Daffodil 0.14.x

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Daffodil 0.14.0

Core

• support for bitOrder property
• support for encodingErrorPolicy="replace"
• fix bug where schemas using import/include were not properly validated, causing various error messages
• fix bug where lengthKind="explicit" in some cases incorrectly included initiators and terminators in the content length
• various performance improvements, with some parses having increased speed of ~30%
• improve error messages when invalid regular expressions are used in properties like testPattern and lengthPattern
• fix error with when runtime byteOrder expressions fail
• fix potential thread safety bugs in delimiter scanning

CLI

• decrease the amount of memory needed for performance suboption, allowing for many more input files to be used
• removed the --namespace option and modified --root option to optionally include the namespace, for example, --namespace ns --root r is now --root {ns}r

Daffodil 0.13.x

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Daffodil 0.13.0

Dependencies

• upgrade to scala-2.10.4
• upgrade to sbt-0.13.2

Core

• fix non-thread-safe code in date/time/dateTime types, text numbers, delimiters, occursCountKind='expression', and expression evaluation
• use correct namespace for external variables
• improve performance for data containing only ASCII encoding
• remove broken support for lengthUnits=bytes with specified lengthKind and variable-width encodings
• replace much of the parser combinator code with DFAs specifically tailored towards DFDL requirements, giving a performance increase on delimited data

CLI

• add new 'performance' command used to execute performance tests and gather statistics

Daffodil 0.12.x

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Daffodil 0.12.0

Dependencies

• upgrade to Saxon-HE-9.5.1-1
• upgrade to jdom2-2.0.5
• upgrade to scallop-0.9.4

Core

• check for unescaped curly braces in DFDL literals
• ignore dfdl:representation when type is xs:hexBinary or xs:string. Representation is assumed to be binary with xs:hexBinary, and text with xs:string
• remove defaulting of dfdl:sequenceKind to ordered. The property must now be specified
• fix bug causing the use of the wrong root element when not provided via the API or CLI
• report schema definition error when no terminator is supplied, but lengthKind='delimited' and tralingSkip > 0
• add check for alignment ambiguity
• require xs:string and xs:hexBinary to defined minOccurs/maxOccurs when lengthKind='implicit'
• when a delimiter is not found, display what was found in the error message
• check for distinctness of delimiters
• disallow whitespace in some properties. Instead the DFDL character entites such as %SP; must be used instead
• add support for DFDL expressions in escapeCharacter and escapeEscapeCharacter 
• fix incorrect parse failures when escapeEscapeCharacter was set to the empty string

API

• add new function to the Compiler setValidateDFDLSchemas to enable/disable DFDL schema validation, such as unique particle attribute and various facet related checks

CLI

• modify --validation-mode option to have the form --validate [mode]. If mode is not provided, it defaults to "on". If --validate is not provided, validation defaults to "off".

Daffodil 0.11.x

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Daffodil 0.11.0

Core

• add support for runtime expressions in byteOrder
• add support for sequenceKind="unordered"
• add support for infoset validation, three modes
  1. "on": check constraints and Xerces validation
  2. "limited": check constraints, no Xerces validation
  3. "off"" no validation performed
• add support for external variables
• add support for advanced text number properties:
  
  • textStandardDecimalSeparator (static & dynamic)
  • textStandardGroupingDeparator (static & dynamic)
  • textStandardExponentRep (static & dynamic) (renamed from textStandardExponentCharacter)
  • textStandardInfinityRep
    
  • textStandardNaNRep
    
  • textStandardZeroRep
    
  • textNumberPattern
    
  • textNumberCheckPolicy
    
  • textNumberRounding
    
  • textNumberRoundingMode
    
  • textNumberRoundingIncrement
    
• add new DFDL expression compiler to better detect invalid expressions, primarily those related to unordered sequences
• add min/maxOccurs validation check
• require appinfo source attribute to be "http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/"
• add support for binary and text xs:decimal type
• improve diagnostics when a variable is used but not set 
  
• fix bug with dynamic separators using variables
• fix SDE detection on last required element when maxOccurs="unbounded" and {{occursCountKind="implicit"}}
  
• fix lengthKind='pattern' to not error when a match is not found, but instead to return a length of zero
• fix bug where nonNegativeInteger range was not checked correctly
• fix bug iso-8859-1 support

Java API

• fix bug in JAPI default log writer causing logs to fail to write
  

CLI

• new options to enable external variables
  • -D, --variables to define one or more external variables
  • -c, --config to define an XML file containing external variables
• new option for validation
  • --validation-mode=<mode>, where mode can be "on", "off", or "limited"
    
• new option for the test subcommand
  • -i, --info to display more information about what a test failed. May be supplied multiple times to increase the amount of information

TDML

• ability to enable validation via a new attribute, validation="<mode>", placed on a parserTestCase 

API

• new function added to the DataProcessor to modify validation mode: setValidationMode(mode)
• new compile methods added to to supply external variables, one method takes a Map and one takes a File
• new methods added to the DataProcessor to the DataProcessor to supply external variables, setExternalVariables(), which can accept wither a File, Map, or list of Binding

Daffodil 0.10.x

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Daffodil 0.10.1

Core/Java API

• fix bug causing duplicate elements to be added to the infoset
• fix bug where delimiters containing DFDL character entities but not starting with a DFDL character entity caused a schema definition error

Debugger

• fix bug where the debugger/tracer attempted to access a non-existent element after a parse failure, causing an abort
• limit info parser output to 2 lines of text
• modify the tracer defaults to only output the parent node and its children, instead of the entire infoset

Daffodil 0.10.0

Core

• xs:include and xs:import now work with relative file schemaLocations
• respect minOccurs when occursCountKind="implicit"
• diagnostics improvements
• fix 7-bit USASCII with implicit alignment
• add schema definition warning if xs:appinfo source is incorrect
• fix unsignedXXX values
• improve schema definition error detection
• eliminate duplicate errors
• require that a complexType must have exactly one child, which must be a sequence, choice, or group reference
• allow spaces in pathnames to input files and schemas
• calculated values (e.g. inputValueCalc) maintain their precision in error messages
• check for invalid DFDL entities
• support for escaping percent sign

Java API

• fix character entity infoset output when using the Java API
• add support for controlling the debugger, including a trace debugger
• fix issue where multiple retrievals of the parser result caused error

TDML Runner

• can now use CDATA tags in dfdl:infoset for cases where characters like < and > are in the expected output
• replaceDFDLEntities attribute for documentPart element now defaults to false

CLI

• new --trace option to display verbose output of Daffodil parsing
• the --debug option can now take a file containing a list of debugger commands (e.g. --debug=cmds.txt)
• add check for not yet implemented features
• fix bug where order of multiple --schema options was not maintained

Debugger

• add 'history' command to display the list of past commands
• replace 'undisplay' command with 'delete display'
• 'delete' command requires 'breakpoint' or 'display'
• 'break' command does not require the 'element.' prefix anymore