v6.1.3 (2020/10/30)

• add support for before/after transaction events
• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.1.4

v6.1.2 (2020/10/16)

• fix PersistenceItem API for loading object by id
• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.1.2

v6.1.1 (2020/09/24)

• fix problem with unkillable workers when worker's cache is disabled

v6.1.0 (2020/09/21)

• add graceful shutdown, the JS-CodeRunner will wait until complete all the taken tasks

v6.0.2 (2020/07/08)

• fix traffic compression between server and coderunner and config prop names

v6.0.1 (2020/07/07)

• add traffic compression between server and coderunner
• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.0.6

v6.0.0 (2020/06/15)

• upgrade JS-SDK to v6.0.0

v5.5.0 (2020/05/29)

• provide public config in Backendless.Config
• put fileDownloadUrl, publicAPIUrl and internalAPIUrl to Backendless.Config

v5.4.11 (2020/05/15)

• fix a problem when EventHandler fails with "not existing user token" 

v5.4.10 (2020/05/07)

• upgrade JS-SDK to v5.8.12
• add "beforeLoginAsGuest" and "afterLoginAsGuest" Event Handlers

v5.4.9 (2020/03/11)

• upgrade JS-SDK to v5.8.6

v5.4.8 (2020/02/21)

• upgrade JS-SDK to v5.7.2

v5.4.7 (2020/02/07)

• fix a problem with initializing JS-SDK

v5.4.6 (2020/01/09)

• upgrade JS-SDK to v5.7.1

v5.4.5 (2019/10/28)

• remove setting "access-control-expose-headers" response HTTP header

v5.4.4 (2019/08/30)

• upgrade JS-SDK to v5.4.3
• fix a problem when specified custom headers are not accessible in Web Browser

v5.4.3 (2019/08/22)

• upgrade JS-SDK to v5.4.2

v5.4.2 (2019/08/13)

• add an ability to specify HTTP Response Headers

v5.4.0 (2019/07/09)

• upgrade JS-SDK to v5.4.0
• add EventHandlers for EmailTemplates

v5.2.8 (2019/07/08)

• add "msgBroker.ssl" config option for quick enabling SSL connection to Redis

v5.2.7 (2019/07/04)

• add Redis TSL config mapping for Consul
• upgrade backendless-consul-config-provider module to v1.0.13

v5.2.6 (2019/04/24)

• upgrade backendless-consul-config-provider module to v1.0.12

v5.2.5 (2019/04/24)

• upgrade backendless-consul-config-provider module to v1.0.11

v5.2.4 (2019/04/24)

• upgrade backendless-consul-config-provider module to v1.0.10

v5.2.3 (2019/04/24)

• add Sentinel Support

v5.2.2 (2019/03/25)

• fix issue with concurrent workers when caching is not enabled

v5.2.1 (2019/03/13)

• fix incorrect cloud workers stopping with winston logger enabled

v5.2.0 (2019/03/05)

• add an ability to put worker's logs into file

v5.1.1 (2019/02/26)

• fix composing run options from Consul

v5.1.0 (2019/02/20)

• add an ability to process tasks with low-priority
• fix reconnection to redis after redis restart
• upgrade Backendless JS-SDK to v5.2.7

v5.0.5 (2019/02/03)

• upgrade Backendless JS-SDK to v5.2.5

v5.0.4 (2019/02/01)

• upgrade Backendless JS-SDK to v5.2.3
• fix message about "Worker expiration by heartbeat timeout"

v5.0.3 (2019/01/30)

• upgrade Backendless JS-SDK to v5.2.1

v5.0.2 (2019/01/22)

• fix: no tasks execution in debug mode

v5.0.1 (2018/11/26)

• upgrade dependency Backendless JS-SDK to version ^5.2.0

v5.0.0 (2018/11/19)

• add workers caching for Backendless PRO and Manage installations, it reduces invocation time of any Business Logic to almost 4 times
• add Consul as Config Manager, for using shared configs
• add Management HTTP Server for getting current state of workers
• add various Log Providers like: file, logstash, papertrail

v4.7.2 (2018/08/29)

