Release v8.0.0 · Netflix/dgs-codegen

What’s Changed

Add support for generating variable references in client api (#805, #809, #813) @paulbakker. See docs
Track input fields been explicitly set vs default to null (#798) @kzwang. See docs and demo video.

DGS Codegen sparse updates - Watch Video

Add serializeCompact to GraphQLQueryRequest (#537) @carlphilipp
Support @deprecated directives without a reason attribute (#711) @rveguilla
Add support for default Currency value (#742) @dwilkolek
Sanitize key words as an argument for client functions (#750) @greg-p-cortex
Add data modifier to input types for kotlin2 (#788) @jkuenemund
Load external schemas from any JAR directory (#795) @iparadiso
Track input fields been explicitly set vs default to null (#798) @kzwang
Expose javaGenerateAllConstructor flag in generateJava task (#804) @jjacobs44
Add support for generating variable references in client api (#805, #809, #813) @paulbakker
Generate javadoc based on comments on individual enum values in the schema (#806) @jjacobs44

Fix extra underscore when snake case is enabled (#765) @kzwang
Fix isssue with disableDatesInGeneratedAnnotation not being respected when generating Kotlin code (#778) (#779) @jGleitz
Fix issue with the DGS constants not always being generated in the same order (#782) (#783) @jGleitz
Remove the deprecated usage of Coercing#valueToLiteral (#796) @asibross
Fix type mapping for unsignedint (#797, #801) @iuliiasobolevska
Fix asList() deprecation warnings (#802) @iuliiasobolevska
Fix default value for float types in Kotlin generator (#800, #803) @iuliiasobolevska
Fix Gradle deprecation warnings and clean up some code warnings. Upgrade Kotlin from 1.9 to 2.1. (#812) @paulbakker

Update actions/cache from 4.1.1 to 4.2.0 (#767) @dependabot[bot]
Update org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-json from 1.7.+ to 1.8.0 (#775) @dependabot[bot]
Update Gradle Wrapper from 8.8 to 8.13 (#784) @github-actions[bot]
Update actions/cache from 4.2.0 to 4.2.3 (#792) @dependabot[bot]
Update actions/setup-python from 5.2.0 to 5.5.0 (#794) @dependabot[bot]
Update kotlinter and disable the task for integTest to reduce churn (#807) @iuliiasobolevska
Update org.assertj:assertj-core from 3.26.+ to 3.27.3 (#811) @dependabot[bot]