bract.core Change Log

Ideas and TODO

• [Todo] Add Bract's own defkey that looks up config, followed by context
• [Todo] Combined context/config lookup for variable substitution
• [Idea] Dev triggers should accept an optional param
  • Init a sub-system
  • De-init a sub-system
  • Launch a sub-system
  • etc.
• [Idea] Support for parameterized (or prefixed/qualified) config
• [Idea] Function to transform every config key, based on :bract.core/ctx-config-key-xf {:default identity}
  • Helpful to auto-stringify keys in EDN config files
• [Idea - Dev] Several tasks should accept an optional env key, e.g. (start :qa) that looks up env from context
  • Requires env key/alias definition
  • Env key/alias should switch the config file(s)
• Config
  • [Todo] Add a context keydef (fn) to determine whether draining is over, for add-shutdown-hook times out
  • [Todo] Make config and context entries accessible to each other for substitutions
  • [Todo] Realize variables as extraction time (late, not early)
  • [Todo - BREAKING CHANGE] Remove exports config keydef "bract.core.exports" (in favor of using variable instead)
  • [Todo - BREAKING CHANGE] Have inducers dealing with system properties accept export-key/value arguments
    • export-as-sysprops
    • unexport-sysprops
  • [Todo - BREAKING CHANGE] Drop inducer run-context-inducers in favor of dynamic/late variable substitution
  • [Todo - BREAKING CHANGE] Drop inducer run-config-inducers in favor of dynamic/late variable substitution

[Ideas and Todo] 0.7.0 / 2020-October-??

• [Todo - BREAKING] Make app-context key definition a vector of string
  • String (env var, system property) to be parsed as comma separated tokens
  • [Todo - BREAKING] Context reader should follow the cascading chain
  • [Todo] Make bract-context.edn a cascading choice (after bract-context.run.edn)
  • [Todo - BREAKING] When neither is found, throw exception
• [Idea] Tagged literal support for context and config
  • Internal reference (self-context reference)
  • Cross reference
• [Idea] Create echo functions for success, failure, latency, open-close fragments, exception stack trace
  • [Idea] Could be replaced by colored printers in DEV mode
• [Idea] Find a way to resolve variables at runtime (dynamic + late)
  • [Todo - BREAKING CHANGE] Remove exports config keydef "bract.core.exports" (in favor of using variable instead)
  • [Todo - BREAKING CHANGE] Have inducers dealing with system properties accept export-key/value arguments
    • export-as-sysprops
    • unexport-sysprops
  • [Todo - BREAKING CHANGE] Drop inducer run-context-inducers in favor of dynamic/late variable substitution
  • [Todo - BREAKING CHANGE] Drop inducer run-config-inducers in favor of dynamic/late variable substitution
  • [Todo] Add inducers
    • (push-context [context :key])
    • (pull-context [context :key])
    • (pop-context [context :key])
• [Todo - BREAKING CHANGE] Echo overhaul
  • Accommodate structured-format output
  • Tag print fns with ^:redef so that they can emit coloured, formatted output
• [Todo] Registry of key definitions, so that values can be validated when added to context

Releases

0.6.2 / 2021-February-28

• Dependency update
  • Upgrade Keypin to version 0.8.2 (for remote/cached config store, var metadata, utility predicate)
• New feature
  • Metrics event logging mechanism, no-op by default
    • Context key :bract.core/event-logger
    • Config keys "bract.core.eventlog.(enable, allow, block)"
    • Utility fn bract.core.keydef/resolve-context
• New inducers
  • bract.core.inducer/abort (moved from Gossamer:0.6.1-0.2.0 gossamer.core.inducer/abort)
  • Helper macro bract.core.inducer/when-context-has-key for conditional passthrough
• New functions/macros
  • bract.core.dev/initial-context to resolve DEV mode initial context
  • bract.core.util/err-print-banner for printing banner messages to *err*
  • bract.core.util/nop that does nothing (for any arity)
  • bract.core.util/thrown->val - macro to catch exception and return value
  • bract.core.util/after - macro to do something after an activity, wrapped as fn
  • bract.core.util/doafter - macro to do something after an activity
  • bract.core.keydef/resolve-event-logger to resolve event-logger fn
• General Improvements
  • Demunge function names displayed in verbose/echo mode
  • Make bract.core.inducer/induce print an induction report (table) in verbose-mode
• DEV-mode Improvements
  • Make namespace bract.core.dev-init safe for loading (e.g. by cljdoc)
  • Make bract.core.dev namespace usable for REPL - require/refer useful vars
  • Add bract.core.dev/-main for running application in DEV mode
    • Includes CLI-args in context
  • Add bract.core.dev/help fn for REPL help text
  • Add context key :bract.core/dev-mode? (set true by DEV entry points)
• Documentation
  • Reformat docstring for cljdoc
  • Add cljdoc badge
  • Add documentation page covering context and config keys
  • Add quickstart 'Greeting' example app

