May 10th, 2022

Features #

• Cross-content validation for Inventory Service content available.

  • Description: Inventory Service Content now has additional validation of CatalogIds across content types, which is performed during the ContentData apply command.

  For example, a StoreEntry might reference other content by CatalogId via its receivedQuantityByCatalogId or costByCatalogId fields. These CatalogIds are now checked during ContentData apply to ensure that they refer to valid inventory entries.

  This validation can be added to your own custom content by implementing the ContentData<*>.validateWithAllContent(contentByType: mapOf<String, ContentData<*>>) function on the ContentHandler.

  Note that this initial rollout of cross-content validation does not validate CatalogIds nested under an ext message.

• Upgraded Portal now live!

  • Description: The Portal has been upgraded to be faster and more modular. It can be found at platform/web/portal. If you don’t have custom modules, the Portal is backwards compatible, and can still be found at platform/web/portal-base.

  View the README_PORTAL.md file in platform/web for more information about the new Portal.

  • Related note: Integration may be required. View the related integration note below.

Integrations #

• Update Portal build directory and update custom modules if necessary.
  • Description: The new Portal is now available at platform/web/portal. If you don’t have custom modules, the Portal is backwards compatible, and can still be found at platform/web/portal-base. If you do have custom modules, you’ll need to follow the integration steps.
  • Integration steps:
    • You may need to update the build directory if you have a custom build step.
    • Custom Portal modules may need to be individually integrated. Contact us if you have custom Portal development and have not yet received help with integration.
  • Related note: see feature announcement for more information on the new Portal.
• Update the ContentDataProxy class primary constructor if necessary.
  • Description: The kClass param has been removed from the ContentDataProxy class’s primary constructor.
  • Integration steps:
    • If you are using this class with custom content, you will need to remove the kClass param as shown below. No action is required otherwise.

class ContentDataProxy<ContentProto : GeneratedMessageV3>(
    private val kClass: KClass<ContentProto>,
    private val resourcePath: String,
) : ContentData<ContentProto>

class ContentDataProxy<ContentProto : GeneratedMessageV3>(
      private val resourcePath: String,
) : ContentData<ContentProto>

• Rename InMemSocialIT.yml and InMemGameIt.yml.
  • Description: Certain files have been renamed due to the removal of the in-memory database driver.
  • Integration steps:
    • The Makefile has been updated to copy InMemSocialIT.yml and InMemGameIt.yml over. If you are using a custom Makefile, please update it.
    • Merge the contents of your existing InMemSocialIT.yml and InMemGameIt.yml files into the new files.

• Use PragmaJwtSigner instead of TokenUtils::createPragmaJWT.
  • Description: TokenUtils::createPragmaJWT has been replaced by PragmaJwtSigner.
  • Integration steps:
    • Use PragmaJwtSigner instead of TokenUtils::createPragmaJWT.

• Update the Makefile to reflect changes to the relevant gen-sdk-types-<ENGINE> targets.
  • Description: The SDK type generation targets have been fixed to also build Pragma protos.
  • Integration steps:
    • If you have your own copy of the Makefile, ensure that the relevant gen-sdk-types-<ENGINE> also depends on the protos step.

Bugs and Fixes #

• Pragma Platform console output during startup has been cleaned up.
  • Description:
    • PragmaNode config output during startup was previously too verbose, making it difficult to see the most relevant information. However, if the PragmaNode fails to start and the entire config object has been loaded, it will be printed out to assist with troubleshooting.
    • The config can be viewed via the SystemReporterNodeServicePB.GetConfigV1Request RPC.
• Portal display name searches now handle the underscore _ and percent % characters properly.
• Fixed BackgroundableTicker warnings and strict Include-What-You-Use (IWYU) compilation in Unreal 5.

Docs #

• [Updated Getting Started Guide] Details added to Understanding Pragma Engine.
• [Updated Getting Started Guide] Initial Setup guide rewritten.

May 3rd, 2022

Features #

• The Unity SDK now logs debug details from service errors.
  • Description: Developers can now view service errors in the Unity Editor console.
• Match reconnect now available.
  • Description: Match reconnect is now available using the Party system and can be used by players to rejoin in-progress matches.

Deprecations #

• /v1/info endpoint connection fields are being renamed.

  • Description: The scheme and wsScheme fields in the <protocol>://<host>:<port>/v1/info endpoint are being deprecated, and will be replaced with protocol and webSocketProtocol.

    Original	Replacement	Removal Patch
    scheme	protocol	0.0.68
    wsScheme	webSocketProtocol	0.0.68

• Inventory MatchEndV0 RPC and protos are being renamed to MatchEndV1.

  • Description: Changes are only required to custom services making calls to this endpoint. No changes are required to services making calls to MatchLifecycleService.matchEndV3.
  • InventoryRpc protos:

    Original	Replacement	Removal Patch
    MatchEndV0Request	MatchEndV1Request	0.0.68
    MatchEndV0Response	MatchEndV1Response	0.0.68

  • Inventory RPC service route:

    Original	Replacement	Removal Patch
    matchEndV0	matchEndV1	0.0.68

Integrations #

• Change from MariaDB to MySQL.
  • Description: Beginning in release 0.0.66, Pragma Engine will no longer have an in-memory option for databases. Your platform and infrastructure will not load until you have completed this change. All data that is not migrated to MySQL will be lost.
  • Integration step: A guide has been provided for affected customers. Follow the guide for instructions for both local and non-local environments.
• Update partnerConnectionInfo config in configuration YAML files.
  • Description: The url config property is being deprecated. Provide the appropriate values for the host, port, and protocol fields instead. Note that protocol defaults to http in development mode, but a protocol must be specified in production mode in order for the platform to successfully start up.
  • Integration step: Update partnerConnectionInfo config as specified below.

partnerConnectionInfo:
  url: "http://localhost"
  host: "localhost"
  port: 10106

partnerConnectionInfo:
  protocol: "http"
  host: "localhost"
  port: 10106

• Update InstancedItemPlugin code that uses UpdateResult.
  • Description: instancedItemGrants has been renamed to instancedItemServerGrants.
  • Integration steps: Update all plugins that return a InstancedItemPlugin.UpdateResult by renaming instancedItemGrants to instancedItemServerGrants.

return InstancedItemPlugin.UpdateResult(
  extInstancedItem
  instancedItemGrants
  stackableItemGrants
)

return InstancedItemPlugin.UpdateResult(
  extInstancedItem
  instancedItemServerGrants
  stackableItemGrants
)

• Change ContentDataNodeService.getHandler method.
  • Description: The ContentDataNodeService.getHandler method with kclass parameter has been removed, and you’ll need to confirm you’re using the recommended, functional method.
  • Integration step: Use the ContentDataNodeService.getHandler method without the kclass parameter.

fun <ContentProto : GeneratedMessageV3> getHandler(
  kClass: KClass<ContentProto>,
  resourcePath: String
): ContentData<ContentProto>

fun <ContentProto : GeneratedMessageV3> getHandler(
  resourcePath: String
): ContentData<ContentProto>

• Update the following functions as mentioned in release 0.0.64.

  • Description: Session and WebSocket cleanup changes.
  • Integration step: Make the following changes:

    Original	Replacement
    JumpData::longClassNameToShortName()	ProtoUtils.protoShortName()
    TokenUtils.createPragmaJWT	use PragmaJwtSigner methods

• Update server configuration for listed gateway config fields.

  • Description: Update server configuration for the following gateway config fields.
  • Integration step: SocialOperatorGatewayConfig, SocialPlayerGatewayConfig, SocialPartnerGatewayConfig, GameOperatorGatewayConfig, GamePlayerGatewayConfig, GamePartnerGatewayConfig

    Original	Replacement
    schema	protocol
    wsSchema	webSocketProtocol

Bugs and Fixes #

• Pragma Portal now properly excludes players who are already a member of a group from being shown in the Add Accounts to Player Group page for that group.

Docs #

• [New Services Guide] Match reconnect added.
• [Updated Services Guide] Details added to Play Again section.

April 26th, 2022

Features #

• Added a new way to track account creation and most recent login.
  • Description: Unix timestamps for account creation and most recent login have been added to the Social table. Fields have been added to all existing endpoints that use the SocialIdentityWithPersonal proto message.
  • Postman paths:
    • Social → RPC - Operator → Account → ViewSocialIdentitiesV1Response
    • Social → RPC - Operator → Account → ViewSocialIdentityV1Response
    • Social → RPC - Partner → ViewSocialIdentityPartnerV2Response

Integrations #

• If you’re using IntelliJ, update the Kotlin plugin to version 1.6.
  • Description: To keep up with updates in developer tooling, we’re upgrading to the latest release of IntelliJ. The latest version of IntelliJ is bundled with the correct plugin version. Note that this plugin is not supported by the old version we used to recommend (2021.2.1).
  • Integration step: Update the version of the Kotlin plugin used by Intellij to v1.6.2 or greater.
• Replace references to ClearPlayerInventoryCacheV1 with DeletePlayerInventoryV1.
  • Description: We’ve deprecated ClearPlayerInventoryCacheV1.
  • Integration step: Use DeletePlayerInventoryV1 instead of ClearPlayerInventoryCacheV1.

    Original	Replacement
    ClearPlayerInventoryCacheV1	DeletePlayerInventoryV1

• Move MatchLifecycleService configurations from serviceConfigs to pluginConfigs.
  • Description: MatchLifecycleService strategy configuration has been moved, as mentioned in release 0.0.61.
  • Integration step: Move MatchLifecycleService configs.

serviceConfigs:
 MatchLifecycleServiceConfig:
   matchFoundBuilderStrategy: "CustomMatchFoundBuilderClass"
   notifyMatchAllocatedStrategy: "CustomNotifyMatchAllocatedClass"

pluginConfigs:
 MatchLifecycleService.matchFoundBuilderPlugin:
  class: "CustomMatchFoundBuilderClass"
 MatchLifecycleService.notifyMatchAllocatedPlugin:
  class: "CustomNotifyMatchAllocatedClass"

• Update MatchLifecycleService strategy class signatures on custom ext implementations.
  • Description: The matchFoundBuilderStrategy and notifyMatchAllocatedStrategy fields are being deprecated in favor of plugins.
  • Integration steps:
    • Update ext implementations to use MatchFoundBuilderPlugin and NotifyMatchAllocatedPlugin interfaces instead.
    • Update primary constructor to required plugin signature.

    Original	Replacement
    class CustomMatchFoundBuilderClass : MatchFoundBuilderStrategy class CustomNotifyMatchAllocatedClass : NotifyMatchAllocatedStrategy	class CustomMatchFoundBuilderClass(service: Service, contentDataNodeService: ContentDataNodeService) : MatchFoundBuilderPlugin class CustomNotifyMatchAllocatedClass(service: Service, contentDataNodeService: ContentDataNodeService) : NotifyMatchAllocatedPlugin

    Bugs and Fixes #

    • Unreal SDK: Fixed a crash caused by logic in a destructor calling response delegates after their targets were already destructed.

April 19th, 2022

Features #

• Unity SDK: New method allows a game server to directly report match capacity data to Pragma Engine.
  • Description: The new method ReportCapacityUntilMatchAllocated on MatchCapacityService handles reporting into Pragma Engine until a match is available. Once a match is found, it returns the associated match data.
• Unreal SDK: You can now initialize Pragma without access to a World.
  • Description: PragmaSession no longer requires access to a World.
• Unreal SDK: Internal SDK timers now sync to game tick to guarantee they persist across World transitions.
  • Description: All timers are based on engine game tick instead of World timers to ensure they persist across levels.
• New endpoints for updating inventory items.
  • Description: Items can be updated given a playerID and a list of ServerItemUpdateV2. This list is a oneof including either a ServerInstancedItemUpdate or a StackableItemUpdate. This will return an InventorySegmentV1Data, which contains the updated item and a delta of changes. The Service call is UpdateItemsServiceV1.
  • Postman paths:
    • Game → RPC - Operator → Inventory → UpdateItemsOperatorV1
    • Game → RPC - Partner → Inventory → UpdateItemsPartnerV1

Deprecations #

• UnpartitionedDaoNodeService and PartitionedDaoNodeService will now use executeSingle (single interaction) and transact (multiple statements).

  Original	Replacement	Removal Patch
  execute	executeSingle	0.0.66
  executeTransaction	transact	0.0.66

• Session and WebSocket cleanup changes.

  Original	Replacement	Removal Patch
  JumpData::longClassNameToShortName()	ProtoUtils.protoShortName()	0.0.66
  TokenUtils.createPragmaJWT	use PragmaJwtSigner methods	0.0.66

Integrations #

• Replace old PragmaClient methods.
  • Description: Several methods have been replaced as part of a WebSocket lifecycle code cleanup.
  • Integration steps: Refer to the following table. If you’ a’re using any method listed in the “Original” column, replace it with the corresponding method listed in the “Replacement” column.

