fulib v1.2.0

New Features

• Added the decorator mechanism. #26
• Attributes can now be multi-valued. #23
• Added the typesafe CollectionType API for to-n associations and collection attributes.
• Added the Bean property style as the new default and changed the POJO property style to omit property change support.
• FMethods can now have custom modifiers.

Improvements

• Updated to fulibYaml v1.3.0.
• Improved Javadoc across all public APIs. #13
• Improved the ClassModelManager API and DSL. #18 #28
• Improved the ClassBuilder API.
• Improved the rules for what is allowed as an identifier.
• A new parser now understands more and newer Java syntax. #17
• Improved merging of existing and new declarations.
• Greatly improved parsing and code generation performance.
• To-n associations no longer generate static EMPTY_* fields.
• To-n associations no longer expose the modifiable backing list through the getter. #10
• Adjusted templates to generate cleaner code, including:
  • use of Objects.equals
  • early return
  • this. for field and method access
  • imports instead of qualified names for commonly used classes
  • no more raw types
  • braces for control statements
  • with and without methods are now overloaded and typesafe for: single element, varargs elements, element collection #20
  • fields and methods are now grouped. #22
• Improved code generation for table classes:
  • generally cleaner code on par with the changes to regular class generation
  • replaced excessive use of ArrayList, LinkedHashSet and LinkedHashMap with their respective interfaces
  • expand methods now use overloads instead of varargs. #25
• Improved code generation for classes with superclasses:
  • toString now prepends the result of super.toString() #24
  • removeYou now calls super.removeYou() #15
• Changed the way replacement of declarations with auto-generated code can be suppressed. #30
• The code generator no longer now aborts when it encounters syntactically malformed Java source files.

Bugfixes

• Fixed problems related to wrapper classes of uncommon primitive types.
• Generated removeYou() methods now works correctly with unidirectional associations. #9
• Fixed declaration parsing in the FMethod.setDeclaration and .setParamsString methods. #29

Deprecations

• Deprecated the TypeScript parser and generator. #27
• Deprecated the Parser class and related classes. #17
• Deprecated many methods across the codebase. See their Javadoc for replacements or migration instructions.