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Release Notes 5.7.0

Tapestry 5.7.0 is a new major version which needs a migration step for projects using previous versions. To upgrade, update the dependency in your build configuration (Maven POM, Gradle build script, etc.) – or Download the new JAR file. Please check the Upgrade Guide section below for details. This is a step that only needs to be done once. Please also review the How to Upgrade instructions before upgrading.

The main new features are:

  • Partial Java 9+ modules (JPMS) support. It's partial because module-info.java classes are not provided yet. On the other hand, Tapestry's JARs don't have split packages anymore, making them easier to be used with Java 9+ modules. Many classes had to be moved to other packages, and sometimes even to a different JAR. The migration tool mentioned above will take care of updating your code so it uses the correct new fully-qualified class names for the ones that were moved and/or renamed.
    • TAP5-2641 - ( ) TAP5-2627 - ( )
  • TypeCoercer now uses mapped configuration so coercion overrides are done in an explicit manner. 
    • TAP5-2650 - ( )
  • It's not possible to use the Tapestry request handling framework, specially the RequestFilter, Dispatcher, Request, Response and HttpServletRequestFilter classes, without the page framework. These classes were moved to a new artifact, tapestry-http, which can be used in place of tapestry-core (which depends on tapestry-http). tapestry-http Servlet filter class is org.apache.tapestry5.http.TapestryFilter. The original TapestryFilter, from org.apache.tapestry5, can be used in the same way way as in past Tapestry versions. 

5.7.0 Upgrade Guide

The first step is running the source code migration tool:
  1. Download the migration tool jar from https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tapestry/tapestry-version-migrator/5.7.0/tapestry-version-migrator-5.7.0.jar
  2. Run "java -jar tapestry-version-migrator-5.7.0.jar upgrade 5.7.0" (without quotes) in the command line. It will process all .java files found in the current folder and its subfolders, recursively. 

The second step is updating how contributions to the TypeCoercer service in case your projects have them. Here's a real example from Tapestry itself. It used to be done using Configuration, but now it's MappedConfiguration. If you had a contribution method like this:

@Contribute(TypeCoercer.class)
public static void provideCoercions(Configuration<CoercionTuple> configuration)
{
    configuration.add(CoercionTuple.create(String.class, JSONObject.class, new StringToJSONObject()));
}

it should be changed to this:

public static void provideCoercions(MappedConfiguration<CoercionTuple.Key, CoercionTuple> configuration)
{
    CoercionTuple<String, JSONObject> stringToJsonObject = CoercionTuple.create(
        String.class, JSONObject.class, new StringToJSONObject());
    configuration.add(stringToJsonObject.getKey(), stringToJsonObject);
}

Improvements made

Key Summary T Created Updated Due Assignee Reporter P Status Resolution
TAP5-2662 Make BeanEditor/BeanEditForm/FormGroup more accessible Improvement Feb 12, 2021 Feb 12, 2021 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Major Closed Fixed
TAP5-2657 Blacklist modules autoloaded via manifests New Feature Dec 31, 2020 Feb 11, 2021 Ben Weidig Ben Weidig Trivial Closed Fixed
TAP5-2655 Create annotation to disable validation in event handler methods Improvement Dec 29, 2020 May 05, 2022 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Minor Closed Fixed
TAP5-2654 Remove Asset2 by merging it into Asset Improvement Dec 16, 2020 Mar 28, 2022 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Minor Closed Fixed
TAP5-2653 Upgrade tapestry-spring's spring-web version to 3.2.9 Improvement Dec 08, 2020 Dec 08, 2020 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Minor Closed Fixed
TAP5-2652 Upgrade EclipseLink version in tapestry-jpa to 2.7.7, the latest Improvement Dec 06, 2020 Dec 08, 2020 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Major Closed Fixed
TAP5-2651 TypeCoercer should favor exact match coercions over intermediate ones Improvement Dec 06, 2020 Feb 11, 2021 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Major Closed Fixed
TAP5-2650 Change TypeCoercer configuration to MappedConfiguration Improvement Dec 01, 2020 Jun 05, 2022 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Major Closed Fixed
TAP5-2649 Configuration should have consistent ordering Improvement Nov 26, 2020 Feb 11, 2021 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Major Closed Fixed
TAP5-2645 Java Time API / JSR310 Type Coercers Improvement Oct 16, 2020 Feb 12, 2021 Ben Weidig Ben Weidig Minor Closed Fixed
TAP5-2644 Split HTTP-specific classes from tapestry-core into tapestry-http Improvement Oct 08, 2020 Dec 02, 2020 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Major Closed Fixed
TAP5-2641 Turn the Tapestry subprojects into Java 9+ modules (JPMS) Improvement Sep 06, 2020 Jun 25, 2023 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Major Resolved Fixed
TAP5-2640 tapestry-json improvements (implement Collection/Map, better exceptions) Improvement Sep 06, 2020 Feb 11, 2021 Ben Weidig Ben Weidig Minor Closed Fixed
TAP5-2627 Fix split packages Improvement Jun 01, 2020 Jan 30, 2021 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Minor Resolved Fixed
TAP5-2613 Make the build of tapestry itself pass on Java 11 Task Aug 26, 2019 Dec 02, 2020 Dmitry Gusev Dmitry Gusev Major Closed Fixed
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Bugs fixed

Key Summary T Created Updated Due Assignee Reporter P Status Resolution
TAP5-2661 Allow options to be passed to GoogleClosureMinimizer Bug Jan 29, 2021 Feb 15, 2021 Ben Weidig Geoff Callender Major Closed Fixed
TAP5-2660 Empty string and null namespaces should be treated as the same in Element Bug Jan 26, 2021 Jan 26, 2021 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Major Closed Fixed
TAP5-2659 Direct instantiation of ComponentResourceSelector should be replaced with delegation to ComponentRequestSelectorAnalyzer Bug Jan 11, 2021 Jun 20, 2021 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Dmitry Gusev Major Closed Fixed
TAP5-2658 Tuple should implement hashCode based on its values Bug Jan 06, 2021 Feb 11, 2021 Ben Weidig Ben Weidig Minor Closed Fixed
TAP5-2656 Disabling strict CSS URL rewriting still throws exceptions for non-existing files Bug Dec 30, 2020 Jan 19, 2021 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Major Closed Fixed
TAP5-2636 Non-unique advice IDs silently override each other in random order on application startup Bug Aug 17, 2020 Feb 11, 2021 Thiago Henrique De Paula Figueiredo Dmitry Gusev Major Closed Fixed
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