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Gaelyk 1.1 Released

Earlier today, Guillaume Laforge announced that Gaelyk 1.1 was out. Below are highlights of this version, (which was copied from the release announcement):

• Upgraded to Groovy 1.8.4 and App Engine SDK 1.6.0
• The new get() methods on the datastore service now also work with the asynchronous datastore.
• Added an unindexed property on entities to set unindexed properties: person.unindexed.bio = "..."
• Three annotations to customize the bean / entity coercion (@Key, @Unindexed and @Ignore)
• Part of the work with the async datastore get(), whenever you have a Future to deal with, for example when the async datastore returns a Future, you can call any property on the Future object, and it will proxy those property access to the underlying object returned by the get() call on the future.
• In addition to datastore.query{} and datastore.execute{}, there is now a datastore.iterate{} method that returns an Iterator instead of a list, which is friendlier when your queries return a large number of results.
• Added the prospective search service to the binding
• You can access the asynchronous Memcache service with memcache.async
• Additional convenience methods for the file service
• Added an each and collect method on blobstore to iterate over all the blobs from the blobstore, or to collect some values from all blob infos stored.

The Gaelyk project website has the latest binaries and documentation. Congratulations to the project team on the release!

Gaelyk 1.0 Released

Guillaume Laforge announced the release of Gaelyk 1.0 a short while ago.  Head on over to the Gaelyk site for more information or grab the binaries from the download page.  The changelog in the release announcement lists the following changes:

GAE SDK updated to 1.5.2 and Groovy to 1.8.1 Introduction of a Query DSL for creating SQL-like queries against the datastore Updated template project with a Gradle build, the usage of Gradle GAE / Gaelyk plugins, and the support of Spock for testing Groovlets Introduction of the plugins page in the Gaelyk website, for referencing known plugins By annotating classes with GaelykBindings, the same services and variables are injected in your classes as properties, as the ones which are injected in Groovlets and templates The validation closures of the routes in your URL mapping have access to the request, so you can validate a URL depending on what's in your request (attribute, session, etc.) Added a DSLD file (DSL descriptor) for Eclipse for easing code-completion and navigation Added a get() method on Key, as well as on lists of keys Ability to convert lists to Keys Added two encoded string and key conversion utilities Additional datastore.get() methods to retrieve entities by their keys more concisely Problems with the recent XMPP support fixed Fixed inability to access the various services and variables from within binding/before/after blocks in plugin descriptors

Gaelyk 0.7 Released

Gaelyk 0.7 has been released, adding support for Groovy 1.8 and Google App Engine 1.5.0, plus some other neat enhancements.  The release announcement on Google Groups has more details on what is new.  You can download Gaelyk 0.7 from the official site.