0.6.1 / 2018-October-10

• Config
  • Upgrade Keypin dependency to version 0.7.6
    • For :source option in key definitions

0.6.0 / 2018-May-16

• Config
  • Upgrade Keypin dependency to version 0.7.4
    • For parser function keypin.util/str->fn
• Key definitions
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Change launcher key from config "bract.core.launcher" to context :bract.core/launchers
    • Vector of launcher fns
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Set default context file to bract-context.edn
  • Set default value for config key config-inducers to []
  • Change launcher parser from str->var to any->fn
  • Add context utility fn bract.core.keydef/induce-exit
  • Change exit-code constraint from 'zero or +ve int' to 'int'
• Inducers
  • Fix issue where vector and map arguments are misinterpreted as functions upon parsing
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Remove inducer bract.core.inducer/fallback-config-files
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Rename inducer invoke-launcher to invoke-launchers
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Remove inducer prepare-launcher
  • Output important messages to STDERR when echo is disabled
  • Echo the inducer name and error message on exception in inducer
  • Echo inducer-list key in run-context-inducers and run-config-inducers
• CLI entrypoint
  • Add bract.core.main namespace for CLI entry point
    • Define root inducers
• Development support
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Drop dev root inducers in favour of bract.core.main root inducers
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Rename bract.core.dev/default-root-context to bract.core.dev/root-context
  • Add bract.core.dev/context-file to reveal or override the context file
  • Refactor bract.core.dev/config
    • [BREAKING CHANGE] Rename to bract.core.dev/config-files
    • Accept a collection of config filenames as argument
  • Add bract.core.dev/seed-context to potentially override the root-context
• Utility
  • Add let-var utility macro

0.5.1 / 2018-March-05

• Add context key definition :bract.core/app-exit-code - app exit code (int, >= 0), default nil
• Add namespace bract.core.dev-init to easily initialize test namespaces
• Inducer
  • discover-hostname - discover hostname and populate config
  • discover-project-edn-version - discover project version and populate config
  • fallback-config-files - specify config filenames when unspecified
  • prepare-launcher - specify alternate launcher on-the-fly
• Fix issue where resolving new config ignores existing config

0.5.0 / 2018-February-18

• Config
  • Upgrade Keypin dependency to version 0.7.2
    • Symbol/keyword variable substitution in EDN context/config
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Apply parent key parent.filenames to both context and config files
• Key definitions
  • Add :bract.core/health-check to represent health check functions
  • Add :bract.core/alive-tstamp to represent last alive timestamp recorder/reporter
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Rename :bract.core/shutdown-flag to :bract.core/*shutdown-flag
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Change :bract.core/shutdown-hooks to be a vector of hooked threads
• Dev helpers
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Do not return context from some bract.core.dev functions (for REPL usability)
    • deinit, start, stop
  • Update app-context after deinit
• Inducer
  • Make inducer invoke-launcher echo the launcher name
  • Make inducer invoke-deinit empty the deinit vector before returning context
• Utility
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Drop bract.core.util/uuid-str in favour of bract.core.util/clean-uuid
  • Add utility function bract.core.util.runtime/sysinfo to report system info
  • Add string and unit conversion functions

0.4.1 / 2017-August-08

• Make bract.core.keydef/ctx-shutdown-flag :bract.core/shutdown-flag volatile instead of atom
• Fix reverse order of reporting remaining drain time

0.4.0 / 2017-August-05

• [BREAKING CHANGE] Remove inducer bract.core.inducer/config-hook

0.4.0-alpha2 / 2017-August-01

• Merge context from bract-context.dev.edn in dev mode when available
• Catch exception and print stack trace in dev mode (due to uncaught handler)
• Key definition for context-inducers now defaults to an empty vector
• Add utility function pst-when-uncaught-handler for printing stack trace

