v1.0.0 (2023-01-03)

[alorence]

After months of work, the 1.0 milestone is a major refactoring of the library. Many parts of the project have been
modernized to improve readability and robustness, and a few issues were fixed.

Improvements

• Type hinting is now supported in RPC methods. Auto-generated documentation will use it when it is defined.
  Old-style "doctypes" are still supported.
• Dependency to six have been completely removed

Breaking Changes

• When an authentication error is raised, the returned status code is now 200 instead of 403 for consistency with
  batch and system.multicall requests (fix: AuthenticationFailed not fired in batch requests #35)
• Django < 2.1 and Python < 3.5 support have been dropped.

Other API changes

• A new modernrpc.core.Protocol enum has been introduced to enforce correct protocol value when needed. (Update entry_point.rst #29, Improve exception raised when invalid protocol is given to RPCEntryPoint #30).
  This new class replaces modernrpc.core.JSONRPC_PROTOCOL and modernrpc.core.XMLRPC_PROTOCOL but aliases were
  created for backward compatibility.
• RPCUnknownMethod exception has been renamed to RPCMethodNotFound. An alias has been created
  for backward compatibility

Fixes

• Initialization process updated: exceptions are now raised on startup for invalid RPC modules. In addition, Django
  check system is used to notify common errors. This was requested multiple times (Application import symantics hide errors #2, No way to catch exception  #13, Silent warning on load #34).
• JSON-RPC notification behavior has been fixed to respect standard. Requests without id are handled as
  notifications but requests with null id are considered invalid and will return an error
• Batch request behavior has been fixed when one or more results failed to be serialized
• Builtin system.methodSignature behavior have been updated to respect standard. It now returns a list of
  list and unknown types are returned as "undef" (see http://xmlrpc-c.sourceforge.net/introspection.html)

Misc

• Added support for Python 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11
• Added support for Django 3.2, 4.0 and 4.1
• Documentation tree was completely reworked for clarity and simplicity. A new theme (Book) is now used to improve
  readability. See https://django-modern-rpc.rtfd.io.
• Poetry is now used to configure project dependencies and build distributions. The new pyproject.toml file
  replaces setup.py, setup.cfg, MANIFEST.in and requirements.txt to centralize all dependencies,
  external tools settings (pytest, flake8, etc.) and packaging configuration
• Black is now used to automatically format code
• Mypy is now used to verify type hints consistency
• Tox configuration now includes pylama, mypy, pylint and black environments
• All tests have been rewritten to have a strong separation between unit and functional tests. Test classes where
  created to group tests by similarities. Many fixtures have been added, with more parameterization, resulting in
  about 350 tests executed covering more than 95% of the code.

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This discussion was created from the release v1.0.0 (2023-01-03).