Rinci

Changes for version 1.1.67 - 2014-10-30

INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
- Tweaks/changes to sending of partial argument value: feature 'partial_arg' is removed as it is redundant (argument property 'partial' already hints this capability). When sending partial value, aside from '-arg_part_start' and '-arg_part_len', client now must also send '-arg_len' which is the total size. This is to follow more closely with HTTP Content-Range semantic.
- Tweaks/changes to returning partial result: feature 'partial_res' is removed, function can now instead hint using the 'partial' property in its 'result' property. Result metadata properties 'res_part_start' and 'res_part_len' are now renamed to 'part_start' and 'part_len'. 'len' is now also added to return information on total size (to follow HTTP Content-Range semantic more closely).
ENHANCEMENTS
- Introduce argument property 'stream' to signify accepting input stream. Input stream (like stdin) is a basic feature in most programming environment so it should be supported. Implementation of command-line framework will provide a filehandle for the argument, where the function can read data from.
- Introduce result metadata property 'stream' to signify output is a stream. Output stream (like stdout) is a basic feature in most programming environment so it should be supported. This feature is actually already in Unixish for some time.