Alpha Change Log

Overview

Alpha versions are used to fix minor bugs and feature enhancement testing before they are added to stable versions. As such anything that is in the alpha version is prone to change and instability as they are being improved. This log will follow the changes as they are made for your convenience.

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Alpha Version Logs

6.0.1a

• Added sutil.getRandomUserAgent and sutil.getRandomReferer.
• Added IDE style completions. Two new properties are needed for this to work:
  ShowVariableCompletionsAt=2 (this is the number of characters that must be typed before a completion list appears) and GenericCompletions=true (this sets a flag indicating that generic completions should be used).
• Added session.getCurrentStack (a basic method to get the stack).
• Added scrapeableFile.applyXPathExpression and sutil.applyXPathExpression.

6.0.2a

• Added dataSet.size, which is equivalent to dataSet.getNumDataRecords.
• Now nulling session variables for appropriate extractor pattern tokens after each extractor pattern match instead of after the pattern has been applied.
• Fixed a bug where the HTTP connection pool was getting shut down prematurely.

6.0.3a

• Fixed a bug related to the previous change to null session variables.

6.0.4a

• Fixed a bug such that a scrapeable session ID is now being generated even for scraping sessions that will run in the future.
• Fixed a bug where nodes in the tree weren't being highlighted correctly.
• Scrapeable files can now be added via a URL.
• If the DatabasePort and WebServerShutdownPort properties are omitted from the screen-scraper.properties file they'll now be automatically set to the value of an open port.
• The ProxyPort will now only be tested and used when screen-scraper is running in server mode if the AllowProxyScripting is set to true.
• Added a "Load Response from Clipboard" button to the scrapeable file panel.
• Updated BeanShell to the latest version, disabling unstable Windows scripting in the process (e.g., VBScript).

6.0.5a

• sutil.makeGETRequest and sutil.makeHEADRequest now use proxy settings from the corresponding scraping session.
• Temporarily rolled back to the previous version of BeanShell because of a bug.

6.0.5a

• Upgraded Bean Shell to the latest version.
• Searches within a proxy session now include notes.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the workbench to freeze when the breakpiont window was up.
• Now using global proxy settings if no session proxy settings are found.
• Improved cookie handling in the proxy server.
• Fixed a bug that would cause a proxy session to not be completely saved.
• Added sutil.makeGETRequestNoSessionProxy.