    Original	Replacement
    gameConnection.pragmaId	playerId
    socialConnection.pragmaId	socialId
    fun isConnectedToGame(): Boolean	gameConnection.isConnected()
    fun isConnectedToSocial(): Boolean	socialConnection.isConnected()
    suspend fun logoutFromGame(notifyBackend: Boolean = true)	gameConnection.stop()
    suspend fun logoutFromBoth(notifyBackend: Boolean = true)	stopBoth()

• Update implementations of EmailSenderPlugin to match the new signature.
  • Description: The return type of the EmailSenderPlugin has been changed. This is part of an effort to simplify and clean up our plugin interfaces.
  • Integration steps: Update any implementations of EmailSenderPlugin to throw an exception instead of returning a PragmaError.

suspend fun sendVerificationEmail(recipient: String, verificationEmailEndpoint: String, uniqueCode: String): PragmaResult<EmailMessageSent, PragmaError>

suspend fun sendVerificationEmail(recipient: String, verificationEmailEndpoint: String, uniqueCode: String): EmailMessageSent

• Use new ViewSocialIdentityPartnerV2Request service call.
  • Description: ViewSocialIdentityPartnerV1Request has been removed in favor of ViewSocialIdentityPartnerV2Request.
  • Integration steps:
    • Replace all instances of ViewSocialIdentityPartnerV1Request with ViewSocialIdentityPartnerV2Request.

Bugs and Fixes #

• Unreal SDK: Fixed a bug where the Connection state would not return to Connected after being Degraded.

Docs #

• [Feature] “Core Concepts” added to User Guides.
  • Description: New “Core Concepts” callouts on User Guides contain links to relevant Services guides. This should redirect beginner users to the appropriate service overview page before beginning the hyperspecific tutorial.
• [Bug] Missing Match End services content has been readded.
• [New User Guide] Unreal SDK: Authenticating with Steam added.
• [New User Guide] Limited Grants added.

April 12th, 2022

Features #

• The Unreal SDK can now recognize when a connection is degraded/recovered and surface that information to users.
  • Description: The Unreal SDK now fires Connection::OnDegraded when one or both websockets are having connection trouble, and Connection::OnRecovered when they are fully connected again.
• You can now delete instancedItems via Operator, Partner, or Service gateways.
  • Description: Items will be destroyed when this endpoint is given a playerID and an ItemServerDestroyV1 list. This list is a oneof InstancedItemServerDestroy, which is an instance ID. Please note the Operator endpoint will be added to Postman with the next release.
  • InventoryRpc endpoints::
    • DestroyItemsPartnerV1
    • DestroyItemsOperatorV1
    • DestroyItemsServiceV1
• Telemetry service is now live!
  • Description: You can now send arbitrary telemetry events from the game client, game server, plugins, and custom services. This service provides a realtime event pipeline that persists events to various terminating data stores or data lakes. Currently supports MySQL/MariaDB collectors, and other collectors can be implemented with the TelemetryPlugin.

Bugs and Fixes #

• Makefile now supports user paths with spaces.
• The Unreal & Unity SDKs now reset the lobby state when a connection is degraded.
  • Description: The SDK Lobby Service now resets the lobby state OnDegraded to keep client and platform states in sync.
• Pragma Portal: Issue with searching by account provider ID has been resolved.

April 5th, 2022

Features #

• ExtException now supports an optional message.
  • Description: When authoring plugin content and choosing to throw a custom error using ExtException, you can now also pass an optional explanatory string message providing additional detail.
• Send players one-time content drops with the new Limited Grant system.
  • Description: You can now create a content file that grants players a drop of content when they log in (this does not grant multiple drop on multiple logins). This system supports instanced items, stackable items, and rewards.
  • Steps to enable:
    • Create the new LimitedGrant content files by running make ext or make build from the command line.
  • Unreal SDK: On shutdown, dangling response handlers are called with errors.
    • Description: When shutting down a Pragma Session, the Unreal SDK looks for any response handlers that have not yet been called, and calls them with EPragma_SdkError::ProtocolShuttingDown.

Deprecations #

• ViewSocialIdentityPartnerV1Request is being deprecated in favor of ViewSocialIdentityPartnerV2Request.

  Original	Replacement	Removal Patch
  ViewSocialIdentityPartnerV1Request	ViewSocialIdentityPartnerV2Request	0.0.64

Integrations #

• Rewrite your configuration files (e.g. LocalConfig.yml or CommonConfig.yml) to specify plugins by their fully qualified path.
  • Description: All configuration of strategies and plugins must use a fully qualified name (JVM name) instead of a simple name. Previously either were accepted.

pluginConfigs:
 GameDataService.gameDataStrategyPlugin:
  class: "DefaultPragmaGameDataStrategyPlugin"

pluginConfigs:
 GameDataService.gameDataStrategyPlugin:
  class: "pragma.gamedata.DefaultPragmaGameDataStrategyPlugin"

Bugs and Fixes #

• Player Groups are now associated with socialId instead of accountId.
  • Description: accountIDs are intended to be used for Personally Identifiable Information (PII). As Player Group data is not PII, it is now being kept in association with a player’s socialId. This is a purely behind-the-scenes change and should not cause any visible effects.

March 29nd, 2022

Features #

• New endpoint for deleting a player group.
  • Description: We’ve added a new RPC endpoint for deleting a player group. The payload requires a playerGroupId.
  • Postman Path:
    • Social → RPC - Operator → Account → RemovePlayerGroupOperatorV1
• ID Provider information updated on login.
  • Description: When users sign in via an identity provider, the platform updates the provider username to match the service username. This means that users will have up-to-date Discord/Epic/Steam username information based on the last time they logged in.
• Player tags are now associated with social ID instead of account ID.
  • Description: Tags were previously linked to a player’s account ID, which is where content like PII are kept. As tags are not PII, they are now linked directly with the social ID.

Deprecations #

• MatchLifecycleService strategy configuration has been moved. Configurations must be moved from serviceConfigs to pluginConfigs by patch 0.0.63.

serviceConfigs:
 MatchLifecycleServiceConfig:
   matchFoundBuilderStrategy: "CustomMatchFoundBuilderClass"
   notifyMatchAllocatedStrategy: "CustomNotifyMatchAllocatedClass"

pluginConfigs:
 MatchLifecycleService.matchFoundBuilderPlugin:
  class: "CustomMatchFoundBuilderClass"
 MatchLifecycleService.notifyMatchAllocatedPlugin:
  class: "CustomNotifyMatchAllocatedClass"

Integrations #

• Update MatchLifecycleService strategy class signatures on custom ext implementations.
  • Description: The matchFoundBuilderStrategy and notifyMatchAllocatedStrategy fields are being deprecated in favor of plugins.
  • Integration steps:
    • Update ext implementations to use MatchFoundBuilderPlugin and NotifyMatchAllocatedPlugin interfaces instead.
    • Update primary constructor to required plugin signature.

class CustomMatchFoundBuilderClass : MatchFoundBuilderStrategy 

class CustomNotifyMatchAllocatedClass : NotifyMatchAllocatedStrategy

class CustomMatchFoundBuilderClass(service: Service, contentDataNodeService: ContentDataNodeService) : MatchFoundBuilderPlugin

class CustomNotifyMatchAllocatedClass(service: Service, contentDataNodeService: ContentDataNodeService) : NotifyMatchAllocatedPlugin

Bugs and Fixes #

• Updated PragmaPartnerTokens to contain empty UUIDs.
  • Description: These tokens will have empty UUIDs for their player ID, social ID, and game shard ID fields. They will also no longer have warn messages prompting users to recreate the token when they do not have a game shard ID.

March 22nd, 2022

Features: #

• Social IDs are now sent to game servers.
  • Description: Player’s social IDs are now sent to game servers. Additionally, social IDs are now included with all PragmaSessionKeys, making them easily available to plugins.
• Added OpenTelemetry as a replacement for Jaeger.
  • Description: As Jaeger is being deprecated, we’ve added OpenTelemetry as a replacement. We currently have some auto-instrumentation along with manual spans around RPC and database operations.
    • Note: OpenTelemetry is still being integrated and support for running it alongside custom extensions will arrive in a future patch.
  • Steps to enable:
    • Ensure Jaeger is running in Docker. See the instructions in the readme here: devenv/docker-compose-devenv/README.md
    • Start Pragma with the run-demo-with-otel make target.
    • Spans can be viewed locally through Jaeger at http://localhost:16686/search
      • Search for the local-pragma service.
      • Search by Operation: HTTP POST, WebSocketSession.inboundWorker
  • Token refreshes in the Pragma SDKs now trigger an SDK event when successful.
    • Description: Developers can take advantage of a new SDK event when client tokens successfully refresh. Add a handler for OnTokenRefreshCompleted, which provides two strings as parameters: the first is the refreshed social token, and the second is the refreshed game token.

Integrations #

• Confirm you’ve replaced AddAccountsToPlayerGroupOperatorV1 with BulkActionOperatorV1.
  • Description: We replaced AddAccountsToPlayerGroupOperatorV1 with BulkActionOperatorV1 several patches ago. The code has now been fully removed.

    Original	Replacement
    AddAccountsToPlayerGroupOperatorV1	BulkActionOperatorV1

Bugs and Fixes #

• Fixed compilation errors and warnings in preview builds of Unreal Engine 5.

March 15th, 2022

• Required Integrations:
  • Make sure you’ve switched to the new content system. If you haven’t, follow the integration steps listed.
  • Replace LongRangeProxy with RandomProxy.
  • Use the new getHandler, as the old one has been deprecated along with the old content system.
  • Add ExtUpdatePartyRequest message to partyRpcExt.proto to successfully build.
  • Replace Makefile line to remove duplication and clean up old scripts.
  • Replace the listed files in your 5-ext folder with the linked templates to clean up old code.

Integrations: #

• Make sure you’ve switched to the new content system. If you haven’t, follow the integration steps listed.
  • Description: The legacy content system has now been removed, so you must be using the new content system. If your content files are located in 5-ext/content/shared, you’re using the old content system. If they’re located in 5-ext/content/src, you’re on the new system.
  • Integration step:
    • Move your content into 5-ext/content/src. Note the JSON format has also changed as content is now authored as a JavaScript array of objects.
• Replace LongRangeProxy with RandomProxy.
  • Description: LongRangeProxy has been deleted.
  • Integration step:
    • Replace the following:

      Original	Replacement
      LongRangeProxy	RandomProxy

  • Details:
    • See 2-pragma/core/src/main/kotlin/pragma/utils/RandomProxy.kt for implementation details.
    • See 2-pragma/core/src/test/kotlin/pragma/utils/RandomProxyTest.kt for example usages.
• Use the new getHandler, as the old one has been deprecated along with the old content system.
  • Description: ContentDataNodeService.getHandler(kClass: KClass<ContentProto>, resourcePath: String) has been removed.
  • Integration step:
    • Use ContentDataNodeService.getHandler(resourcePath: String) instead.

      Original	Replacement
      ContentDataNodeService.getHandler(kClass: KClass<ContentProto>, resourcePath: String)	ContentDataNodeService.getHandler(resourcePath: String)

• Add ExtUpdatePartyRequest message to partyRpcExt.proto to successfully build.

  • Description: To support Party feature development, you must define the following message in the partyRpcExt proto.

  • Integration step:

    • Paste the following into partyRpcExt.proto:

    message ExtUpdatePartyRequest {
    }
    

  • Reference: 5-ext/ext-protos/src/main/shared/protos/partyRpcExt.proto

• Replace Makefile line to remove duplication and clean up old scripts.
  • Description: Cleaning up and fixing old scripts.
  • Integration step: Replace the following line in the Makefile.
• Replace the listed files in your 5-ext folder with the linked templates to clean up old code.
  • Description: The 5-ext/**/pom.xml files have been simplified by refactoring and removing duplication.
  • Integration steps: Replace the following files in your 5-ext folder with the related templates:
    • 5-ext/pom.xml
    • 5-ext/ext-protos/pom.xml
    • 5-ext/ext/pom.xml
    • 5-ext/ext-server/pom.xml

March 8th, 2022

• Endpoints that use the Player Search Filter have new filters.
• Added GetMatchmakingInfoV1 endpoint to allow players to query the size of the matchmaking queue.
• InstancedItemPlugin.Update can now return instanced and stackable item grants.
• Deprecations:
  • LeaveMatchmakingV1 has been updated to V2.
  • Rewrite your configuration files (e.g. LocalConfig.yml or CommonConfig.yml) to specify plugins by their fully qualified path
• Required Integrations:
  • Reimplement plugins that implement BulkActionPlugin as suspend methods.
  • Create a new proto file partyRpcExt.proto to successfully build your Pragma extension.
• Bugs and fixes:
  • Encryption on email table has been removed to allow for built-in encryption by the database provider.
  • Default authentication ports for config files have been fixed to ensure Player, Operator, and Partner flows are separate.
  • Fix for Unity SDK when accessing inventory payloads before checking for response success.

