Fire Release notes

Runtime:

• Async
  • Added ForkThread to run forked code on dedicated background thread instead of threadpool thread
• BlockingQueue
  
  • created BlockingQueue<T> for thread-safe producer/consumer scenarios
• Cookies
  
  • Refactored Dream cookie logic to use DreamCookie rather than native Cookie class
  • DreamCookie automatically handles local:// <-> http:// transition
  • bug 5466: cookies parsing fails if $Version is separated by comma instead of semi-colon
  • bug 5470: cookies without paths were not picked up properly
• CookieJar
  
  • will consider both public and local variants of a URL when fetching cookies
• CultureUtil
  • Methods for retrieving non-neutral culture
• DateTimeUtil
  • bug 5796: refactored all date parsing to use InvariantCulture via DateTimeUtil helpers
• DreamContext
  
  • added User property to retrieve and set IPrincipal
  • ServerUri uses Ip instead of Hostname for default derivation
  • PublicUri can be overriden with different value on a per request basis
  • Skipping IPv6 addresses in host address inspection when trying to derive PublicUri
• DreamHost
  
  • Fixed incorrect error message when script fails to load
  • Posting against "services" to create a services now returns a result document with the internal and private keys
• DreamHostService
  
  • DreamHostService: set IPrincipal for authenticated user
  • Enumerates all loaded Assemblies, their version, build date and if applicable svn info at /host/version
• DreamMessage
  
  • added Ok constructor using array of KeyValuePair<string, string>, which creates a form-encoded message (replaces similar constructor which was based on XUri)
  • FromFile() no longer catches exceptions (e.g. FileNotFound) and let's them pass through instead
• DreamService
  
  • Now contains a PubSub plug pointing at the default (or configured) PubSubService
  • Added DreamContext as parameter to DetermineAccess
  • Bug 6060: now injecting parent apikey to child services if no apikey is defined
• DreamServiceState
  • deprecated
• Email Service
  
  • Can send smtp email messages
  • Accepts multiple smtp server configurations indexed by caller determined key
• HttpHandler
  
  • fetch IPrincipal for current request
  • bug 5520: running multiple instances of HttpHandler initializes multiple hosting
• HttpPlugFactory
  • use ToUri() on XUri to get a properly escape Uri
• HttpTransport
  
  • fetch IPrincipal for current request
• MimeType
  
  • bug 4524: Desktop connector is uploading pdf's as application/octet-stream

• Plug
  
  • Allows overring the global CookieJar with a custom CookieJar
  • use new DreamMessage constructor in PostQuery() to create form-encoded messages
• PlugHandler
  • Now also receives the un-normalized Uri
• Plug mocking tools
  
  • MockPlug
    
    • Create a callback to incerpect Plug calls for testing
  • AutoMockPlug
    
    • Record/Playback/Verify style mocking tool for Plug calls
• Publish & Subscribe Service
  
  • Event publish and subscribe service
  • Can chain multiple services together with subscription progragation both up and down stream
• ResourcePlug
  • set caching header and respond with Not-Modified (304) when the same resource is requested again by a conditional GET

• Storage Service / Private Storage Service
  • Consolidated public and private storage into a single service and provide a shared private storage services as the default service to all services
• StringUtil
  
  • 'ByteFromHexString()' now works for strings of arbitrary length
  • added RepeatPattern() helper method
  • 'ReplaceWithDelimiters()' now works even when the start and stop delimiter are the same
• TaskTimer
  • bug 5486: fixed a lock problem in TaskTimer.Shutdown
• XDoc
  
  • added ReverseList() method to reverse selection
  • bug 5265: default namespace is improperly applied to attributes without prefix
  • bug 5395: RemoveNodes() and RemoveAttr() should not fail on empty documents
  • bug 5490: XDoc.AsText should return empty string if node exists, but has not text node
  • bug 5679: fixed XDoc.ToNameValuePairs
• XDocCop
  • don't automatically replace CDATA section with their text equivalents
  • added 'Verify()' function to check if a document would be affected if 'Enforce()' were invoked
• XDocDiff
  
  • compute optionally attribute changes as well
  • fixed bug in how attribute changes are tracked
  • Highlight() now de-interleaves text changes when generating a composite diff document
  • highlight changes in before and after documents as well
• XException
  
  • added XML deserialization for exceptions
• Xuri
  
  • improved error reporting for 'ChangePrefix()' method
  • when converting to Uri, escape trailing '.' characters in segments as Uri will otherwise remove them
  • bug 5100: allows pipe (|) character in URIs
  • bug 5816: XUri.ToUri() doesn't handle non-default port properly
• XUriChildMap
  
  • As opposed to XUriMap which returns the best matching entry for a XUri, XUriChildMap will returns a collection of all XUris matching an XUri.
  • Accepts wildcard as map entries containing hostport and path trailing wildcards
  • Can be made scheme insensitive