3 weeks ago, 212 views
3 weeks ago, 168 views
4 weeks ago, 2469 views
1 month ago, 732 views
1 month ago, 1189 views
Today, we have released the ABP Framework and the ABP Commercial 4.2.0 RC (Release Candidate). This blog post introduces the new features and important changes in this new version.
The planned release date for the 4.2.0 final version is January 28, 2021.
If you want to try the version 4.2.0
today, follow the steps below;
4.2.0-rc.2
using a command line terminal:dotnet tool update Volo.Abp.Cli -g --version 4.2.0-rc.2
or install if you haven't installed before:
dotnet tool install Volo.Abp.Cli -g --version 4.2.0-rc.2
--preview
option:abp new BookStore --preview
See the ABP CLI documentation for all the available options.
You can also use the Direct Download tab on the Get Started page by selecting the Preview checkbox.
Check the migration guide for the applications with the version 4.x upgrading to the version 4.2.
This version comes with an important change about using
IQueryable
features over the repositories. It is suggested to read this section carefully and apply in your applications.
IRepository
interface inherits IQueryable
, so you can directly use the standard LINQ extension methods, like Where
, OrderBy
, First
, Sum
... etc.
Example: Using LINQ directly over the repository object
public class BookAppService : ApplicationService, IBookAppService
{
private readonly IRepository<Book, Guid> _bookRepository;
public BookAppService(IRepository<Book, Guid> bookRepository)
{
_bookRepository = bookRepository;
}
public async Task DoItInOldWayAsync()
{
//Apply any standard LINQ extension method
var query = _bookRepository
.Where(x => x.Price > 10)
.OrderBy(x => x.Name);
//Execute the query asynchronously
var books = await AsyncExecuter.ToListAsync(query);
}
}
See the documentation if you wonder what is the AsyncExecuter
.
Beginning from the version 4.2, the recommended way is using IRepository.GetQueryableAsync()
to obtain an IQueryable
, then use the LINQ extension methods over it.
Example: Using the new GetQueryableAsync method
public async Task DoItInNewWayAsync()
{
//Use GetQueryableAsync to obtain the IQueryable<Book> first
var queryable = await _bookRepository.GetQueryableAsync();
//Then apply any standard LINQ extension method
var query = queryable
.Where(x => x.Price > 10)
.OrderBy(x => x.Name);
//Finally, execute the query asynchronously
var books = await AsyncExecuter.ToListAsync(query);
}
ABP may start a database transaction when you get an IQueryable
(If current Unit Of Work is transactional). In this new way, it is possible to start the database transaction in an asynchronous way. Previously, we could not get the advantage of asynchronous while starting the transactions.
The new way has a significant performance and scalability gain. The old usage (directly using LINQ over the repositories) will be removed in the next major version. You have a lot of time for the change, but we recommend to immediately take the action since the old usage has a big scalability problem.
See the migration guide for the actions you may need to take while upgrading your applications.
Using IRepository Async Extension Methods has no such a problem. The examples below are pretty fine:
var countAll = await _personRepository
.CountAsync();
var count = await _personRepository
.CountAsync(x => x.Name.StartsWith("A"));
var book1984 = await _bookRepository
.FirstOrDefaultAsync(x => x.Name == "John");
See the repository documentation to understand the relation between IQueryable
and asynchronous operations.
This version adds the following methods to the repositories:
InsertManyAsync
UpdateManyAsync
DeleteManyAsync
The purpose of these methods to insert, update or delete many entities in one call with a better performance.
Currently, MongoDB provider implements these methods as a single bulk operation since MongoDB API natively supports. But current Entity Framework Core implementation is not a real bulk operation. Instead, it does its best with the native API of the EF Core. If you want to implement in a more performant way, you can customize the bulk operations with your own implementation or by using a library. We could find a good open source library for EF Core 5.0 to implement it.
ABP CLI now has an option to specify the DBMS when you use EF Core as the database provider.
Example: Select MySQL as the DBMS
abp new BookStore -dbms mysql --preview
Available options: SqlServer
(default), MySQL
, SQLite
, Oracle-Devart
, PostgreSQL
. See the documentation to use any other DBMS or switch the DBMS later.