Features:

• Endpoints that use the Player Search Filter have new filters.
  • Description: We’ve added two new filters to Player Search–accounts can now be filtered by Pragma Full Display Name and Identity Provider Display Name.
  • Postman Paths:
    • Social → RPC - Operator → Account → BulkAccountOperatorV1
    • Social → RPC - Operator → Account → GetPragmaAccountOverviewsOperatorV1
    • Social → RPC - Operator → Account → AddAccountsToPlayerGroupOperatorV1
• Added GetMatchmakingInfoV1 endpoint to allow players to query the size of the matchmaking queue.
  • Description: There is a new config option within Matchmaking, enableGetMatchmakingInfo which must be set to true for the endpoint to function. It is set to false by default.
  • Postman Paths: Game → RPC - Player → Matchmaking → GetMatchmakingInfoV1
  • Steps to Enable: Ensure the following is present in the appropriate config file (e.g. LocalConfig.yml).

game:
  serviceConfigs:
    MatchmakingConfig:
      enableGetMatchmakingInfo: true

• InstancedItemPlugin.Update can now return instanced and stackable item grants.
• Description: UpdateResult returned from InstancedItemPlugin.Update now includes a list of instancedItemGrants and stackableItemGrants. To use this feature, simply populate the UpdateResult with a list of InstancedItemServerGrant and/or StackableItemGrant.
• Reference:

data class UpdateResult(
  val extInstancedItem: ExtInstancedItem,
  val rewardGrants:  List<RewardGrant> = listOf(),
  val instancedItemGrants: List<InstancedItemServerGrant> = listOf(),
  val stackableItemGrants: List<StackableItemGrant> = listOf()
)

Deprecations: #

• LeaveMatchmakingV1 has been updated to V2.

  Original	Replacement	Removal Patch
  MatchmakingRpc.LeaveMatchmakingV1	MatchmakingRpc.LeaveMatchmakingV2	0.0.60

• Rewrite your configuration files (e.g. LocalConfig.yml or CommonConfig.yml) to specify plugins by their fully qualified path.

  Original (example)	Replacement (example)	Removal Patch
  pluginConfigs:  GameDataService.gameDataStrategyPlugin:   class: "DefaultPragmaGameDataStrategyPlugin"	pluginConfigs:  GameDataService.gameDataStrategyPlugin:   class: "pragma.gamedata.DefaultPragmaGameDataStrategyPlugin"	0.0.60

  Integrations: #

  • Reimplement plugins that implement BulkActionPlugin as suspend methods.
    • Description: Updated BulkActionPlugin interface to use suspend methods for needsFullPragmaAccount and apply.
    • Integration steps:
      • If you have plugins that implement the BulkActionPlugin interface, reimplement the relevant methods as suspend methods:
        • needsFullPragmaAccount
        • apply
        • Any of your own methods that call the above two methods.
    • References
      • 2-pragma/social-common/src/main/kotlin/pragma/account/BulkActionPlugin.kt
      • 4-demo/demo/src/main/kotlin/demo/account/DemoBulkActionPlugin.kt
  • Create a new proto file partyRpcExt.proto to successfully build your Pragma extension.
    • Description: In order to support Party feature development, we have added new protos. You must create these protos in order to successfully build your plugin.
    • Integration steps:
      • Create partyRpcExt.proto in the 5-ext/ext-protos/src/main/proto/shared/ directory.
      • Paste the following into partyRpcExt.proto:

  syntax = "proto3";
  
  package pragma.party;
  option csharp_namespace = "Pragma.Party";
  option (unreal_namespace) = "Party";
  option java_multiple_files = true;
  
  import "pragmaOptions.proto";
  
  message ExtUpdateLoadoutRequest {
  }
  

  Bugs and Fixes: #

  • Encryption on email table has been removed to allow for built-in encryption by the database provider.
    • Description: Upgrading to the newest version of Pragma will drop any existing emails that were gathered using the AccountRpc.UpdateEmailV1 endpoint.
  • Default authentication ports for config files have been fixed to ensure Player, Operator, and Partner flows are separate.
    • Description: Resolves authentication errors caused by Player, Operator, and Partner flows using the same authentication port.
  • Fix for Unity SDK when accessing inventory payloads before checking for response success.
    • Description: The Unity SDK no longer crashes when accessing inventory payloads.

March 1st, 2022

• Limited Access Event Mode is now available via the Pragma Portal.
• Required integration:
  • 5-ext/ext-protos/pom.xml has been updated and needs to be regenerated.
  • The Portal configuration location has changed.
  • longRangeProxy has been deprecated.
    • Removed InstancedItemPlugin.init method.
    • Updated RewardSelectorPlugin.init parameters.
  • runBlockingTestWithTimeout has been removed.
  • As part of a code cleanup, many runBlocking calls have been removed.
  • Several party ext protos have been renamed.
• Improvements and bug fixes
  • Additional validation for storeEntries in Stores.json.
  • Fixed a crash in the SDK when trying to handle valid CraftV1 responses that contained Errors associated with the craft attempt.

Integrations: #

• 5-ext/ext-protos/pom.xml has been updated and needs to be regenerated.
  • Description: 5-ext/ext-protos/pom.xml has been updated to add compatibility with Apple Silicon.
  • Integration steps:
    • Move your existing 5-ext/ext-protos/pom.xml out of the pragma-engine directory. (If you have never customized this file, you may instead delete it.)
    • Run make ext to regenerate the pom.xml file.
    • If you made customizations to this file, diff the new and old pom.xml files and manually restore the changes you have made.
• The Portal configuration location has changed.
  • Description: Portal config has been moved out of game-config.json and social-config.json and is now in YAML (e.g. LocalConfig.yml or CommonConfig.yml) as part of the FilePortalModulePlugin settings.
  • Integration steps:
    • Most users will not want to directly translate the game-config.json and social-config.json to the yml; the defaults should remain in place for the majority of portal uses. Your config file should only have these entries (with the portalSource value being the path to the folder containing the portal HTML and JavaScript files):

    game:
      pluginConfigs:
        GameOperatorGatewayNodeService.portalPlugin:
          class: "FilePortalModulePlugin"
          config:
            portalSource: "web/portal-base"
    social:
      pluginConfigs:
        SocialOperatorGatewayNodeService.portalPlugin:
          class: "FilePortalModulePlugin"
          config:
            portalSource: "web/portal-base"
    

    • If you are doing something custom, you’ll want to include the relevant sections in the config to add or override the settings. Here’s an example:

    game:
      pluginConfigs:
        GameOperatorGatewayNodeService.portalPlugin:
          class: "FilePortalModulePlugin"
          config:
            portalSource: "custom/portal/path" //override
            modules:
              1: "PlayerSupport"
              2: null //disable a module
              3: "ContentCatalogs"
              100: "MyCustomGameModule" //add custom module
            defaultModule: "MyCustomGameModule" //override
            discordClientId: "DISCORD_CLIENT_ID" //override
    social:
      pluginConfigs:
        SocialOperatorGatewayNodeService.portalPlugin:
          class: "FilePortalModulePlugin"
          config:
            portalSource: "custom/portal/path" //override
            modules:
              1: "Accounts"
              2: null //disable a module
              100: "MyCustomSocialModule" //add custom module
            defaultModule: "MyCustomSocialModule" //override
            discordClientId: "DISCORD_CLIENT_ID" //override
    

• longRangeProxy has been deprecated.
  • Description: Please use randomProxy instead of longRangeProxy.
  • Details:
    • See 2-pragma/core/src/main/kotlin/pragma/utils/RandomProxy.kt for implementation details.
    • See 2-pragma/core/src/test/kotlin/pragma/utils/RandomProxyTest.kt for example usages.
    • Note the two integration items below regarding InstancedItemPlugin.init and RewardSelectorPlugin.init.
• Removed InstancedItemPlugin.init method.
  • Description: Removed InstancedItemPlugin.init as longRangeProxy has been removed.
• Updated RewardSelectorPlugin.init parameters.
  • Description: longRangeProxy has been deprecated.
  • Integration step: use randomProxy in place of longRangeProxy.

fun init(
  randomProxy: LongRangeProxy,
  content: InventoryServiceContent
)

fun init(
  content: InventoryServiceContent
)

• runBlockingTestWithTimeout has been removed.
  • Description: We have updated the runBlocking functions for unit tests.
  • Integration steps:
    • Use runTest in place of runBlockingTestWithTimeout for unit tests.
    • Use runIntegrationTest in place of runBlockingTestWithTimeout for integration tests.

• As part of a code cleanup, many runBlocking calls have been removed.

  • Description: Many runBlocking calls have been removed. This will require changes in your codebase.
  • Integration step: Make the following changes in your code.

  Original	Replacement
  TestAccountManager.operatorClient	TestAccountManager.getOperatorClient()
  TestAccountManager.partnerClient	TestAccountManager.getPartnerClient()
  PragmaClientFactory.playerEndpointInfo	PragmaClientFactory.getPlayerEndpointInfo()
  PragmaClientFactory.operatorEndpointInfo	PragmaClientFactory.getOperatorEndpointInfo()
  PragmaClientFactory.partnerEndpointInfo	PragmaClientFactory.getPartnerEndpointInfo()

• Several party ext protos have been renamed.

  • Description: As part of the ongoing development of the party service, a couple ext protos have been renamed. You will need to make changes in 5-ext to have empty definitions for these new protos in order to compile.
  • Integration step: Make the following changes in 5-ext/ext-protos/src/main/proto/shared/partyExt.proto.

  Original	Replacement
  ExtPartyDetails	ExtPublicPartyData
  ExtPartyPlayer	ExtPublicPlayerData

Features: #

• Limited Access Event Mode is now available via the Pragma Portal.
  • Description: Limited Access Events (LAEs) restrict which Players can log in and stay logged in to a specific Game Shard by associating Player Groups to an LAE. LAEs also have a start and an end date that will indicate how long the LAE is enforced. LAEs can be turned on in the portal by setting a Game Shard Access Mode to Specific Groups.

Bugs and fixes: #

• Additional validation for storeEntries in Stores.json.
  • Description: The content system will now ensure that StoreEntries have receivedQuantityByCatalogId field populated. This check is performed during content apply and service startup, and the engine will not start if this field is missing.
• Fixed a crash in the SDK when trying to handle valid CraftV1 responses that contained Errors associated with the craft attempt.

February 22nd, 2022

• Added ability to directly add or remove players in a Player Group.
• Required integration:
  • Update implementations of LobbyStrategy.setExtPlayerInfo with the new LobbyModel parameter.
  • Update implementations of StorePlugin.meetsRequirements with the new storeId parameter.
  • Replace references to the helper method assertProtoEquals() with JUnit’s assertEquals().

Features: #

• Added ability to directly add or remove players in a Player Group.
  • Description: We’ve added functionality that allows directly adding or removing players in a Player Group. Responses include playerGroupIds.
  • Postman paths:
    • Social → RPC - Operator → Account → AddAccountToPlayerGroupOperatorV1
    • Social → RPC - Operator → Account → RemoveAccountFromPlayerGroupOperatorV1

Integrations: #

• Update implementations of LobbyStrategy.setExtPlayerInfo with the new LobbyModel parameter.
  • Description: We’ve added a new parameter to the setExtPlayerInfo function in the LobbyStrategy plugin interface, so you can access data from the Lobby when setting player ext info.
  • Integration step: Make the following changes in implementations of LobbyStrategy.setExtPlayerInfo.

setExtPlayerInfo(
  lobbyPlayer: LobbyPlayer,
  extPlayerInfo: ExtPlayerInfo
)

setExtPlayerInfo(
  lobbyPlayer: LobbyPlayer,
  extPlayerInfo: ExtPlayerInfo,
  lobbyModel: LobbyModel
)

• Update implementations of StorePlugin.meetsRequirements with the new storeId parameter.
  • Description: We’ve added a new parameter to the meetsRequirements function in the StorePlugin plugin interface, so access data about the store when making a purchase from the store.
  • Integration step: Make the following changes in implementations of StorePlugin.meetsRequirements.

meetsRequirements(
  storeEntry: InventoryContent.StoreEntry,
  inventoryData: InventoryData,
  progressionData: PlayerProgressionRpc.ProgressionV1Data
)

meetsRequirements(
  storeId: String,
  storeEntry: InventoryContent.StoreEntry,
  inventoryData: InventoryData,
  progressionData: PlayerProgressionRpc.ProgressionV1Data
)

• Replace references to the helper method assertProtoEquals(), which has been removed.
  • Description: We’ve removed the assertProtoEquals() helper method. Use JUnit’s assertEquals() method instead.
  • Integration step:

    Original	Replacement
    assertProtoEquals()	JUnit’s assertEquals()

February 15th, 2022

• Added capability to grant rewards with the InstancedItemPlugin.update function.
• Required integration:
  • Update InstancedItemPlugin.update() with new parameter and return type.
• Optional integration:
  • Rename histogram config to continue using histogram metrics.
• Bug fix:
  • Removed distributedServiceCounts configuration.

Features: #

• Added capability to grant rewards with the InstancedItemPlugin.update function.

  • Description: We’ve made two changes to the InstancedItemPlugin.update() interface to enable rewards grant.

    • New parameter inventoryContent: InventoryServiceContent which gives access to all content
    • Returns type UpdateResult instead of ExtInstancedItem

  • Reference:

    • Structure of UpdateResult:

    data class UpdateResult(
      val extInstancedItem: ExtInstancedItem,
      val rewardGrants: List<RewardGrant>
    )
    

  • Related note: Integration required. See content system note below.

Integrations #

• Update InstancedItemPlugin.update() with new parameter and return type.

