List of changes

Tecnology stack

• ASP.NET Core 2.1.6 as base platform
• EF Core 2.1.4 as primary ORM
• ASP.NET Core Identity 2.1.6 for authentification and authorization
• OpenIddict 2.0.0 for OAuth authorization
• WebPack as primary design/runtime bundler and minifier
• Swashbuckle.AspNetCore.SwaggerGen for Swagger docs and UI
• SignalR Core for push notifcations
• AngularJS 1.4 as primary framework for SPA
• HangFire 1.6.21 for run background tasks

Platform

• Configuration
  • Use NET Core configuration paradigm (configuration providers and strongly types IOptions)
• Solution structure
  • Split concrete implementations into projects (Modules, Assets etc)
• DI
  • Replaced Unity DI to build-in .NET Core DI Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
• Modularity
  • Completely reworked assembly and dependency loading into platform process
  • Changed IModule abstraction to have only two methods Initialize and PostInitialize.
  • Changed module.manifest file structure (removed settings and presmissions sections)
• Security
  • Completely migrate authentification and authorization to the default ASP.NET Identity without any extension
  • OpenIddict server to support all OAuth flows also used for token based authorization
  • Removed Hmac and simple key authorization for call platform API
  • Now permissions are defined only in design time in special fluent syntax
  • Added localization for permissions
  • The storefront switched to work with using barrier token authorization
• Persistent infrastructure
  • New migrations
  • TPH inheritence model only (map hierarhy to single table)
  • DbContext now is defined separately from repository
  • Using DbContext triggers for auditing and change logging
  • Switch to asynchronous calls of DbCOntext methods
• Settings
  • Now settings are defined only in design time in special fluent syntax
  • Added localization for settings
  • Allow to change setting value through any .NET Core configuration provider
• Caching
  • Replaced CacheManager at ASP.NET InMemory
  • Strongly typed cache regions and cache dependencies
  • Allow to manage expiration time of cached objects and disable cache
  • Removed special CacheModule, now caching is implemented in place where it is needed.
• Dynamic properties
  • Changed registration logic, now is using manual registration instead of using reflection as it was done in 2.x
• Logging
  • Used build in .NET Core ILog abstraction and logic instead of ICommonLogging and NLog
• UI
  • Replaced Gulp + Bower to Webpack + npm

Modules

• Changed module solution structure (Core project, Constants, Caching)
• Switched all DAL into asynchronous operations
• the new Notifications module (written from scratch)
• Removed VirtoCommerce.Domain project and nuget package (now each module defines self domain model and abstractions in Core project)
• Removed CacheModule
• Export/Import now is streamed for all modules

TODO check list:

• Implement cache synchronization logic between multiple platform instances use Redis cache for this purposes

• Resource based authorization (scope bounded permissions)

• Remaining modules

  • Catalog (eliminated webmodel and improved extensibility model)
  • Marketing (rework expressions serialization design)
  • ElasticSearch
  • Azure
  • Personalization ???
  • Publishing ??? need to improve design and extensibility

• Migration script from 2.x -> 3.x

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