What's new in Intent Architect (September 2024)

Welcome to the September 2024 edition of What's New in Intent Architect.

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Razor Code Management

Code Management / Merging capabilities for .razor files offer intelligent and powerful code merging between existing and generated content.

For more information, refer to this Docs article.

Available from:

  • Intent.Code.Weaving.Razor 1.0.0-beta.0

NetTopologySuite for GIS capabilities

The NetTopologySuite library is introduced for Geographic Information System (GIS) capabilities, allowing you to incorporate geospatial data into your applications using Intent Architect with Entity Framework for SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

Specify Point in your Domain.

Example in Domain

Have your Services also contain this Point as part of request and response messages.

Example in Services

Schema as represented in Swagger:

Example in Swagger

Available from:

  • Intent.NetTopologySuite 1.0.0

NuGet modeling for module builders

For module builders, we have introduced the ability to model NuGet package dependencies for your modules.

NuGet model

Modeling your NuGet packages provides the following benefits:

  • Modules can "vote" on which versions of a NuGet package they want to install if multiple modules are trying to install the same package.
  • NuGet integration for fetching the latest versions of packages.
  • Support for package versioning per .NET Framework.

For more detailed information, see this article.

Available from:

  • Intent.ModuleBuilder.CSharp 3.6.1-pre.0

HashiCorp Vault secrets integration with .NET configuration

HashiCorp Vault provides organizations with identity-based security to automatically authenticate and authorize access to secrets and other sensitive data. Access secrets from a HashiCorp Vault for configuration in .NET.

Learn more by visiting the module documentation here.

If you have MySecret stored in the Vault, you can access it using IConfiguration:

public static void Configuration(IConfiguration configuration) 
{
    var superSecret = configuration["MySecret"];
}

HashiCorp Vault UI

Available from:

  • Intent.HashiCorp.Vault 1.0.0

Use comments in the Services Designer

It is now possible to use comments in the Services Designer in the same way that comments could already be used in the Domain Designer.

Example of a comment in the services designer

Available from:

  • Intent.Modelers.Services 3.7.5

Enforce Enums using SQL constraints with EF Core

We have introduced a new setting, Enum check constraints, for the Intent.EntityFrameworkCore module. When this is enabled, any enum-based attributes in the domain will have SQL check constraints configured so that only valid values can be saved in the column.

For more detailed information, see the module documentation.

Available from:

  • Intent.EntityFrameworkCore 5.0.9

Swagger UI defaults ModelRendering to Example

The default view of request payloads in Swagger UI now defaults to Example instead of Model (schema).

It will present the payload structure like this in Swagger UI:

Example sample

Instead of this, as it did before:

Schema sample

Available from:

  • Intent.AspNetCore.Swashbuckle 5.1.0

Service Pagination introduced for Java SpringBoot module

Paginate services in Java SpringBoot with Intent Architect.

Right-click on a service returning a collection of a DTO.

Example pagination

It will now be decorated with the appropriate paginated types.

Paginated service

Controller action code sample:

@GetMapping(path = "/paginated")
@Operation(summary = "FindAllPaginated")
@ApiResponses(value = {
    @ApiResponse(responseCode = "200", description = "Returns the specified Page<UserDto>."),
    @ApiResponse(responseCode = "400", description = "One or more validation errors have occurred."),
    @ApiResponse(responseCode = "404", description = "Can't find a Page<UserDto> with the parameters provided.") })
public ResponseEntity<Page<UserDto>> FindAllPaginated(@Parameter(required = true) Pageable pageable) {
    if (pageable.isUnpaged()) {
        pageable = PageRequest.of(0, 150);
    }

    final Page<UserDto> result = usersService.FindAllPaginated(pageable);

    return new ResponseEntity<>(result, HttpStatus.OK);
}

Available from:

  • Intent.Java.SpringBoot 4.0.1
  • Intent.Java.Services.CRUD 4.0.1