Change Log

v4.9.0 (28SEP23)

  • +1:

    Changed the way we download pdf’s from activity where we now provide the timezone query param in the request URL with timezone info for a more accurate determination of the display of time information in the pdf taking into account the timezone and timesystem info. For compatability sake we maintain the offset query param in the request to support older KE-chain backend versions.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: sphinx (7.2.6 for >= py3.9+ 7.1.2 for <= py3.8), tox (4.11.3), flake8 (6.1.0), jsonschema (4.19.0), importlib-metadata (6.8.0), mypy (1.5.1), pytest (7.4.2), pytz (2023.3.post1), nbsphinx (0.9.3)

v4.8.1 (06JUL23)

  • star:

    Added the possibility to set the list of columns and the active switch on a ScopeReferenceProperty. (#1340)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: mypy (1.4.1), tox (4.6.3), pytest (7.4.0), pytest-cov (4.1.0), pytest-xdist (3.3.1)

v4.8.0 (23JUN23)

  • star:

    Number of tests on certain modules has been increased. (#1328)

  • star:

    The unit of max_size on a FileSizeValidator has been changed to MB. (#1328)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: tox (4.6.2), pytest (7.3.2), coverage (7.2.7), semver (3.0.1), pre-commit (3.3.3), importlib-metadata (6.6.0), pytz (2023.3), sphinx (7.0.1), nbsphinx (0.9.2), requests (2.31.0)

v4.7.0 (17APR23)

  • star:

    Added the possibility to create, edit and delete StoredFiles. (#1298)

  • star:

    Added the concept of a StoredFilesReferenceProperty. (#1306)

  • star:

    Added fileDisplay representation for StoredFilesReferenceProperty. (#1306)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: pre-commit (3.2.2), pytest-xdist (3.2.1), coverage (7.2.3), tox (4.4.12), mypy (1.2.0)

v4.6.0 (16FEB23)

  • star:

    Added Signature representation for Attachment Property. (#1289)

v4.5.0 (15FEB23)

  • star:

    Added the possibility to set sorting on Multi Reference Property .(#1285)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: requests (2.28.2), pytest (7.2.1), coverage (7.1.0), Sphinx (6.1.3), nbsphinx (0.8.12), tox (4.4.5), pydocstyle (6.3.0), pytz (2022.7.1)

  • +1:

    blackened all code, isorted all files, pyupgraded all files as well.

v4.4.0 (9JAN23)

  • star:

    Added the possibility to import Parts from an Excel file (#931)

  • star:

    Added a new endpoint for to help with reordering Properties (#1254)

  • star:

    Added the possibility to clone Widgets from one Form status to another (#1219)

  • +1:

    Switched to dependabot for package version and security monitoring.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: jsonschema (4.17.3), pytest (7.2.0), pytest-xdist (3.1.0), coverage (7.0.4), pytest-cov (4.0.0), flake8 (6.0.0), importlib-metadata (6.0.0), pydocstyle (6.2.3), mypy (0.991), pre-commit (2.21.0), pytz (2022.7)

v4.3.0 (7NOV22)

  • +1:

    Added the possibility to retrieve the form_collection from an Activity, if applicable (#1172)

  • +1:

    added the possibility to create widgets inside Forms, by using the correct model ids (#1168)

v4.2.2 (11JUL22)

  • bug:

    Editing a project would fail the schema validation if no project_info was provided. This has now been fixed (#1174)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: requests (2.28.1), jsonschema (4.6.2), tox (3.25.1)

v4.2.1 (21JUN22)

  • star:

    We added helpers and tests to manage the alteration of the project_info attribute on the Scope object better.

v4.2.0 (10JUN22)

  • star:

    We added the ProjectInfo widget.

  • star:

    We added the concept of prefilled_parts that are stored on the Form. These prefilled parts are instance that are created on form instantiation. This in combination with grid like forms in any Form.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: mypy (0.961), requests (2.28.0), jsonschema (4.6.0), sphinx (5.0.1), nbsphinx (0.8.9), coverage (6.4.1)

v4.1.0 (24MAY22)

  • star:

    Added the method to create workflow in a certain project. Client.create_workflow(scope=…) or Scope.create_workflow().

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: coverage (6.4)

v4.0.3 (24MAY22)

  • +1:

    Ensuring that the order attribute is removed from sidebar items in sync with the deprecation of the order in backend.

v4.0.2 (10MAY22)

  • +1:

    Fixed a small decoding issue which was causing prefilters to be double encoded when copying/moving a part. (#1148)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: pre-commit (2.18.1), jsonschema (4.5.1)

v4.0.1 (5MAY22) Patch Release

Small patch release with a fixed MANIFEST file.

v4.0.0 (5MAY22) FORMS Release

This is version 4 of pykechain in sync with the “Forms Release” of KE-chain. We added a number of features to this release that is in full sync with the general availability of Forms in KE-chain. The most dominant features are Form, Workflow with their Transition’s and Status-es and a greatly improved Context featureset.

  • We added the feature equivalence in pykechain for KE-chain Forms and Workflow.

  • star:

    Added the Forms, Workflow, Transition, and Status classes. (#1100)

  • star:

    Added multiple Forms methods such as link_contexts, unlink_contexts, clone_cross_scope, apply_transition, set_status_assignees. (#1114)

  • star:

    Added additional Form methods such as has_part and compatible_within_scope. (#1108)

  • star:

    Extended the DashboardWidget with the form numbers and charts (#1123)

  • star:

    Added the FormReferenceProperties. (#1098)

  • star:

    Added the ContextReferenceProperties. (#1099)

  • star:

    Added the concept of a StatusReferencesProperty.

  • star:

    Added ‘Forms’, ‘Form models’, ‘Contexts’ and ‘Workflows’ sidebar buttons in the `SideBarManager’ and added ability to specify ‘minimum_access_level’ and ‘alignment’ per ‘SideBarButton’. (#1103)

  • star:

    Added the concept of a sidebar card to the sidebar.

