Pretty Diff v2.0.0 Published

Pretty Diff

v2.0.0

Breaking changes

• Updated mode "parse" to output an object with two keys: definition and data. The definition property stores a text description of each data type supplied in the data property. The data property stores the parsed data.
• Added mode "analysis" to generate reports of code evaluation. The program now outputs only the desired data instead of an array of desired data plus a report.
• Due to the other changes the Node.js only option report is removed.
• There is no longer a global.report property to store extra information. This is replaced with global.meta which stores parse errors, execution duration, number of differences, input size, output size, and can be extended to store additional metadata into the future.
• Pretty Diff will no longer publish to NPM. - #291

New Options

• nodeasync. Asynchronous bulk operations like reading from a directory produces cross-talk when assigning meta data to a global object. The desired goal of version 2 is to have the prettydiff function return a single string and meta data to a global object. In this case, for reliability, the prettydiff function will return an array of [data, meta] where data is the desired string output and meta is the metadata object similar to Pretty Diff version 1.
• nodeerror. Sometimes it is desirable and informative to log parse errors to the console. Such a feature can become excessive noise and break unit tests though.
• parseRecord. If false the output of mode "parse" is a collection of parallel data types. If the option is true the output is a sequential array where each index is a child array of data respective to a given parsed token.
• parseSpace. Determines whether white space content tokens should exist in the parse tree output of the parse mode.

Minor fixes:

• Enabling accessibility analysis and reporting in the new "analysis" mode.
• Fixed some missing semicolon insertion during JavaScript parsing.
• Fixed a curly brace insertion bug in JavaScript do/while loops.
• Fixes a javascript defect in generated diff report HTML files.
• Fixes a defect in "varword: list" where comments precede the reference.
• Option varword now accounts for var, let, and const
• Expands JavaScript conversion of operators ++ and -- under the correct option.
• Fixes #294
• Fixes #293
• Modified markup </li> insertion logic
• Updated test runner file system simulation to work correctly on Windows.