v4.4.0

New Features:

• New Component: Code Editor – Identical to the VS Code editor.
• Import dictionaries from schemas other than "dbo" – You can now import a dictionary from a schema other than "dbo".
• Filter option – Filters can now be submitted (default behavior remains AJAX, as usual). This is available under Actions -> Detailed Filters -> Advanced (Suggestion from @ygorsilv1997 ).
• Import table fields after dictionary creation – It's now possible to import table fields after the dictionary has been created. (Suggestion from community member @PolywickStudio).
• Database Scripts – The database script screen now supports dark mode and is displayed in an offcanvas.
• Update docs for easier setup from new projects

Bugfix:

• WebApi Endpoint for single record retrieval – Fixed a bug where the endpoint for fetching a single record from the WebApi wasn't functioning properly.

4.3.0

• Update all NuGet dependencies
• Small performance improvements suggested by Rider R# and Rosylnator
• Critical performance fix: Use DbType.AnsiString instead of DbType.String
• Lots of fixes related to relationships
• New action type: HtmlTemplateAction. Powered by Fluid you can create dynamic HTML experiences using SQL queries and a Liquid template.
• You can also Fluid for conditionals and functions at GridView fields rendering template
• NCalc is now used by default at exp: expressions
• JJDataPanel now support secret values using the SecretValues property
• It's now possible to set a PageState of a form using {ElementName}_PageState at query string

Breaking Changes

• Renamed ShowPagging to ShowPaging at JJGridView
• All async events that run more synchronous than asynchronous must return a ValueTask instead of a Task for better performance.

4.2.0

New Features:

• New layout for Data Dictionary menu and many changes at the UI and UX at JJMasterData.Web
• Added Edit button at /Render/
• It's possible to select a custom connection for a FormElement using FormElement.SelectedConnectionId. The connection is loaded from JJMasterData:ConnectionStrings.
• Added DataAccess.GetDataSet and DataAccess.GetDataSetAsync
• Confirmation messages are now showed on a JJMessageBox instead of a JS alert.
• New component: JJBreadcrumb. Includes a class and a TagHelper.
• New component: JJOffcanvas. Includes a class and a TagHelper.
• New component: JJMessageToast. Includes a class and a TagHelper.
• JJTitle now supports simple actions with a List<TitleAction>
• "About" from MasterData is now rendered at an Offcanvas.
• ValidationSummaryTagHelper now loads errors from ModelState by default.
• Added FormElementField.GridRenderingTemplate to render custom HTML at GridView.

Documentation:

• More info about Authorization
• Added information about {FieldName} expression keyword

Chore:

• Updated NCalc Plugin to 4.0 (Release Notes)

Bug Fixes:

• Floating labels now work for text area and textbox with actions
• JJDataPanel was not respecting AutoReloadFormFields at relationships
• When clicking "New" at a new field, the field list will work normally
• GridView data source errors were not logged
• MessageBox had incorrectly translated messages

Breaking Changes:

• Floating labels are now saved at FormElement.Options

4.1.0

A small release to represent our stabilization milestone for public APIs and elements with relationships. This release also contains a new functionality and a critical fix at modals and relationships.

• SqlDataDictionaryRepository
  Now it caches the FormElement, making operations such as pagination, actions and search much faster.
• JJDataPanel
  It is now responsible for storing the PageState in a hidden input instead of the JJFormView, making it much easier to work with relationships and modals.
• Better UI layout at JJMasterData.Web

v4.0.0

Release Notes ☀️

Relationships

• The largest feature from this version
• Now working with 1xn and 1x1 relationships
• Added FormElementRelationship class
• You can now define the layout of your relationships
• You can use any FormElementPanel for your dictionaries

Form Toolbar Actions

• Added a new category of actions, rendered at the form.
• If in a relationship, you can use the FormToolbarActionLocation enum to define the location of your action

Removed Metadata class

• Removed Metadata and related classes
• The data dictionary is stored at a single JSON using FormElement

Browser tab names

• You can now tell the difference between your tabs at your browser

Asynchronous programming

• Added support to async methods at IEntityRepository and IDataDictionaryRepository
• Added AsyncEventHandler and async overloads to all events

Events

• Added IGridEventHandler, works like IFormEventHandler but for JJGridView events

Dependency Injection

• Is now fully used in the entire project
• Removed the static service locator, you no longer need app.UseJJMasterData at your Program.cs
• If you want to use a service from JJMasterData, you can inject this following classes:
  UrlRedirectService
UploadAreaService
LookupService
FormValuesService
FormService
FieldValuesService
FieldValidationService
FieldsService
FieldFormattingService
ExpressionsService
DataItemService
AuditLogService

DataItemService for example, can be used to retrieve Combobox or Searchbox values without the component.