  • star:

    Added the Form Classification on the parts world.

  • star:

    Added the ability to create a user from the frontend.

  • star:

    Added the ability to request a change password link from the frontend.

  • +1:

    Removed the target_scope parameter when cloning inside the same scope

Backward incompatible changes

  • +1:

    We discontinued support for python version 3.6.

v3.18.2 (28APR22)

  • +1:

    We increased the timeout for downloading PDF’s to 180 seconds per default. We futhermore add the ability to set a custom timeout on the Activity.download_as_pdf() method.

v3.18.1 (14APR22)

  • +1:

    We are now allowing request parameters such as size to be passed through the property_attachment.save_as() function in order to resize the images on download (#1138)

v3.18.0 (22MAR22)

  • +1:

    we upgraded all code to python 3.6 and higher preferred style. See the implemented improvements found throughout the code: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade/blob/master/README.md#implemented-features. We also reformatted the code using black.

  • +1:

    added tests to check if the prefilters of ScopeReferenceProperties are copied correctly (#842)

  • bug:

    Added the offset parameter in the request of generating a PDF, such that Datetime objects are rendered correctly (#1129)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: pytz (2022.1), pytest (7.1.1), mypy (0.941), coverage (6.3.2), sphinx (4.4.0), pre-commit (2.17.0), nbsphinx (0.8.8), tox (3.24.5), requests (2.27.1), jsonschema (4.4.0), pytest-xdist (2.5.0), twine (3.7.1).

v3.17.1 (29NOV21)

A re-release of v3.17.0 due to missing version information and changelog info in the library itself. No new code.

v3.17.0 (29NOV21)

  • +1:

    When a part is searched that on its id or pk than the Client.part() call will perform a API call to the detail route of the part api. This will greatly reduce the overhead on large databases and improve performance. (#1064)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: sphinx (4.3.1), twine (3.6.0), coveralls (3.3.1), coverage (6.2)

  • bug:

    Fixed a bug that caused the prefilters applied on Part reference properties to no work if the Part contained a comma or other special characters (#1054)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: jsonschema (4.2.0), twine (3.5.0), coveralls (3.3.0)

v3.15.0 (12OCT21)

  • +1:

    Added the FormMetapanel widget to the allowed list of widgets in preparation of the introduction of the Forms world.

  • +1:

    Added the cameraInputScanner representation object to the code.

  • +1:

    Added extra validation checks on prefilters inside the Paginated Widgets. Warnings are now provided if the filter type and property value do not match correctly. (KLO-36, #1045)

  • +1:

    Added the attribute showNameAndDate on the Signature Widget. Defaults to True. (#1037)

  • +1:

    Updated the documentation for the newer concepts included over the past time.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: pytz (2021.3), pytest-cov (3.0.0), jsonschema (4.1.0), flake8 (4.0.0), tox (3.24.4)

v3.14.0 (22SEP21)

  • bug:

    Fixed a bug that was causing the part reference properties to not be copied correctly. (PROJ-241)

  • +1:

    Improved speed of the code by a different way of validation of the property options. We validated the property options using jsonschema validation on every instantiation of the property and that is overkill. Now we do it once we are updating the property itself. (#1029)

  • +1:

    Added py.typed to the bdist package to indicate that pykechain supports typing. According to PEP-561.

v3.13.1 (24AUG21)

  • +1:

    Add additionally a UsePropertyNameRepresentation including additional testing for empty config objects inside the Representation. (KE-1239)

v3.13.0 (23AUG1)

  • star:

    We added filter tags__contains to Context (KE-1054)

  • +1:

    Added the usePropertyName property representation to sync with the possibilities in the backend. (KE-1239)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: requests (2.26.0), nbsphinx (0.8.7), coveralls (3.2.0), tox (3.24.3), sphinx (4.1.2), pre-commit (2.14.0), twine (3.4.2)

v3.12.0 (1JUL21)

  • star:

    We added the Context object to pykechain that has full API access to the Context API in KE-chain v2021.6 and newer. You can add time period contexts, static location contexts and textlabel contexta and put them under a context_group if desired. This Context feature is now implemented limitly for Activities but in the coming period will be extended to support extensive usecases for the Forms NG featureset that is coming this fall. (KE-925)

  • bug:

    Fixed a test cassette that was failing on a date check. Made it use a fixed date rather than doing it on today.

  • bug:

    Fixed automatic compilation of the pykechain documentation on https://readthedocs.org/projects/pykechain/.

  • +1:

    From now on python 3.5 is deprecated. The lowest version we support is Python 3.6. We can now start to insert f-strings and variable type annotations in our pykechain codebase.

  • +1:

    refactoring all models that were shadowed with a <classname>2 to enable fast and smooth deprecation in July 2021.

  • +1:

    We converted all type annotations in comments to proper type and variable annotations.

  • +1:

    When connecting to a server with a SSL certificate error which cannot be checked, we provide a message fast and dont retry. (KE-1052, #997)

# Backward Incompatible Changes

  • We dropped support for Python versions 3.5 and lower. Python 3.5 reached end of life in Sep 2020 and no more new releases will be made. Consider upgrading to a newer version of Python. See: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0478/

v3.11.1 (15JUN21)

  • bug:

    Fixed an issue related to setting prefilters on a ScopeReferenceProperty.

  • bug:

    Fixed a bug related to a UserReferenceProperty not being copied over if there was a User already filled in. Improved the tests to cover all property types.

  • star:

    Added CONTAINS_SET filter type enum for contains.

v3.11.0 (27MAY21)

  • star:

    It is now possible to create, retrieve, edit and delete ExpiringDownloads using the Client and Class methods.

  • star:

    Added the GeoCoordinate representation for Geojson properties. We can now represent a geocoordinate as approximate address, Rijksdriehoekstelsel RD Amersfoort, as decimal degrees and degrees minutes seconds.

  • bug:

    Formatting of prefilters using lists in the ScopeFilter class is now based on comma’s.

