Merge of Servoy 6.1.x into Servoy 7.3

With the release of Servoy 7.3 the upgrade path for the 6.1.x branch will be the Servoy 7.x branch, as Servoy 7.x can be considered Servoy 6.1.x + Servoy Mobile. This means that Servoy 6.1.6 is the last update in the Servoy 6.1 branch and that installations that run Servoy 6.1.x can upgrade to Servoy 7.3, skipping 7.0.0 - 7.2.

The auto-update mechanism in Servoy Developer and the command-line upgrade mechanism in the Servoy Application Server will start offering the Servoy 7.3 version as update on Servoy 6.1.x releases as of November 8 2013.

For more information on all supported version, see Supported Versions

See the following links for the Release Notes of previous 7.x.x releases:

Mobile Client

SVY-4231 Added online mode to the Mobile Client, allowing to display data retrieved live from the server
See Online Mobile for more details
SVY-4908 Added support for debugging Mobile Solutions
See Debugging Mobile for more details. As a result of gaining this new debugging ability, the emulated Mobile Debug Clienthas been removed from Servoy Developer
SVY-4258 Added option to specify the name of the Service Solution when exporting the Mobile Solution
SVY-4258 Added application.get/setServerURL() to specify the URL of the Application Server to which the Mobile Client will connect to access it's Service Solution.
If the server URL is not set at export, it must be set before security.authenticate is called from custom login form. This way, the URL is set before any calls to server are done
SVY-4402 Added option to specify a custom login form
On mobile solution properties, a login form can be specified. This login form has to call security.authenticate to authenticate server side against a username/password. After security.authenticate is called the flow of application will be the same as for default login screen.
SVY-4799 Added application.getApplicationType()
SVY-4884 Added support for using FoundSets based on in-mem datasources for offline data
SVY-5011 Added option to programatically logout
SVY-4672 Added JSFoundSet.getRecordIndex(JSRecord)
SVY-5088 Added plugins.mobile.getUUIDPKValueAsString
When communicating between the Mobile Client and the Service solution, records need to have a UUID PK. Inside the Mobile Client however, the UUID's are translated into unique integer values, to preserve memory and storage. The plugins.mobile.getUUIDPKValueAsString method allows to get the UUID PK value for a specific JSRecord. This is needed in case callbacks are made from the Mobile Client to the Service Solution outside the the built-in sync mechanism and information about specific records needs to be communicated.
SVY-4397 Refactored text property on Bean to innerHTML and also made it available @designtime
SVY-4657 Added new/removeValueList() to solutionModel
SVY-5036 Added application.get/setUserProperties support to the Service Solution
When setting User Properties in the service solution using application.getUserProperty(), the properties and their values will be send back to the Mobile Client where they are persisted. With each subsequent request to the service solution the properties and their values will be send back to the service solution, where they can be accessed through application.getUserProperty. Note that the sending of the properties and their values back to the service solution with each request is only applicable to requests made by the Servoy API. In custom AJAX calls done through JQuery for example, the special HTTP Request Headers that take care of sending the properties and their values to the service solution are not set and thus the properties and their values are not available in the service solution.

Servoy Developer

SVY-4567 Added support for the standard GIT setup in Servoy Developer
Servoy Developer now also supports working with projects ( == solutions) that don't contain all the project files inside the project directory in the workspace, but in a different location, like a GIT Repository which is located somewhere else on the file system
SVY-1321, SVY-4744 Script editor now supports @typedef (https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/js-for-compiler) where one can have a variable that is then an alias for a more complex type. The variable name can then be used in @param {varname} or @type {varname}
SVY-4548 Support for @protected annotation on members of constructor functions
SVY-2826 Added a Code Template for FoundSet loops
SVY-4893 Made application.output() statements with WARNING and ERROR level appear in red in the Console in Servoy Developer, so they stand out more
SVY-4964 Added i18n key selector to dataprovider title editor

Solution Development

Due to the implementation of SVY-5036: 'Added application.get/setUserProperties support to the Service Solution', the behavior of get/setUserProperty in the Headless & Batch Processor clients has changed.

Before Servoy 7.3 User Properties set from within Headless Clients would be persisted in the servoy.properties file of the Application Server and be shared between all Headless Clients running on that server.
As of Servoy 7.3 the behavior changed in the following ways:
- In most Headless Clients the User Properties are stored on Session level, which means that when the session ends, the User Properties are no longer persisted. This also means that User Property values are not shared anymore between the different Headless Clients
- In Headless Clients used by the Restful plugin the User Properties are added as an HTTP Header (name=servoy.userproperties) of the generated HTTP Response for each call to the Restful API. The client that calls the Restful API (a browser for example) can read the values from the HTTP Header in the response. In order to persist the User Properties between subsequent calls to the Restful API, the client that calls the Restful API needs to add the User Properties as to the HTTP Request header.
The only exception to this rule are Headless Clients created through the Headless Client Java API with an HTTP Request/Session, for example when integrating the Headless Client into JSP pages. In this case the User Properties were stored in the HTTP Session object and still are

SVY-937 Encapsulation support on ValueLists, Relations and Media
SVY-3259 Made the Form Encapsulation property clearer
SVY-4734 Support to deprecate Forms, ValueLists, Relations and Media's
SVY-1873 Added option to launch a Smart Client without initial MenuBar/ToolBar/StatusBar
SVY-4869 Ability to specify the PK column in databaseManager.createDataSource()
SVY-4547 Added support to the RESTfull WebServices plugin to receive multi-part post
SVY-4281 Added option to retrieve fallbackValueList on JSValueList
SVY-2003 Added option to open files in the Web Client, instead of downloading them
SVY-4799 Added APPLICATION_TYPES.MOBILE
SVY-1088 Added support to call databaseManager.saveData(JSRecord/JSFoundSet) from within table events on related records
This allows the creation and succesive save of related records when a parent records gets inserted/updated
SVY-3611 Exposed formIndex property on elements
SVY-4504 Added JSDataSet.getColumnNames()
SVY-2241 Added JSComponent.getDesigntimePropertyNames()
SVY-1978 Support for working with literal values in relation through the solutionModel

Web Client

Several updates to the rendering of the TableView to improve performance

Deployment

SVY-1718 Tomcat setting "useHttpOnly" now set to true by default in order to mitigate possible XSS attacks
SVY-4677 Added option to remove Profiles through the Servoy Admin pages
SVY-3851 Option to disable Smart Client usage when deploying as a WAR

Public Java API

SVY-3192 Added several methods to the IPageContributor interface to add JavaScript and CSS resources globally to all current and future windows and dialogs in the current Web Client session

Open Source

Updated the Open Source guide with instructions for Servoy Mobile