Milestone: Airframe 2024

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Here are the roadmap items for 2024, version 24.x.x series.

• Misc Tickets

New Features

• Scala Native Support (for Scala Native 0.5.x, Scala 3)
• Airframe Book Airframe Walkthrough Documentation #2169
  • A walk-through documentation. For example, using https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook.
  • Rewriting the existing documentation was found to be hard work. It's better to start a new one from scratch.
• RPC
  • Cross-language HTTP/RPC client generator, targetting Python, Rust
  • Command line RPC client
  • Leverage JDK Loom (Fiber)
    • Explore approaches for using lightweight threads.
  • Use Fetch API airframe-http (js): Use Fetch API instead of Ajax #2897
• Pretty print of objects airframe-pp: Add a pretty-print method module pp[A](obj: A) #2730
• AirSpec
  • Log-level arg airspec: Support setting log level from the command line #3305
  • Show code context airspec: Show a context source code of assertion #2347
  • Code-size reduction airspec: Bind test cases to lazy val to avoid too large method error in <init> #3170
• Rx
  • airframe-rx: Rx.await and task queue (JVM only) #2951

Deprecation

• airframe-http-finagle Finagle's development activity has significantly dropped. As Netty-backend has matured enough, we can safely drop the support for Finagle, which can make our code base fully compatible with Scala 2/3. Drop support for Finagle backend #3103
  • airframe-http: Deprecate the legacy HttpClient[F[_], Req, Resp] interface #2440
• airframe-config integration with DI.

  newDesign
    // Set an environment to use
    .withConfigEnv(env = "production", defaultEnv = "default")
    // Load configs from YAML files
    .bindConfigFromYaml[LogConfig]("access-log.yml")  
    .bindConfigFromYaml[ServerConfig]("server.yml")

This can be replaced with bind[LogConfig].toInstance(xxx)

• Drop JDK8/11 Support. While Scala 3 still supports JDK8, we are planning to switch to at least JDK17 or higher and remove any tests against JDK older than JDK17.
• airframe-di. In-trait binding support has been dropped in Scala 3. It will be marked deprecated in Scala 2. di (deprecate): In-trait bindings #3329