Summary

Several major bugs where fixed, which occur when running on Windows.
Main improvements are
- an assertion facility
- improved script support
- more concise JavaBean construction syntax
- improved protection of production databases

Change Details

- deprecated RunSQLScriptTask
- changed Converter interface and abstract implementations

Enhancement Details

- localized GUI wizard for English, German
- improved GUI convenience
- printing System and debugging information on startup
- auto-recognition of Mac OS X setup problems
- supporting JSR 223 scripts in attributes like script="{js:currentDate()}"
- benerator GUI: VM param -Dbenerator.locale="DE"
- added database.readOnly attribute for security against unintended production database changes
- added evaluation and assertion facility:
    <evaluate assert="{js: result >= 5}" id="product_count" target="db">
        select count(*) from product
    </evaluate>
- supporting constructor calls and property-based construction for generators, validators,
  converters, consumers, sequences, weight functions, id providers,
  e.g. constructor call: consumer="com.my.Consumer('out.txt')"
       or property-based: consumer="com.my.Consumer[filename='out.txt']"
  - The attributes proxy-param1/2, variation1/2, idProvider.param have become obsolete
- supporting character escaping in XML attributes: \r, \n, \t, \', \", \\
- Supporting tabs as CSV separator, e.g.
    <attribute name="x" source="data.csv" separator="\t"/>
    <create-entities name="Test" source="dara.csv" separator="\t" />
  - new benerator properties:
    - defaultLineSeparator
    - defaultLocale
    - defaultDataset
    - maxCount for quickly setting a global maximum for all entity counts and component cardinalities
- supporting arbitrary separator characters in 'values' specification, e.g.
  <attribute name="rank" values="A|B|C" separator="|"/>
- supporting arbitrary line separator characters in all text file exporters
- All text file exporters (CSV, Flat File, SQL, Scripted) now support the properties
  - lineSeparator: may be set to e.g. '\n' or '\r\n' for generating text files for other operating systems
  - append: when set to true, benerator does not overwrite existing files but appends new output to them
- DateGenerator and DateTimeGenerator now support an improved time resolution specification, e.g. 0000-00-01
  replacing the former annoying format 1970-01-02 for a one-day resolution

Bug Fixes

(Find the tracker at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=222964&atid=1057386)
- 2431421 Benerator GUI throws exception for HSQLDB
- 2476637 wrong varchar2 column sizes for Oracle
- 2489739 benerator GUI call prints error message under Windows
- 2494201 Property file inclusion fails under windows
- 2496003 maven plugin does not find custom generators
- 2499121 Wrong time resolution in Singapore