[Developers] New Apatar v1.2.1.0 Build

Thu Aug 14 05:48:01 PDT 2008

Dear Apatar Developers,

The Apatar Team is proud to inform you that Apatar Open Source Data
Integration 1.2.1.0 has been released. A great number of new features were
added, lots of bugs were fixed, and the first step of Apatar refactoring was
completed. You may find a brief summary below.

New features

a)     The Clear HTML function, which allows to remove HTML tags from the
extracted text, was added.

b)     The CropRight function, which allows to crop text string from the
right side

c)     The Parse E-mail Body function, which outputs just the text of an
e-mail body, removing the headers and other system information

d)     The CurrentDate Constant, displaying the current time

e)     As well, processed records counters were added to Join, Transform,
Validate, and Aggregate modules.

f)       Finally, the first step of Apatar refactoring is now completed.
Please see the change log below for more details.

Bugs fixed

a) DB2 connector: License is not saving
(http://www.apatarforge.org/bugs/browse/APT-568)

b) Spelling error in wizard window
(http://www.apatarforge.org/bugs/browse/APT-562)

c) Spelling error on converting the datamap page
(http://www.apatarforge.org/bugs/browse/APT-563)

d) DB2 Connector: Manage License window is not opening
(http://www.apatarforge.org/bugs/browse/APT-564)

e) There is no Vertica Connector included in the latest version
(http://www.apatarforge.org/bugs/browse/APT-565)

f) Next run time in Scheduler is updating only after closing and reopen
scheduler ( <http://www.apatarforge.org/bugs/browse/APT-566>
http://www.apatarforge.org/bugs/browse/APT-566)

Apatar refactoring: change log

1.  Dependency between com.altoros.octoslave.thirdparty and
com.altoros.octoslave.salesforcecom was eliminated.

2.  Plug-ins were sorted by category: core, rich_ui_framework, connectors

3.  funstion plug-in was renamed to functions

4.  generaljdbs plug-in was renamed to ldap

5.  All packages with names com.altoros.octoslave.PACKAGE_NAME were renamed
to com.apatar.PACKAGE_NAME

6.  Paths to plug-ins were simplified: com.apatar. was deleted from plug-in
category folder names 

7.  mysql plug-in was divided into two: mysql and mssql

8.  Unused msutil.jar library was deleted

9.  postgresql plug-in was divided into two: postgresql  and enterprisedb

10. xml plug-in was divided into two: xml and rss

11. OctoslaveMain class was renamed to ApatarUiMain 

12. Node interface was analyzed and commented. Methods related to only the
UI or only the code were defined.

13. Node interface was divided into two: Node and Node UI. Node UI now
includes methods related only to UI. The node now includes methods related
only to core.

14. AbstractReadWriteXMLDataActions class was added. This is the class that
UI classes responsible for processing situations that require interactivity
during loading or saving a project should be inherited from.

15. Exception class ApatarException was added.

16. ReadWriteXMLData class was refactored:

a) all writeXMLDate methods were renamed to writeXMLData

b) public static File writeXMLData(String fileSrc, Project project, boolean
autoReplace) method now gives the following exception:

         public static File writeXMLData(String fileSrc, Project project,
boolean autoReplace) throws ApatarException

c) updatePane method was moved to com.apatar.ui.UiUtils

d) all readXMLDate methods were renamed to readXMLData

e) readXMLData method now returns file.getName() to caller. New method
signature is:

         public static String readXMLData(String fileSrc, Project project)
throws SAXException, IOException

This method now redirects IOException handling to caller code

This method now returns file.getName() string to set Application title

f) setDateAndTimeSettings method was renamed to loadDateAndTimeSettings

g) loadDateAndTimeSettings method is no longer static. It is called by a
class instance.

h) public void writeXMLData(Project project, Writer writer) method is no
longer static.

i) saveDocumentToFile methods are no longer static. Duplicate code was
deleted from these classes.

j) public static Document loadDocument(String xmlSrc) method was deleted 

k) public static boolean isValidDbXmlFile(String srcFile) method was deleted

l) Errors processing was deleted. Exceptions should be caught by a caller.