Expressions

• Added IAsyncExpressionProvider and IBooleanExpressionProvider, implement your own class to parse expressions

Generated Scripts

• You can now generate Alter Table scripts for non-existing Data Dictionary fields

Logging

• File: Added Default, Compact and JSON formatting
• File & Db: Now run as a HostedService without locking the application

Factories

• Added IFormElementComponentFactory<T>,IControlFactory<T> and IComponentFactory<T>

Data Dictionaries list

• New UI at the home
• Now have a filter for everything filter
• Info column is now a tooltip when the element info is not null

Expressions

• Now have a editor
• You can now implement IAsyncExpressionProvider and IBooleanExpressionProvider

FormElement

• Added BIT DataType support (true or false )
• Added Time DataType support
• Stored Procedures are now optional

Components

• Added Color Picker component
• Added switch option to Checkbox

Custom Bootstrap support

• You can now use the default JJMasterData layout with custom Bootstrap using the JJMasterData:CustomBootstrapPath configuration key

Breaking Changes 💣

Infrastructure

• Removed Metadata class
• The DataDictionary table now only contains the F type by now
• All older FormElement JSON objects from older versions need to be updated by our CLI tool
• .NET 6/7 projects no longer support SystemWebAdapters and Response.End calls to improve performance

FormElementDataItem

• Removed ReplaceTextOnGrid please use GridBehavior enum

Log

• Removed static Log please use ILogger

Cryptography

• Removed static Cript please use IEncryptionService or JJMasterDataEncryptionService
• Beware Cript.64 uses DES instead of AES and is unsafe.

DataAccess

• .NET 6/7: DataAccess without dependency injection no longer supported
• DataAccess SQLServer provider now uses Microsoft.Data.SqlClient instead of System.Data.SqlClient

Components

• Renamed JJBaseView and JJBaseControl to ComponentBase and ControlBase respectically
• Removed components constructors, for example, instead of new JJFormView("MyElement") use await IFormElementComponentFactory<JJFormView>.CreateAsync("MyElement")
• JJFormView no longer inherits from JJGridView, compatibility methods and properties added, but they are obsolete.
• JJFormLog renamed to JJAuditLogView
• JJFormUpload renamed to JJUploadView
• Many database and IO operations are now async and return a Task instead of void

Events

• Removed Action from ActionEventArgs please use ActionName
• Renamed IFormEvent to IFormEventHandler
• Removed IFormEventAttribute please use IFormEventHandler.ElementName to allow dynamic event handlin

Component Rendering

• Removed GetHtml please use GetResultAsync and SendResult

IDataDictionaryRepository

• GetMetadata to GetFormElementAsync

Namespaces

• JJMasterData.ReceitaFederal* to JJMasterData.Brasil*
• JJMasterData.Commons.Criptography.* to JJMasterData.Commons.Security.*
• JJMasterData.Core.Web.Components.* to JJMasterData.Core.UI.Components.*
• JJMasterData.Core.FormEvents.* to JJMasterData.Core.Events*
• JJMasterData.Core.DataDictionary.* to JJMasterData.Core.DataDictionary.Models and JJMasterData.Core.DataDictionary.Repository

v3.1.0

Release Notes 🪐

HTML Rendering

• JJMasterData.Core no longer contains hard-coded HTML Strings
• Added HtmlBuilder class, responsible to render a node in the HTML tree

Development

• Removed JJMasterData.Web.Bootstraper, now JJMasterData.Web.Example is used at development
• Added a single appsettings.json for every project

.NET

• .NET 7 is officially supported with C# 11.