  • +1:

    Correctly formatted datetime strings are now accepted as valid datetime values.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: pytest (6.2.4), nbsphinx (0.8.5), coveralls (3.1.0), tox (3.23.1), flake8 (3.9.2), sphinx (4.0.2), pytest-cov (2.12.0), pre-commit (2.13.0), pydocstyle (6.1.1)

v3.10.1 (01APR21)

  • bug:

    Copying multiple attachments using the part.copy() method caused the temporary directory to be removed.

v3.10.0 (29MAR21)

  • star:

    It is now possible to create a TasksWidget with the new add_tasks_widget method to the WidgetsManager class. The enums TasksAssignmentFiltersTypes and TasksWidgetColumns support the inputs to this method.

  • star:

    It is now possible to create a ScopemembersWidget with the new add_scopemembers_widget method to the WidgetsManager class.

  • bug:

    For grid widgets, corrected name of field incompleteRowsVisible to incompleteRowsButtonVisible.

  • bug:

    Widgets created with the create_widgets method of the WidgetsManager class now append the internal _widgets attribute.

  • bug:

    Added allowed use of Autofill representation object on UserReferenceProperty classes.

  • bug:

    Creating of new activities was performed using data instead of json. Now, None values are cleared and the request allows kwargs.

  • +1:

    The order of Part instances returned from the Client._create_parts_bulk() method is now guaranteed to match the request.

  • +1:

    Datetime properties can now be set using (valid) string values.

  • +1:

    Added now_in_my_timezone method to the User class, to retrieve the current time based on the timezone of that user.

  • +1:

    The input collapse_filter in the add_filteredgrid_widget method now accepts the input None to fully hide the filter panel.

  • +1:

    Expanded ScopeFilter options to the support the following Scope attributes: tag, status, name, team, due date, start date and progress.

  • +1:

    Added file path as return value of the download_as_pdf method of the Activity class.

  • +1:

    Added status keyword to the ScopeFilter class. All filters are now parsed and written to option dicts internally, encapsulating the property-specific format of the filters.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: pytest (6.2.2), pytz (2021.1), mypy (0.812), nbsphinx (0.8.2), coveralls (3.0.1), tox (3.23.0), flake8 (3.9.0), twine (3.4.1), sphinx (3.5.3), pytest-cov (2.11.1), pre-commit (2.11.1), pydocstyle (6.0.0)

Improved the copy and move methods of the Part class.

  • bug:

    Part reference properties with a value set to the copied Part’s children will no longer refer to the original child Parts. That is, such “internal” references are updated with the new child Parts.

  • +1:

    move now makes use of the copy method directly, simplifying the move method and reducing duplicate code.

  • +1:

    More efficient use of populate_descendants and other bulk operations when cloning the data model.

  • +1:

    Refreshing a part now also refreshes its properties in-place, instead of creating new Python objects.

  • +1:

    Added DeprecationWarnings to the original, public functions, for deprecation in July 2021.

Backwards incompatible changes:

  • In case a Part model is copied to a target_parent model with zero (or more than one) instances, using include_instances now results in an IllegalArgumentError. Previously, zero parents would not produce any instance and multiple parents would create duplicate instances.

v3.9.5 (23DEC20)

  • bug:

    Any kwargs in the count_children() methods of the Activity and Part classes were not being forwarded to the actual function. Now filters such as name__contains are properly supported.

v3.9.4 (23DEC20)

  • star:

    Implemented download_as_excel method to the Widget class, to export any grid widget as an Excel file.

  • bug:

    Removed multiple return statements from _validate_edit_arguments helper function in the Activity class, enabling usage of kwargs.

  • bug:

    Fixed a bug regarding the code expected to return from the back-end when calling the share_pdf and share_link functions.

  • +1:

    Added keyword arguments (kwargs) to the execute() method of the Service class, in order to insert contextual information into the ServiceExecution.

  • +1:

    Added count_children method to the Activity and Part classes for a light-weight count of the number of child objects.

  • +1:

    Added include_qr_code keyword to the download_as_pdf and share_pdf methods of the Activity class, to include a QR-code to the original KE-chain activity.

  • +1:

    Added automatic paper-size option for PaperSize enumeration class.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: sphinx (3.4.0), requests (2.25.1), pytest (6.2.1), pre-commit (2.9.3)

v3.9.3 (8DEC20)

  • bug:

    Fixed a wrong MetaWidget enum that was causing an issue when creating a FilteredGrid widget.

  • +1:

    Added category keywords to edit() method of Scope class and enabled providing of keyword argument to all edit methods.

v3.9.2 (3DEC20)

  • +1:

    Pykechain now supports Python version 3.7 and 3.8 on its Scripts and Notebook classes. Removed the support of Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6.

v3.9.1 (27NOV20)

  • bug:

    In the Part.property() method, the property is retrieved by matching a name prior to matching a ref, to prevent conflicts when these might identical between different properties.

  • bug:

    The text and is_active inputs for editing of a Banner were not properly managed, leading to API errors or unchanged values.

  • bug:

    Batched property values of BaseReference and inherited classes are now stored as lists of dicts instead of list of UUIDs, to simulate values retrieved directly from KE-chain.

  • bug:

    Resolved small issue where empty values were being combined with normal objects in the edit_cascade_down() method of the Activity class.

  • +1:

    Refactored a lot of the strings used in the Widget meta into enums, to help with consistency.

  • +1:

    Retrieving the value of any reference property is now performed in batches to limit request size, using the existing get_in_chunks utility function.

  • +1:

    Editing the title and meta of a Widget can now be performed simultaneously and title can be cleared by providing None.

  • +1:

    Added input validation and additional tests for update_widgets() method of Client class.

  • +1:

    Set identical type hinting for title keywords in all methods of the WidgetsManager and Widget classes.

  • +1:

    In the set_prefilters() and set_excluded_propmodels() methods of the MultiReferenceProperty class, users can now provide the referenced model to validate against, or bypass validation altogether, using the validate input argument.

