Updates 2016/07/15

Many changes and fixes regarding data processing and improvements in the GUI this time round.

Fixes

  • adams-twitter: update the link to the link search API used by the TwitterQuery source actor.

  • Adding large number of objects in the GenericArrayEditor is now much faster.

  • Preview browser: using a split pane now for local/archive files to better utilize the vertical space, also fixed the display of search box for archive files.

  • adams-compress: the listFiles methods of ZipUtils and TarUtils now skip directories in archives when specified.

Changes

  • Debugging is now also possible when using external actors, include external actors and internal actor handlers. An expanded version of the flow is then used in a new tab for debugging. However, this does not work in case of external actors having a variable attached to the actor file.

  • Pushes dimensions of dialogs into GUIHelper.props file, using defaults for normal, small, tiny and large ones (Default[(Small|Tiny|Large)]Dialog.(Width|Height)).

  • ConditionalTee/Trigger now use Expression as the default boolean condition, to align with ConditionalSubProcess (and you simply use Expression more often then Counting)

  • RaiseError's message can contain backquoted characters (\\t and \\n) and variables now.

  • Added ability to add a scope restriction to Breakpoint actors. This is useful when debugging multi-threaded flows (e.g., when using Rats), restricting the scope - and therefore the stepping through the flow - to a sub-flow. With the new automatic suggestions for breakpoints, the scope is automatically set for breakpoints within Rat actors.

  • Added support for custom actions for enclosing actors: adams.gui.flow.tree.enclose.AbstractEncloseActors. Migrated code for DisplayPanelManager and added action for TryCatch.

  • Removed the Open remote flow functionality from Flow editor, as it will get replaced in the future by the more powerful/flexible remote command functionality.

  • The XMLFileWriter sink and the DOMToString conversion now support pretty printing.

  • adams-rats:

    • added proper event-driven support in Rats.

    • AbstractBufferedRatInput uses blocking poll.

    • (most) webservices are now buffered rat inputs to immediately react to data being received, making it unnecessary to wrap them in an InputPolling "meta" rat input

  • adams-ml: it is now possible to restrict the axes of the ActualVsPredictedPlot, as well as placing the plot on the screen like with other graphical ones and use it within the DisplayPanelManager sink.

Additions

  • Added basic YAML support, using java.util.List and java.util.Map objects:

    • actors: YamlFileReader transformer, YamlFileWriter sink

    • conversions: YamlStringToList, YamlStringToMap, ArrayToYamlString, ListToYamlString, MapToYamlString

  • Added more JSON conversions:

    • ListToJson converts a java.util.List.

    • MapToJson converts a java.util.Map.

  • Added support for pretty-printing of JSON: JsonFileWriter sink, JsonToString conversion

  • Added JSON handler to preview browser that displays data as pretty-print text: JsonPrettyPrintHandler

  • Added menu item to the Flow editor's tree popup menu that allows you to compare two selected actors, displauing a diff view (you may have to remove the $HOME/.adams/FlowEditor.props file).

  • Made it possible to swap between SetVariable standalone and transformer (and vice versa).

  • Added notification actions for running/debugging the current flow.

  • New transformer for indentating strings (even multi-line strings): StringIndent

  • GetMapKeys transformer retrieves all the (string) keys from a java.util.Map object.

  • HasQueue flow condition checks whether the specified queue is present.

  • Added ability to list TODOs in flow (search actor name and annotation), using a user-supplied regular expression (ListTODOs processor).

  • Added the Class help menu to the Help menu of the main menu, to allow displaying the help for class.

  • Added dialogs to the main menu for pretty printing XML and JSON (only developer mode).

  • Added adams/flow/control/Flow.props properties file. The boolean AutoRegister property allows system-wide registering of flows with RunningFlowsRegistry (which can be queried by remote commands), default is false.

  • adams-meta: Added actor swap and option transfer for Callable/CopyCallable actor pairs.

  • adams-ml: Added simple spreadsheet reader/writer for ARFF format for ARFF support without adams-weka dependency.

  • adams-webservice: added interceptors for logging of SOAP envelopes, XMLLoggingGenerator and XMLLoggingGenerator.

  • adams-spectral-core: added reader/writer for spectra in JSON format.

Have a good weekend!