Kitex Release v0.4.0

Friday, August 26, 2022

Introduction to Key Changes

Retry enhancement: Support user-defined result retry; Support request-level configuration (priority is higher than Neptune). See retry guide for details
Frugal (Thrift): Support default value of IDL; No codec code is supported by using frugal. See frugal for details
Tool-Protobuf: Support depend on external libraries with go_package, see Notes for Using Protobuf IDLs; Support Guess IDL type from the file extension, it is unnecessary to specify the type param when generating the protobuf code
Fastpb(protobuf): Support fastpb to optimize performance of protobuf, and it is integrated into Kite by default. See fastpb for details
Generic Call: Support HTTP+Protobuf generic call
Kitex lib supports Windows: You can use kitex running on Windows (Kitex tool still doesn’t support)

Performance Optimization: gRPC unary throughput increased by 46-70%, and 51% - 70% higher than the official gRPC framework throughput. See benchmark for details
Generic Call: Support default value defined in thrift IDL for HTTP / Map / JSON Generic

[#571] feat(protobuf): integrate fastpb into kitex, refer to doc.
[#592] feat(generic): add default value defined in thrift idl for HTTP/Map/JSON generic call.
[#600] feat(thrift): support no codec gen-code when using frugal.
[#607, #610] feat(proxyless): add option for xDS extension. Support traffic route, timeout config and service discovery based on xDS.
[#541] feat(trans): Add the go net extension to the transport layer, and choose it as the transmission mode by default in Windows OS.
[#540] feat(retry): support retry with specified error or response and add retry option for setup method retry policy.
[#533] feat(generic): js_conv annotation of generic call supports map type conversion.

[#522, #538, #605] perf(grpc): optimize performance for gRPC protocol.
[#590] optimize(tool): guess IDL type from file extension.
[#559] optimize(timeout): use wrap func to check timeout err in timeout middleware which can ignore logs customized timeout err.
[#581] optimize(tool): kitex tool usage add cmd example.

[#564] fix(oneway): discard oneway conn after sending complete, or subsequent requests that send to the same connection may get blocked until the oneway request gets processed by the server.
[#577, #584, #602] fix(rpcinfo): fix rpcinfo reuse problem in longconn scene.
[#578] fix: fix long pool dump panic.
[#583] fix(tool): fix misusing of package name in protobuf generated code.
[#587] fix(tool): skip proto files with external import paths when generates code.
[#594] fix(generic): support the tag format of the escape double quotes in single quotes to be compatible with the logic of the old version.
[#595] fix: fix nil union panic in BLength.
[#589, #596] fix(frugal): fix frugal build tag.

[#566] refactor(metainfo): remove noused metakeys of HTTP2 Header.
[#593] refactor(trans): support specify Listener for server by option WithListener, the priority is higher than WithServiceAddr.
[#582] refactor(tool): use templates by embedding and export APIs for external usage for kitex tool.

github.com/cloudwego/frugal v0.1.1 -> v0.1.3

github.com/cloudwego/netpoll v0.2.5 -> v0.2.6

github.com/cloudwego/thriftgo v0.1.2 -> v0.2.0

google.golang.org/protobuf v1.26.0 -> v1.28.0

github.com/choleraehyq/pid v0.0.13 -> v0.0.15

new imported:

github.com/cloudwego/fastpb v0.0.2

github.com/jhump/protoreflect v1.8.2