Slick 2.1.0-RC1

We are happy to announce the release of Slick 2.1.0-RC1. This is a Release Canditate. If no regressions are found, we will release 2.1.0 final after 7 days.

The artifacts are available on Maven Central, as usual. You can find the source code here: https://github.com/slick/slick/tree/2.1.0-RC1. Please see http://slick.typesafe.com/doc/2.1.0-RC1/ for documentation.

Fixes and features

This is a feature release.

• Official support for Scala 2.11 and 2.10, cross-built from the same codebase.
• New documentation in the user manual, including a chapter for migrating from SQL to Slick.
• Improved and more comprehensive API documentation.
• Insert-or-update support which makes use of native databases features where possible, falling back to a client-side emulation otherwise.
• Parameters for take and drop calls (required for pagination) can now be used in precompiled queries.
• We don’t use sample projects like slick-examples anymore. All samples come in the form of Activator templates with an integrated tutorial. They are tied to a Slick major version but evolve separately from minor releases.
• Configure database connections through Typesafe Config using Database.forConfig, in a format which is compatible with Play’s database configuration (but no support for connection pools yet)
• Outer join emulation: All types of outer joins are now available on all databases. You can check for the corresponding capability flags to see if the support is native or emulated (with different joins and unions).
• OSGi support: Slick and Slick Extensions are now proper OSGi bundles.
• Improved performance when reading JDBC ResultSets, including the option to define even more efficient custom mappings which can completely avoid boxing. See JdbcMapperTest and UnboxedBenchmark for examples.
• Collection type constructor encoding in queries: All collection-valued queries now contain a type constructor (the default for tables being Seq, as before) that can be changed with a call to .to[...] (like in Scala Collections) at any point in a query, thus allowing arbitrary collections (including arrays) to be built with .run
• Additional string methods like substring can now be used in queries.
• Insert queries can now be pre-compiled using Compiled, just like other queries.
• Model reverse-engineering from the database schema has been made customizable as the ModelBuilder class. This allows to make up for non-standard conformant jdbc drivers and driver specific-extensions, when generating the model.
• Code generator improvements.
• TestKit is more flexible and easier to use. You can now use it to test your own extensions for Slick against the standard databases supported by Slick. Less configuration is required due to the use of Typesafe Config with sensible defaults.
• All bug fixes from the Slick 2.0.x series

The Slick Extensions package with closed-source drivers for Oracle, DB/2 and SQL Server will be published to the Typesafe repository within a few days.

The Slick Example Activator Templates, Slick Codegen Example, Slick Customized Codegen Example will be updated within a few days.