One change related to this feature is that: Now, the startup template doesn't come with an initial migration file. This is because the database migrations are different based on your DBMS preference and should be re-created. However, when you first run the .DbMigrator
application, it will create the initial migration and create the database just like before.
See The Initial Migration section in the Getting Started document if you have problems on running the
.DbMigrator
application first time.
Testing the swagger UI was requiring some additional work, especially your authentication server is separated from the application that hosts the Swagger UI.
With the version 4.2, the startup templates come with the authorization pre-configured for you. An Authorize button is available when you open the Swagger UI:
When you click, it opens a modal to authorize:
When you click to the Authorize button here, you are redirected to the login page to login with your username and password (default username is admin
and password is 1q2w3E*
).
Remember to select the Scopes (typically select all) you want to use before clicking to the Authorize button.
We've improved the modules and the startup template to setup and write unit tests easier with the Angular UI. See the Angular Unit Testing document for details.
MultipleActiveResultSets
from connection strings for new templates for SQL Server, since the new EF Core gives a warning when using it. If you want to use it, you need to change the connection string yourself.HardDeleteAsync
extension method that takes a predicate to delete multiple entities. This extension method is available if the entity Soft Delete.The new Microservice Startup Template is a generic solution to start a new microservice solution.
While we accept that every microservice solution will be different and every system has its own design requirements and trade-offs, we believe such a startup solution is a very useful starting point for most of the solutions, and a useful example for others.
Figure: A simplified overall diagram of the microservice solution.
You can follow the documentation to get started with this startup template. This template should be considered as an early release. We will improve it and write a lot of guides.
If you want to use the ABP Suite to create your solution, then you need to first upgrade it:
abp suite update --preview
If you want, you can directly create a new solution from the command line:
abp new Volosoft.MyMicroserviceSystem -t microservice-pro --preview
Company Name is optional. Solution name could be MyMicroserviceSystem for this example.
As mentioned in the previous release post, we've added a Public Website application to the startup templates. It is configured to authenticate through the IdentityServer with a single sign-on system.
You can use this application to create a landing page for your actual application or a corporate website for your business. An example screenshot:
It uses the same Lepton Theme, so you can apply all the styles. The Public Website has a different layout and also has a different setting for the styling (that can be configured in the Settings / Lepton Theme page of the main web application).
Public Website is optional and you need to select the "Public Website" option while creating a new solution using the ABP Suite, or use the
--with-public-website
option while using theabp new
CLI command.
Easy CRM is an example application built with the ABP Commercial. MVC (Razor Pages) and Angular UI implementations were already provided. With the version 4.2, we are providing the Blazor UI implementation for this application.
community.abp.io is a place to share ABP related contents. It started with publishing articles. Now, it supports to publish video contents. See this example. All you need to do is to create a video and upload to YouTube. Then you can submit the YouTube link to the ABP Community website.
We planned ABP Community to publish English-only contents. However, we see that people want to share contents in other languages too. Now, it is possible to submit a content in any language. Just select the Language option while submitting your content.
When you submit a non-English content, it is not visible to all the visitors by default. Visitors can see a non-English content only if their browser language or the selected language matches to the content language (there is a language selection at the end of the website).
If you want to publish your content anywhere else, but want to post a link of your content, you can select External Content option while submitting the post. For example, this article is an external article and also written in Chinese language.
The next feature version will be 4.3.0. It is planned to release the 4.3 RC (Release Candidate) on March 11 and the final version on March 25, 2021.
We decided to slow down the feature development for the next milestone. We will continue to improve the existing features and introduce new ones, sure, but wanted to have more time for the planning, documentation, creating guides and improving the development experience.
Please check out the ABP Framework 4.2.0 RC and provide feedback to help us to release a more stable version. The planned release date for the 4.2.0 final version is January 28, 2021.
