1.0 beta 6

This is a prerelease of pySBOL3.

Notable changes:

• Added Getting Started guide to documentation
• Added RDFLib 6 compatibility
• Added some utility methods

1.0 beta 5

This is a prerelease of pySBOL3.

Notable changes:

• Default namespace handling
• Updated SHACL rules (expanded validation)
• Cleaned up deprecation warnings

1.0 beta 4

This is a prerelease of pySBOL3.

Notable changes:

• Updated SHACL Rules (#261)

1.0 beta 3

This is a beta prerelease of pySBOL3

Notable changes:

• Fix a bug in 1.0 beta 2

1.0 beta 2

This is a beta release of pySBOL3 1.0

This release has a known bug: Validation fails when parsing SHACL graph

Notable changes:

• Add a default namespace

1.0 alpha 10

An alpha release of pySBOL3. API changes are possible before a beta release.

Breaking changes:

• No known breaking changes

Notable changes:

• Drop support for Python 3.6 and earlier
• Add SHACL-based validation

1.0 alpha 9

An early alpha release of pySBOL3. API changes are expected before a beta release.

Note breaking changes from previous alpha release:

• #243 overhauls the visitor pattern
  • accept now takes a visitor and invokes visit_<type> on the visitor with self as an argument
    • More information is available at https://pysbol3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/visitor.html
  • accept no longer takes a function and traverses the object hierarchy
    • The old behavior has been renamed to traverse

Other notable changes:

• SBOL 3.0.1 Namespace changes have been incorporated (#226)

1.0 alpha 8

This is an early alpha release of pySBOL3. This release contains incompatible changes from previous releases. More API changes are expected before a 1.0 beta release.

Notable changes:

• Document.write_string now returns a str instead of bytes
• Access to builder functions via Document.builder(type_uri)
• Improved documentation for extension classes and using ontologies
• Properly handle non-SBOL RDF in SBOL files
• Allow many rdf:type properties on SBOL entities

1.0 alpha 7

This is an early alpha release of pySBOL3. This release contains incompatible changes from previous releases. More API changes are expected before a 1.0 beta release.

Notable changes:

• Validation:
  • Validation has been overhauled. Identified.validate() now returns a report listing validation errors and warnings, rather than raising a validation exception on the first validation error.
  • Cardinality of all properties are now included in validation checks
• Constructors: All constructors now have keyword arguments for all of their properties. It is now possible to fully specify an object at construction utilizing the full range of keyword arguments available. Some arguments are still required. The required arguments are for object properties whose cardinality is >= 1.
• Referenced objects are no longer added to the document automatically
  • Setting an object reference by passing the object itself used to automatically add the object to the document if the receiving object is in a document. This was a bug. The object being referenced is no longer added to the document, and must be added by the programmer separately.

New Features:

• Visitor Pattern: Document.accept() and Identified.accept() implement the [Visitor Pattern]. This allows a Callable to be invoked on every object in a document, or on every object parented by a given object. The traversal is depth first.
• Cloning: TopLevel objects can be cloned using TopLevel.clone(new_identity). The resulting object has the given new_identity and all child objects receive new identities within the namespace of the TopLevel being cloned. References within the domain of the TopLevel being cloned are updated. References to other TopLevel objects are not updated. The resulting object is not added to a Document automatically.

1.0 alpha 6

An early alpha release of pySBOL3. API changes are expected before a beta release.

Note breaking changes from previous alpha release:

• #152 removes the default namespace
  • A call to sbol3.set_namespace() is now required before using short naming of TopLevel objects
• #153 renames the variable_components property of CombinatorialDerivation to variable_features
• #162 renames several VariableFeature properties to plural names to match their cardinality