BARACUS Release 0.8.1

Hello, today I am glad to announce that BARACUS version 0.8.1 has been released. It carries several bugfixes and improvements and introduces a small amount of useful helper functions


 It can be included using the coordinates

<dependency>
<groupid>org.baracus</groupid>
<artifactid>baracus-framework</artifactid>
<version>0.8.1</version>
<type>apklib</type>
</dependency>

You also can download the sourcecode from github

VERSION 0.8.1 Changelog

- added DataUtil for simple Collection -> Map transformations
- added list based delete/save functions withing one transaction
- added Popup macro
- added generic BaseDao.arrify function to  to make collections become an array on demand
- added function to create lazy object reference (BaseDao.createLazyReference) by dao and id to application context  (was useful to me for dto-to-model copy constructor)
- added function to create lazy collection references (BaseDao.createLazyCollection) by dao, id and remote field
 (same like above)
- added support for optimistic locking, useful when multiple android clients are writing
  to one android master database.
- created optmistic locking capable entity (via version field)
- created BaseDao.initialFromCursor factory function to make coping with ID and version
  a little bit more flexible.
- added NullReference in ORM to avoid NPE handling on nullified References

- added a locator function BaracusApplicationContext.getBeansOfType to find all instances
  implementing a certain class.

These bugs were fixed :

- bugfixed query-function (double iteration)
- bugfixed ModelBase field list naming
- bugfixed replaceBean method
- bugfixed loss of timestamp info in BaseDao.save()