This is the centralized roadmap for the Dext Framework. It tracks the progress of core features, architectural specifications, and the path to the V1.0 Stable release.
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This document is the Single Source of Truth for project status. Individual language-specific guides in the Book point here.
| Status | Task | Spec | Description |
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| ✅ | Dynamic Port Binding | S08 | Support for Port 0 (OS chooses free port) for Demos and CI. |
| ✅ | DataAPI Conventions | S04 | Auto-discovery, 'T' prefix stripping, and Smart Attributes. |
| ✅ | DataAPI Observability | - | CRUD diagnostic logs and mapping tracking. |
| 🟡 | Examples Roadmap | Ref | Create high-fidelity examples for existing features. |
| 🟡 | Agent Guidelines | AI | Finalize CONTRIBUTING_AI.md and related Workflows. |
| Status | Task | Spec | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✅ | High-Perf Reflection | S07 | Thread-safe RTTI cache with lock-free fast paths, zero-boxing type handlers, and ISO 8601 date binding. |
| ✅ | Advanced Scaffolding | S01 | New CLI template engine (dext new, dext add). |
| ✅ | Template Engine | S09 | Zero-dependency AST-based template engine (Razor-like). |
| ✅ | Advanced Template Engine | S12 | Phases 1-6 complete: layouts, partials, inheritance, AST cache, smart positions, @encoded, and high-performance TDataSet/Streaming iterators. |
| ✅ | Schema Migrations | S11 | Attribute-based renaming detection and CLI automation. |
| ✅ | Prop & Nullable Convergence | S22 | Interoperability between Smart Properties and Nullable values via composition. |
| ✅ | DbContext Auto-Hydration | S30 | Eliminate generic IDbSet boilerplate getters. |
| ✅ | Fluent Validation API | S31 | Strong-typed fluent validation engine integrated with Prop and Web model binding. |
| ✅ | Resilience Pipeline | S32 | Polly-style transient-fault handling (Retry, Circuit Breaker, Fallback, Timeout) for generic I/O. |
| ✅ | Persistent Background Jobs | S33 | Out-of-process scheduled/recurring background tasks with database/SQLite/InMemory persistence. |
| ✅ | Dynamic Query Filters | S34 | Bypassing global query filters (soft-delete, multi-tenancy) dynamically via IgnoreQueryFilters. |
| ✅ | Soft Delete Evolution | S21 | Soft Delete based on nullable timestamps for audit trails. |
| ✅ | Database Sequences & HiLo | S46 | Database sequences and thread-safe HiLo pre-allocation registry for client-side ID assignment, unlocking high-performance bulk inserts. |
| ✅ | FluentQuery Join Evolution | S19 | Unified strongly-typed fluent SQL joins (Inner, Left, Right, Full, Cross). |
| ✅ | Fluent REST Evolution | S20 | Enhanced TRestClient factories and native record/array payload support. |
| ✅ | DbSet Batch UPDATE & DELETE | S59 | Single-statement dialect-aware batching for PostgreSQL (unnest/VALUES), MySQL (CASE-WHEN), and Tuple-IN deletes. |
| ✅ | Native Delphi IDE Test Runner | S36 | Native IDE Test Runner expert with decoupled DUnitX, DUnit, DUnit2, and TestInsight integrations and rich reporting. |
| ✅ | Public Symbol Indexing | [dext index] | Extract and generate public symbol maps (Markdown, JSON, CSV) with line numbers for AI agents and NotebookLM. |
| ✅ | Performance Benchmarks | S18 | Benchmark suite for core Reflection, JSON, FastPath, and ORM components. |
| ✅ | FastPath ORM Hydration | S57 | Direct cursor dataset streaming, DbSet ExecuteToUtf8Proc streaming, and pre-compiled RTTI mappers. |
| ✅ | Generic Object Pooling | S58 | High-performance thread-safe generic object pool, automatic TDbContext recycling, TRestClient pooling, and FastPath integration. |
| ✅ | TBcd & ftFMTBcd Support | S60 | First-class end-to-end TBcd / ftFMTBcd support across FireDAC driver, ORM hydration, type converters, and Smart Properties. |
| ✅ | Feature Flags & Management | S63 | Dynamic toggle keys, rollout percentage filters, time windows and [FeatureGate] attributes. |
| ✅ | Forwarded Headers Middleware | S64 | Zero-Trust reverse proxy header parsing (X-Forwarded-For/Proto/Host). |
| ✅ | Antiforgery CSRF Protection | S65 | HMAC-SHA256 tokens, constant-time validation, and Origin/Host verification. |
| ✅ | Testing WebApp Factory | S66 | Lightweight integration testing factory for Dext Web Applications. |
| ✅ | CommandLine & UserSecrets Config | S67 | Enterprise 5-layer configuration pipeline with CLI argument parsing and isolated developer secrets. |
| 🔴 | Dext Studio (Expert) | S15 | Visual IDE Expert for schema mapping and continuous syncing via YAML. |
| ✅ | Production Middleware | S06 | Hardened Web Middlewares: HTTP Logging redaction, Problem Details RFC 9457, strict CORS preflight & Vary merge, RFC 9333 Rate Limiting, and secure Response Cache. |
| 🟡 | Book Review Framework Gaps | S68 | P0+P1 executable backlog delivered (Problem Details, Accepted, ValidateModel, ValidateOnStart, Domain 422, health probes, TestClient, MaxPageSize, feature reload, tenant DML filters). P2 remains design-review only. |
