Overview

This document highlights major changes in CUBA Platform version 7.1.

All Resolved Issues

Breaking Changes

  1. PERIOD column of the SYS_SCHEDULED_TASK table has been renamed to PERIOD_. If you create scheduled tasks in the database initialization scripts, fix the scripts to use the new column name.

  2. Removed previously deprecated LoginService and LoginWorker classes. Use corresponding methods of AuthenticationService and TrustedClientService:

    • LoginService.login()AuthenticationService.login() with LoginPasswordCredentials

    • LoginService.loginTrusted()AuthenticationService.login() with TrustedClientCredentials

    • LoginService.loginByRememberMe()AuthenticationService.login() with RememberMeCredentials

    • LoginService.loginByRememberMe()AuthenticationService.login() with RememberMeCredentials

    • LoginService.substituteUser()AuthenticationService.substituteUser()

    • LoginService.getSession()TrustedClientService.findSession()

    • LoginService.getSystemSession()TrustedClientService.getSystemSession()

  3. Removed previously deprecated CubaAuthProvider interface, its implementations and cuba.web.externalAuthentication and cuba.web.externalAuthenticationProviderClass application properties. Use events, LoginProvider and HttpRequestFilter as explained in the documentation.

  4. In Table and GroupTable interfaces, removed previously deprecated methods that manipulate with columns:

    // removed from Table
    void setColumnCaption(String columnId, String caption);
    void setColumnCaption(Table.Column column, String caption);
    void setColumnDescription(String columnId, String description);
    void setColumnDescription(Table.Column column, String description);
    void setColumnCollapsed(String columnId, boolean collapsed);
    void setColumnCollapsed(Table.Column column, boolean collapsed);
    void setColumnWidth(String columnId, int width);
    void setColumnWidth(Table.Column column, int width);
    void setColumnAlignment(String columnId, ColumnAlignment alignment);
    void setColumnAlignment(Column column, ColumnAlignment alignment);
    void addAggregationProperty(String columnId, AggregationInfo.Type type);
    void addAggregationProperty(Column columnId, AggregationInfo.Type type);
    void removeAggregationProperty(String columnId);
    void setColumnSortable(String columnId, boolean sortable);
    boolean getColumnSortable(String columnId);
    void setColumnSortable(Column column, boolean sortable);
    boolean getColumnSortable(Column column);
    void setColumnCaptionAsHtml(String columnId, boolean captionAsHtml);
    void setColumnCaptionAsHtml(Table.Column column, boolean captionAsHtml);
    boolean getColumnCaptionAsHtml(String columnId);
    boolean getColumnCaptionAsHtml(Table.Column column);
    
    // removed from GroupTable
    boolean getColumnGroupAllowed(String columnId);
    void setColumnGroupAllowed(String columnId, boolean allowed);
    boolean getColumnGroupAllowed(Table.Column column);
    void setColumnGroupAllowed(Table.Column column, boolean allowed);

    Instead of the removed methods, use the following approach:

    Table.Column<Foo> numberColumn = fooTable.getColumn("number"); // get Column object by column id
    numberColumn.setCaption("Num"); // invoke Column's methods
  5. DataContext.PostCommitEvent is now sent after merging of committed entities back to the screen’s data context, see the corresponding issue.

  6. The REST API functionality has been moved to the REST API add-on, see its documentation. The Studio migration procedure includes the add-on in the project if the project contains some REST configuration files or Frontend UI module. Otherwise, the REST servlet and filter are removed from web.xml of the web module.

  7. Due to moving REST API to the add-on, health check URL for web client has changed to /dispatch/health, for example http://localhost:8080/app/dispatch/health. If you include the REST API add-on in the project, you will have /rest/health endpoints for both web and portal blocks as in previous versions. The portal module has no its own health check endpoint.

  8. The legacy REST API v1 functionality has been moved to the JPA Web API add-on. Studio does not provide any automatic migration, so use the installation instructions in README if you need this functionality in the project.

  9. Application Log and History menu items have been removed from the default main menu. If you need them, add the following elements to web-menu.xml of your project:

    <item id="logWindow" class="com.haulmont.cuba.web.log.LogWindowLauncher" insertAfter="settings"/>
    <item id="sec$ScreenHistory.browse" insertAfter="settings"/>

Generic UI

  1. Now you can create new visual components by combining existing ones, see Composite Components.

  2. The concept of non-visual components has been generalized and made extendable, see Non-Visual Components. Along with Timer, the framework now provides new useful non-visual components: ClipboardTrigger and DataLoadCoordinator.

  3. The DataLoadCoordinator component is designed for declarative linking of data loaders to data containers, visual components and screen events. You can use this component instead of writing event handlers in Java.

  4. The Form component can now contain generic fields defined with the field element. The framework will choose an appropriate visual component on the basis of the corresponding entity attribute and existing component generation strategies.

  5. Introduced input dialog which allows you to construct input forms using API. It can be used instead of creating screens for trivial data input.

  6. Now you can make some screens of your application available to non-authenticated users, see Anonymous Access to Screens.

  7. Standard login and main screens have been reworked using the new screens API, see details in Root Screens. The main screen has the layout with side menu, so it is used by default for new projects. For projects, migrated from previous versions of the framework, the Studio migration procedure adds the following application properties to web-app.properties:

    cuba.web.loginScreenId = loginWindow
    cuba.web.mainScreenId = mainWindow

    It ensures the migrated project uses the legacy login and main screens. If you want to switch to the new screens, remove these properties.