0.4.0-alpha1 / 2017-July-31

• Upgrade Keypin dependency to version 0.7.1
  • Seamless 'duration' expression
  • Restrict context file reading to EDN only
• [BREAKING CHANGE] Rename bract.core.config namespace to bract.core.keydef
• Add read-context inducer to read/merge-into context from a file
  • Context-key :bract.core/context-file to optionally specify a file to merge context from
• Overhaul application deinit
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Rename inducer deinit to invoke-deinit for consistency with other inducers
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] De-init to be a list of (fn []) passed around with context
• Add add-shutdown-hook inducer to handle application termination signal
• Add set-default-exception-handler inducer to handle uncaught exceptions in threads

0.3.1 / 2017-June-30

• Do not abort on inducer exception in dev mode, just rethrow (useful for REPL/reload workflow)
• Add uuid-str utility function - unique ID for various purposes
• Move generic Bract text from README to the external documentation
• Add invoke-stopper inducer to stop a running application

0.3.0 / 2017-June-11

• Inducer short-circuit (escape hatch) mechanism
  • Break out of the current batch of inducers upon encountering reduced context
  • Break out of all levels of inducers upon encountering context attribute :bract.core/exit? true
• Inducer implementation detail
  • Inducers are now backed by bract.core.type/IFunction protocol
  • Supported inducer spec: function, string, symbol, vector, map, var
• Allow inducers to accept additional arguments other than context
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Remove inducer related functions from the bract.core.config namespace
    • bract.core.config/apply-inducer
    • bract.core.config/apply-inducer-by-name
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Remove inducer related functions from the bract.core.util namespace
    • bract.core.util/apply-inducer
    • bract.core.util/induce
  • Add functions in the bract.core.inducer namespace to apply inducers
    • bract.core.inducer/apply-inducer for functions (for direct internal calls to induce)
    • bract.core.inducer/induce for applying a collection of inducers
• [BREAKING CHANGE] Change of arity in inducers context-hook and config-hook
  • Inducer bract.core.inducer/context-hook no more supports arity-1, accepts function as second argument
  • Inducer bract.core.inducer/config-hook no more supports arity-1, accepts function as second argument
  • Config definition for "bract.core.context-hook" is removed
  • Config definition for "bract.core.config-hook" is removed
• Replace default dev config file config.dev.edn with config/config.dev.edn
• Inducers for running other inducers
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Rename bract.core.inducer/run-inducers to run-config-inducers
    • Config key definition bract.core.inducers
    • Add arity-2 to run-config-inducers to run inducers specified by a config lookup key
  • Add bract.core.inducer/run-context-inducers to run inducers from context
    • Context key definition :bract.core/inducers
    • Add arity-2 to run-context-inducers to run inducers specified by a context lookup key
• Development mode helpers
  • bract.core.dev/verbose to get/set verbosity level
  • bract.core.dev/config to get/set config file override
  • Functions (config) and (verbose) return current setting
  • Functions config and verbose warn when environment variable will prevent any override

0.2.0 / 2017-June-04

• Factor out CLI handling into module bract.cli
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Drop bract.core.cli namespace
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Drop bract.core.main namespace
• Overhaul config
  • Verbosity may be now be overridden with environment variable APP_VERBOSE or system property app.verbose
  • Verbosity is disabled by default
  • Add config keys ctx-verbose?, ctx-config-files, ctx-cli-args in bract.core.config namespace
  • Add bract.core.config/apply-inducer
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Drop bract.core.config/resolve-config-filenames
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Drop bract.core.config/run-app
  • Use own logger when reading config using Keypin
  • [BREAKING CHANGE] Use config parent key "parent.config.filenames" when reading config
• Inducers (namespace bract.core.inducer)
  • Add set-verbosity
  • Add read-config
  • Add run-inducers
• Keypin
  • Upgrade to Keypin 0.6.0

0.1.0 / 2017-April-25

• Features
  • CLI entry point
  • Inducer functions
  • Development/test support
• CLI commands
  • Run
  • Dry run
  • Print config
  • Clojure REPL
• Inducer functions
  • Context hook
  • Config hook
  • Export as system properties
  • Un-export system properties
  • Launcher invocation (conditional)
  • De-initialization