  • Description: You will need to update InstancedItemPlugin.update() to integrate with the new crafting system.

  • Integration step:

    • In the update() method, add inventoryContent: InventoryServiceContent parameter after updateEntry.
    • In the update() method, change return type from ExtInstancedItem to UpdateResult.

    Original	Replacement
    InventoryContent.UpdateEntry	inventoryContent: InventoryServiceContent
    ExtInstancedItem	UpdateResult

  • Reference:

    • Check out the pet update example in DemoInstancedItemPlugin for a sample implementation.

  • Related note:

    • New related feature. See rewards feature note above.

• Rename histogram config to continue using histogram metrics.

  • Description: Histogram metric config has been renamed.
  • Integration step:
    • To continue using histogram metrics, you must rename the config.

    Original	Replacement
    enableHistogram	enableHistogramMetrics

Bug fix #

• Fixed issue with creating Limited Access Events with multiple player groups.
  • Description: You can now create and update Limited Access Events with more than one player group using MariaDB.

Deprecations #

• Removed distributedServiceCounts configuration.
  • Description: We don’t expect anyone to be using this, so no integration steps are required. We will be adding a multi-node configuration soon. If you are using this configuration to change the number of instances of a service, please contact us for help integrating.

February 8th, 2022

• Added bulk action account plugin.
• Added new type of item grant to crafting calls to allow for randomized rewards.
• Game Shard Access Mode is now live.
• Required integrations:
  • You will need to update your crafting plugin to integrate with the new crafting system.

Features #

• Added bulk action account plugin.

  • Description: We’ve added a BulkActionPlugin that lets users perform customer-defined actions leveraging our account searching functionality.
  • Reference: Pragma.Account.BulkActionPlugin

• Added new type of item grant to crafting calls to allow for randomized rewards.

  • Description: We’ve added a rewardGrants option into the crafting class so players can receive a RewardGrant in addition to instancedItems and stackableItems. A RewardGrant maps to a RewardTable that can result in a set of guaranteed rewards items and/or random rewards by using RewardSlots.
  • Related notes: Integration required. See content system note below.
  • Reference:

  data class CraftResult(
    val instancedItemGrants: List<InstancedItemServerGrant>,
    val stackableItemGrants: List<StackableItemGrant></StackableItemGrant>,
    val rewardGrants: List<RewardGrant> = listOf()
  )
  

• Game Shard Access Mode is now live.

  • Description: shardAccessMode is now enforced on authenticateOrCreate. Authentication will respect the set shardAccessMode and deny access to users not in approved player groups on active limited access events. Default access is set to everyone.
  • Postman path:
    • Social → RPC - Operator → Game Management → SetShardAccessModeV1

Integrations #

• Update crafting plugin with new content map.

  • Description: You will need to update your crafting plugin to integrate with the new crafting system.

  • Integration step:

    • In the craft() method, replace the catalog parameter with inventoryContent:

    Original	Replacement
    catalog: InventoryCatalog	inventoryContent: InventoryServiceContent

  • Reference:

    • inventoryContent.instancedSpecs[<CATALOG_ID>] returns the InstancedSpec proto.
    • View 4-demo’s CookingCrafter.completeCooking() or Quests.complete() for an example of the InventoryContentService and how to properly add a rewardGrant to the CraftResult.
    • Check this pull request or contact us for additional information or assistance.

  • Related notes: New related feature. See rewards feature note above.

Deprecations #

• AddAccountsToPlayerGroupOperatorV1 has been replaced by BulkActionOperatorV1.
  • See the Postman collection for an example of the payload.

• StackableSpecs and InstancedSpecs are now accessed as maps instead of lists in code.
  • There are no changes to the formatting of StackableSpecs and InstancedSpecs in content or protos. InstancedSpecs.json and StackableSpecs.json still consist of arrays of objects.

February 1st, 2022

• Users can now use map accessors instead of iterating over an array all the time.
• Platform can be configured to bind to a port different from what it advertises.
• Unreal can now build with Unity and PCH disabled.
• Required integrations:
  • Some protos have been renamed, so relevant imports and references will need to be updated. See full notes for complete list.
  • New matchmaking function must be added to successfully compile.
  • Added suspend to LobbyStrategy interface functions.
  • Update references to renamed TestFactory classes.
  • Changed config getter method names in BaseServerIT class.
• Bugfix:
  • Removed unsupported WebSocket scheme in HTTP responses for GET /v1/info.

Features #

• Users can now use map accessors instead of iterating over an array all the time.

  • Description: ItemCatalog now has InstancedEntriesMap and StackableEntriesMap.

• Platform can be configured to bind to a port different from what it advertises.

  • Description: Platform can now be configured to bind to a port different from what it’s advertising, such as when used behind a dynamically registering load balancer. Unless explicitly set in configuration, these values will default to the relevant socialPort/gamePort config values. This change is backwards compatible.
  • Details:
    • SocialPlayerGatewayConfig has new value socialBindPort.
    • GamePlayerGatewayConfig has new values socialBindPort and gameBindPort.

• Unreal can now build with Unity and PCH disabled.

  • Description: The Unreal SDK now builds properly with both “Unity” and “PCH” disabled (strict IWYU).

• Added new hooks to Lobby service to enable refreshing cached inventory and progression.

  • Description: We’ve added refreshInventory and refreshProgression functions to the LobbyPlayer data class passed to existing lobby plugins. These allow you to trigger updates to cached information from the client.
  • Details:
    • refreshInventory and refreshProgression functions return an updated copy of data and recache the new result with that player.
    • These functions take in an InventoryClient and ProgressionClient respectively, which can be constructed and used from within the plugin.
    • These calls should be invoked sparingly–not on every plugin call. We recommend using ext fields to make an UPDATE command that can be called from the client if the player is in a lobby and an operation causing a cache refresh occurs.

Integrations #

• Some protos have been renamed, so relevant imports and references will need to be updated.

  • Description: Protos have been updated for consistency. Please make the changes below to ensure compatibility.
  • Integration steps:
    • Renamed rewardsContent.proto to rewardContent.proto.
      • Any imports will need to be updated.
    • Renamed RewardsCount message to RewardCount.
      • Any references and imports will need to be updated.
    • Renamed RewardsTable message to RewardTable.
      • Requires updating any code referencing RewardsTable proto messages, as well as the following InventoryTestFactory methods:

        Original	Replacement
        rewardsTables()	rewardTables()
        rewardsTable()	rewardTable()

    • Moved RewardsCatalog from RewardContent.proto to InventoryRpc.proto.
      • This message was only used by RPC, not content. Any references and imports will need to be updated.
    • Renamed references to the following content access properties in InventoryServiceContent:

      Original	Replacement
      stackableItemSpecs	stackableSpecs
      instancedItemSpecs	instancedSpecs
      catalogUpdateEntries	updateEntries
      rewardsTables	rewardTables

    • Renamed the following content files in the {{% variable "Pragma" "path-content" %}}:

      Original	Replacement
      CatalogCraftingEntries.json	CraftingEntries.json
      CatalogUpdateEntries.json	UpdateEntries.json
      InstancedItemSpecs.json	InstancedSpecs.json
      StackableItemSpecs.json	StackableSpecs.json

• New matchmaking function must be added to successfully compile.

  • Description: Add new function addToMatchAndBuildMatchmakingDetails to implementations of MatchmakingStrategy plugin. This will be used in our upcoming game loop systems.
  • Integration step:
    • Paste the following no-op stub into any MatchmakingStrategy implementations:

override fun addToMatchAndBuildMatchmakingDetails(
  matchmakingKey: ExtMatchmakingKey,
  partiesByTeamId: MutableMap<Int, MutableSet<MatchmakingParty>>,
  partyToAdd: MatchmakingParty
): ExtCreateMatchV1Request? {
  return null
}

• Added suspend to LobbyStrategy interface functions.

  • Description: Added suspend to function definitions setExtPlayerInfo and setExtLobbyInfo.
  • Integration steps:

    • You will need to make the following changes:

      Original	Replacement
      fun setExtPlayerInfo	suspend fun setExtPlayerInfo
      fun setExtLobbyInfo	suspend fun setExtLobbyInfo

    • If the code is called in mockk every or verify blocks, you will also need to update:

      Original	Replacement
      every { lobbyStrategy.setExtLobbyInfo... }	coEvery { lobbyStrategy.setExtLobbyInfo... }
      verify { lobbyStrategy.setExtLobbyInfo... }	coVerify { lobbyStrategy.setExtLobbyInfo... }

• Update references to renamed TestFactory classes.

  • Description: You will need to update references to any of the TestFactory classes listed below. These have been renamed for increased clarity.
  • Integration step:
    • If you have any tests using any TestFactory from this table, you will need to update your references to the new class name:

      Original	Replacement
      (pragma.inventory.)TestFactory	InventoryTestFactory
      (pragma.matchmaking.)TestFactory	MatchmakingTestFactory
      (pragma.)InventoryTestFactory	InventoryProtoTestFactory
      (pragma.)MatchmakingTestFactory	MatchmakingProtoTestFactory

• Changed method names in BaseServerIT class

  • Description: getConfigAsJsonNode() has been renamed to getGame ConfigAsJsonNode() and getSocialConfigAsJsonNode() has been added.
  • Integration step:
    • You will need to change all calls to getConfigAsJsonNode() to getGameConfigAsJsonNode().

Bugfix #

• Removed unsupported WebSocket scheme in HTTP responses for GET /v1/info.
  • Description: HTTP requests to the GET /v1/info endpoint will no longer return the nonfunctioning wsScheme in the authenticateBackend section.

Deprecations #

January 25th, 2022

• Optional integrations:
  • For any classes using the MatchmakingStrategy interface, you must define a new method to validate if a party can be put into matchmaking.
  • If you have existing custom portal development, you will need to migrate to the new portal 5.ext-webapp structure.

Integrations #

• For any classes using the MatchmakingStrategy interface, you must define a new method to validate if a party can be put into matchmaking.
  • Description: Define a new method for validate(matchmakingKey: ExtMatchmakingKey, matchmakingParty: MatchmakingParty).
• If you have existing custom portal development, you will need to migrate to the new portal 5.ext-webapp structure.

  • Description: The portal 5.ext-webapp structure has changed. Once the steps below are completed, all regular development is done under /web/packages/5-ext-webapp.

  • Steps:

    1. Rename web/packages/5-ext-webapp to web/packages/5-ext-webapp_initial.
    2. Create a new 5-ext-webapp:

       $ cd platform && make portal-ext-create
       

    3. Bring your custom code over by replacing the entire /web/packages/5-ext-webapp/src folder with web/packages/5-ext-webapp_initial/app/src.
    4. Update the config files by replacing the /web/packages/5-ext-webapp/public/config folder with web/packages/5-ext-webapp_initial/app/public/config.
    5. (optional) If needed, add your extra dependencies to /web/packages/5-ext-webapp/package.json, then run: run npm install

  • Additional information: We’ve added a new make command for building the ext portal for CI. This will create a bundle ready to be deployed under platform/web/packages/5-ext-webapp/build.

    $ cd platform
    $ make ci-portal-ext
    

    For development, start the server in /web/packages/5-ext-webapp with:

    npm run start
    

    For more information, read the README_PORTAL.md file.

Deprecations #

• none

January 18th, 2022

• Required integration:
  • You must define message ExtEnterMatchmakingV2Request in matchmakingExt.proto to successfully compile.

Integrations #

• You must define message ExtEnterMatchmakingV2Request in matchmakingExt.proto to successfully compile.
  • Description: The new proto message ExtEnterMatchmakingV2Request must be defined. This is to prepare for the new party service currently being built.

    message ExtEnterMatchmakingV2Request {
    }
    

  • Path:{{% variable "Pragma" "path-extProto" %}}matchmakingExt.proto

January 12th, 2022

• Added endpoints for Operators and Partners to edit tags on accounts.
• Added verificationEmailEndpoint parameter for verification email templates to allow players to verify emails with one click.
• Stores can now accept instanced and stackable items as required ingredients for crafting.
• Bugs and Fixes
  • Order changed in Service.shutdown().
  • playAgain function fixed.
  • Player inventory now properly checked for purchasability.

Features #

• Added endpoints for Operators and Partners to edit tags on accounts.

  • Description: Added endpoints to let Operators and Partners get/add/remove tags on accounts.
  • Postman Paths:
    • Social → RPC Operator → Account → ViewPlayerGroupOperatorV1
    • Social → RPC Operator → Account → RemoveAccountTagsOperatorV1
    • Social → RPC Operator → Account → AddAccountTagsOperatorV1
    • Social → RPC Partner → RemoveAccountTagsPartnerV1
    • Social → RPC Partner → GetAccountTagsPartnerV1

• Added verificationEmailEndpoint parameter for verification email templates to allow players to verify emails with one click.

  • Description: A new parameter, verificationEmailEndpoint, can be added to verification email templates.

• Stores can now accept instanced and stackable items as required ingredients for crafting.

  • Description: requiredCatalogIds in Stores.json now accepts instancedItem catalogIds as well as stackableItem catalogIds.