  • +1:

    The child() method of the Activity class now tries to find a cached child prior to requesting the child from KE-chain, similar to the Part class.

Backwards incompatible changes

  • As planned and marked with a PendingDeprecationWarning we deprecate the customizations of Activities. This can only be done with old KE-chain versions which are no longer available in production.

  • Deleted enumeration class ComponentXType

v3.9.0 (05NOV20)

  • star:

    Added the option to manage supervisor members on a scope for KE-chain 3 backends that support the supervisor member users. That is possible for releases of KE-chain 3 starting from June 2020. (version 3.7). #772

  • star:

    Added the possibility to create a ServiceCardWidget through the add_service_card_widget() function.

  • star:

    Added the possibility to create a DashboardWidget through the add_dashboard_widget() function.

  • bug:

    Updating or setting of widget associations with only readable and/or writable properties is now supported.

  • bug:

    Missing upper-case letter in SideBarManager caused a loss of the override_sidebar property.

  • bug:

    SidebarButton class did not preserve all data from the scope options, losing display names in other languages. Editing of this values is now possible as well.

  • bug:

    Added a check whether the value of a single or multi select list Property is in the options when copying or moving a Part.

  • +1:

    Created PropertyValueFilter class to manage (pre)filters of MultiReferenceProperty and FilteredGridWidget objects.

  • +1:

    Created ScopeFilter class to manage (pre)filters of ScopeReferencesProperty.

  • +1:

    Added refresh() method on SideBarManager to reload the side-bar from KE-chain.

  • +1:

    Added get_prefilters() and set_prefilters() method to all reference property classes by default, albeit raising a NotImplementedError. Implementations exist for ScopeReferencesProperty and MultiReferenceProperty.

  • +1:

    Added get_excluded_propmodel_ids() method to the MultiReferenceProperty class.

  • +1:

    Added alignment keyword arguments for the creation of ServiceCardWidget and ServiceWidget classes.

  • +1:

    Added ref keyword to create_activity() method of Client

Backwards incompatible changes

The following changes are not compatible with previous functionality:

  • Changed the way edit functions work for Part, Properties, Activity, Scope, Notification, Service, Team and Banner classes. Passing inputs with value None in those functions will clear those attributes if possible. Not mentioning them will not overwrite their values.

  • The overwrite keyword argument in the set_prefilters() method of the MultiReferenceProperty now only overwrites prefilters if explicitly provided with new ones. Removing all prefilters is now supported with the keyword argument clear, also a boolean.

  • Specifying prefilters via separate lists of properties, values and filter types is planned to be deprecated in January 2021 in favor of using Filter objects as input.

v3.8.2 (18SEP20)

  • bug:

    The descendants of a Part with classification CATALOG returns both the Catalog and Product descendants. This broke the guaranteed parent-child relationship when populating the descendants in the populate_descendants() method of the Part class.

  • bug:

    KeyError in add_with_properties() method of the Part class.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: pytest (6.0.2)

v3.8.1 (08SEP20)

  • bug:

    Added title_visible property to Widget class for the widget’s title shown in KE-chain, deprecating the default_title mechanism when creating widgets. The default title of a widget is dependent on front-end and is not stored in the widget.

  • bug:

    Set and Update of widget associations now handles optional part_instance_id and/or parent_part_instance_id inputs.

  • bug:

    WidgetsManager and PartSet no longer implement Iterable as an “iterator”, making it possible to loop over the Widgets/Parts multiple times.

  • bug:

    add_signature_widget() method of the WidgetManager class now creates an editable signature widget by default. The new input argument editable can be set to False to create a viewable widget.

  • +1:

    Added update_activities method to Client to update activities in bulk.

  • +1:

    WidgetsManager is now stored in its Activity object for lazy retrieval, while the WidgetsManager now explicitly stores a reference to its Activity.

  • +1:

    Available Part options of a pre-filtered multi-reference properties are now filtered when using the choices() method on the MultiReferenceProperty.

  • +1:

    Added model_id attribute to Part class.

  • +1:

    Added count_instances() method to the Part class, to retrieve the number of Part instances of a Part model.

  • +1:

    Added get_landing_page_url() method to the Scope class, to retrieve the (relative) URL of landing page for that scope. Append it to the client’s API root for a full URL.

  • +1:

    Added LanguageCodes enum class to enumerate the available Language options for user profiles.

  • +1:

    Added value_ids() method to _ReferenceProperty class, returning a list of UUIDs instead of Pykechain objects.

  • +1:

    Added lazy retrieval in parent() method of TreeObject, Part and Activity classes. Retrieving children or populating descendants also sets all known parent objects.

  • +1:

    Inverted the inheritance hierarchy of Class2 classes, allowing for type-checking via isinstance(). However, creating objects from these classes is no longer supported.

  • +1:

    Added set_associations and remove_associations method to the Widget class (#827)

  • +1:

    Renamed activity clone API endpoint is now supported. We now support the cloning and renaming of Parts as well as cloning the activities. (#805)

  • +1:

    Added support of user references and scope references properties in pykechain by implementing the UserReferencesProperty and ScopeReferencesProperty classes. (#832)

  • +1:

    Included pending deprecation of version-2 classes such as Part2, Property2. It is advised to use the original Part and Property classes instead. (#713)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: sphinx (3.2.1), pytest-cov (2.10.1), tox (3.20.0), pydocstyle (5.1.1), pre-commit (2.7.1), coveralls (2.1.2)

v3.8.0 (11AUG20)

  • star:

    Added the bulk_create_parts API endpoint, which allows the adding of multiple Part instances with Properties in one call. #797

  • star:

    Added the bulk_delete_parts API endpoint, which allows the deletion of multiple Part objects in one call. #812

  • +1:

    Implemented robust method to update Scope side-bar buttons with minimum number of requests using a context manager (e.g. with scope.sidebar as manager mechanism) (#654)

  • +1:

    Included mapping dict from KE-chain native pages to their Font Awesome icons.