👍
ABP Studio (beta) is generally available to everyone and ready for download. Continue Reading
Some big changes and improvements are coming to the ABP.IO Platform soon Continue Reading
Introducing the ABP.IO Platform version 7.1! Continue Reading
Introducing the ABP.IO Platform version 5.2.0! Continue Reading
Introducing the new features and changes coming with ABP Framework and ABP Commercial version 5.2. Continue Reading
Introducing the new features and changes coming with ABP Framework and ABP Commercial version 5.1. Continue Reading
Introducing the ABP 5.0 release. Continue Reading
Introducing the ABP v5.0 RC and the new features coming with this version. Continue Reading
ABP Framework and ABP Commercial 4.4 versions have been released. Continue Reading
This post covers the new features and changes coming with the ABP.IO platform version 4.4. Continue Reading
Introducing the ABP.IO Platform version 4.3.0! Continue Reading
Introducing the ABP Commercial v4.3 RC and the new features coming with this version Continue Reading
Introducing the ABP v4.3 RC and the new features coming with this version Continue Reading
ABP Framework and ABP Commercial 4.2 versions have been released today. Continue Reading
ABP Framework and ABP Commercial 4.1 versions have been released. Continue Reading
Released ABP.IO Platform v4.1 RC. Some new features: Module Entity Extensions, Blazor UI Improvements, Spanish Language Translation etc. Learn more... Continue Reading
Released ABP.IO Platform v4.0 Final. Some new features: Migrated to .NET 5.0, Stable Blazor UI, Identity Server 4 Upgrade, Moved to System.Text.Jso... Continue Reading
Released ABP.IO Platform v4.0 RC. Some new features: Migrated to .NET 5.0, Stable Blazor UI, Identity Server 4 Upgrade, Moved to System.Text.Json, ... Continue Reading
Released ABP v3.3. Some new features: New modules & features for the Blazor UI, Automatic Validation for AntiForgery Token for HTTP APIs, Rebus Int... Continue Reading
Released ABP v3.3 RC. Some new features: New modules & features for the Blazor UI, Automatic Validation for AntiForgery Token for HTTP APIs, Rebus ... Continue Reading
Released ABP v3.2 final. Some new features: The Blazor UI, MongoDB ACID Transactions, Kafka Integration for the Distributed Event Bus etc. Learn mo... Continue Reading
Released ABP v3.2 RC. Some new features: The Blazor UI, MongoDB ACID Transactions, Kafka Integration for the Distributed Event Bus etc. Learn more ... Continue Reading
ABP Framework has introduced the new Angular Service Proxy Generation system with the version 3.1. This post introduces the service proxy generatio... Continue Reading
Released ABP v3.1 final. Some new features: Angular Service Proxies, Authorization Code Flow for the Angular UI, Global Feature System etc. Learn m... Continue Reading
Released ABP v3.1 RC. Some new features: Angular Service Proxies, Authorization Code Flow for the Angular UI, Global Feature System etc. Learn more... Continue Reading
Released ABP v3.0. Some new features: Angular 10, The Oracle Integration Package, Azure BLOB Storage Provider etc. Learn more about what's new with... Continue Reading
Released ABP v2.9.0. Some new features: Organization Units System, Blob Storing Package, EF Core Oracle Integration Package, Chat Module Angular UI... Continue Reading
Released ABP Framework and ABP Commercial v2.8. Some new features: SignalR Integration Package, RTL Support for the MVC UI, New Lepton Theme Styles... Continue Reading
Released ABP Framework v2.7. Some new features: Object Extending System, Text Templating Package, Subscribing to the Exceptions etc. Learn more abo... Continue Reading
Released ABP Framework v2.3. Some new features: React Native Mobile App, Angular TypeScript Proxy Generator, CRUD app service etc. See the GitHub m... Continue Reading
Released ABP Framework v2.0 and ABP Commercial. See the release notes for changes. Create a demo to see application startup template of ABP Commerc... Continue Reading
Released the first stable ABP v1.0, after ~3 years of continuous development! Start playing with the new ABP framework now. See the GitHub mileston... Continue Reading
Released ABP v0.21 with no new feature. The release is just upgrade to the stable AspNet Core 3.0. Check v0.20 release notes for new features, and ... Continue Reading
Released ABP v0.19 with 90+ issues resolved and 650+ commits pushed. Some new features: Angular UI, Widget System. See the roadmap for all upcomings. Continue Reading
Released ABP v0.18 with 80+ issues resolved and 550+ commits pushed. Changes: ABP CLI command line tool, and new startup templates. See the roadmap... Continue Reading
See microservice solution demo documentation for a detailed explanation of the solution. It aims to demonstrate a simple yet complete microservice ... Continue Reading