Integrations #

• You must define exts in implementation types to successfully compile. This change is to prepare for the new party service currently being built.
  • Description: Add the following lines to partyExt.proto.

    message ExtPartyDetails {
    }
    
    message ExtPartyPlayer {
    }
    

  • Path:{{% variable "Pragma" "path-extProto" %}}partyExt.proto

Bugs and Fixes #

• Order changed in Service.shutdown().

  • Description: shutdownService() is now called before we cancel all jobs.

• playAgain function fixed.

  • Description: Recreates a lobby and invites players from previous match.

• Player inventory now properly checked for purchasability.

  • AnnotatedStore now consults a player’s inventory properly when determining if they can purchase a storeEntry.

Deprecations #

• none

January 4th, 2022

• Updated Inventory content validation flow in preparation for upcoming content system changes.
• Renamed player group property to be consistent with other calls.
• Improved variable visibility for PragmaException messages.
• Required integrations:
  • Unit tests must be updated from runBlockingTest to runTest.
  • Calls to content getters will need to be updated to Kotlin property names.

Features #

• Updated Inventory content validation flow in preparation for upcoming content system changes.
  • Description: Inventory content is now validated and loaded on Inventory service startup, instead of on content request. Pragma engine will fail to start if there are any errors related to JSON, proto, or custom validation in shared content files.
• Renamed player group property to be consistent with other calls.
  • Description: CreatePlayerGroupOperatorV1Response uses group instead of player_group as the property.
  • Postman Path:
    • Social → RPC Operator → Account → CreatePlayerGroupOperatorV1
  • Improved variable visibility for PragmaException messages.
    • Description: Added ' around variables to improve PragmaException messages.

Integration Steps #

• Unit tests must be updated from runBlockingTest to runTest.
  • Description: Kotlin and Kotlin coroutine versions have been updated, causing deprecation warnings for tests using runBlockingTest.
  • Integration steps:
    • Change any instances of runBlockingTest to runTest.
• Calls to content getters will need to be updated to Kotlin property names.
  • Description: References to content getter methods have been replaced with Kotlin properties.
  • Integration steps:
    • Calls to content getters in InventoryServiceContent will need to be updated to property names. Full table below.

      Original	Replacement
      getStackableItemSpecs()	stackableItemSpecs
      getInstancedItemSpecs()	instancedItemSpecs
      getCatalogUpdateEntries()	catalogUpdateEntries
      getStores()	stores
      getRewards()	rewards
      getRewardsTables()	rewardsTables
      getRewardSlots()	rewardSlots
      getRewardBags()	rewardBags
      getCraftingEntries()	craftingEntries

Deprecations #

The following endpoints have been changed:

December 14th, 2021

• Added new player group capabilities, such as creating new player groups, viewing information about them, and bulk adding players by tag.
  • Please note that these features are early access and require Postman. They require running against 4-demo or following the implementation steps in the player tags feature below.
• Required integration:
  • New GameDataStrategy interface: Follow the steps in the detailed section below to adjust your implementation to migrate from setLoginDataProtoFields to the new getExtLoginData wrapper.
• Optional integration:
  • Updated confirmation email expiration duration to be 7 days, with an optional configuration step: Add an emailTokenExpirationMinutes config into CommonConfig.yml with the desired duration

Features #

• Added ability to create a player group and view information about it.
  • Description: We’ve added the ability to create and view details about player groups, such as a beta group.
  • Reference:
    • CreatePlayerGroupOperatorV1 allows you to create a player group with a name and optional description.
    • ViewPlayerGroupOperatorV1 displays information about all player groups. It includes which users are part of a player group, and provides information about the group name and description.
  • Postman Paths:
    • Social → RPC Operator → Account → ViewPlayerGroupOperatorV1
    • Social → RPC Operator → Account → CreatePlayerGroupOperatorV1
• Added ability to make changes to a player group name and description.
  • Description: We’ve added the ability to make changes to player group names and descriptions.
  • Reference:
    • EditPlayerGroupOperatorV1 allows you to edit the name and description of a player group.
  • Postman Path:
    • Social → RPC Operator → Account → EditPlayerGroupOperatorV1
• Added ability to tag user accounts on account creation.
  • Description: We’ve added the ability to add tags to player accounts on user creation. This step is required to bulk add players to a player group.
  • Reference:
    • registerEmailV1 registers a new user account using an email address. If you’re not running pragma-engine against 4-demo, you must implement the appropriate exts. Refer to 4-demo and its implementation of Pragma.Account.AccountPlugin for an example of adding tags and providing them to an account with registerEmailV1.
  • Paths:
    • Social → RPC Partner → registerEmailV1
    • platform/4-demo/demo-protos/src/main/proto/shared/accountRpcExt.proto contains ExtCreateAccountRequest
• Added ability to get user counts of player groups, bulk add players by tag, and manage excluded player groups.
  • Description: We’ve added the ability to manage player groups using tags.
  • Reference:
    • GetPlayerCountByTagsOperatorV1 displays the number of players in a group by tag.
    • AddAccountstoPlayerGroupOperatorV1 enables adding players by tag to a player group, with an optional excluded player field.
  • Postman Paths:
    • Social → RPC Operator → Account → GetPlayerCountByTagsOperatorV1
    • Social → RPC Operator → Account →AddAccountstoPlayerGroupOperatorV1

Integration Steps #

• New GameDataStrategy interface to increase cohesion between plugins.

  • Description: To increase cohesion between plugins, we’ve updated the GameDataStrategy interface. This change includes a data wrapper which will need to be integrated instead of using the previous builder object.
  • Integration steps:
    1. Delete any implementations of fun init(contentDataNodeService: ContentDataNodeService). No replacement is required as the plugin constructor provides access to the ContentDataNodeService.
    2. Update setLoginDataProtoFields to getExtLoginData. Create ExtLoginData, fill it out with the existing logic being passed into the builder, and return it.
    3. Locate plugin configurations for GameDataService.gameDataStrategy and update them to GameDataService.gameDataStrategyPlugin.

• Updated confirmation email expiration duration to be 7 days, with an optional configuration step.

  • Description: Email expiration duration was previously tied to player session expiration, and has now been changed to a default of 7 days. This default can be overwritten manually via CommonConfig.yml.
  • Integration steps: Add an emailTokenExpirationMinutes line into CommonConfig.yml with the desired duration.
  • Reference:

    social:
      serviceConfigs:
        TokenSignerConfig:
          emailTokenExpirationMinutes: 10
    

Deprecations #

• None

November 30rd, 2021

• Added ability to attach multiple provider accounts to pragmaSocialIds
• Required integration:
  • None
• Optional integration:
  • None

Features #

• Players can now log in to the same account using different identity providers.
  • Description:
    • A given e-mail address or Discord account can only be associated with one Pragma account.
    • E-mails and Discord accounts cannot be unlinked from Pragma accounts.
    • Multiple types of identity providers can be linked with one Pragma account.

Integration Steps #

• None

Deprecations #

• None

November 23rd, 2021

• Added a service call to delete the entire contents of a player’s inventory.
• Added a way to include additional metadata with crafting requests.
• Required integration:
  • New format of /v1/info response: Update Pragma Platform before integrating the latest SDKs, not the other way around.
• Optional integration:
  • Configure the ext jar to be copied and renamed on build: Copy the plugin block that was added to ext-server-pom.template and paste it into your 5-ext/ext-server/pom.xml.

Features #

• Added a service call to delete the entire contents of a player’s inventory.
  • Description: Added DeletePlayerInventoryV1 which allows players to delete all of their inventory.
  • Reference: New config value in InventoryServiceConfig.enableDeletePlayerInventory controls whether the endpoint is active (default: FALSE).
  • Path: pragma-engine/platform/2-pragma/game/src/main/kotlin/pragma/inventory/InventoryServiceConfig.kt
• Added a way to include additional metadata with crafting requests.
  • Description: Added ExtCraftRequest to the meetsRequirements() function in the CraftingPlugin.
  • Reference: For an implementation example, check out the PetEvolutionRequest used in 4-demo’s PetCrafter.kt.
  • Path: pragma-engine/platform/4-demo/demo/src/main/kotlin/pragma/inventory/PetCrafter.kt

Integration Steps #

• Updated the format of the /v1/info response.
  • Description: The format of the /v1/info response has been updated. Although this is backwards compatible, newer clients cannot communicate with an older Pragma backend.
  • Integration steps: Update Pragma Platform before integrating the latest SDKs, not the other way around.
• Users can configure the ext jar to be copied and renamed on build.
  • Description: The ext jar can now be automatically copied to a more convenient location and renamed when building.
  • Integration steps: Copy the plugin block that was added to ext-server-pom.template and paste it into your 5-ext/ext-server/pom.xml
  • Reference:

    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
    </plugin>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>com.coderplus.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>copy-rename-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>1.0</version>
      <executions>
        <execution>
          <id>copy-file</id>
          <phase>install</phase>
          <goals>
            <goal>copy</goal>
          </goals>
          <configuration>
            <sourceFile>target/ext-server-PRAGMA-LOCAL-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar</sourceFile>
            <destinationFile>../../5-ext/target/pragma.jar</destinationFile>
          </configuration>
        </execution>
      </executions>
    </plugin>
    

Deprecations #

The following endpoints have been changed:

2021-11-16

Features #

• New Pragma CLI option crypto remoteServiceToken for generating partner game and social tokens
• RegisterEmailV1 api is configurable to create a pragma account and send an email with unique code to a prospective Beta user

Integration Notes #

• Renamed any references to Arbiter or Example to Demo (eg ArbiterMatchEndPlugin -> DemoMatchEndPlugin)
• Renamed 4-example-ext to 4-demo, and all example submodules to demo instead
• Updated Makefile and various build scripts to use 4-demo instead of 4-example-ext
• Renamed Unity and Unreal PragmaSDK ExampleProjects to be PragmaDemo
• Delete all references to CatalogTestFactory in test code. Reimport from InventoryTestFactory. CatalogTestFactory has been collapsed into InventoryTestFactory.
• Update all references from function InventoryTestFactory.stackableCatalogEntries to InventoryTestFactory.stackableSpecs
• Update all references from function InventoryTestFactory.instancedCatalogEntries to InventoryTestFactory.instancedSpecs
• Update all references from function InventoryTestFactory.repeatedStackableDelta to InventoryTestFactory.stackableDeltas
• Update all references from function InventoryTestFactory.repeatedInstancedDeltaV2 to InventoryTestFactory.instancedDeltaV2s

2021-11-09

Features:

• Many protos related to Inventory have been relocated to make the system more understandable for a designer. CONSULT INTEGRATION NOTES.
• CreatePartnerTokenV1 has been updated to return a Partner Social token
• Enabled server authoritative item update flow on match end. New ExtInstancedItemServerUpdate added to inventoryRpcExt.proto.
• Added new operator RPC UpdateGameTitleV1 for editing a game title name or description. Part of the featureset for Portal Game Management.
• Added new operator RPC CreateGameTitleV1 for creating a new game title with a name and description.
• Added new operator RPC ViewGameTitlesV1 for listing all game titles and their game shards.
• Added new operator RPC ViewGameTitleV1 for retrieving a single game title and its game shard by id.

Integration Notes #

• You will also need to sim-ship your client and server code when adopting this release. We try to avoid these sorts of breaking changes, so we would like to call specific attention to that.

• Update 5-ext/ext-server/pom.xml - remove the dependency with:

  • groupId: pragma
  • artifactId: server

• Within all Kotlin/proto code:

  • Relocate ExtCraftRequest from inventoryExt.proto to inventoryRpcExt.proto
  • Add new message definition to inventoryRpcExt.proto in 5-ext:
    • message ExtInstancedItemServerUpdate { }
  • Relocate all protos from both catalogExt.proto and storeContentExt.proto to inventoryContentExt.proto.
  • Delete catalogExt.proto
  • Delete storeContentExt.proto
  • Replace all references from CatalogContent.GameCatalog to InventoryContent.ItemCatalog
  • Replace all references from both pragma.catalog.CatalogContent and pragma.store.StoreContent to pragma.inventory.InventoryContent
  • Replace all references from pragma.InventoryTestFactory.gameCatalog to pragma.InventoryTestFactory.itemCatalog
  • Replace all import namespaces references from both pragma.catalog and pragma.store to pragma.inventory
  • Update all references from GameCatalog to ItemCatalog when handling LoginData, GetLoginDataV1Response, or GetCatalogOperatorV1Response protos
  • Rebuild all protos and SDK types

• Within your Unreal game:

  • Replace all references from Dto/PragmaCatalogContentDto.h to Dto/PragmaInventoryContentDto.h
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Catalog_GameCatalog to FPragma_Inventory_ItemCatalog
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Catalog_StackableSpec to FPragma_Inventory_StackableSpec
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Catalog_InstancedSpec to FPragma_Inventory_InstancedSpec
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Store_Store to FPragma_Inventory_Store
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Store_StoreEntry to FPragma_Inventory_StoreEntry
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Store_PurchaseRequirements to FPragma_Inventory_PurchaseRequirements
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Store_CraftingEntry to FPragma_Inventory_CraftingEntry
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Store_CostEntry to FPragma_Inventory_CostEntry
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Store_UpdateEntry to FPragma_Inventory_UpdateEntry
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Catalog_ExtStackableSpec to FPragma_Inventory_ExtStackableSpec
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Catalog_ExtInstancedSpec to FPragma_Inventory_ExtInstancedSpec
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Store_ExtPurchaseRequirements to FPragma_Inventory_ExtPurchaseRequirements
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Store_ExtUpdateEntry to FPragma_Inventory_ExtUpdateEntry
  • Replace all references from FPragma_Store_ExtCraftingEntry to FPragma_Inventory_ExtCraftingEntry
  • Replace all references from FPragma_GameData_GetLoginDataV1Response.Payload().LoginData.GameCatalog to FPragma_GameData_GetLoginDataV1Response.Payload().LoginData.ItemCatalog

• Within your Unity game:

  • Delete any broken using statements and import new references after regenerating SDK types.
  • Update references from GameCatalog to ItemCatalog.