  8. Logout button shown on the standard main screen has been replaced with the UserActionsButton component. If the user is not authenticated, the component allows the user to go to login screen; when authenticated, the component provides actions to show the Settings screen or to log out.

  9. Added ability to generate URL to an application screen, see URL Routes Generator.

  10. If a screen controller has public setters to accept parameters, they can be passed from the main menu, see menu.xml.

  11. If a screen fragment controller has public setters to accept parameters, they can be specified in the host screen XML, see Passing parameters to fragments.

  12. Screen fragments now send attach/detach lifecycle event when a fragment is added/removed to the host screen, see ScreenFragment Events. Also, when a fragment is created programmatically, you don’t need to invoke its init() method anymore, because all fragment’s lifecycle events will be sent automatically when the fragment is added to a screen.

  13. Sorting of UI tables by entity attributes can now be customized.

  14. Added PreLoadEvent and PostLoadEvent to Data Loaders.

  15. Introduced the DynamicAttributesPanel visual component which is designed for displaying categorized entities with dynamic attributes in screens based on the new API.

  16. Columns of the Table component now have the expandRatio attribute.

  17. Generic filter is now applied immediately after changing its conditions or other parameters. You can control this feature using the filter’s applyImmediately attribute or globally using the cuba.gui.genericFilterApplyImmediately application property. The Studio migration procedure sets this property to false to not change user experience for existing applications.

  18. Functionality of the HtmlAttributes bean has been extended and now it allows you to manipulate with nested HTML elements.

  19. In order to simplify migration from version 6 of the framework, we have restored the undocumented ability to use legacy API screens as frames. It is now supported for subclasses of AbstractWindow, AbstractLookup and EntityCombinedScreen (AbstractEditor is not supported). The init() method of the screen is invoked, ready() is not, as before.

  20. The framework now provides infrastructure for writing integration tests on the web tier for testing UI in full-functioning Spring container, see Web Integration Tests.

Miscellaneous

  1. Significant improvements have been made in dynamic attributes: a new type - fixed-point number; custom validators; auto-calculated and dependent attributes. See Managing Dynamic Attributes for details.

  2. The framework now performs some startup checks of your environment and data model:

    • A warning is logged in case of the following environment problems:

      • Java version is lower than 8,

      • work or temp directories have no read/write access,

      • unable to connect to the main data store (additional data stores are checked if you set the cuba.checkConnectionToAdditionalDataStoresOnStartup app property to true),

      • there is no SEC_USER table in the main data store;

    • If a local attribute is annotated with @Basic(fetch = FetchType.LAZY), the fetch type is switched to EAGER and a warning is logged;

    • If a reference attribute is annotated with @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER) (or a similar reference annotation with EAGER fetch type), the fetch type is switched to LAZY and a warning is logged;

    • If an entity is not properly enhanced, an exception is thrown and the application doesn’t start at all. If you have any trouble with this check, set the cuba.disableEntityEnhancementCheck application property to false to disable it.

  3. Introduced EntityPersistingEvent which can be used to initialize attributes of a new entity instance before persisting it in the database.

  4. DataManager can now perform bean validation of saved entity instances. Use cuba.dataManagerBeanValidation property to control whether the validation is performed by default.

    When you upgrade an existing project to CUBA 7.1, the Studio migration procedure sets this property to false to switch off the validation.

  5. DataManager now uses _base view by default (previously it was _local). So when you execute a request without specifying a view, like dataManager.load(Person.class).id(someId).one(), you will get the result entity with fetched local attributes and attributes specified in @NamePattern. If @NamePattern contains reference attributes, more data will be fetched than before.

  6. Introduced LoadContext.setIds() method which accepts a collection of entity identifiers. It is used by DataManager.loadList() method in higher priority than passed query or single id. The fluent interface also has methods accepting multiple ids:

    dataManager.load(Customer.class).ids(customer1Id, customer2Id).list();
    
    List<UUID> idList = Arrays.asList(customer1Id, customer2Id);
    dataManager.load(Customer.class).ids(idList).list();
  7. @JmxBean annotation can be used for registration of a JMX bean instead of registering it in spring.xml.

  8. Query hints can be used for database-specific optimization of query execution. Hints can be passed to Query and LoadContext.

Updated Dependencies

Core framework:

com.google.guava/guava = 27.1-jre
com.microsoft.sqlserver/mssql-jdbc = 7.2.1.jre8
commons-codec/commons-codec = 1.12
commons-fileupload/commons-fileupload = 1.4
mysql/mysql-connector-java = 8.0.15
org.apache.commons/commons-collections4 = 4.3
org.apache.commons/commons-compress = 1.18
org.apache.commons/commons-dbcp2 = 2.6.0
org.apache.commons/commons-lang3 = 3.9
org.apache.commons/commons-pool2 = 2.6.2
org.apache.commons/commons-text = 1.6
org.apache.httpcomponents/fluent-hc = 4.5.8
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient = 4.5.8
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpcore = 4.4.11
org.apache.httpcomponents/httpmime = 4.5.8
org.aspectj/aspectjrt = 1.9.2
org.aspectj/aspectjweaver = 1.9.2
org.codehaus.groovy = 2.5.6
org.eclipse.persistence/org.eclipse.persistence.jpa = 2.7.3-6-cuba
org.freemarker/freemarker = 2.3.28
org.hibernate.validator/hibernate-validator = 6.0.16.Final
org.hsqldb/hsqldb = 2.4.1
org.jgroups/jgroups = 3.6.17.Final
org.postgresql/postgresql = 42.2.5
org.spockframework/spock-core = 1.3-groovy-2.5

Reports add-on:

com.haulmont.yarg = 2.1.5
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