v1.0.0-rc8

Features

• N-API, asynchronous and non-blocking
• Callback, promise, async/await API
• Connection pool
• Typescript and ES-next syntax support
• C/C++ style guide
• Error handling harmonisation
• Descriptive error when SAP NW RFC SDK shared lib not found
• String handling optimisation
• Tables processing harmonisation and memory consumption fix
• BYTE and XSTRING unicode encoding removed
• BCD and FLOAT accept strings, numbers or Decimal.js objects, configurable by options parameter
• client.options getter returns rstrip and bcd formatting options (string, number or function)
• More unit tests
• Empty fieldname removed from structures and tables (arrays)
• Darwin support (in process)
• README links update, from Service Marketplace to Support Portal
• SAP NW RFC SDK loading error message
• jest test framework
• npm install --build-from-source fix #85
• tar security audit fix
• Option added to filter IMPORT or CHANGING parameters from the result set
• RFC_INT8 ABAP type support added
• .gitignore fix for vscode microsoft/vscode-cpptools#3347
• node v6 support dropped, v12 support added

Incompatible changes:

• client.connectionInfo() gunction replaced by client.connectionInfo getter
• client.getVersion() replaced by client.version getter, format changed as well
• client.isAlive() replaced by client.isAlive getter
• XSTRING and BYTE types work with Buffers only