• now req object in before|after DeleteFileOrDirectory EventHandler contains pattern and recursive values

v4.7.1 (2018/07/27)

• remove config file from cache after reading

v4.7.0 (2018/07/18)

• now methods of child_process module are not accessible in Cloud

v4.6.7 (2018/07/03)

• add --zip-size-confirmation command line argument to confirm generated zip size before deploying it

v4.6.6 (2018/06/18)

• fixed runner is already attached error when re-run coderunner in debug mode

v4.6.5 (2018/06/07)

• add process id to every Backendless.logging message
• add app id (or its alias) to every stdout message
• update Backendless and dev dependencies

v4.6.4 (2018/04/25)

• fix: PersistenceItem.save ignores ownerId if it's the only property in the payload
• upgrade dev dependencies

v4.6.2 (2018/04/18)

• upgrade dependency Backendless JS-SDK to version ^4.4.3

v4.6.1 (2018/04/04)

• remove tableName argument from bulkCreate EventHandler

v4.6.0 (2018/04/03)

• add bulkCreate EventHandlers
• add bulkCreate method to PersistenceItem

v4.5.4 (2018/03/09)

• add deletable option to PersistenceItem.saveWithRelations method allowing auto deletion of 1:1 or 1:N relations

v4.5.3 (2018/03/05)

• stop dead workers on timeout in cloud and pro modes

v4.5.0 (2018/02/19)

• code deployment is now 5 times faster

v4.4.8 (2018/02/13)

• upgrade dependency Backendless JS-SDK to version ^4.3.4
• add Messaging Event Handlers:
  • beforePush
  • afterPush
  • beforePushWithTemplate
  • afterPushWithTemplate

v4.4.6 (2018/01/24)

• upgrade dependency Backendless JS-SDK to version ^4.3.2

v4.4.5 (2018/01/04)

• add duplicateStrategy option allowing service or models subclasses

v4.4.4 (2017/12/25)

• fix: 'Nothing to debug/deploy' error when only timers are present
• fix: PersistenceItem.saveWithRelations ignores deep stale

v4.4.3 (2017/11/12)

• update dependencies (including backendless JS SDK)
• fix: 'call stack issue' when deploy service with circular dependencies in JSDOC
• add unhandled promise rejection printing to log
• PersistenceItem constructor now can accept string with objectId now
• PersistenceItem.find method works with plain object and simple 'where' strings
• add PersistenceItem.deleteRelation method
• add PersistenceItem.ref method convenient to minimize payload for model update requests

v4.4.1 (2017/11/7)

• update dependencies

v4.4.0 (2017/10/20)

• add static methods: count, save, bulkUpdate to PersistenceItem
• add saveWithRelations method to PersistenceItem
• PersistenceItem constructor now accepts arguments
• fix: undefined service path in model build output
• fix: geo points are not mapped to Backendless.GeoPoint
• Don't send relation props to server when saving PersistenceItem
• Don't send request to server if no props to save when saving PersistenceItem
• Always print business logic error stack to console during tasks execution (unless it's timeout error)
• print task execution time
• update Backendless JS SDK dependency to latest

v4.3.6 (2017/09/21)

• Update Backendless JS SDK to version 4.0.10

v4.3.5 (2017/09/19)

• Update Backendless Request to version 0.0.8
• No sandbox for Market Place business logic
• add bulkRemove and fetch methods to PersistenceItem

v4.3.4 (2017/09/04)

• Apply current user id before service method execution

v4.3.3 (2017/08/18)

• add missed response argument in Users.afterFind handler

v4.3.2 (2017/08/11)

• add missed response argument in Messaging.afterDeviceRegistration handler

v4.3.1 (2017/07/06)

• Change events handlers params
• Remove media events

v4.3.0 (2017/07/04)