Complete list of changes since Slick 2.0.0

• aebc16f Release 2.1.0-RC1
• b05b411 Add Float support to ModelBuilder / Fix MetaModelTest for jtds
• 7ade0e8 Prepare model for binary compatibility with potential future extension
• fd22e84 Improve reverse engineer to work with slick-extensions - support for Char and BigDecimal caveats: - Boolean mapping still flawed - DBType mapping still flawed and non-portable
• 65c4544 Add a test for Array[Byte] literals.
• 0b9d8d2 Enhance model reverse engineering
• 2acc05d Add new ColumnOption Length for string columns
• d659d09 Move code generator into its own subproject
• ea0589a Update custom shape docs.
• bb4ae81 Add scaladoc link checker and fix the currently broken links
• c8a28bb Add the CaseClassShape from #692.
• 78f543f Move JDBC Meta data API tests into TestKit.
• 953ccc0 Improve new String operations introduced in #843.
• 2ee426c Generate table of driver capabilities for the user manual.
• 39e4fe5 Use BIGSERIAL for auto-generated BIGINT columns in PostgresDriver.
• b6a4df3 Improve error message for unsupported DELETE queries.
• 3939bb0 Expose “open” and “transaction” flags in BaseSession.
• b434e8f Add hashCode/equals methods to the DDL trait
• 490f7bd Ignore follow-up exceptions when closing a withSession block.
• ba71aff Add test case for issue #511
• 190c50e Set type when inlining aggregation functions.
• 0ce4f51 Add a complete snippet to paste to build
• beafa0c Better scaladoc for extension methods for Column and Query.
• 885ff9f Fix result set debug logging, broken by the previous commit
• 29a1784 Add result set debug logging
• 5289c0a Added few string functions
• 5e331df Add performance benchmark logging for JDBC statement execution
• 1c7c6f5 Mark AccessDriver as deprecated.
• 50fb6a6 Improve logging
• e7585e2 Table constraints and indexes ordered by name. Generated DDL are then unique and thus, difference in DDL can only be the result of a change in the table. Fixes playframework/play-slick#146.
• 22cdcc2 Add some missing cases to Compilable/Executable
• 9baf84f Fix the Shape for Query.
• ad50505 Remove UnshapedQueryExecutor
• 56c7fb7 Simplify Rep hierarchy
• 69abcae Fix docs TOC depth
• d74adb5 Fix docs TOC depth
• b937743 Update Scala version to 2.11.1
• 60e7e89 User uppercase identifiers in InsertTest.testInsertOrUpdateAutoInc.
• c823c59 More flexibility for TestKit
• 17c298f Use Typesafe Config for database configurations
• 542e642 Improve from SQL to Slick documentation, add operators comparison
• 03a3eb4 Various documentation improvements for 2.1
• 76efe03 Add from SQL to Slick documentation
• d1d6a91 Fix the build failure from merging tmp/issue-742 & tmp/insert-or-update
• bde4ad2 OSGi bundle improvements:
• d2ac664 Restrict Shape.provenShape to only allow unpacked types in ProvenShape.
• 5234454 Fix some bugs in comprehension fusion.
• dd15e41 Support Unit values in Query return types.
• cfee5bb Revert the hconsShape workaround.
• f91370f Enforce maxRows in PositionedResultIterator.
• be2ff65 Prevent some initialization order problems
• 4fa915c Add insertOrUpdate to InsertInvoker.
• 27ba43d More improvements for Inserts.
• 6992328 Improve Inserts
• 0b77999 Allow non-literal constant values for Query.take and Query.drop
• 21f85e9 Do not escape columns named tag in generated code
• 889dae9 Don’t patch type changes from OptionApply in hoistClientOps.
• 3ca772d Add some hooks to JdbcMappingCompilerComponent.
• a10be62 Use Scala specialization for ResultConverter.
• 513c956 Use positional access in JDBC ResultConverters.
• 90cc8bf Optimize conversion of result and parameter values.
• 935558e Deprecate more operators:
• 9dccddc Improve scaladoc comments and clean up API for Slick 2.1.
• a13e53a Remove IntrinsicSymbol
• 85d4e00 Clean up dependencies
• c8420b2 Improve OSGi integration:
• 57c87f5 Add def size as alias for length to Query for more Scala collections api conformity
• 55c2a01 Fix assertion error for multiple nameless fks or indices (non type-safe equality caught us)
• 047bb07 First cut at OSGi-fun for slick.
• b2a6dc1 Add docs for MappedColumnType import and hand-written case class companions.
• 3a7f53c Prevent “no-symbol does not have an owner” when using MappedTo.
• 338e959 Fix identity groupBy with type mappings.
• 18f3cf2 Emulate outer joins where necessary.
• 439305f Correctly propagate build failures to sbt’s exit code.
• 82316d1 Fix codegen autoinc last as option for HLists (issue #704)
• 76e638c Add test for outer joins and fix capability declarations.
• b86cd4b Fix name collision with columns named ‘tag’ in codegen
• f1c3737 Fix Scaladoc links
• 2dca474 Scala 2.11 compatibility.
• e71ed6e Add alias and documentation for ForeignKeyAction
• 3fc16d8 Allow building of non-erased collections through ClassTags.
• 6e981e5 Provide implicit CollectionTypeConstructors
• e3ab1d8 Allow Query result type constructors to be changed.
• 0139d27 Simplify Query internals.
• 5c5c657 Encode the type constructor for the unpacked collection type into Query.
• d0e1e99 Remove zero values from ScalaType.
• 6d1cbd9 Simplify Option handling in JdbcProfile.
• 1b5f1f4 Simplify Invokers
• 70a5a2b Add test case for nesting mapped entities
• 754660c Add test for broken mapping to Char
• e2ab531 Fixed issue #698 (MappedColumnType broken for Char)
• 77a19aa Fixed issue #554 (ZIP joins)
• ce04fe8 Modify DDL to run drop phases in LIFO order. Fixes issue #701.
• c78ed2f Emulate empty join conditions where needed.
• 7ae79d6 Add JDBC interop docs
• 3555385 Add documentation for into method
• 258a6bc Support casts to boolean and double in Access.
• e065fcd Fix initialization order problem in generated code
• 89c3c2e Reuse “simple” object for “Implicit” in driver implementations.
• c6bc382 Remove deprecated features
• 7e2d6b4 Update version numbers for 2.1
• fc5cabe Enable documentation tests on Travis CI
• 73064e9 Documentation improvements for 2.0.1.
• 8b8ed11 Add test case for issue #645 (to be fixed in slick-extensions)
• 1e5146c Implement casts for more basic data types in QueryInterpreter.
• 2a54174 Add configuration for MySQL and PostgreSQL tests on Travis CI.
• 386920a Add basic Travis CI configuration
• e96132b Fix self-referencing table in codegen (#619)
• d944e27 Expand Table refs into columns in “returning” projections.
• 1f87cfb Add ddl for all tables to codegen
• 4533b0c Substitute correct versions numbers from the build into the docs
• b01241d Remove all special handling for products of size 1.
• 2022107 Infer correct NominalType views even without the NominalType.
• c59ba50 Fix a smorgasbord of bugs for more robust groupBy.
• 73c9175 Add optional db authentication to default code generator runner
• 1f76f36 Improve codegen docs: address spotted confusions, hlist fix, typos, formatting
• 23e9450 Add row value constructor to codegen output Supersedes #614
• b870f3d Generate scaladoc src links and graphs for test kit
• be508cc Fix for #618, codegen single, non-option column tables.
• 6d7610d Fix for taking Option GetResult from caller scope
• e436802 Fix for #616, code gen generated wrong default value for Option columns (not using Some)
• da01462 Fix some codegen docs
• ae51292 Extend codegen HList test to 33 columns to test performance
• b5f9144 Change codegen to avoid :: HCons type alias (as a possible workaround for #577)
• b88337d Split compound types and compound values in codegen
• 9f274cc Enable disabled codegen tests after fixing spurious compilation errors
• 0d2e885 Document caching insert invoker
• 217af59 Ensure that CountAll rewriting creates unique column names.
• 5aad43f Add MiMa for Slick 2.0 stream
• 98af9b6 Support Library.Max in QueryInterpreter.
• e2ece2f Pass Slick version properly from sbt into Sphinx.
• 0be0423 Fix for #597, negative int default value
• abe9197 Add failing test for #175