Changelog

This is the manual for older MicroStream versions (Version < 5.0).

The new documentation (Version >= 5.0) is located at:

https://docs.microstream.one/

4.0

Features

• File System Abstraction to support a variety of storage targets.

• Exporter API for storage configuration.

Bugfixes

• Better error handling in housekeeping, to avoid storage channel thread interruptions.

• Fixed XML loading bug under Android.

Migration guide

All configuration code, which includes file paths, may be rewritten to use the new Abstract File System. For example see Storage Files or Backup.

3.0.1

Bugfix release for projects using an old non public version.

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug in type dictionary parser for old legacy type handlers

3.0

Features

• Added a convenience layer for defining custom type handlers

• Fully automatic lazy reference managing for clearing older Lazy references as free memory gets lower.

• Completed optimized persistence handling for remaining types in JDK that are reasonable to appear in entity graphs. E.g. Currency, Locale, URI, URL, Path

• Compatibility with projects using java modules ("jigsaw")

• Added JavaDoc for common types like StorageConnection, StorageManager, StorageController, etc.

• Auto-recognition for CSV separator character in configuration files (e.g. legacy type mapping)

• JSR-107 compatible JCache provider with additional Hibernate cache region factory

• Storage REST Service and Client are available to access the storage data via REST, a Java-Wrapper thereof and a Web-UI

Bugfixes

• Fixed a potential race condition during loading

• Fixed a potential race condition and robustness issue during storing

• StorageConnectionFoundation instance is now properly created on demand.

• Removed unnecessary memory consumption exponential to channel count.

• Improved exception messages on invalid configuration values (file sizes etc.)

• Workarounded a JDK bug regarding file locking when importing files (JDK exception says another process is locking the file which is outright wrong)

• Fixed type resolving problems when different ClassLoaders are involved.

• Fixed a bug that caused loading of zero-length arrays to throw an exception despite everything being fine.

• Various smaller bugfixes for unnecessary exceptions in special cases and state robustness after exceptions.

Migration guide

From 2.2 no actions necessary, for older versions see below.

2.2

Features

• Removed SelfStoring without replacement since it could not be used recursively and has no advantages over just creating a static storing utility method for a certain entity.

• Added state validation of value type objects (e.g. String, Integer, BigDecimal, etc.) upon loading. This is hardly relevant in practice, but not having it can lead to confusing hello-world-like test applications.

• EmbeddedStorageManager now implements java.lang.AutoClosable.

• Replaced all provisional RuntimeExceptions with either PersistenceException or StorageException, depending on the architectural level the corresponding source code it located.

• The two technically different root handling concepts ("default" and "custom") have been consolidated in a way that they are the same thing on the API level and interchangeable, meaning no more confusion with those root exception messages.

• All entity fields of type transient EmbeddedStorageManager now get a reference to the used EmbeddedStorageManager instance set upon loading/updating.

• The interfaces around storage managing have been enhanced so that it is now equally valid to just write StorageManager instead of EmbeddedStorageManager. (An EmbeddedStorageManager "is a" StorageManager)

• Slight technical consolidation of Lazy reference handling caused the type Lazy to be moved from the package one.microstream.persistence.lazy to one.microstream.reference. The reason is that the lazy handling has actually no inherent connection to persistence or storage. It's actually just a generic concept that can be used by those layers. See Migration Guide below on how to adjust existing projects.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an off-heap memory leak when restarting the storage multiple times in the same process.

• Fixed a bug where changing the fields of an entity type caused an exception. This was a regression bug from fixing a similar problem for another case in version 2.1. Now, both cases work correctly.

Migration Guide

All occurrences in user code of one.microstream.persistence.lazy.Lazy have to be refactored to one.microstream.reference.Lazy. Modern IDEs provide a functionality to "auto-import" missing types or automatically "organize imports", so this should be resolved with a proverbial push of a button.

2.1

Features

• Android support MicroStream is now Java-wise fully compatible with Android.

• Replaced all usages of java.util.File with java.nio.file.Path to allow using custom file implementations.

• Improved skipping functionality of Storers (see EmbeddedStorageManager#createStorer and Storer#skip).

• The class Lazy is now an interface to allow custom implementations. See Migration guide below.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a few minor bugs in the skipping functionality of Storers.

• Fixed a bug where files remained locked after the storage was shut down.

• Fixed a bug where files remained locked after an exception in storage initialization.

• Enums defining an abstract method are now handled correctly.

• By default, all threads created by MicroStream now start with the prefix "MicroStream-". This can be customized by the new interface StorageThreadNameProvider.

• Fixed a NullPointerException in import.

• Fixed a bug that caused enums with a certain field layout to be loaded inconsistently.

• java.util.Locale is now persisted and created using Locale's #toLanguageTag and #forLanguageTag.

Migration Guide

In the directory of an existing storage, in the TypeDictionary file (default name "PersistenceTypeDictionary.ptd"), all occurances of "one.microstream.persistence.lazy.Lazy" must be replaced with "one.microstream.persistence.lazy.Lazy$Default".