Release v1.8.0

• NEW support calling methods on interfaces
• NEW support accessing properties on interfaces
• NEW simplified white space removal
• NEW License change to Apache 2.0
• FIX to support issues under XE7
• FIX AV when method method does not exist
• FIX improved error messaging on exceptions
• FIX regex threadsafety issue in lexer

Release v.1.7.7

• github actions updated to support 64bit build
• updated docs
• fixed internal passing of variables for function taking dynarray as param
• fixed a 64bit tests
• fixed some tests where records were not in interface section
• added more examples
• support functional includes

Release v.1.7.6

This release features:

• Release build fails when the Sempare License check is not confirmed
• Refactoring
• Support allowing for RTTI context to reference across DLL boundaries (but based off the same version of Delphi)
• Main package marked as runtime only
• Commits are now under GitHub Actions CI
• DPM support

Release v1.7.5

This release features:

• FIX: Improved JSON (System.JSON) support
• FIX: Refactor RTTI deref methods

Release v1.7.4

This release features:

• NEW: Assignment can now be done using both Pascal (:=) and C (=) operators. This is a flexibility feature to support users.
• NEW: default(value, default) method. Default is returned when IsEmpty(value) is true.
• NEW: domid(record_or_class [, context:str] )
• NEW: pascal-like ternary: <% greet := true; print( 'hello' if greet else 'bye' ) %>
• FIX: refactor old C-like ternary <% print(greet? 'hello':'bye' ) %>
• FIX: some of the language constructs required open and close brackets. These are now optional. Close bracket will be forced when the open bracket is used.
• FIX: semi colons can be used more liberally within the script blocks, even with empty statements. <% print('hello'); ; ; ; print('world') ; %>

Release v1.7.3

NEW: add some helper debug methods for probing the stack frames
NEW: add Context.VariableResolver
NEW: map values can now contain expressions
NEW: support for integration with the DelphiMVCFramework (bridge adaptor will be in that repository)
FIX: context missing on two of the TTemplateRegistry.Eval overloads which resulted in some of the config being missing
FIX: general refactorings
FIX: VCL dependency removed. Introductory licensing text is now included in template output when run without the define.
FIX: refactor SempareVersion() helper

Release 1.7.2

• NEW: add manage(object) and unmanage(object) to allow scripts to hint to evaluation engine to dispose of dynamically created objects
• NEW: updated Template Engine Playground to show evaluation time in ms
• NEW: updated Template Engine Playground to extract variables from a script into the grid
• NEW: updated Template Engine Playground with Carbon theme
• NEW: initial support for json/map like variables
• FIX: remove caching of TRttiMethod to ensure calls on virtual methods work correctly
• FIX: type coercion to TValue reapplied

Release 1.7.1

• NEW: update template resolution in TTemplateRegistry using contextual information
• NEW: add convenience helpers Template.Resolver(), Template.Resolve(), Template.ResolveWithContext()
• NEW: add Context.TemplateResolverWithContext
• FIX: stack overflow on TemplateRegistry when resolving templates explicitly added to the context.
• FIX: resource leak in TTemplateRegistry on shutdown
• FIX: TTemplateRegistry shutdown could potentially block

Release v1.7.0

• NEW: add extends/block support
• NEW: add whitespace stripping hints to script tokens
• NEW: add WebBroker demo
• NEW: add TTemplateRegistry helper (experimental)
• NEW: reformat docs with working navigation and function ordering
• NEW: add Sempare.Template.RCGenerator
• NEW: add hash comment support <%# comment %>
• NEW: support multiple statements in a script block. e.g. <% print('a'); print('b') %>
• NEW: add Template.ExtractBlocks
• NEW: add Context.WhitespaceChar
• NEW: added != alias for <>, == alias for =
• CHANGE: Remove eoAllowIgnoreNL, eoStripEmptyLines, eoReplaceNewline
• CHANGE: Rename Demo to Playground
• CHANGE: removed (* *) style comments within script blocks which didn't really work
• FIX: bug in elif
• FIX: cycle statement support in while loops
• FIX: various internal refactorings

v1.6.2

• NEW: Allow TemplateContext.ValueSeparator to be overridden. May be , or ;
• BREAK: TemplateContext.ValueSeparator is no longer coupled to TemplateContext.DecimalSeparator
• NEW: Rail road diagrams added in documentation