Upgrade to v6

The purpose of this note is to help developers to upgrade their agent from v5 to v6. Please read carefully and integrate the following breaking changes to ensure a smooth upgrade.​

Upgrade to v6

Upgrading to v6

To upgrade to v6, simply run:

npm install forest-express-sequelize@^6.0.0

In case of a regression introduced in Production after the upgrade, a rollback to your previous agent is the fastest way to restore your admin panel.

Breaking changes

Agent initialization

The agent initialization now returns a promise. This solves an issue wherein exposed agents were not yet initialized and thus returning 404s.

You must update the following 2 files:

middlewares/forestadmin.js (lines 6-7)
// BEFORE
module.exports = function (app) {
  app.use(Liana.init({

// AFTER
module.exports = async function (app) {
  app.use(await Liana.init({
app.js (line 56)
// BEFORE
resolve: Module => new Module(app),

// AFTER
resolve: Module => Module(app),

Select all feature

This version also introduces the new Select all behavior. Once you've updated your bulk Smart Actions according to the below changes, you'll be able to choose between selecting all the records or only those displayed on the current page.

/routes/companies.js
// BEFORE
router.post('/actions/mark-as-live', permissionMiddlewareCreator.smartAction(), (req, res) => {
  let companyId = req.body.data.attributes.ids[0];

  return companies
    .update({ status: 'live' }, { where: { id: companyId }})
    .then(() => {
      res.send({ success: 'Company is now live!' });
    });
});

// AFTER
import { RecordsGetter } from "forest-express-sequelize";

...

router.post('/actions/mark-as-live', permissionMiddlewareCreator.smartAction(), (req, res) => {
  return new RecordsGetter(companies).getIdsFromRequest(req)
    .then((companyIds) => {
      return companies
        .update({ status: 'live' }, { where: { id: companyIds }})
        .then(() => {
          res.send({ success: 'Company is now live!' });
        });
    });
});

Important Notice

Changelogs

This release note covers only the major changes. To learn more, please refer to the changelogs in our different repositories:

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