Ballerina Task List for 0.995 Release

[shafreenAnfar]

This issue summarizes all the features that will be available for 0.995 release.

Language

0.995.0 Work list

jBallerina

• Types and Values

  • Values #13852 Representing ballerina values in JBallerina
  • Types #13855 Representing ballerina types in JBallerina
  • Type Checking #13856 Type checking related operations in JBallerina
  • Value Manipulations #13857 Value manipulations in JBallerina

• BIR

  • BIR Model #13873 BIR model and design

• Strand Implementation

  • Strand Design & Implementation  #13887 Strand modeling and implementation for JBallerina

• Compiling and running ballerina modules as .jar

  • Compile ballerina modules to .jar #13868 Compile ballerina modules to .jar
  • Run .jar in JBallerina #13869 Run compiled .jar
  • Global variables in JBallerina #13870 Global variables in JBallerina

• Debugging support

• Error handling and stack trace

• Java interoperability

• Services and clients

• jBallerina commands and distribution

2019R1 Spec compliance

• Tuple and Record syntax rework.
• Annotation Definition rework.
• Constant improvements.
• Taint handling rework.
• Defaults values in Function/Record rework.

Full List of tasks is maintained here. https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang/projects/7

Ballerinax

• https://github.com/ballerinax/kubernetes/issues/292 Kubernetes Connector
• https://github.com/ballerinax/kubernetes/issues/293 Deploy a ballerina service with one command

Standard Library

Messaging

• [Messaging] Implement NATS Connector  #13810 Introduce NATS Connector
• [Messaging] Implement RabbitMQ Connector  #13812 Introduce RabbitMQ Connector
• [Messaging] Implement Artemis Connector  #13814 Introduce Artemis Connector

Path/URL

• Introduce PATH APIs for Ballerina #13811 Introduce PATH APIs for Ballerina
• Add filepath specific system operations to system module #15157 Add filepath specific system operations to system module

Testing and Automation

• #13813 Investigate performance improvement areas on Ballerina components
• Implement Ballerina scenario Tests(End to End Tests) on Testgrid #13888 Implement Ballerina scenario Tests(End to End Tests) on Testgrid
  • Facilitate BBG automation with TestGrid #13815 Facilitate BBG automation with TestGrid

