4.0.7 Release Notes

Improvements

• Improved error location reporting
• Allow [] as a dictionary value, resolves antlr/stringtemplate4#33
• Several STViz updates:
• Highlight template subexpressions and literal text responsible for output
• Gray out hidden (inherited+aliased) attributes
• Highlight user-instanced templates in bold

Bug fixes

• Escapes: >\> means >> inside of <<...>>.
• Escapes: \>> means >> inside of <<...>> unless at end like <<...\>>>>. In that case, use <%..>>%> instead.
• Added warning about: "Missing newline after newline escape <\>"
• %\> is the escape to avoid end of string
• Fix issues with bytecode to source mapping
• Fix several STViz bugs
• Fix several unit tests
• Explicit InstanceScope tracking in the interpreter
• throw exceptionWhen the attribute name is no to be consistent with the

• other check for '.' in the name.
  

• Allow [] as a default value for formal arguments (fixes antlr/stringtemplate4#20)
• Add method STViz.waitForClose()
• Specify -Dtest.interactive to have STViz tests leave the window open for the user
• Don't cache the STNoSuchPropertyException and STNoSuchAttributeException instances.
• Add ErrorType.NO_SUCH_ATTRIBUTE_PASS_THROUGH, reported on <foo(...)> where foo contains a parameter with no default value and no matching attribute exists in the surrounding scope.
• Improved message when reporting ErrorType.NO_SUCH_PROPERTY.
• DateRenderer and StringRenderer now use the provided locale (fixes antlr/stringtemplate4#11)
• Fixes for handling of arrays (fixes antlr/stringtemplate4#12 and other unreported issues)
• Try to load template file (.st) if group file (.stg) failed with IOException (fixes antlr/stringtemplate4#14)
• Add STGroup.GROUP_FILE_EXTENSION and STGroup.TEMPLATE_FILE_EXTENSION
• Updated documentation, code cleanup