• Backendless Server v4.0 support (new communication protocol, deployment models)
• Service Methods may have specific route defined in a jsdoc @route tag. Route may include path params like /order/{orderId}/item/{itemId}
• Service and service methods description defined in jsdoc is visible in Backendless Dev Console
• In service method there is this.request containing the execution context including http path, headers, path params, query params, user, user roles and so on
• Service constructor now accepts service config and execution context arguments
• Add Backendless.Request giving a possibility to make one liner http requests from BL
• userToken of a user originated the BL execution is now injected into every Backendless API call made from the BL
• fix invalid object references calculations during json parse if object contains ___dates___ meta fields
• decorate dates into ___dates___ metafields in a response to the server
• add setRelation and addRelation methods to PersistenceItem class
• add support for async service methods
• fix processing files whose names start with underscore
• Standalone work in cloud mode. CodeRunnerDriver is not required anymore.
• app.files config param was replaced by app.exclude. Coderunner now searches for all files in the current working directory except those that matches app.exclude patterns
• add retry strategy for messages broker
• add Backendless.ServerCode.Data alias to Backendless.ServerCode.Persistence
• stop logs sending attempt for RAI tasks

v1.11.0 (2017/02/20)

• add Backendless.ServerCode.verbose() method, giving a possibility to enable verbose logging mode

v1.10.1 (2016/11/25)

• update Backendless SDK dependency to latest

v1.9.1 (2016/11/22)

• resolve dates meta fields in server's JSON
• when critical error, exit with zero status code to avoid too noisy NPM complains

v1.9.0 (2016/10/25)

• add PRO mode

v1.8.0 (2016/08/17)

• in CLOUD mode the CodeRunner forwards all console logging (including CodeRunner task processing info) to Backendless.Logging which makes it possible to monitor deployed Business Logic
• When run in production, the CodeRunner now prints how much times it takes, to load a context specific business logic modules and their dependencies

v1.7.4 (2016/07/14)

• fix: false returned from service's method results in null result on client side

v1.7.3 (2016/07/01)

• fix HashMap cannot be cast to InvocationResult error when invoking service method which returns non string value

v1.7.2 (2016/06/14)

• change: same response shape for each task executors

v1.7.1 (2016/06/08)

• fix Can not parse generic service error when publish service with third-party dependencies

v1.7.0 (2016/06/01)

• show error line number in model summary output
• in 'verbose' mode print full stack trace of the module validation errors
• wrap a value returned from custom event handler into an object ({result: value}) except those cases where the value is already an object

v1.6.0 (2016/05/25)

• multiple services is now allowed to deploy
• default service version is 1.0.0 (was 0.0.0)

v1.5.6 (2016/05/23)

• fix timeout error when custom event handler returns a Function
• fix publisher bug related to npm2 env and a module used by two other modules

v1.5.5 (2016/05/16)

• update eslint, backendless to their latest versions
• fix undefined custom event name in model summary output
• remove redundant (debug) suffix from service name being registered for debug

v1.5.4 (2016/04/28)

• fix service not found error in cloud mode
• increase server code parsing time in cloud mode

v1.5.3 (2016/04/28)

• add temporary limitation to single service in deployment
• update eslint, should, jszip and request to their latest versions
• change service meta in the result of PARSE-SERVICE task as it is required by server
• make single call to api engine to register all debug services

v1.5.2 (2016/04/28)

• optimize a list of dependencies included to the deployment in npm3 env
• fix Runner can't find the code deployed from Windows machine

v1.5.1 (2016/04/27)

• fix deployment does not include all dependencies in npm3 env

v1.5.0 (2016/04/27)

• update backendless.js to v3.1.8
• fix non-obvious error message (handler not found) that occurs in cloud mode at the time of script loading
• don't allow to deploy a server code that contains errors to production
• include all non dev dependencies into deployment zip
• print ServerCode error stack if run in verbose mode

v1.4.2 (2016/04/25)

• fix service not found error in cloud mode
• make it possible to specify application files path pattern from command line
• in debug mode replace confusing service deployed message by service registered

v1.4.1 (2016/04/25)

• update backendless.js dependency to v3.1.7

v1.4.0 (2016/04/23)

• add support for services
• upgrade redis client to v2.5.3
• print more information about discovered business logic