  • +1:

    Added properties to retrieve the root Activity and Part objects of a Scope. (#799)

  • +1:

    Added bulk-clone of activities, including associated data models. (#737)

  • +1:

    Added upload input value for when creating basic- and filtered-grid widgets. (#814)

v3.7.6 (30JUN20)

  • star:

    Added the Weather Widget creating possibilities. #788

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: tox (3.16.0)

v3.7.5 (29JUN20)

  • star:

    Added the Weather and GeoJSON property types to pykechain in correspondance with the backend version (core.pim 3.6.0). #787

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: mypy (0.782), requests (2.24.0), nbsphinx (0.7.1), semver (2.10.2)

v3.7.4 (15JUN20)

  • bug:

    Reloading Activity2 when retrieved in an ActivityReferencesProperty in order to populate it with all required data.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: sphinx (3.1.1), pytest-cov (2.10.0)

v3.7.3 (11JUN20)

  • +1:

    Added autofill representation for date, time and datetime properties (#733)

  • +1:

    Added breadcrumb_root option for meta-panel widgets.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: sphinx (3.1.0), flake8 (3.8.3), pre-commit (2.5.1)

v3.7.2 (8JUN20)

  • bug:

    fixed an issue where an old version of the dependent ‘semantic versioning’ package (semver) could cause problems. We now put a proper versioning requirement in the setup.py such that the correct version will be installed. Thanks for @bastiaan.beijer for finding this one.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: tox (3.15.2)

v3.7.1 (4JUN20)

  • bug:

    Reference properties values can now be set with identifiers, such as property.value = “1234…” and a list of identifiers, such as property.value = [“1234…”]. The original behavior of the MultiReferenceProperty2 was inconsistent: the value attribute did not allow strings while updating via the Part2.update() and Part2.add_with_properties() methods allowed it. (#770)

  • +1:

    Enabled kwargs for bulk editing of activities. (#770)

  • +1:

    Assigned Part2 class as the referenced class for the MultiReferenceProperty2 for more precise type-checking. (#770)

v3.7.0 (3JUN20)

This is a big release and perfectly qualifies for a minor version number upgrade. We took care of many things and improvements in alignment with fresh and refreshed capabilities of the KE-chain 3 platform.

In this release we also deprecated functionality that were announced to be deprecated some time ago. We deprecated all compatibility to ‘KE-chain 2’. Please refer to the Backward Incompatible Changes down below.

star:

is a new feature

+1:

are improvements

bug:

are fixed bugs./

  • star:

    Extracted representations from Property2 class into a separate RepresentationMixin class. This is now utilized by the Scope2, Activity2 and Property2 classes.

  • star:

    Implemented MultiSelectListProperty2 class, generalizing the implementation of the SelectListProperty2 class. Intermediate class `_SelectListProperty now hosts the generic implementation. #732

  • star:

    Implemented ActivityReferencesProperty class, generalizing the implementation of the part reference MultiReferenceProperty2 class. Intermediate classes _ReferenceProperty and _ReferencePropertyInScope have been added for further reference properties. #746

  • star:

    Added ScopeRoles and ScopeMemberActions enum classes to list the roles of and operations on scope members.

  • +1:

    Added PropertyTypes enumeration values for the JSON property and multiple new reference properties.

  • +1:

    Added CustomIconRepresentation to change the font-awesome icons of KE-chain scopes and activities. Default icon display mode is set/gettable, defaulting to “regular”.

  • +1:

    Added show_name_column input to the add_supergrid_widget method of the WidgetsManager.

  • +1:

    Added show_download_button and show_full_screen_button inputs to the add_attachmentviewer_widget method of the WidgetsManager.

  • +1:

    Added link_value input to the add_card_widget method of the WidgetsManager. Linking to sub-process activities now opens the link in tree view by default.

  • +1:

    Created mapping table property_type_to_class_map to convert between property types from the PropertyType enumeration and property classes derived from the Property2 class.

  • +1:

    Added BaseInScope base class for KE-chain objects limited to a single scope. It inherits from Base itself. The new class is used for Parts, Properties, Activities, Widgets, Associations and Services. Original class is still used for Scopes, Teams, Users, Banners, Notifications and ServiceExecutions.

  • +1:

    Moved scope property method to the BaseInScope class, adding lazy retrieval to limit overhead.

  • +1:

    Improved robustness of teardown for tests for the Scope2 class.

  • +1:

    Added editable argument to the add_attachmentviewer_widget method of the WidgetsManager, to enable both viewing and editing of the attachment.

  • +1:

    Added show_log argument to the add_service_widget method of the WidgetsManager, to separate the log file and log message.

  • +1:

    Added Alignment enum class, leaving NavigationBarAlignment as wrapper for backwards compatibility.

  • +1:

    Added intermediate create_configured_widget method in WidgetsManager for widgets with associated properties.

  • +1:

    Moved all inherited Property methods into the Property2 class and removed Property as its superclass.

  • +1:

    Large clean-up for user-input validation for most Client methods to provide consistent error messages.

  • +1:

    Added intermediate _retrieve_singular method in Client class to simplify other methods intended to get 1 object. These other methods all had identical dependency on methods to retrieve more than 1 object, such as part() on parts().

  • +1:

    Improved traceback of any APIError by printing content from the response and/or request if provided by keyword arguments, e.g. APIError(“Incorrect value!”, response=response). (#742)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: semver (2.10.1), pytest (5.4.3), pytest-cov(2.9.0), Sphinx (3.0.4), nbsphinx (0.7.0), tox (3.15.1), flake8 (3.8.2), pre-commit (2.4.0), mypy (0.780), removed PyOpenSSL which was only for python 2.7.

  • bug:

    Editing an Activity2 now uses its __init__ to refresh with the JSON from the response, removing an additional reload to get updated values.

  • bug:

    Added Activity2.scope_id setter method (self-induced bug due to the introduction of BaseInScope).

  • bug:

    Moved the serialization of property values from the Part2._parse_update_dict() method to the new Property2.serialize_value() method. This new method is used in the _put_value() method of this class to have identical serialization in both value and part.update() mechanics.

