4.0.0

Release date: 25 Apr 2023

Overview

With this release, the MetaEd IDE moves from the now-retired Atom text editor to Visual Studio Code ("VS Code").

In addition to all of the work that went into moving to VS Code:

The HTML handbook includes a new property "JSON Element Name" that translates the MetaEd model name to the name that will be expressed in the API documents. Example below; the highlighted words show the reason for this update: the model property LanguageUse on entity Language becomes simply uses in the JSON schema / API model.
Removed the plugin generator: plugins are not widely used, and the code generator relied on an old set of JavaScript packages with known vulnerabilities. While those vulnerabilities do not appear to be a threat to MetaEd, we decided there was no value to keeping the code around.

ApiModel DomainMetadata table comparison not using overlap-collapsed table name
ApiModel.json does not include decimal max and min values
ApiModel.json does not include integer max and min values
- The MetaEd language defines support for MinValue and MaxValue on Decimal and Integer data types - but support for these was never built into MetaEd or the ODS/API code generation process. As of version 4.0.0, the MetaEd output will include these values. However, the ODS/API will not utilize the additional information until the 7.0 release later in the summer of 2023. If you have need for early access, please submit a Tracker ticket to request instructions on recompiling an older version of the ODS/API with these updates.