Ego 1.5 "Whole Grain"

Ego 1.5 “Whole Grain”

This update has a focus on bug fixies and reliability over new features. But here are some notable changes:

Language

• Better compliance with Go implicit conversion of constant values.
• Better compliance with Go function return value typing
• Add support for if-else-if cascading conditional statements
• When extensions enabled, support for a type of “type” which contains an Ego type definition.
• Add @symbols directive to dump symbol table data
• Add @serizlied directive to dump JSON expression of values.
• Support package alias names in import statements.

Runtime

• Add strings package functions like Replace, ReplaceAll, Trim.
• Add strings.Builder type and associated methods.
• Add strong package functions for Roman numerals
• Add tables package functions to read from table objects.
• Add time package object methods of After, Before, Clock
• Add fat package Scan function.
• Move depreciated ioutil package functions to io package.
• Generate Ego stack trace when panic() called.
• Fix errors in how functions return a value of type error
• Fix errors in structure field ordering for output/formatting.
• Fix errors in symbol table scoping for nested local functions.

Ego command line

• Shorten server status output unless -v option used.
• Ego will create lib directory and generate minimum required contents on first run if not already present.
• Support for creating, examining, and using data source names to read database tables.
• Add “help” command.
• Ego can act as a shell processor in Unix/Mac shell scripts (#!/bin/ego)

Server

• Support for using data source names to securely hold database connection string information (including credentials) to be accessed by name by authorized users.
• Redact passwords in log messages during server operation.
• Server can be configured to run service requests in a child process.
• Better in-memory caching of heavily re-used objects like DSNS, authorization records, and token authentication.
• Logging updates for tracking service execution more closely.
• Improved standards compliance for security with HTTPS/HTTP redirects.
• Server can archive log files that age out to a .zip file

Full Changelog: v1.4...v1.5