  • bug:

    The bulk update of property values via the use_bulk_update attribute and update_values method now uses the same serialization pipeline as synchronous updating. Also made the attribute a Property2 class property, converting it to a singleton.

  • bug:

    Refactored the reload method of the Client class to be able to reload any Pykechain class object. #760

  • bug:

    Scope edit cleared some properties from the scope if they were not provided.

Backwards incompatible changes

We deprecated the following:

  • get_all_children helper function for parts and activities. Use the all_children method instead.

  • The MultiReferenceProperty2.choices() method now returns an empty list if no Part model is yet configured. Now the method no longer raises a TypeError (i.e. ‘NoneType’ object is not subscriptable).

  • We deprecated the ActivityTypes: USERTASK, SERVICETASK and SUBPROCESS from ActivityType enum class.

  • We deprecated the option to use START from NavigationBarAlignment enum class.

  • We deprecated the mapping table WIMCompatibleActivityTypes.

v3.6.4 (20APR20)

  • bug:

    removed use of the old API usage of descendants. (#741)

  • +1:

    We will now raise the correct errors when retrieving an active banner. (#741)

  • +1:

    We now use actual depth-first sorting of children. (#741)

  • +1:

    For testing and development: Less hard-coded and centralized teardowns, using assertEqual(expected, received) format. (#741)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: Sphinx (3.0.2), nbsphinx (0.6.1)

v3.6.3 (14APR20)

  • +1:

    Added current_user() method on the Client class to return the User object of the user connected to KE-chain.

  • +1:

    Added various arguments to the create_notification() method.

  • +1:

    Added edit() method to the Notification class.

  • bug:

    Removed old API usage of descendants from copy() of the Part class.

  • bug:

    Raising correct errors whenever no (or multiple) active banner exist in the active_banner() method.

v3.6.2 (27MAR20)

  • bug:

    We found out that the regex to validate the email addresses was incorrectly defined. We added additional tests to fix this. (thanks to @jberends for the omission and the fix)

v3.6.1 (UNRELEASED)

This was never released due to some inappropriate tagged.

v3.6.0 (26MAR20)

This minor releases adds two new concepts (:star: :star:) that also exist in the KE-chain backend. We added a Banner concept that allows powerusers to set an announcement banner which is displayed (and can be dismissed) in KE-chain for all logged-in users within a certain timeperiod. We also added the concept of a Notification in KE-chain, where email or in-app notification can be displayed suchs as sharing a link of a task to another user, or sharing a PDF of a task to another user or and external email address.

  • star:

    Implemented Banner model and methods to create, delete and retrieve them. #725 (Thanks to @jelleboersma for the implementation)

  • star:

    Added the concept of a Notification including the possibility to retrieve, create(send) and delete Notifications. #467 (thanks to @raduiordache for the implementation)

  • star:

    Added the possibility to share a link or PDF of an activity using the Activity2.share_pdf() or Activity2.share_link(). #467 (thanks to @raduiordache for the implementation)

  • bug:

    When adding a new Activity2 to a parent, it will now cache its childeren in case the parent also have the children cached. In essence it updates the _cached_children. #722 (thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: pytest (5.4.1), mypy (0.770), tox (3.14.6)

v3.5.4 (9MAR20)

  • star:

    implemented retry on connection errors for the Client. This will ensure that if the client connection to the server has been dropped, the client will retry the request again with an exponentional backoff not to overload. #714

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: sphinx (2.4.4)

v3.5.3 (27FEB20)

This is release :100: of pykechain! That means :cake:!

  • bug:

    Fixed a bug where the API parameters for the Service now includes additional attributes on its objects. #709. Thanks to @bastiaanbeijer and @raduiordache for finding it and @jelleboersma for providing the fast resolution.

v3.5.2 (26FEB20)

  • bug:

    Fixed a bug in the multi references property where the call made to the backend with a normal user would require more information than only the id’s of the parts, this resulted in an API error in the retrieval of the referred instances. #707 Thanks @BastiaanBeijer for the discovery and @JelleBoersma for the quick fix.

  • bug:

    child() method of Part2 now robustly retrieves child parts created after retrieval of the parent itself, regardless of the _cached_children.

v3.5.1 (25FEB20)

  • bug:

    Default widget title is now respected when widgets are created with title=False.

  • +1:

    Improved typing of TreeObject methods in its subclasses.

v3.5.0 (24FEB20)

This release brings some interesting changes to pykechain. We discovered suddenly that the Activity and Part where actual trees, being a sustainable company, we also implemented them as such. You will find additional helper methods on both models such as child(), all_children(), and siblings(). This release also bring many small updates from two ‘bug hunting’ pull requests.

  • star:

    Creation of Widgets without a title but with a reference (or ref) now supported via the show_title_value keyword.

  • star:

    Implemented child method for Part2 and Activity2 class. Also implemented “dunder” method __call__() as short-hand for child(), making tree searching much simpler to code, e.g: child = root(‘part’)(‘child’)

  • star:

    Creation of Widgets without a title but with a reference (or ref) now supported via the show_title_value keyword.

  • star:

    Added Association class and retrieval method associations() on the Client class.

  • bug:

    Creation of Activity now uses parent’s classification if provided.

  • +1:

    Deprecated get_all_children helper function. It is replaced by the all_children method on the Part2 and Activity2 classes.

  • +1:

    Added classification attribute to the Part2 class.

  • +1:

    Added caching of children to the Activity2.children() method.

  • +1:

    Moved creation of WidgetsManager instances from the widgets() method of the Client to Activity class. The Client’s method output is now consistent with the create_widget(s) methods. #693

  • +1:

    Moved delete_widget(s) methods from WidgetsManager to Client class.

  • +1:

    Refactored Widget’s delete method to now calls its WidgetManager, if available, to maintain a consistent Widget list.

  • +1:

    Added __contains__ method to WidgetsManager to support “widget in manager” comparisons.

  • +1:

    Creation of Activity now uses parent’s classification if provided.

