V1.3.0

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This release introduces :

• Major performance improvement, especially code generation from a TypeCobol source.
• Formalized comments (Javadoc like) and multi-line comments
• Calculation of data size in memory
• Generation of procedures that contains EXEC-SQL
• Generation of procedures as nested programs

News

• Formalized and multiline comments for TypeCobol source (How to write comment in TypeCobol ? #891 Formalized comment syntax for documentation generation. #998 Formalized comment tasks #1023 Formalized comment doesn't works in incremental #1130 Documentation: Formalized Comments, Multiline Comments and Documentation generation #1176 Bug for incremental mode and multi line changes. #1234 Make Incremental Scanning support Multi Line comments. #1238 Generation of multiline comment #1328 Change formalized and multi line comment syntax #1329)

      %<<<
        This is formalized comment intented to produce a documentation.
      %>>>

      %<<
        This is a multi line comment
      %>>

• Process the size and position in memory of each variable in a source (Data POSITION and SIZE #219)
• Generate procedure of programs containing SQL statements as nested programs (Codegen : generate procedure with nested program #1170 and Generate procedure that contains an instruction EXEC SQL as nested #1209)
• LanguageServer : Support for hover on type and procedure (Hover for Type #1032 LS : show documentation of call/type (like hover but for doc) #1119 Hover layout #1347)
• LanguageServer : Syntax coloring for the content of formalized and multiline comments (Enhance TypeCobol LSP to support Syntax Coloring Custom Notification #1225)
• Validate the identity of variable PIC (Implement a Cobol PICTURE String Validator, towards real PICTURE Type representation. #872)
• Create a type from COPY (Create Type from existing COPY #1019)
• Codegen can now generate a line mapping between TypeCobol lines and Cobol 85 generated lines. This line mapping can be retrieved with CLI (arguments -glm) (Make the Codegen output a line number mapping between source code and generated source code. #1358)

Fixed

• CLI : Display help on command --help (CLI option --help not triggered #1183)
• Multiple set bool1 bool2 ... boolN is allowed (set myBool1 myBool2 to false cause an exception #1187)
• Remove duplicated MOVE on generation (Internal bug, bad generation of MOVE UNSAFE instruction TO qualified name. #1191)
• Attach diagnostics to nodes instead of CodeElement to avoid OutOfMemory problem in incremental mode (Diagnostics created during CrossCheck must be attached to Node #1208)
• Import Cobol source code if the opened file is not decodable (TypeCobol.Transform: decoder shall generates the input file if no a decodable content. #1214)
• Declare a simple TypeDef on multiple lines (Declare procedure with user defined type #1235)
• An empty dependency folder will only produce a warning (Regression : Warning when a dependency folder is empty #1282)
• Diagnostics attached to ParameterDescription were not returned by CLI/LanguageServer (Diagnostics attached to ParameterDescription are not displayed #1292)
• Detect circular reference on 3+ typedefs (Circular references between typedef don't detect problem between 3 typedef  #1295)
• Recognize data definition under data redefines (Regression : Variable under a type used by variable under a redefines are not found correctly #1317)
• Typedefs declared as global are associated to the global SymbolTable (Variable or typedef declared as global are not associated with the global SymbolTable #1327)
• Attach scanner diagnostics to the right line (Scanner diagnostics are attached to the wrong line #1336)
• Dependency files loading order has no importance on parsing a dependency (Dependency TypeDef used in a function declaration in another dependency #1326 Use Type from other dependencies #1338)
• Remove or cancel actions on first or last source line after save cause no error anymore (TypeCobol.LanguageServer raise index out of range exceptions #1350)
• Add comments above the main Identification Division won’t produce fake errors anymore (Duplication on CodeElement when editing lines above Identification division #1351)

Performance

Global performance improvement. Gain from 5% to 85% depending on the case.

• Generate Cobol source based on C# instead of Razor script and skeletons (Measure Razor performance and look for an alternative #615 Give up Razor and Skeleton for Code Generation #1028 Create the TypeCobol.TemplateTranspiler VS projects and solution #1147 - Adapt Codegen to work with the generated Skeleton.cs file. (A09.T01) #1155 Replace in Skeleton.xml file the character % by @Model #1217 Add a MSBuild task to auto generate C# Skeleton file. #1218 Make internal EITest work with new codegen. #1220 Remove TypeCobol.TemplateTranspiler project #1221 Delete skeleton typebool.xml ? #1232)
  • This improve the performance when generating a TypeCobol source code.
  • The parameter -s|-skeleton is now ignored by CLI (CLI can ignore parameters s / skeletons. #1355)
• New Performance tests (Replace Performance test with BigBatch #1194 Create performance tests for TypeCobol #1296)
• Various optimizations on the SymbolTable (Optimize SymbolTable #1301) and TypeCobolLinker (Optimize TypeCobolLinker #1302)
• Reduce impact of sending statistics on generation. Less statistics are generated. (Kibana is still to slow #1247)

Internal / API

• Make the CodeElement property of Node generic, so we don’t have to cast them each time (Use generics for CodeElement property in Node #1186)
• New DataType for level 88 (BOOL is used with variable declared in level 88 #1009)
• Remove generic context of NodeListener (Remove generics TCtx of NodeListener #1199)
• Transition to C# 7.3 (Update CSharp version #1245)
• Add LSP and LSR logs on LSP tests (LSP & LSR tests synchronization timeout fail #1250)