HTTP

• [HTTP] A memory leak while load testing for invalid request path, but valid host-name and port #12815 A memory leak while load testing for invalid request path, but valid host-name and port
• Transport errors get caught by the topmost handler of the netty pipeline #9756 Transport errors get caught by the topmost handler of the netty pipeline
• Support multiple Error types
• #6908 Remove forwarded config and add it as a optional param to client actions
• #13874 Improve content negotiation based on the Produces config
• Extend LB pluggable algorithm support
• No way to configure SSL session time out #13847 No way to configure SSL handshake time out  #13846 Introduce configuration options to SSL handshake/session timeouts
• Upgrade Netty version #13912 Upgrade Netty version
• #6902 Test the code for different failure scenarios
• Content type validation should be removed from request and response payload getter APIs #14041 Content type validation should be removed from request and response payload getter APIs
• [HTTP/2] Improve HTTP/2 client connection pool #13877 Improve HTTP/2 client connection pool
• Validate CB, LB and FO on HTTP/2 #11054 Validate CB, LB and FO on HTTP/2
• #13871 Make HTTP/2 as default transport
• [HTTP/2] Add flow control support to HTTP/2 #11371 Add flow control support to HTTP/2
• [HTTP/2] Handle exhausted Stream Id for client #14380 [HTTP/2] Handle exhausted Stream Id for client
• #11369 Introduce a config for both the HTTP/2 client and server to define SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS
• [HTTP2] Handle exception scenario while writing contents #11045 Handle exception scenario while writing contents
• #11027 Verify the invalid state actions with reference to the specification
• [HTTP/2] TPS is lower in HTTP/2 server downgrade scenario compared to HTTP/1.1 #14301 TPS is lower in HTTP/2 server downgrade scenario compared to HTTP/1.1
• Stabilize performance scenarios
  • [HTTP/2] An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/2 scenario (H2-H1C) #13704 An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/2 scenario (H2-H1C)
  • [HTTP] An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/1.1 scenario (H1_H1) #13883 An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/1.1 scenario (H1_H1)
  • [HTTP/2] TPS is lower in HTTP/2 than HTTP/1.1 for passthrough scenario #13705 TPS is lower in HTTP/2 than HTTP/1.1 for passthrough scenario
  • [HTTP/2] An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/2 scenario (H2_H1) #13885 An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/2 scenario (H2_H1)
• [HTTP] [HTTP/2] Performance test for upgrade/downgrade scenarios #13923 Performance test for upgrade/downgrade scenarios
  • [HTTP/2] An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/2 client upgrade scenario (H1C_H2C_Client_Upgrade) #13927 An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/2 client upgrade scenario (H1C_H2C_Client_Upgrade)
  • [HTTP/2] An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/2 server downgrade scenario (H2_H2_Server_Downgrade)  #13953 An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/2 server downgrade scenario (H2_H2_Server_Downgrade)
  • [HTTP/2] An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/2 server downgrade scenario (H2C_H2C_Server_Downgrade) #13954 An error rate gets occurred in perf test done for http/2 server downgrade scenario (H2C_H2C_Server_Downgrade)
• #14075 Need to write test cases to cover HTTP/2 scenarios in transport
• [HTTP/2] Add support for prior knowledge in transport test backend and enable relevant tests #14472 Add support for prior knowledge in transport test backend and enable relevant tests
• Provide first class support for essential request and response properties in carbon message #14953 Provide first class support for essential request and response properties in carbon message
• #15143 [HTTP/2] Allow changing initial window size value for both the client and the server
• Add prior knowledge support to ballerina HTTP/2 client #15301 Add prior knowledge support to ballerina HTTP/2 client
• Seperate HTTP/1 settings from HTTP/2 settings in ClientEndpointConfig #15360 Seperate HTTP/1 settings from HTTP/2 settings in ClientEndpointConfig

Data

• Introduce global shared connection pool for database clients #13817 Introduce global shared connection pool for database clients
• Refactor SQL Update function API #14024 Refactor SQL Update function API
• Allow having union type fields for record types as the constraints of tables returned from data client operations #13503 Allow having union type fields for record types as the constraints of tables returned from data client operations
• Add decimal support for data connectors #13586 Support Decimal Data type
• Automate DB tests on TestGrid #13816 Automate DB tests on TestGrid

Time

• Refactor Time API

Message Transformation

• Implement XSLT support

I/O

• Implement UDP socket support - Client #13908 Implement UDP socket support - Client
• Implement read action for TCP socket #13906 Implement read action for TCP socket