  • +1:

    Added page_size input to the add_scope_widget method of the WidgetManager class to set the pagination of the Scope widget.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: sphinx (2.4.3), pre-commit (2.1.0), requests (2.23.0)

Backward incompatible changes

  • The Client.widgets() method now returns a list of Widget objects. In the past this was a WidgetsManager object that contained additional helper/widgetfactory methods to instantiate a widget. This is now brought in line with other Client widget methods like Client.create_widget(), etc. (reg #693)

3.4.0 (17FEB20)

  • star:

    Added Client method for the bulk-update properties API endpoint. #663

  • star:

    Added Property2 flag use_bulk_update and class method update_values to support bulk-update of property values while still using the value attribute. #663

  • bug:

    has_value method of the Property2 class now accurately predicts floats, integers and boolean values. #675

  • bug:

    value attribute of AttachmentProperty class now refreshes automatically when uploading attachments. #675

  • +1:

    moved bulk-update of widgets to the client. Also split the _validate_widget and the _validate_related_models Client methods. #658

  • +1:

    Updated populate_descendants() to use new API and actually store the _cached_children.

  • +1:

    Added test to confirm a value of None clears a reference property. #468

  • +1:

    Keyword-arguments provided when creating widgets via the WidgetsManager do now propagate successfully.

  • +1:

    Improved unittests for Property2, AttachmentProperty2 classes.

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: semver (2.9.1), coveralls (1.11.1), Sphinx (2.4.1), tox (3.14.5)

3.3.2 (6FEB20)

  • bug:

    Activity2 method _validate_edit_arguments now correctly checks for members of the scope prior to assigning new assignees.

  • star:

    added thousand separators representation on numeric properties to pykechain. #670 (thanks to @raduiordache)

  • :+1:Fix the Widget.parent() method call. #655

  • :+1:Updated populate_descendants() to use new API and actually store the _cached_children. #662

  • +1:

    dependent versions for development: pydocstlye (5.0.2), nbsphinx (0.5.1), pytest (5.3.5), pre-commit (2.0.1)

3.3.1 (8JAN20)

  • Fixed a lingering performance issue with Part.add_with_properties(). In older KE-chain API versions a full part refresh was needed in order to re-retrieve the attributes of a Part. In the current backend API this is not needed anymore. The attribute that caused this was the refresh flag in the Part.add_with_properties method call and resulted in the re-retrieval of all children of a part and caused longer cycle times once the list of children grows longer (linear). This flag will be deprecated in the next release. Currently all Parts are automatically refreshed with information from the backend in a lightweight manner (without an extra API call). The part just created with the method add_with_properties is added to the Part’s children automatically if the children of the parent are already once retrieved (and cached). Many thanks to our committed users / customers for finding this and pointing this out.

  • Updated type hinting for all methods for Part2 objects, to assist the user in capable Python Development Environments (IDE’s - such as Pycharm or VSCode) to write error-free code.

  • Added a Pending Deprecation Warning when setting the refresh attribute on the Part.add_with_properties(refresh=False/True). It will be removed in version 3.4 and an DeprecationWarning Exception will be raised then.

3.3.0 (7JAN20)

  • Added scope widget button customization in the WidgetManager method add_scope_widget.

  • Added native KE-chain pages as option for the Card widget link value. Use the KEChainPages enum to set your target.

  • Added show_images to the inputs of add_supergrid_widget and add_filteredgrid_widget methods.

  • Organized function headers of the WidgetManager methods to match the order of the inputs.

  • Added edit_cascade_down method to the Activity2 class to trickle-down the changes to the attributes of a subprocess.

  • Added APP classification options to the tasks to actively work on the APP screens (not end-user editable)

  • Added support of Python 3.7 and 3.8 in sim scripts to support future unlocking of this feature in KE-chain 3.2 (FEB20).

3.2.4 (6JAN20)

  • Feature: migrating async to async_mode for all backend api’s for future compatibility. Determines if backend lives on version 3.1.0 or above. (#649)

  • dependent versions for development: coveralls (1.10.0), Sphinx (2.3.1), mypy (0.761), tox (3.14.3), pre-commit (1.21.0)

3.2.3 (19DEC19)

  • bug:

    copying of (multiple) 1-or-many Part models to the same parent is now fixed. #636 Thanks to @jelleboersma

  • bug:

    copy/move of a Part also refreshes the part to ensure all properties are copied/moved. #636

  • point_up:

    dependent versions for development: pytest (5.3.2), coverage (pinned to < 5.0), Sphinx (2.3.0), mypy (0.760)

3.2.2 (14DEC19)

  • made Activity.associated_parts() great again. #523 Thanks to @raduiordache

  • Added also the possibility to get the associated objects of an Activity with ids only. #523

  • Updated dependent versions for development: pydocstyle (5.0.1)

3.2.1 (06DEC19)

This is the day after ‘Sinterklaasavond’ :gift: edition of pykechain.

  • Update the Client.create_widgets (bulk create widgets) and Client.update_widgets_associations (bulk update widget associations) to work seamlessly with the backend on it as we discovered a bug in the backend during tests of these methods. Additional tests where added as well. #617, #626

  • Added SideBarManager and SideBarButton classes to support configuration of the scope side-bar. #539

  • Added Enumeration classes KEChainPages, SubprocessDisplayMode, URITarget and FontAwesomeMode to support configuration of the scope side-bar. #539

  • Added is_url url checker, with a tap to the :tophat: for Konsta Vesterinen and his implementation of an URL validator. #539

  • Added pre commit hooks for developers. Use pre-commit install to install the hooks in your local repo and while committing, watch your git console (in Pycharm in the ‘Version Control’ tab (bottom) > ‘Console’ tab). If you want to run the pre-commit hooks on all files (not only those ones that changes in the commit) run pre-commit run -a on the command line (Terminal).