17. The ReadWriteXMLDataUi class was added. It calls ReadWriteXMLData class
methods.

18. ProxySettings class was deleted

19. InsertComent class was deleted

20. ETLFileFilter class was renamed to ApatarFileFilter and moved to UI
package

21. ApatarRegExp class now passes exceptions to caller level

22. ClipboardTool class was moved to UI package

23. Added inheritance from Ipersistent interface to Condition class

24. FunctionCategory list moved to UI package

25. GetInputs class moved to UI package

26. ProgressBarRelated class moved to UI

27. RegisterRannable interface renamed to RegisterRunnable

28. RegisterRunnable interface moved to UI package

29. com.apatar.ui.JProgressDialog class deleted

30.  Added AbstractProcessingProgressActions class implementing methods
during datamap processing

a) Added public abstract void beforeStart(AbstractNode debugNode) event to
the above class

31. Added ProcessingProgressActions class implementing
AbstractProcessingProgressActions class methods

32. Errors processing moved to caller

a) public AbstractProcessingProgressActions processingActions parameter (a
link to the object implementing GUI actions before datamap processing) added
to public void Run(Collection<AbstractNode> nodes, OperationalNode
debugNode) method

33. AbstractETLFunction class renamed to AbstractApatarFunction

34. ETLFunction class renamed to ApatarFunction

35. IPersistent interface implementation added to
IntValueAbstractETLFunction class

a) IntValueAbstractETLFunction class renamed to
IntValueAbstractApatarFunction

36. IntValueAbstractETLFunctionBeanInfo class renamed to
IntValueAbstractApatarFunctionBeanInfo

37. JprogressDialog class moved to UI package

38. JdbcParamsBeanInfo class moved to UI package

39. MainETLPlugin class renamed to MainApatarPlugin

40. ValueAbstractETLFunction class renamed to ValueAbstractApatarFunction

41. ValueAbstractETLFunctionBeanInfo class renamed to
ValueAbstractApatarFunctionBeanInfo

42. Added AbstractMainApatarPluginActions abstract class declaring methods
for event taking place at application start

a) AbstractMainApatarPluginActions class inherited from IApatarActions
interface

b) AbstractMainApatarPluginActions renamed to AbstractApatarActions

43. IPersistent interface implementation added to AbstractNode class

44. AbstractProcessingProgressActions class inherited from IApatarActions
interface

45. Added ApatarActions class implementing UI events at nodes configuration

46. public static List<Record> getAllFieldFromTable(JdbcParams params,
String tableName, DataBaseInfo bi, boolean withMessage) throws SQLException,
ClassNotFoundException method deleted 

47. IPersistent interface implementation added to DateAndTimeSettings class

48. Added IapatarActions interface declaring events

49. Added MainApatarPluginActions class implementing events

50. Node interface inherited from IPersistent interface

a) public void edit(Window win); public boolean realEdit(Window win); public
void afterEdit(boolean editRsult); methods signatures changed to public void
edit(AbstractApatarActions actions); public boolean
realEdit(AbstractApatarActions actions); public void afterEdit(boolean
editRsult, AbstractApatarActions actions);

51. ImageIcon getConnPointIcon() method deleted

52. IPersistent interface implementation added to SchemaTable class

53. IPersistent interface implementation added to TableInfo class

54. AbstractApatarActions action parameter implementing interactive UI
functions added to protected boolean registration method

55. fileFilter class replaced with ApatarFileFilter class

56. Constructor without parameters that sets the default extension to aptr
added to ApatarFileFilter class

57. Added DatamapConverter class for conversion of datamaps created by
earlier application versions

58. .apatar.ui.datamapconverter package implements datamap conversion wizard

59. Method checking datamap version added to readXMLData method in
ReadWriteXMLDataUi class 

60. The isDatamapOlderThan12 method checking datamap version was added to
the ReadWriteXMLData class.

61. Method for reading files as strings was added to CoreUtils class

62. Method for writing a file from a string type variable was added to
CoreUtils class

63. SalesForcePasswordString class was deleted

Apatar download links: 

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/apatar/apatar_v1.2.1.0.exe 

(Windows) 

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/apatar/apatar_v1.2.1.0.tar.gz 

(Linux / Mac Os)

Other release notes

All Apatar Release Notes can be found at

http://www.apatarforge.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=121 

and 

http://www.apatarforge.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=63

If you find a bug, please submit it to http://www.apatarforge.org/bug

Do you have questions or comments concerning this mailing list? I would
appreciate your feedback. Thank you!

--

Best regards,

Alex Khizhnyak | Chief Evangelist | Apatar, Inc.

www.apatar.com <http://www.apatar.com/> 

www.apatarforge.org

Blog <http://www.apatar.com/blogs/alex/>  on Data Integration and Open
Source

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