ext install ASF.apache-daffodil-vscode

Release Notes

This release contains new features and fixes listed below.

New Features & Fixes

• Debugger:
  • Simplification of the configuration and setup of the extension through changes to the launch wizard.
  • Added settings to launch configurations for root element name and namespace to debug schema files from a jar.
  • Fixed issue with empty infoset files being created.
  • Fixed issue with infoset file extension not matching output format.
    • Users now receive a warning that file path does not end with the correct extension and will be updated appropriately.
  • Changed how late-arriving events were handled when requesting old state.
  • Resolved issues with zip file corruption in VS Code debug sessions.
  • Resolved issues when running in Java 17+.
  • Provide better feedback to user to understand error and debug messages.
  • Upgraded to Apache Daffodil 3.8.0.
• Data Editor:
  • Removed HexView and replaced with Ωedit™.
  • Highlighting of bytes/bits to track the infoset when debugging.
  • Providing a more intuitive data representation of First and Last Byte.
  • Fixed issue where binary display radix would still display 16 bytes per row, instead of 8.
  • Fixed inability to edit a "non-regular" sized file ( file size < 2 ).
  • Rerouted all file / viewport UI offset traversal to use toplevel seek() function.
  • Implemented new Help layout for larger/enhanced Tooltip implementations.
  • Fixed issue where the editor edit instructions were difficult to read on smaller width/height windows.
  • Better traversal and navigation of data and byte index.
  • Added Relative and Absolute seek offset determination and traversal.
  • Addition of Multicharacter encodings, Byte Order Maker, and language detection.
  • Improved viewport geometries configurations, management, and manipulation: including bytes per rows, number of rows, togglable views, reframing, * persisting selections, etc.
  • Ability to write selection to a file operation.
  • Ability to navigate to a certain relative byte index.
  • Data profiling improvements.
  • Saving selected segments to a file.
• IntelliSense:
  • Added hover functionality to display the attributes available to specific tags.
  • Making XPath validation more complete.
  • Better under the hood testing to ensure a smoother development process for adding new IntelliSense suggestions.
  • Continue developing on a Matrix Spreadsheet for the DFDL community to reference in regard to the specifications.
• TDML:
  • Created a custom TDML GUI editor.
  • Copy, Append and Execute TDML test case functionality.
• Documentation:
  • Improved the barrier to entry for contributors by providing additional documentation on how to get started and work with our team.
• Known Issues:
  • Nightly tests failing intermittently
  • TDML Copy, Execute and Append Functionality is currently not working on MacOS Platform
  • TDML functionality currently do not have proper error messages to help user identify the root cause.
  • Data Editor Continues Logging Upon Debug Completion
  • Byte highlighting doesn't always work when scrolling through the results in the Data Editor

Closed Issues

GitHub v1.4.0 Closed Issues