169 - Check, Act
Hi there, eMagiz developers! IWe have looked back and ahead to the upcoming Q within the IP week and through our PI planning in the last several weeks. Apart from planning new functionalities and improvements, we have also finished up some items that will be made available with this release. This release includes a new way of helping you develop your integration by providing feedback via the UI whether you have remaining errors within your Design and Create phase. Besides that significant improvement, we have several other enhancements, such as a new version of the eMagiz Kafka connector and several minor enhancements across the platform. So let us dive into all that we have to offer this time around!
Error Validation Design and Create
With this release, we will release functionality called the validation UI. With the help of this functionality, we will help you through visual indicators that indicate which steps you have forgotten in the Design and Create phase of eMagiz. With this functionality, we will create a new integration within eMagiz that is much easier as it helps you not forget things.
Within the Design phase, we check whether you have filled in all technical names and whether you have missed anything within your message mapping. In the Create phase, we will build upon that by letting you know whether you still have errors in your transformation that could prevent the flow from running correctly.
See below to illustrate how that will look in the Design and Create phase of eMagiz.
Flow Testing improvements
On the flow testing functionality, we will release two improvements. All improvements will enhance the overall experience when using the flow testing functionality.
Visual indicator missing properties
As of this release, you will get notified by eMagiz when there are properties needed in your flow that are not yet filled in for this specific flow test. When pressing play, eMagiz will check whether properties are filled in. In cases where this does not hold, eMagiz will show the following pop-up.
Easier generation of test messages
Before this release, you could not use the topic definitions as defined for your Event processor as a blueprint for your test message. With this release, we fixed this oversight to make sure that also for your event processors, you can use the message definitions beloning to that pattern.
API gateway Gen3 Default
As of this release, your newly created API Gateway solutions will run on the latest generation runtime (Gen3) by default. Note that this only applies to new solutions. However, existing solutions will not be changed and remain on the current architecture until the migration is planned and executed. If you want more information on the migration, please contact us at productmanagement@emagiz.com.
Feedback items
eMagiz Kafka Connector
*We have made a new eMagiz Kafka Connector available. We have reduced the dependencies towards other modules. We have brought the explorer function back to see which topics are available within your organization and test the connectivity.
*About the dependencies, this means that you do not need any other Mendix modules anymore to run the eMagiz Kafka Connector. This makes it easier to update and more secure as we fully control what happens within the eMagiz Kafka Connector. y.
Fancy Forum Answers
As always, a gentle reminder to all to ask questions via the Q&A forum. The Q&A forum is available in the eMagiz iPaaS portal, so we can all benefit from the knowledge within the community. For some inspiration, take a look at these forum answers:
- Mendix ‘current user property’ vs eMagiz connector v5
- eMagiz warning : Thread dump: *
- Trimming our backup folder, removing files on local disk.
Key takeaways
Thanks to all that help build, those who tested and gave feedback to improve the product. To end this post, here are some key takeaways for you:
- If you have questions surrounding our Program Increment Planning, please get in touch with
- If you have feedback or ideas for us, talk to the Platypus
- Please inform us of new additions to the store (productmanagement@emagiz.com) so we can all benefit from these.
- Clear your browser cache (Ctrl + Shift + Del)
- Check out the release notes here
- Start thinking about how the license tracker can aid your development
- Start thinking about major, minor, and patch
- Upgrade to the latest build number
- Keep making great integrations
Let's stay in touch and till next time!