| Status | Task | Spec | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ✅ | gRPC & Protobuf | S02 | Code-first Protobuf services and TEntityDataSet/TEntitygRpcProvider integration. |
| ✅ | Native Server Engine | S39 | 100% Pascal High-performance server engine (http.sys, epoll sockets). |
| ✅ | WebSocket & SignalR | S40 | RFC 6455 protocol codec and SignalR-compatible Hub transport integration. |
| ✅ | HTTP/2 Framing | S41 | HTTP/2 HPACK compression, frame codec, and stream multiplexing for gRPC. |
| ✅ | OAuth2 & OIDC | S06 | Native support for JWT, Google, and Microsoft Login. |
| ✅ | Live Tracing (Core) | S03 | Real-time instrumentation infrastructure (TDiagnosticSource). |
| 🟡 | Observability Dashboard | - | Built-in web UI for real-time log and SQL visualization. |
| ✅ | EntityDataSet Providers | S51 | Pluggable providers (REST/gRPC) for EntityDataSet. |
| ✅ | Redis Client (Dext.Redis) | S13 | High-performance async Redis client with RESP3 and RedisJSON support. |
| 🟡 | SOA via Interfaces | S14 | Transparent Code-First gRPC mapping for Delphi Interfaces. |
| ✅ | APM & Telemetry Sinks | S35 | Asynchronous batch-oriented telemetry sinks targeting Seq and OpenTelemetry (OTLP) collectors. |
| ✅ | Indy HTTP Fallback | S37 | Abstract HTTP Client layer to support Indy fallback on older Delphi versions. |
| ✅ | Delphi Hub Client | S42 | Native Delphi client connection library for Dext Hubs (WebSocket/SSE). |
| ✅ | Processor Groups | S48 | Windows Processor Groups optimization (NUMA-Aware scaling) for >64 logical cores. |
| ✅ | Expose TCP/UDP & MQTT | S47 | Decouple core IOCP/Epoll engine for raw sockets and native MQTT client/broker. |
| ✅ | HTTP QUERY Method | S49 | Standardized HTTP QUERY method support (RFC 10008) on client and server. |
| ✅ | Linux Epoll Evolution | S50 | CPU Pinning, TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT, TFO, zero-copy sendfile, lock-free buffer pooling, and keep-alive timing wheels. |
| ✅ | Direct Codecs & Static Code Generation | S54 | Runtime finalized: shared direct-offset and generated-code codecs for gRPC, REST/JSON, ORM hydration, and EntityDataSet sync. Expert DX deferred. |
| ✅ | Model Context Protocol (MCP) | S23 | Native MCP v2025-03-26 server integration with builder API and HTTP.sys support. |
| ✅ | Net-Advanced & Native TLS | S43 | Unified TLS abstraction, http.sys HTTPS, OpenSSL 3.x, dev-certs CLI, and fluent TRestClient SSL validation. |
- OData Support: Full OData query support.
- GraphQL: Native layer for data graphs.
- Microservices Mesh: Service discovery and native Load Balancing.
- SOCKS5 Proxy Support: S52 client tunnels, Socks over TLS, and SOCKS5 server backlog.
- Cloud Object Storage & Services: S53 S3-Compatible storage (AWS, OCI, MinIO) and cloud integrations backlog (Queues, Email, Document DBs).
| Status | Tarefa | Spec | Descrição |
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| ✅ | Portas Dinâmicas | S08 | Suporte a Porta 0 (SO escolhe porta livre) para Demos e CI. |
| ✅ | Convenções DataAPI | S04 | Auto-discovery, remover prefixo 'T' e Smart Attributes. |
| ✅ | Observabilidade DataAPI | - | Logs de diagnóstico CRUD e rastreamento de mapeamento. |
| 🟡 | Roadmap de Exemplos | Ref | Criar exemplos de alta fidelidade para features existentes. |
| 🟡 | Agent Guidelines | AI | Finalizar o CONTRIBUTING_AI.md e Workflows. |
| Status | Tarefa | Spec | Descrição |
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| ✅ | High-Perf Reflection | S07 | Cache de RTTI thread-safe com fast paths lock-free, handlers sem boxing e binding ISO 8601. |
| ✅ | Scaffolding Avançado | S01 | Novo motor de templates CLI (dext new, dext add). |
| ✅ | Motor de Templates | S09 | Motor de templates baseado em AST, zero dependência (estilo Razor). |
| ✅ | Motor de Templates Avançado | S12 | Fases 1-6 completas: layouts, partials, herança, cache de AST, posições inteligentes, @encoded e iteradores TDataSet/Streaming de alta performance. |
| ✅ | Migrations de Schema | S11 | Detecção de renomeação por atributos e automação CLI. |
| ✅ | Convergência Prop/Nullable | S22 | Interoperabilidade entre Smart Properties e valores Nullable via composição. |
| ✅ | Auto-Hidratação de DbContext | S30 | Eliminar boilerplate getters de IDbSet genéricos. |
| ✅ | API de Validação Fluent | S31 | Motor de validação fluente fortemente tipado com suporte a Prop e model binding Web. |
| ✅ | Resilience Pipeline | S32 | Tratamento de falhas estilo Polly (Retry, Circuit Breaker, Fallback, Timeout) genérico para I/O. |
| ✅ | Persistent Background Jobs | S33 | Processamento de tarefas em background agendadas/recorrentes fora do processo com persistência em BD/SQLite/InMemory. |
| ✅ | Filtros Dinâmicos de Query | S34 | Bypass dinâmico de filtros globais de query (soft-delete, multi-tenancy) via IgnoreQueryFilters. |
| ✅ | Evolução do Soft Delete | S21 | Soft Delete baseado em timestamps anuláveis para trilhas de auditoria. |
| ✅ | Database Sequences & HiLo | S46 | Mapeamento de sequences e pré-alocador HiLo thread-safe para geração de IDs no cliente, desbloqueando inserções em lote (bulk). |
| ✅ | