ActiveJ 4.2 - Expanded functionality

ActiveJ v4.2 was released Apr 13, 2021 (see on Maven). This release expanded functionality of some components.

• ActiveJ Redis client
  • Added connect() methods to RedisClient that take up authentication credentials
  • Added new specialized exceptions for ActiveJ Redis module:
    • RedisAuthenticationException
    • RedisPermissionException
• RecordScheme
  • Added ability to specify fields in RecordScheme that would be used for equals() and hashCode() implementation
  • Added ability to specify fields that would be used to generate a record Comparator
• FileLocker
  • Made FileLocker constructors public
  • FileLocker now implements java.io.Closeable interface
• StateManager
  • Added tryLoadSnapshot() and tryLoadDiff() methods that return null rather than throwing an exception
  • Added tryLoad() method to FileStateManager that returns null rather than throwing an exception
  • Added save() method to FileStateManager that takes up a revision for the state to be saved with
• Improved processing of HTTP requests with large URLs