v0.8.0.beta1 - Rails 5, Processors, performance, bug fixes and more

This is a large release and includes the 0.7.1.beta1 and 0.7.1.beta2 features. Note that there was not a 0.7.1 release. There were several breaking changes introduced so the project was moved to 0.8.0.

Breaking changes are called out below

Features:

• Rails 5 support
• Breaking change: Operation Processing - OperationsProcessor replaced with Resource specific processors
• Breaking change: Support for Ruby 2.0 was removed
• Documentation expanded
• always_include_linkage_data for relationships
• i18n to easily customize errors messages
• Adds jsonapi:controllers generator
• Validation errors can have metadata added to them
• Custom links defined per resource
• Allow Hash values for filter params
• Whitelisted exceptions now work with a base class
• Support for sorting on relationship fields
• Attribute Delegation
• Ability to specify validation context
• Add page_count to metadata
• Ensures media type of Accept header is valid according to the JSON API spec
• Caching of formatters for performance
• ResourceControllerMetal
• Add count_records method
• belongs_to method now supported as a deprecated alias for has_one. Helpful for new users transitioning to the project
• Adds allow_transactions configuration option for use with backends that do not support transactions such as MongoDB
• Default sorting
• Relationship Reflection
• eager_load_on_include relationship option

Bug fixes:

• Many documentation fixes
• Error code representation from integers to strings
• Returns a relation instead of a class from Resource.records
• Fix issues with filters involving relationships
• Offset and paged paginators links consistent with JSON API spec e.g. prev instead of previous
• Accept nil data when updating polymorphic to_one relationship
• Fix dasherized paths for scoped routes
• Removes a git dependency in gemspec
• ids now respect creatable_fields
• Several polymorphic behavior fixes
• Add warnings for duplicate attributes and relationship names