What's new with the IBM Connector Development Kit

• Added support to create for file upload and download actions. For more information, see File size metadata mapping for a download action and Defining the request body structure for an upload action.
• Ability to test file upload and download actions. For more information, see Testing a download action and Testing an upload action.

• Maintenance fixes.

• Maintenance fixes.

• Maintenance fixes.

• Maintenance fixes.

• The Connection properties tab has been completely redesigned to improve usability.
• You can now configure custom authentication and define authentication renewal steps in the Connector Development Kit without writing any custom code. For more information, see Configuring connection security.

• Maintenance fixes.

• Maintenance fixes.

• Maintenance fixes.

• Maintenance fixes.

• Maintenance fixes.

• Design improvements to the Connection properties tab.
• Maintenance fixes.

• Maintenance fixes only.

• For complex response properties, you can now customize where the response property starts from by using the Response starting point radio button.

• Maintenance fixes only.

• Maintenance fixes only.

• Bug fixes and improvements in the new feature to build connector objects and actions that are assisted by the generative AI.

• New way of building connector objects and actions with the help of generative AI powered by IBM watsonx. For more information, see Creating a connector by using generative AI (experimental feature).
• Changes to the UI for creating a connector, and adding and removing actions for a connector.

• Redesigned the connection properties tab.

• You can now map connector error codes to standardized IBM App Connect error codes. For more information, see Error code mapping.

• Connector Development Kit now supports creating multiple versions (major, minor, or patch versions) of the same connector. For more information, see Connector versioning.

• Added support for testing connection configuration (ping configuration) to check whether the connection you created works correctly. For more information, see Test connection configuration.

• Replaced the Test tab with the Test actions and Test events tab that can be used to test both actions and polled events. For more information, see Testing a connector.
• Added support for created and updated query templates in polling configuration. For more information, see Updating polling configuration.

• Enabled support for configuring polled events. For more information, see Configuring polled events.

New features

• Enabled support for the Operators function for query parameters.
• Enabled support for marking properties that are nested under a complex property as mandatory.
• Enabled enum support for request properties.
• Enabled date-time type support for request and response properties.

Usability improvements

• Improvements to the Connector Development Kit user interface.