• Use PlayerMatchEndV2.server_item_updates instead of PlayerMatchEndV2.item_updates

• Migrate existing InstancedDataProviderPlugin implementations to new name InstancedItemPlugin

  • Use the single new newInstanced method for all instanced item creation. Presence of the requestExt indicates server or client pathway.
  • The update method now has a requestExt for either a server or client pathway.
  • Change the parameter names of plugin implementations to match those found on the interface.
  • Update plugin configuration with new name
    • InventoryService.instancedItemPlugin: class: "YourPluginName"
  • Remove old plugin configuration item InventoryService.defaultInstancedDataProviderPlugin

Deprecations #

- `PlayerMatchEndV2.item_updates` deprecated.
- `getDisplayNameForPragmaPlayerIdForPartnerV1` deprecated. Use match data for player display names.
- Renamed operator RPC `ViewGamesV0` to `ViewGameTitlesV1`. No change in behavior.

2021-11-02

Features #

• Players can now invite others using Lobby Invite Codes.

Deprecations #

• Removed insertAccountsOrIgnoreLegacy from UnsafeIdentityDaoNodeService. Use insertOrIgnoreAccounts as a replacement.
• Types.DisplayName has been removed in favor of AccountCommon.DisplayName
• Removed MatchLifecycleRpc.PlayerInfo in favor of MatchLifecycleRpc.PlayerInfoV2
  • (PlayerInfo.DisplayName string)/(DisplayNameV2 Types.DisplayName) is now reflected in (PlayerInfoV2.DisplayName AccountCommon.DisplayName)
• Removed MatchLifecycleRpc.MatchData in favor of MatchLifecycleRpc.MatchDataV2
  • MatchData.PlayerInfo has been updated to MatchData.PlayerInfoV2
• Removed MatchLifecycleService.MatchReadyV1 in favor of MatchLifecycleService.MatchReadyV2.
• Removed MatchCapacityRpc.ReportCapacityV1Request/Response in favor of MatchCapacityRpc.ReportCapacityV2Request/Response.
• Removed buildExtensionMatchFoundNotification.

2021-10-26

Features #

• Attempting to invite a player that is already in the lobby will now result in a LobbyService_AlreadyInLobby error.
• Ignoring module 4-example-ext/example-ext-protos in Intellij by default to allow running All Tests when using oneof pattern in Exts
• InviteReceivedV1Notification includes new field inviter_info, containing the InviterInfo (new message) from the player who sent the invite.
• Players may no longer repeatedly send lobby invites to a player
• New LobbyConfig config value, repeatInviteDelaySeconds. Sets how long a player must wait between sending a repeat invite to the same player. Default: 1.
• New InviterInfo on InviteReceivedV1Notification is intended to replace the functionality currently achieved with the getDisplayNameForPragmaIdForPartnerV1 and getDisplayNameForPragmaPlayerIdForPartnerV1 calls.
• CreatePartnerTokenV1 api will return a new Game Partner JWT token for when we cut over to the more restrictive JWT rules. This will need to be configured in the PartnerConnectionInfoConfig under the gameToken parameter

Integration Notes #

• TimeProxy object has been moved to a class with a companion object. Any existing references to TimeProxy should be redirected to TimeProxy.defaultInstance
• InventoryContent now returns ContentDataWrappers instead of GeneratedMessageV3 for the following calls: getStackableSpec(), getInstancedSpec(), getCatalogUpdateEntry(), getRewardsTable(), getRewardSlot(), getRewardBag(), and getCraftingEntry(). The data wrapper objects expose the same data as the proto object, but some names are slightly different. For example, RewardsTable.rewardSlotIdsList -> RewardsTableWrapper.rewardSlotIds. The GeneratedMessageV3 can still be accessed via the toProtobuf() function on the data wrappers.
• Change runBlockingTimeout -> runBlockingTestWithTimeout
  • This has changed to return a type compatible with the Junit test runner to ensure tests are executed properly.

2021-10-19

Integration Notes #

• InventoryV1Data field on LobbyPlayer has been removed, replaced by InventoryFullV1Data.

2021-10-19

Features #

• Protobufs associated with content in the content/shared folder now use a string ID instead of int64. These changes affect the store and catalog system as well as the rewards system. Although any numeric value for an ID in the content definition files will automatically get cast to a string, this ID needs to be passed as a string through one’s application.
• The local_game_player_inventory1 and local_game_player_inventory2 tables in the DB are destroyed and recreated with an additional catalogIdStr field persisting the string value as defined above. The numeric catalogId field will contain the (SipHash24) hash of this string ID.
• Promoted the RPC endpoint CraftV0 to CraftV1 - The Unreal4, Unity and C# SDKs now have access to use the CraftV1 RPC endpoint. Implementation examples can be found in the ArbiterInstancedDataProviderPlugin and ArbiterCraftingPlugin; crafting catalog examples can be found in platform/4-example-ext/content/shared/CatalogCraftingEntries.json
• Documentation can now be found in pragma-engine/documentation/release. Open Default.htm to view the new doc site.
  • The Google Docs directory is now deprecated but will remain available until all docs are ported over.

Integration Notes #

• PartnerConnectionInfoConfig token was renamed to gameToken, if you configure this value you will need to update it or authentication errors will occur in GameServer calls

Deprecation #

• InventoryV1Data field on LoginData has been removed.
• InventoryV1Data field on LobbyPlayer has been removed.
• MatchLifecycleRpc.MatchEndV2Request/Response has been removed.
• MatchLifecycleRpc.MatchEnd has been removed.
• InventoryRpc.UpdateItemV3Request/Response has been removed.
• InventoryCommon.ItemGrant has been removed.
• InventoryCommon.ItemUpdate has been removed.
• Google Docs documentation is deprecated and will be removed when the new documentation is fully caught up.

2021-10-12

Features #

• Added new coAssertThrowsExtError and assertThrowsExtError methods for testing convenience. See platform/2-pragma/core/src/test/kotlin/pragma/utils/TestUtils.kt

Integration Notes #

• AccountRpc.DisplayName is now AccountCommon.DisplayName
• LobbyRpc.proto/LobbyPlayer.display_name and LobbyRpc.LobbyPlayer.ext fields have been removed. Use LobbyRpc.proto/LobbyPlayer.player_info.display_name and LobbyRpc.LobbyPlayer.player_info.ext instead.
• MatchCapacityRpc.StartMatchV1Request, MatchLifecycleRpc.CreateMatchV1Request, MatchmakingRpc.EnterMatchmakingForPartyV1Request have been updated to use PlayerInfoV2
• PlayerSession has been updated to use pragma.account.DisplayName
• Removed GetContentSha256ChecksumsV1Request/Response that was not used
• pragma.PragmaCoreTestFactory.playerInfo moved to pragma.MatchmakingTestFactory.playerInfo and will need to be reimported if used in tests

Deprecation #

• ReportCapacityV1Request/Response deprecated in favor of ReportCapacityV2Request/Response
• MatchReadyV1Request/Response deprecated in favor of MatchReadyV2Request/Response
• types.proto/DisplayName deprecated in favor of accountCommon.proto/DisplayName
• matchLifecycleRpc.proto/PlayerInfo deprecated in favor of matchLifecycleRpc.proto/PlayerInfoV2
• matchLifecycleRpc.proto/MatchData deprecated in favor of matchLifecycleRpc.proto/MatchDataV2

2021-10-05

Features #

• New operator RPC for portal to access Stores, Game and Rewards catalogs.
• Custom identity provider support added
• Rich Inventory in UnitySDK featuring client side cache.
• JWT token now contains more information related to a player identity, the new tokens are not yet used to validate with server
• {{% variable “Pragma” “postman-GetLoginDataV1-name” %}} now contains additional Catalog data (updateEntries and craftingEntries)

Integration Notes #

• The configuration of Discord authentication has changed very slightly. The block of configuration that used to live under serviceConfigs.DiscordIdProviderConfig now resides under pluginConfigs.AccountService.discordIdentityProvider. See 4-example-ext/config/CommonConfig.yml for an example.
• New configuration is needed to enable Epic Online Services authentication.

social:
  pluginConfigs:
    AccountService.epicIdentityProvider:
      class: "EpicIdentityProvider"

• New configuration is needed to enable Steam authentication.

social:
  pluginConfigs:
    AccountService.steamIdentityProvider:
      class: "SteamIdentityProvider"
      config: <-- configuration from old serviceConfigs.SteamIdProviderConfig -->

Deprecation #

• InventoryV1Data field on LoginData has been deprecated. Use LoginData InventoryFullV1Data.
• Removed InventoryV1Data inside LobbyPlayer. Affects LobbyStrategy plugin.
• MatchLifecycleService.MatchEndV2Request deprecated in favor of MatchLifecycleService.MatchEndV3Request.
• InventoryService.ItemUpdateV3 deprecated in favor of InventoryService.ItemUpdateV4.

2021-09-28

Features #

• Rewards can be configured to return a ‘smooth’ distribution

Fixes #

• Fixed intermittent test failures around the MatchLifecyleRpc.MatchEndV2/V3 endpoints

2021-09-28

Features #

• UnrealSDK
  • Lobby Service
    • FPragmaLobbyData and FPragmaLobbyPlayer are now uobjects (names changed to U*) and can be accessed by blueprints.
    • Now keeps track of the most-recently-started GameId.
    • Now has overloads that return TFutures.
  • All Pragma struct members are now BlueprintReadOnly.
  • All Pragma structs have ==/!= operators generated.
  • Pragma::TComparison removed, use ==/!= operators.
• A new operator RPC for creating UnsafeProvider (testing) accounts has been added

Integration Notes #

• make run-with-config has been fully replaced by {{% variable “Pragma” “command-make-run” %}}
• MatchProcessedV1Notification has been removed in favor of MatchProcessedV2Notification.
• PlayerMatchEndProcessor.generateUpdatesForPlayer has been removed in favor of PlayerMatchEndProcessor.buildUpdatesForPlayer.
• All settings files, including integration test settings files, must have their settings within the game: or social: nodes
• The portal resources have been moved back into the engine jar; as a result, any pom.xml files generated for 5-ext will have to be manually updated.

Deprecation #

- None

2021-09-21

Features #

• Integration tests can now specify a content directory
  • Specify the path in the call to BaseServerIT constructor. e.g. BaseServerIT(contentPath = "relative/path/to/content/from/ext/project")

Integration Notes #

• Use {{% variable “Pragma” “command-make-protos” %}} instead of these removed aliases:
  • proto protobuf protobufs

Deprecation #

Pragma Engine - CatalogStackableEntries.json and CatalogInstancedEntries.json have been removed in 0.0.36.

2021-09-14

Features #

• Default location for content is 5-ext/content
• Default location for config is 5-ext/config
• Run configs are checked in to help make debugging in IntelliJ more simple, and assume the new default locations for content and config.
  • Click on the Add Configuration… button in the IntelliJ toolbar, under Kotlin choose MainKt - LocalConfigured and click OK.
• UnrealSDK:
  • Generated proto enum fields now have default initialized values.
  • Moved most Pragma tests out of the SDK itself to fix compilation failure with 4-example generated types.

Integration Notes #

• Rename CatalogStackableEntries.json and CatalogInstancedEntries.json to StackableItemSpecs.json and InstancedItemSpecs.json, respectively.
• Integration test default config files were renamed from InMemGame.yml to InMemGameIT.yml and InMemSocial.yml to InMemSocialIT.yml
  • If you use these yml files, ensure that the rename has been applied platform/5-ext/ext/src/test/resources/localDevelopmentShardConfig/ and preserves any custom settings
• make run-with-config
• 5-ext pom templates have changed. Merge template pom-xmls.templates into 5-ext/**/pom.xmls. The process for this will be:
  • Delete all the 5-ext/**/pom.xml files
  • Run make update-template
  • Use a diff tool like the one built into IntelliJ to restore local changes

Deprecation #

Pragma Engine - CatalogStackableEntries.json and CatalogInstancedEntries.json will be removed in 0.0.36 Pragma Engine - make run-with-config will be removed in 0.0.37

2021-09-07

Integration Notes #

• Removed command line arguments social-configuration-filepaths and game-configuration-filepaths. These have been replaced with configuration-filepaths which support a unified configuration file format with a game: section and a social: section. Please refer to platform/TemplatePragmaConfig.yml as an example of the new unified format.
• Need to merge template pom-xmls.templates into 5-ext/**/pom.xmls. The process for this will be to delete all the 5-ext/**/pom.xml and run make update-template, then use a diff tool like the one built into IntelliJ to restore local changes.

