Release 0.8.0

After three months of hacking, I'm proud to announce a new Riak Scala client library based on Akka and Spray and simply called riak-scala-client. It aims to be easy to use, non-blocking, and fast, in that order.

http://riak.scalapenos.com/

This is the first public release but I've been testing it on a large project since January and it was time to let other people kick the tires and tell me what I did wrong (or right).

The client is purely based on the http API and currently it supports the following Riak features:

• Fetch
• Store
• Delete
• Secondary Indexes (2i)
  • Fetching exact matches
  • Fetching ranges
  • Storing with indexes
• Getting/setting bucket properties
• ping

Other features include:

• Completely non-blocking thanks to Scala 2.10 Futures, Akka, and Spray
• Transparent integration with Akka projects through an Akka extension
• An untyped RiakValue class for interacting with raw Riak values and their associated
  meta data (vclock, etag, content type, last modified time, indexes, etc.)
• A typed RiakMeta[T] class for interacting with deserialized values while retaining
  their associated meta data (vclock, etag, content type, last modified time, indexes, etc.)
• Customizable conflict resolution on all fetches (and stores when returnbody=true)
• Automatic (de)serialization of Scala (case) classes using type classes
  • builtin spray-json (de)serializers
• Automatic indexing of Scala (case) classes using type classes
• Auto-retry of fetches and stores (a standard feature of the underlying spray-client library)

The following Riak (http) API features are still missing and will follow soon:

• Link walking
• Map Reduce
• Listing all keys in a bucket
• Listing all buckets
• Conditional fetch/store semantics (i.e. If-None-Match and If-Match for ETags and
  If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since for LastModified)
• Node Status

Check it out at: http://riak.scalapenos.com/