[2023-10-16] Library & Engine Team Update

[GregoryTravis]

• James: Integrating Enso Cloud with the libraries (part 1...) Integrating Enso Cloud with the libraries (part 1...) #8006
• James: Minor improvements from last couple of Book Clubs Minor improvements from last couple of Book Clubs #8034
• James: Use US locale for Date/Time parsing by default. Use US locale for Date/Time parsing by default. #8053
• James: Investigating issues with the fraud demo workflow.
• Radoslaw and James: Expand capabilities of Table.set - ability to derive columns using just dropdowns
  Expand capabilities of Table.set and better dropdown support, #8005
• Radosław: Applying review suggestions and getting the Problem Handling refactor merged
  Refactor Table problem handling to a more robust and hopefully cleaner approach #7879
  • Also introduces a possibly new idiom Missing_Required_Argument.ensure_present "argument_name" that we can use to detect 'unfinished' expressions.
• Radosław: Restructure Table.from_objects to use conversions Restructure Table.from_objects to use conversions #8020
• Radosław: Improve Table.add_row_number performance 50-1000x by moving the logic to Java
  Improve performance of add_row_number by using the Java index instead of Enso one #8055
• Greg: Basic XML support Basic XML support #7947
• Greg: Cache filtered children in XML Cache filtered children in XML #7998
• Greg: Add tests for Table.from_objects and Table.expand_column. Add tests for Table.from_objects and Table.expand_column. #8010
• Greg: Add Table.expand_to_rows to allow flattening vector and array values in table Add Table.expand_to_rows to allow flattening vector and array values in table #8042
• Cassandra: Change filter_blank_rows when_any parameter to have a more user-friendly type Change filter_blank_rows when_any parameter to have a more user-friendly type #7935
• Jaroslav: Icon and better documentation for Enso VSCode extension Icon and documentation for Enso VSCode extension #8051
• Ola: VSCode extension is at Microsoft Marketplace available to everyone
• Jaroslav: Preparing GeeCON presentation: Turn your Java library into low-code/no-code system
• Jaroslav: Support Java classes directly in Enso PoC of the IDE working directly with Java types #8009
• Jaroslav: Define and enforce locking order during runtime Define and enforce locking order during runtime #8014
• Jaroslav: Runtime checks of signatures with polyglot java classes Runtime checks of signatures with polyglot java classes #8016
• Jaroslav: Helper method to turn iterator to a Vector Helper method to turn iterator to a Vector #8035
• Jaroslav: Avoid Null receiver values are not supported by libraries Avoid Null receiver values are not supported by libraries #8044
• Jaroslav: Tutorial to turn project into library
• Hubert: Add support for https and wss (only merge) Add support for https and wss #7937
• Hubert: Fix initialization race-condition in runtime connector Fix initialization race-condition in runtime connector #7985
• Hubert: Investigating stability issues
• Pavel: Upgrade enso to GraalVM for jdk 21 Upgrade enso to GraalVM for jdk 21 #7991
• Pavel: Remove dependency on jdk.compiler from builtin method processor Remove dependency on jdk.compiler from builtin method processor #8027
• Dmitry: Fix bundled GraalVM path Fix bundled GraalVM path #7948
• Dmitry: Fix opening projects with arbitrary name Fix opening projects with arbitrary name #8012
• Dmitry: Fix warnings in SBT build Fix warnings in SBT build #8026
• Dmitry: Suppress futile visualization warnings Suppress futile visualization warnings #8056