Release notes

0.7.0

• Kanzi Rust API now works with Kanzi 3.9.14.

• You can now directly compare shared and weak objects of different types.

• Enhanced message handler interface: the provided closure now receives strongly typed message arguments.

• Renamed AbstractPropertyType::find_raw to AbstractPropertyType::find.

• Renamed AbstractMessageType::find_raw to AbstractMessageType::find.

• Updated AbstractDataObject casting to use downcast methods in ObjectConstraint trait instead of custom cast methods.

0.6.0

• Kanzi Rust API now works with Kanzi 3.9.13.

• Implemented a brand new interface for bridging Rust and C++ application code.

• Added templates for application and plugin code for Rust.

• Added registration of custom loggers from Rust.

• Improved error messages for Kanzi exceptions caught by Rust.

• Improved compiler error messages resulting from macro usage.

• Removed all as-conversions from the Kanzi crate.

0.5.0

• Kanzi Rust API now works with Kanzi 3.9.12.

• Implemented a procedural macro to enable inheritance from C++ classes.

• Added support for defining crates as dynamically loaded modules.

• Added a new plugin example with inheritance: XmlDataSource (as a part of ./examples/hello_rust).

• Introduced an interface for setting a global callback Domain::set_error_callback which can be used for tracking unhandled exceptions.

• Standardized all callback function signatures to return kanzi::Result.

• Replaced all instances of the unwrap method with except for improved error handling.

• Added Location context for kanzi::Error.

• Introduced interfaces for ListBoxConcept, Trajectory, and NamedIntervalProfiler.

• Added support for binding interfaces: AbstractBinding, Binding, TwoWayBinding, and ToSourceBinding.

• Raised the minimum supported Rust compiler version to 1.83.

• Removed unmaintained dependencies: paste and json.

• Increased overall test coverage to 80%.

0.4.0

• Kanzi Rust API now works with Kanzi 3.9.12.

• Provide interface for defining custom resource loaders.

• Provide interface for creating textures.

• Provide interface for reloading custom resources (can only be used with GPU resources).

• Provide macro for defining custom property and message types.

• Provide interface for ListBoxConcept.

• Provide macro and traits for inheriting from DataSource, NodeComponent` and other classes.

• Provide interface for AbstractBinding.

• Provide interface for Viewport2D.

0.3.0

• Kanzi Rust API now works with Kanzi 3.9.11.

• Provide safe iterator methods which eagerly collect all values of an iterator into Vec.

• Provide KanziString and KanziStr types for better interaction with C++.

• Provide methods for subscriptions to dispatched messages on Node types.

• Update recoverable function calls to return Result<Option<{type}>>.

• Update how Kanzi Rust API is registered in Kanzi to properly handling crate uninitialization.

• Provide Weak objects and do not allocate strong references in API calls by default.

• Provide ThreadObject for sharing state with non-Kanzi threads.

• Update API calls to cast returned objects to user defined types. Also provide *_raw functions in case casting is undesirable.