DataAccess

• Added IDataDictionary and IEntityRepository
  
  

TagHelpers

• Added TagHelpers to some JJMasterData components like <jj-formview element-name="YourDictionary"\>

Application Options

• Now have a web UI
• You can also test your connection at this view
• appsettings.json now can be saved at runtime
• Implement IWritableOptions if you want to write your settings somewhere

L10N

• You no longer need to truncate your resources table after every update
• Now uses IStringLocalizer internally

WebApi

• Now have a File manipulation route

First time setup

• Automatically creates everything now

Example Project

• Now have new examples
• Added validation if the example dictionary does not exist
• Bootstrap agnostic layout

Data Dictionary

Home

• Now showcase the dictionary info
• You can now Render your dictionary from the grid without clicking on edit (finally 🙏)
• If you export only a single dictionary, a .json exported instead of a .zip

Repository Support

• MongoDB support 🍃
  You can now store your metadata at MongoDB! Just install JJMasterData.MongoDB
• File System
  Just use with FileSystemDataDictionaryRepository

Validations

• Only fields of type VarChar or Text can have a filter of the type Contains.

FormEvents

• Now support FormEventAttribute to have any class name
• Python events now support debugging on VSCode
• Created IFormEventResolver to any custom implementation
• WebApi can now have FormElement customizations using OnMetadataLoad

Logger

• Removed Console, EventViewer and Trace from JJMasterData.Commons, just use Microsoft Loggers enabling at your IConfiguration source
• Splitted file and database into DbLogger and FileLogger
• New log levels following Microsoft conventions
• Better log messages using ILogger formatter

Added support to DateTime2

• A recommended SQLServer DateTime type with milliseconds support

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Breaking Changes

DataAccess

• Removed methods ValueExists, ValueExistsAsync, GetValue, GetValueAsync
• Removed KeepConnAlive Property

JJBaseView

• Removed RenderHtml, please use RenderHtmlElement

JJUploadFile

• The event OnPostFile parameter JJFormFile was changed to another class called FormFileContent

JJDataImp

• OnAfterImport is removed, please use OnAfterUpdate, OnAfterInsert and OnAfterDelete

The events:

• OnBeforeDelete
• OnAfterDelete
• OnBeforeInsert
• OnAfterInsert
• OnBeforeUpdate
• OnAfterUpdate
• OnBeforeImport

are now fired on JJFormView, JJDataImp and WebApi via FormService.

JJDataPanel

• JJDataPanel UI related properties moved to UISettings class

JJComboBox

• Renamed Itens to Items on JJComboBox

JJGridView

• Renamed SizeTitle to TitleSize
• Renamed TotalReg to TotalRecords
• Renamed Erros to Errors
• Moved DoSqlCommand to ActionManager.ExecuteSqlCommand
• Moved DoPythonScriptAction to ActionManager.ExecutePythonScriptAction
• Padronized all public HTML methods to suffix with Html (correct english convention).
• GridConfigSorting renamed to GridSortingConfig

JJLinkButton

• Removed property IsSubmit please use LinkButtonType

public enum LinkButtonType
{
    Link = 0,
    Button = 1,
    Submit = 2
}

EventArgs Classes

• Renamed ResultHtml to HtmlResult 💣

FormEvents

• Removed OnInstanceCreated please use OnMetadataLoad

WebApi

• Renamed masterApi/{elementName}/{id}/file/{fieldName}/ route to masterApi/{elementName}/{id}/{fieldName}/file (IMPORTANT @🐍) 💣

Logger

• Configurations now follow Microsoft ILogger 💣

Important ⚠️

• Default constructors of the components maybe removed in the next version, give a preference to TagHelpers 💣
• This change will be made to remove the service locator anti-pattern.
• Using TagHelpers with the Fluent configuration methods, you will see that your code quality will improve without instantiating a JJFormView.

Miscellaneous

• Removed JJDate,JJDateTime and JJHour, please add the needed attributes to JJTextBox 💣
• Removed IDataAccess, please use DataAccess
• Removed ISettings please use IOptions<JJMasterDataOptions>
• Removed ITranslator please use ILocalizationProvider
• Renamed JJUploadFile to JJUploadArea
• Removed TripAdvisor icon ( they were angry with FontAwesome)
• Moved XUnit Test from FromElement to Metadata
• Renamed DicParser and related classes to Metadata
• Renamed method StringManager.NoAccents to StringManager.GetStringWithoutAccents
• Renamed DataDictionaryManager to FormService
• Renamed DataDictionaryManagerResult to FormLetter
• Renamed Factory to EntityRepository 💣
• Renamed DictionaryDao to DatabaseDataDictionaryRepository 💣