2021-08-31

Features #

• Fixed a bug with the Multiplay Capacity Provider building the uuid parameter incorrectly
• Fixed a bug where in a rare case, the platform would stop processing all incoming messages.
• UnitySDK: Fixed a bug where the SDK was sending an extra character in the auth header that was ignored by previous versions of ktor.

Integration Notes #

• Intellij IDE must be updated to at least 2021.2.1, and the Intellij Kotlin plugin updated to at least 1.5.21 (kotlin release notes)
• The version of Kotlin has been updated to 1.5.21. This introduces a few deprecations:
  • toLowerCase() → lowercase()
  • toUpperCase() → uppercase()
  • capitalize() → .replaceFirstChar { it.uppercase() }
  • uncapitalize() → .replaceFirstChar { it.lowercase() }
  • .sumBy() → .sumOf()
• The version of kotlinx-coroutines has been updated to 1.5.1. This introduces a few deprecations:
  • Channel.poll() -> Channel.tryReceive().onClosed { result -> if (result != null) throw result }.getOrNull()
• The version of Ktor has been updated to 1.6.2. This introduces a few deprecations:
  • @KtorExperimentalAPI can be removed
  • httpClient calls will now throw a ClientRequestException exception when the request is not a 200 OK
• Any references to KTor HeaderBuilder will need a suppression annotation added:
  • @Suppress("EXPERIMENTAL_API_USAGE_FUTURE_ERROR")

Deprecation #

• generateAnyProto() has been removed from the test factory helpers. Use generateProto() instead (or create a tailored test factory for your proto)
• The command line arguments social-configuration-filepaths and game-configuration-filepaths will be removed. Use configuration-filepaths instead. See platform/TemplatePragmaConfig.yml for an example of the new config file format.
• The 3-apps/server module will be removed August 7.

2021-08-24

Features #

• Content Data is now available to all plugins. This requires an update to the constructors of all plugins to conform to the new interface.
• GetStoresV0 returns store data annotated with eligibility for the calling player. Eligibility considers both Store Entry requirements and consults a plugin that can access the player’s progression data.
• UnitySDK: now supports automatic websocket reconnection with backoff. See new SdkConfig values for more info.
• Bug fix: Match End now correctly enforces stackable costs of catalog updates.
• Game and Social config file format have been merged into a single config format, see platform/TemplatePragmaConfig.yml for an example.

Integration Notes #

• 3-extensions have been removed and 4-apps have been renamed to 3-apps. All custom and …ext proto files as well as any extensions defined in 3-extensions should now be defined in the 5-ext module.
• Customers should continue to use make ext run can be used to just build and run changes in 5-ext
• Due to the change in project structure, there may be some issues running within Intellij. After making the changes you may need to clear out your m2 directory and use the Invalidate Caches… option in the IDE (under File). Please reach out if you run into additional issues with the IDE.

Deprecation #

• The command line arguments social-configuration-filepaths and game-configuration-filepaths will be removed. Use configuration-filepaths instead. See platform/TemplatePragmaConfig.yml for an example of the new config file format.

2021-08-17

Features #

• Introduced InventoryRpc.ItemUpdateV4 and MatchendLifecycleRpc.MatchEndV3
• MatchEndPlugin can be authored to enable rpc calls to arbitrary services on match end.
• UnrealSDK
  • Update PragmaInventoryService to return full inventory snapshot on StorePurchaseV4, UpdateItemsV0, UpdateItemV3, UpdateItemV4
  • Oneofs allow nothing to be set for serialization or deserialization.
  • Code gen: Fix out of order dependencies when using maps.

Integration Notes #

• UpdateItemsV0Request was updated to use inventoryRpc.ItemUpdateV2
• MatchEndV0Request was updated to use matchlifecycle.MatchEndV2

Architecture Change #

• 3-extensions will be removed and 4-apps will be renamed to 3-apps. All custom and …ext proto files as well as any extensions defined in 3-extensions will soon be defined in the 5-ext module.

2021-08-10

Features #

• Login data includes purchase eligibility for store catalog that checks players’ payable and recipe requirements.
• Unreal and Unity/C# SDKs
• Rich LobbyService now handles and forwards MatchFailureV1Notification and GameStartFailureV1Notification.
• Exposed LobbyServiceRaw::GameStartFailureV1Notification event.

Deprecation #

• Removed storePurchaseV3 from inventoryRpc.proto should use storePurchaseV4.
• Removed GetInventoryV1 from inventoryRpc.proto should use GetInventoryV2.
• Removed ServiceGetInventoryV1 from inventoryRpc.proto should use ServiceGetInventoryV2.

2021-08-04

Features #

• Authentication will now return information about error conditions specific to Discord auth failures.
• LobbyService correctly sets ExtPlayerInfo on respondToLobbyInvite and createAndJoinLobby calls using the LobbyStrategy.setExtPlayerInfo

2021-08-03

Features #

• UnitySDK: Fixed an issue where Connection.Connect() would fail after disconnection due to error.

Integration Notes #

• ExtEnterMatchmakingV1Request no longer has a player_info in it. Instead use PlayerInfo in matchLifecycleRpc.proto.
• StoreEntry has replaced requirements and catalog_ids_required_in_inventory with a new PurchaseRequirements that includes a new store.ExtPurchaseRequirements field.
• This will be a breaking change to store content if entries reference the old fields
• InventoryCommon.ItemUpdateV2 and InventoryCommon.ItemGrantV2 has been changed so internal instanced and stackable fields is a oneof

Deprecation #

• Removed player_info from ExtEnterMatchmakingV1Request in matchmakingExt.proto.

Removed #

• InventoryRpc.UpdateItemV2
  • Use InventoryRpc.UpdateItemV3
  • If using UE4 SDK, please use PragmaInventoryService.UpdateItemV3

2021-07-27

Features #

• Unreal SDK
  • Now comes with a Rich Inventory SDK (PragmaInventoryService.h/cpp) that implements client side caching. Please see Inventory documentation to learn how to use the Rich Inventory implementation.
  • Fixed LogIn OnComplete never called if there’s an error in getting info/types data.
  • uint64 serializes to/from json string without losing precision.

Integration Notes #

• MatchmakingStrategy.buildMatchmakingKey has been deleted; remove from strategy implementations
• MatchmakingStrategy.buildExtPlayerInfo has been deleted; remove from strategy implementations
• MatchmakingRpc.EnterMatchmakingV1 has been deleted; use MatchmakingRpc.EnterMatchmakingForPartyV1 instead
• Proto Renames for Store
  • Store.UpgradeEntry → Store.UpdateEntry
  • Store.ExtUpgradeEntry → Store.ExtUpdateEntry
  • Rename CatalogUpgradeEntries.json → CatalogUpdateEntries.json
• All implementations of PlayerMatchEndProcessor must now implement buildUpdatesForPlayer, which provides a builder that exposes stats and ext fields

Deprecation #

Pragma Engine - DEPRECATED this release (Scheduled for removal in 0.0.30):

• InventoryRpc.UpdateItemV2
  • Use InventoryRpc.UpdateItemV3
  • If using UE4 SDK, please use PragmaInventoryService.UpdateItemV3
• InventoryRpc.StorePurchaseV3
  • Use InventoryRpc.StorePurchaseV4
  • If using UE4 SDK, please use PragmaInventoryService.StorePurchaseV4
• InventoryRpc.GetInventoryV1
  • Use InventoryRpc.GetInventoryV2
  • If using UE4 SDK, please use PragmaInventoryService.GetInstancedItemsV1, PragmaInventoryService.GetStackableItemsV1
• InventoryRpc.ServiceGetInventoryV1
  • Use InventoryRpc.ServiceGetInventoryV2

Removed #

• InventoryRpc.SimulateRewardsV1
  • Use InventoryRpc.SimulateRewardsV2

2021-07-13

Features #

• Unreal SDK now supports protobuf oneofs.
• Service Name, Node ID and Instance ID are no longer part of metrics tags
  • Datadog charges per combination of unique tags. This scales down the total number of combinations
• Healthcheck endpoint now available on the operator gateway at /v1/healthcheck
  • Will respond with a 503 until the services are initialized, then a 200 forever thereafter

Integration Notes #

• SDK generated files are no longer included in the Pragma release.
  • You should be running the make gen-sdk-types-unreal4/unity after integrating release anyway so this probably won’t affect you except that you should no longer see useless merge conflicts in the generated files.

2021-07-06

Features #

• Now supports OAuth PKCE security when authenticating with Discord. Pragma now accepts the code_verifier and passes it along to Discord to obtain a token.
• MatchEndMetrics now accept optional as a list
  • Tags list expects format of key, value pairs. Compatible with datadog tags. Expects even number of entries
  • Example - [ "region", "na", "server", "1.2.3" ]
  • Note for datadog users: each unique combination of tags are indexed separately and therefore billed separately, so be judicious with your tag usages.
• Unreal SDK Code Gen:
  • Fixed an issue causing some messages with the same name as a message in another package to not be included in the final output.

2021-06-29

Features #

• C# SDK supports Promise/Futures (non-yieldable).
• Unity/C#
  • Added rich lobby implementation in LobbyService. We recommend using this instead of the Raw API!
  • DisplayName and Discriminator are available in AccountService after logging in.
  • Added MatchFailureV1Notification Raw event.

Integration Notes #

• UnrealSDK LobbyService:
  • Fixed crash when sending notification that player joined lobby.
  • Fix debug server adding a stray requestId to the types response that showed up as a missing type warning.

Deprecation #

Pragma Engine - DEPRECATED this release (Scheduled for 0.0.27):

• InventoryRpc.ServiceGrantRewardsV1Request/Response
  • Use InventoryRpc.ServiceGrantRewardsV2Request/Response
  • InventoryDeltaV2Data is now used instead in the new response

2021-06-22

Improvements #

• Fixed a bug where Players were getting invites from “Unknown”

2021-06-15

Pragma Engine Heads up! We’re landing the big Pragma package rename and several deprecations in version 0.0.23. Not to fear; a Pragma engineer will help you with this migration. We will schedule time to help you with this.

Features #

• Converted match making strategy into plugin to provide greater configuration support and extensibility
• Improved error messages when authenticating Discord Unverified users
• Added support for stackable item grants to match end payload
• Unity SDK
  • New yield-able Promise/Future interface for RPCs. No more callback hell!
• Unity/C# SDKs
  • Raw services can now be accessed directly from Session.GetService()
  • [Protocol] logs now print with more info e.g. [Game WebSocket]
  • Added MatchCapacity and MatchLifecycle Raw services.
  • Fixed128s now print as UUID strings in logs instead of msb/lsb json objects.

Improvements #

Pragma Package Rename!

• Old convention:
  • Inconsistent file names and object locations
  • Frequently repeat names in multiple places such as:
    • pragma.lobby.lobbyServicePB.proto
    • pragma.lobby.CreateAndJoinLobbyV1Request
    • Note lobby in package, file name, and method name.
  • Inconsistent location
• New Standard:
  • PingRpc.proto
    • Eg. PingRpc.PingV1Request
    • rpcs go here
    • Includes factored out / shared types
    • It’s okay to reference content protos
  • PingRpcExt.proto (java separate files mode)
    • PingRpcExt.ExtPingRequest
    • use Ext on the front of the name
  • PingContent.proto
    • content data goes here
  • PingContentExt.proto
    • PingContentExt.ExtSomePingContentDataType
  • Ping.proto
    • Live data related protos go here (eg. custom player data types, inventory types)
  • Proto package namespacing should match the service namespacing
    • Eg. pragma.ping
    • No group services into subpackages
      • Except for example
      • The ‘match’ subpackage will be flattened
  • Preserve (or refactor) current pragma.core
    • Eg. types.proto is good as-is

Integration Notes #

Pragma Package Rename

• any protos using gg.pragma.core.Fixed128 type should use import "pragma/types.proto";
• and replace message types from gg.pragma.core.Fixed128 example_proto = 3; to Fixed128 example_proto = 3;
• the folder structure no longer is using /gg/pragma/*. All files should be moved to a /pragma namespace/folder instead
• change all imports from using gg.pragma.* to use pragma instead
• Will need to close the Intellij IDE, delete the maven .m2 repo cache for /gg/pragma, run a make clean build and restart the IDE and reload Maven Projects
• gg.pragma.game, gg.pragma.core, gg.pragma.social, gg.pragma.protobuf and gg.pragma have all been combined into pragma
• pragma.match.lifecycle has been combined into pragma.matchlifecycle
• pragma.match.capacity has been combined into pragma.matchcapacity
• Folder structures match package structure much more closely
• Unity SDK replaces Pragma.Core, Pragma.Game, Pragma.Social with Pragma
• Unreal4 SDK replaces EPragma_Core_* with EPragma_*

Deprecation #

Pragma Engine - REMOVED in 0.0.23:

