Ioto 2.6.0 Update

I’m pleased to announce a minor feature release of Ioto 2.6.0.

This release add WebSockets support for both server and client side protocols.

WebSockets is a network communication protocol designed to facilitate full-duplex, real-time communication between a client and server over a single, long-lived TCP connection. Embedthis Ioto provides comprehensive support for WebSockets, enabling easy integration for both client-side and server-side scenarios

Features

• Added WebSockets Library
• Added WebSocket server
• Added Web Socket client
• Added OpenAI API
• Add JSON validation for uploaded display.json files
• Add rGetFileExt API
• Add jsonConvertBuf API
• Add WebSocket support to the “url” client command with ws:// support
• Add JSON parsing auto sense of the json variant (strict, json, json5)
• Doc updates
• Add –strict to the json utility command

Fixes

• Many smaller improvements
• URL client and web server handling of finalization
• Tighten handling of webWrite/urlWrite finalization of requests
• Ensure HTTP request body is fully read before redirecting requests with 302
• Web redirects when missing certain URL fields.
• Improve JSON strict parsing validation
• Add JSON type sleuthing
• Fix web server double decode of query string
• Only invoke ioUpdateDevice when cloud-based management enabled
• Fix conditional compilation issues
• Fix web server file upload boundary conditions
• Fix MQTT connection retries
• Fix memory leak in URL

Upgrading

This may require some API changes.

• This release changes some Url APIs to accommodate the new WebSocket support. The urlStart signature in particular has changed.
• The field “web->complete” in the web server component is changed to “web->finalized”

Download

Go to the Builder and navigate to the Product List to download. Select a product using “Ioto” as the device agent and click the Download icon.

Ongoing Maintenance

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