Task

• [stdlib][task] - Task redesign - service model #13632 Redesign Task library

Security

• Reorganize and improve outbound authentication
  • JWT token propagation configs should be moved to client-endpoint Auth config section #10478 JWT token propagation configs should be moved to client-endpoint Auth config section
  • Tokens keep getting refreshed when OAuth2 client-id is shared across multiple HTTP clients #10468 Tokens keep getting refreshed when OAuth2 client-id is shared across multiple HTTP clients
  • Improve OAuth2 support for revoking refresh token for client authentication #13525 Improve OAuth2 support for revoking refresh token for client authentication
  • Implement support for OAuth2 client-credential & password grant type for client authentication #10459 Implement support for OAuth2 client-credentials & password grant type for client authentication
  • Decouple HTTP outbound authentication mechanisms #15487 Decouple HTTP outbound authentication mechanisms
• Reorganize and improve inbound authentication
  • Improvements to authentication & authorization API  #10471 Improvements to authentication & authorization API
  • Custom handler and provider engagement support for HTTP inbound authentication #14823 Custom handler and provider engagement support for HTTP inbound authentication
  • OAuth2 inbound authentication support #10474 OAuth2 inbound authentication support
  • Support password hashing for basic-auth passwords #11158 Support PBKDF2 and BCrypt based password hashing for basic-auth passwords
  • Separate inbound and outbound authentication configuration #11321 Separate inbound and outbound authentication configuration
  • [JWT] Require predefined JWT Header algorithms #11528 [JWT] Require predefined JWT Header algorithms
  • [Auth] Authorization failure when engaging empty scopes for HTTP service config #13325 [Auth] Authorization failure when engaging empty scopes for HTTP service config
  • Move JWT token creation related functions out of internal pkg #9792 Move JWT token creation related functions out of internal pkg
  • Update Module Structure for Ballerina Inbound Authentication #15385 Update Module Structure for Ballerina Inbound Authentication
  • Support Multiple Trusted JWT Issuers in JWT Validator #14966 Support Multiple Trusted JWT Issuers in JWT Validator
• Reorganize and improve crypto library
  • [Crypto] Improve and refactor the crypto APIs #4388 Improve HMAC generator to accept encoded (Hex / Base64) or un-encoded keys #9764 Improve hash functions to generate byte[] (instead of encoded string)
  • [Crypto] Improve and refactor the crypto APIs #4388 Create separate functions for different crypto algorithms
  • [Crypto] Improve and refactor the crypto APIs #4388 Research on commonly required encryption and hashing functions and introduce those to crrypto API
  • String base64 encode returns invalid result when the input is HEX encoded string #12568 Improve crypto functions to support different output encoding  #9767 Provide encoding functions to encode byte[] into base64, hex, etc.
  • Add support for signing using RSA-SHA256 algorithm #13135 Add support for signing using RSA-SHA256 algorithm
  • Add support for Blowfish/AES/RSA encrypt / decrypt to Crypto API #9054 Add RSA and AES encryption/decryption capabilities to crypto stdlib
  • SSL related configuration options should come from a unified location #10733 SSL related configuration options should come from a unified location

WebSub

• [WebSub] Add BBG including persistence and basic auth capabilities #13875 Add BBG including persistance and basic auth capabilities

Tooling

Diagram

• #13544 Graphical Debugging support in diagram
• Function invocation expand/collapse support for diagram #13546 Function invocation expand/collapse in diagram
• Refactor diagram implementation #13549 Diagram code refactor
• Ship diagram components in ballerina distribution #13551 Ship diagram with the distribution

VSCode Extension

• #13561 VSCode dark & light theme support
• VSCode extension: Usability test #13541 Fix usability issues in VSCode plugin
• #13556 Improve VSCode test coverage
• #13564 Creating a record from a JSON

Language Server

• Caching layer to Parser, for caching the Compilation units #14214 Performance improvements (for completions & diagnostics) refer thread
• Chain completion support for functions #13534 Chained completions
• Source Pruning for Language Sever Completion #14216 Source pruning based context resolving
• Add SPI for Completions #14054 Extension support for Language Server Completions
• Revamp Go to Definition, Find all references and Rename features #13529 Revamp Goto Definition, Find all References and Rename
• VSCode extension: Usability test #13541 Bug fixes

Formatter #13280

• Opinionated style guide for Ballerina programs
• Implementation to support all or subset of rules
• CLI command for formatting

API Docs #13548

• Improve generated API docs
• Introduce a portable output format

Intellij Idea Plugin #13991

• Lang server client for Idea
• Lang-Server based diagnostics, completions & go-to-def support
• Diagram rendering and Editing

JBallerina compatibility #13566

• Debugging support
• Coverage support

OpenAPI tools #13588

• Swagger to OpenAPI rename Rename Ballerina Swagger tool to Ballerina OpenAPI tool #13807
• API Designer improvements
• Revisit data mapping annotation
• Generate k8s API client with k8s OpenAPI spec
• Auto generate clients for services

Eclipse Theia & Che #13565

• Get VSCode extension running on Theia
• Eclipse Che support

Connectors

• Implement SAP Connector

[anupama-pathirage]

Closing this as this milestone is already done