3.2.0 (03DEC19)

  • Added bulk widget creation and editing of widgets. #617 (thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • Added methods to retrieve pykechain objects from the server via ‘ref’. Including services. #608. (thanks to @raduiordache)

  • Added edit and delete methods to Team class and fixed some bugs relating to Team creation. #620 (thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • Added additional inputs to create an Activity: status, start_date, due_date, description, classification. #615 (thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • Bugfix: Part.scope() retrieves the part’s scope regardless of its status. (thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • Improved Client exception messages when retrieving singular objects, e.g. Client.scope() (thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • Updated dependent versions for development: mypy (0.750), tox (3.14.2), sphinx (2.2.2), coveralls (1.9.2 :vulcan_salute:️)

3.1.5 (29NOV19)

This is the black friday edition of pykechain.

  • Changed the default upload of a sim script to use python 3.6 when executed on KE-chain as a script.

  • Added tests for retrieving objects by ref. (#608 - thanks to @jelleboersma for the find and @raduiordache for the PR)

  • Updated the implementation of the add_scope_widget() method to support filters. (thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • Updated dependent versions for development: twine (3.1.1), pytest (5.3.1)

3.1.4 (25NOV19)

  • Updated the implementation of the Scope.members() method when dealing with is_leadmember and is_manager filters. (thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • Updated CI tests to use Github Actions.

3.1.3 (22NOV19)

  • Fixed the bulk editing and creating of parts (Part2) which have attachments in the list of properties. In the background we now separate the upload of attachments from the update of the properties. #590 (Thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • Fixed a bug with timezones.

  • Updated dependent versions for development: nbsphinx (0.5.0), pytest (5.3.0), jsonschema (3.2.0), twine (3.0.0), pyopenssl (19.1.0).

3.1.2 (14NOV19)

  • small fix for backwards compatibility of CardWidgetLinkTarget enum.

3.1.1 (UNRELEASED)

  • This version is never released to the public

3.1.0 (14NOV19)

  • Added Activity2.move() function to move an Activity somewhere else under another Activity into this code base. (#579 thanks to @raduiordache)

  • Created a framework for Property Representation, similar to the ones provided in KE-chain. Using this framework you can add representation for e.g. the SelectList, such as shown as a dropdown, checkboxes or a button. Check out the documentation on SelectListRepresentations. We also added DecimalPlaces, SignificantDigits, LinkTarget and ButtonRepresentation. (#532 thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • Added FileSizeValidator and FileExtensionValidator to pykechain. Now you can use it also to create these validators for AttachmentProperty2-ies. Also if these validators are active on properties you can use the Property2.is_valid() api to check if the property conforms to these validators. With Property2.get_reason() you retrieve the reason for the validator being either valid or invalid. This will override the patch release of 3.0.2. #573

  • Added ImageFitValue enum to better support the CardWidget and AttachmentviewerWidget generation and editing. #582 (thanks @jelleboersma)

  • Updated dependent versions for development: tox (3.14.1)

3.0.2 13NOV19

  • Ensured proper handling of filesize and fileextension validators in KE-chain. This is a temporary release for compatibility reasons. It will be replaced with fully blown Validators in the next release. (thanks to @bastiaanbeijer for finding it)

3.0.1 12NOV19

As we dropped Python 2.7 support we improve the code throughout on type hinting and type checking. We do this for better code and code that is less prone to errors while developing python applications on top of KE-chain with pykechain. This release improves the code in several places in this regard.

  • (for developers) Additional type checking and type hinting consistencies fixed (thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • (for developers) added enumerations inheritance (thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • small fix for the Client.user() methods that expects a id keyword in the backend and got a pk. (thanks to @jelleboersma)

  • refactored the update_dict for bulk actions where fvalues can be used such as part create with properties and part update with properties (thanks to @jelleboersma)

3.0.0 31OKT19

This is a next major release of pykechain, adding support for the legacy version of the Product Information Module (PIM) in KE-chain as well as the new version PIM3.

Backward Incompatible Changes

  • this version is incompatible with Python version 2.7. It will produce a RunTimeError when trying to execute this in Python 2.7. This is due to the fact we added Python 3 type hints to the source code to improve stability.

  • When connecting to KE-chain version 2 API backends, please refer to pykechain version 2.7. This versions attempts to autodetect the version of the API and switch to legacy classes and methods accordingly, but YMMV. In your requirements you can place the following line: pykechain <= 2.7.99 to ensure that the latest pykechain v2 is installed.

Major differences

  • Widgets are not part of KE-chain 3. The Activity object does provide a WidgetManager to add, remove, reorder, insert and manage WidgetSets in general.

  • There are some new widgets introduced, please refer to the documentation

  • We have a new Part2, Property2 and Scope2 API endpoint (/api/v3/...). This API is faster but asks the call to be more explicit on what fields to return initially.

  • KE-chain 3 has widget level associations, and not on activity anymore. That means that parts and part models are associated per widget.

  • We made over 300 commits with updates, improvements and changes in relation to pykechain v2.

Improvements

  • Added clone_scope() method to the Client and the Scope object. With the right permissions you can now clone a project using pykechain.

  • We added ‘representation’ for some property types in the KE-chain 3 backend. In such way we can support alternative representations of eg. single select list as a list of buttons in the frontend, greatly improving the usability on mobile devices.

  • More consistent handling of pykechain base objects throughout the code. Now you can pass in a pykechain Base subclassed object almost anywhere, where in the past you could only have passed only the UUID/id.

  • We added ref to most pykechain models. You can find Properties of a Part based on the id, name or ref now. You can also search most models for its ref. The ref is a slugified value of the original name of the object in KE-chain.

  • We enabled the options check_certificates in the pykechain.helpers.get_project() function and the Client. You can use this to disable the check for https certificates in pykechain, eg. to connect to the local HTTPS host or to a on-premise host that has a self-assigned certificate.

  • We added a DatetimeProperty to more precisely manage the conversion of datetimes back and forth with the API.

  • We added type hints on most, if not all major methods.

  • We updated the documentation.

  • We test pykechain version 3 against python 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and pypy3 - and naturally all tests pass.