SDLang-D v0.9.0

Published 2015-03-16 14:26 by Abscissa in Announcements

SDLang-D update (v0.9.0) has now been tagged/released:

It's a D lib to parse and generate the SDL data language (similar to XML/JSON, but more human-friendly, while still being very simple). Additional examples are available at the links above, but the language looks like this:

// Sample, but useful, SDL: latest-version "v0.9.0" release-date 2015/03/16 how-cool "So cool!" links { original-sdl "http://sdl.ikayzo.org/display/SDL/Language+Guide" sdlang-d:home "https://github.com/Abscissa/SDLang-D" // Full changelog sdlang-d:changelog "https://github.com/Abscissa/SDLang-D/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md" // How-to-Use and API Reference sdlang-d:how-to-use "https://github.com/Abscissa/SDLang-D/blob/master/HOWTO.md" sdlang-d:api-reference "http://semitwist.com/sdlang-d-api/sdlang.html" }

Most of the big changes have been sitting in master for awhile, so this is long overdue.

Aside from various bugfixes, the big changes in this release are the addition of a StAX/Pull-style parser (see the changelog), and utilization of D's package.d feature.

• Breaking change: Changed package structure to use package.d. Most users will be unaffected, but the internal package names have changed slightly, and users of DMD 2.063.2 and below will need to import sdlang.package; instead of import sdlang; until they upgrade their compiler. The built-in command line tool and unittests, however, do now require DMD 2.064 or newer because of this change.
• New: Added StAX/Pull-style parser via pullParseFile and pullParseSource. (Warning: FileStartEvent and FileEndEvent might be removed later: #17)
• Fixed: Work around a DMD 2.064/2.065 segfault bug in a unittest.
• Fixed: #5 & #7: Building with Dub produces package format warnings (@ColdenCullen).
• Fixed: #8: Consecutive escape sequences not getting correctly decoded.
• Fixed: #11: Newline immediately after // is ignored.
• Fixed: #12: Incorrectly accepts "anon tag without a value" when the tag has children.
• Fixed: The build-docs script was broken for newer RDMDs.
• Improved: Better error message for anonymous tags with no values.

As always, it's available in the DUB package repository.

The codename for this release is "version zero point nine point zero". Alternate codename is "4a44e9e88e573444cd6e7a43fb0e574ff5e03ac2".

Update 2015/03/27: Just tagged v0.9.1, a small but important update that fixes this issue:

• Fixed: #16: Access Violation when using the pull parser