• Inventory.upgradeItemV1
  • Use Inventory.updateItemV2
• Inventory.updateItemV1
  • Use Inventory.updateItemV2
• Inventory.storePurchaseV2
  • Use Inventory.storePurchaseV3
• PlayerMatchEnd.stackable_updates
  • Use item_updates
• MatchEndPlayerData.instancedGrants
  • Now included in Inventory.ItemGrants
• MatchLifeCycleServicePB.MatchFoundV1Notification
  • Should already be using MatchLifeCycleRpc.MatchConnectionDetailsV1Notification

2021-06-08

Features #

• Multiplay capacity provider support
• UnrealSDK
  • LobbyService
    • Fixed an issue where accepting an invite would ignore the next details update.
    • Fixed an issue where after creating a lobby the first details update would not fire events.
    • Non-packaged builds could crash after exiting play mode when using the rich LobbyService impl.
    • Cleaned up disconnect messaging so it only prints once, and only as an error if it’s actually an error.
    • Fixed an issue where LobbyData was not cleaned up on disconnect.
• Unity/C#
  • We now have a non-unity C# SDK!
  • Fixed a bug where failed UpdateBackendConfig would never call OnComplete callback (e.g. on Logging in).
  • Fixed a bug where failed Http message responses would never fire the response callback.
  • Can now opt-into using Http for all platform calls such as on a game server with no websocket connection. (Note: notifications not supported in this mode)
    • Set SdkConfig.protocolType to ProtocolType.Http
• Logged in users metric is now more accurate
  • HTTP sessions are expired are a configurable timeout, therefore will no longer permanently pollute the logged in users metric

Improvements and Fixes #

• CLI command for standalone db migration functionality is restored

New or Updated RPCs #

• MatchEndV2Request
  • PlayerMatchEnd.itemUpdates - update stackables and instanced items
• MatchProcessedV1Notification - Inventory Delta tags field is now populated for all inventory types (previously only populated for stackables)
• UpdateItemV2
  • Replaces upgradeItemV1 and updateItemV1
  • Uses the same list of ItemUpdate objects from MatchEnd
• UpdateItemsV0 - plural form of UpdateItemV2 to update items in bulk.
• OperatorGrantRewardsV0 - operator endpoint that directly grants RewardGrant(s) to a playerId for testing and player support
• StorePurchaseV3 - uses new standard formatted params comparable to UpdateItemV2 etc.

Integration Notes #

• LobbyStrategy.buildExtensionMatchmakingRequest (returns a pair of values, an ExtensionEnterMatchmakingV1Request and a MatchmakingKey) has been deleted, in favor of the following two functions:
  • LobbyStrategy.buildExtensionEnterMatchmakingV1Request
  • LobbyStrategy.buildMatchmakingKey
  • Note: extLobbyInfo (the parameter for the previous call) is available from lobbyModel.extLobbyInfo
• InstancedDataProviderPlugin.newInstanced() was updated to take the full Catalog.InstancedEntry instead of just the catalogId for the new instanced item.

Deprecations #

• Inventory.upgradeItemV1
  • Use updateItemV2
• Inventory.updateItemV1
  • Use updateItemV2
• MatchFoundV1Notification
  • Use MatchConnectionDetailsV1Notification
• PlayerMatchEnd.stackable_updates
  • Use item_updates

Removed #

• Catalog.InstancedEntry.instance_defaults replaced by ExtensionInstancedEntry.ext
• Removed (were unused)
  • StackableEntryUpdate
  • InstancedEntryUpdate
  • InventoryUpdateV1Notification
• Removed in favor of new variants
  • MatchEndV1Request
    • Use MatchEndV2Request
  • MatchEndV1Notification
    • Use MatchEndV2Notification
• UnrealSDK
  • UPragmaConnection::OnDisconnected
    • Use UPragmaConnection::OnDisconnectedV2.
  • TPragmaResult::UnknownErrorCode.
    • Use FPragmaError::UnknownError.

2021-06-04

Features #

• Expose extension data on MatchEndNotification

2021-06-01

Features #

• Add ability to update instanced inventory on match end.
  • See InstancedItemUpdate and InstancedDataProviderPlugin.update

Deprecation #

Pragma Engine - Scheduled for REMOVAL in 0.0.22:

• Protos to be deleted since they are unused
  • StackableEntryUpdate
  • InstancedEntryUpdate
  • InventoryUpdateV1Notification
• Protos deprecated because a new version is available
  • MatchEndV1Request
  • MatchEndV1Response
  • MatchEndV1Notification
  • MatchEndPayload
  • PragmaMatchEndData
  • PragmaPlayerMatchEndData
• UnrealSDK

  • UPragmaConnection::OnDisconnected. Please use UPragmaConnection::OnDisconnectedV2. Pragma Engine - DEPRECATED this release (Scheduled for removal in 0.0.23):

  • TPragmaResult::UnknownErrorCode. Please use FPragmaError::UnknownError.

• StorePurchaseV2 deprecated
• PlayerMatchEnd.stackable_updates to be replaced by PlayerMatchEnd.item_updates

2021-05-26

Features #

• Unity SDK
  • All Game Data Service Player RPCs and Notifications
    • MatchProcessedV1Notification
  • All Inventory Player RPCs - can be found in inventoryServicePb.proto
• Matchmaking
  • Added basic warm body matchmaking strategies
    • OneVsOneWarmBodyMatchmakingStrategy
    • FreeForAllWarmBodyMatchmakingStrategy
    • ThreePlayerCooperativeWarmBodyMatchmakingStrategy
    • ThreeVsThreeWarmBodyMatchmakingStrategy

2021-05-25

Features #

• Game server metrics support
  • MatchEndV2 supports new metrics field
  • MatchEndV2 has improved names and structure
• Instanced Items run initialization plugin in all cases, including
  • Match End Grants
  • Rewards
  • Store Purchase
• Unity SDK
  • All RPCs defined in the Lobby service are now available through the Raw API.
• Unreal SDK
  • Added a full, stateful Lobby implementation accessible via Session().LobbyService()
    • Enable by adding the following to your DefaultGame.ini:
      • [/Script/PragmaSDK.PragmaLobbyService]<br />bEnabled=true
  • Raw api services can now be accessed directly via Session::GetService() (Session.Account().Raw() style is still available though).
  • PragmaResult now has an Error() method that gets the error (if IsFailure is true) as a new type FPragmaError which encompasses new platform & sdk error enums.
  • Protocol internals now use TUniqueFunction instead of TFunction (Can now MoveTemp into Raw methods lambda captures).
    • Eliminated an excess copy when passing delegates to Raw methods.
    • TPromise/TFuture can be used more cleanly with Raw methods as you can now MoveTemp(TPromise) into a Raw method lambda.
  • Add SessionService which contains logic for logout and session attributes.
    • SessionService().DisconnectV1() method.
      • The method will call RequestLogoutV1 on both connections.
      • Calls callback once both connections have closed.
    • SessionService().GetAttribute
      • Used to retrieve current Session attributes.
    • SessionService().GetAttributeChangedDelegate
      • Used to watch for SessionAttribute changes.
    • Currently the only Session Attribute is the Game LobbyId.
  • Added opt-in compile-time deprecation warnings
    • To enable, in your Project.Build.cs add PrivateDefinitions.Add("PRAGMASDK_ENABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS");

Deprecation #

• REMOVED this release: Pragma Engine - Scheduled for REMOVAL in 0.0.21:

  • N/A Pragma Engine - DEPRECATED this release (Scheduled for 0.0.22):

  • InstancedEntry.instance_defaults to be replaced by ExtensionInstancedEntry.ext

  • Protos to be deleted since they are unused

    • StackableEntryUpdate
    • InstancedEntryUpdate
    • InventoryUpdateV1Notification

  • Protos deprecated because a new version is available

    • MatchEndV1Request
    • MatchEndV1Response
    • MatchEndV1Notification
    • MatchEndPayload
    • PragmaMatchEndData
    • PragmaPlayerMatchEndData

  • UnrealSDK

    • UPragmaConnection::OnDisconnected. Please use UPragmaConnection::OnDisconnectedV2.
    • TPragmaResult::UnknownErrorCode. Please use FPragmaError::UnknownError.

2021-05-18

Deprecation #

• REMOVED this release:

  • make.ps1 script removed

  • Content Data is no longer loadable as an embedded artifact Pragma Engine - Scheduled for REMOVAL in 0.0.19:

  • storePurchaseV1 RPC is removed Pragma Engine - DEPRECATED this release (Scheduled for 0.0.20):

  • N/A

  • InstancedEntry.instance_defaults to be replaced by ExtensionInstancedEntry ext

2021-05-11

Features #

• Steam Identity Provider
  • Platform support for Steam identity provider
  • Unreal SDK support for Steam provider
  • Steam ID Provider

Deprecation #

• REMOVED this release:

  • None Pragma Engine - Scheduled 0.0.18

• Will be REMOVED next release:

  • make.ps1 script
  • `storePurchaseV1 RPC Pragma Engine - Scheduled 0.0.19

• DEPRECATED this release:

  • Content Data will no longer be loadable as embedded artifact

2021-05-04

Features #

• Unreal SDK
  • Extension services should now live outside of the SDK and register with Session::RegisterService instead of being added to PragmaExtensionServices.h.
  • New SDK update script: sdk/unreal4/update-pragma-sdk.sh.
    • See script for configuration details.
  • UPragmaConnection::ConnectionError renamed to UPragmaConnection::FConnectionError
  • PragmaSdkConfig has a UserData field that can be used to pass arbitrary data using the existing Pragma.ini flow at deploy-time.
• Infrastructure
  • Support for deploying game server binary to a shard.
    • New buildkite pipeline that pulls from an s3 bucket.
    • dev-shard-deploy.sh updated to use a local binary.
    • New script upload-game-server.sh which simplifies uploading a game server to the s3 bucket.

Deprecation #

Pragma Engine - DEPRECATED this release (will be removed in release 0.0.18):

• make.ps1 script
• storePurchaseV1 RPC

2021-04-27

Features #

• Content data is now exclusively loaded externally from the jar from a supplied folder
  • See the Execution section in README.md
  • For the most up-to-date command-line arguments, you can look in: platform/4-apps/server/src/main/kotlin/gg/pragma/LocalApplication.kt
• Unreal SDK
  • UPragmaMatchCapacityService has a new method ReportCapacityUntilMatchAllocated for use in the Local Process and Multiplay server flows.
  • New helper object UPragmaMultiplayConfig which can be used to automatically scan for Multiplay-specific server.json configuration.

Improvements #

• UpgradeItemV1
  • Returns full inventory snapshot in response rather than partial
• New service error provided when gateway is unable to route a request
  • Client will receive FailedToRoute error instead of UNKNOWN_ERROR
• Unreal Game Server
  • Unreal Example project includes support for packaging a game server stub that reports capacity and simulates a match loop.
  • This provides an example that demonstrates an end-to-end game loop.

2021-04-20

Improvements #

• Reduced log output on build and run by default to reduce noise
  • Existing logs are still available under the Debug logger, which can be enabled through the log config

Infrastructure #

• Build / CI
  • Buildkite pipeline will conditionally perform build steps based on whether changes were made for a particular step. These are:
    • Platform code
    • Content data (produces independently versioned artifact)
    • Web Portal

2021-04-13

Features #

• StorePurchaseV2
  • Support instanced item initialization w/ plugin
• UpgradeItemV1
  • Support instanced item exchange + mutation w/ plugin
• Load Content Data externally
• Service supports shutdownService hook for graceful shutdown steps

Improvements #

• Docker dev env support
• Adding build flags to make build (clean vs incremental, run-tests vs skip-tests, verify vs install)

Infrastructure #

• Pragma build + versioned artifacts
• Platform artifact version convention
  • WIP between releases
  • Git hash in the version string
• Platform deploy to shard

2021-03-23

Features #

• Plugin support
  • Configurable
  • Plugin Config printed in startup summary
• DataDog metrics provider
  • Expose metrics that can be picked up and graphed in datadog
• Retrieve logs directly from Pragma service endpoint
  • Pass in number of lines to retrieve
• Standard Game Loop
  • Full support for Lobby → Matchmaking → Match Allocation → Match End

Improvements #

• Removed kotlin test and junit packages in favor of junit 5.
• Reduced output from build logs
• Inventory and Rewards service load content data during startup, which will cause Pragma to fail to startup if they are missing or incorrectly formatted.
• Parameterized user for logging into ec2 hosts

2021-03-09

Features #

• GameData service
  • Serves aggregated login data
  • Serves aggregated player match results
• Terraform aws environment
  • Bootstrap
• Linux automated dev env setup
• Makefile
  • Shows help by default
  • Help has descriptions and is formatted nicely

2021-03-02

Features #

• Platform startup summary

  • Human readable startup summary Pragma Engine - format is 0.0.0-githash

• New Platform version property

  • The patch version will be incremented during each Pragma weekly release
  • Version can be retrieved in the following locations:
    • Web Portal
    • /v1/info (on all gateways)

• Postman collection updates

  • /v1/Info calls available for all gateways
  • /v1/types endpoint now filters only relevant rpc calls

• SDK Disconnect

  • Disconnect events now include an Error Enum

• GetContentSha256ChecksumsV1Request

  • Retrieve OS aware sha256 hash of content data that can be used to quickly check content versions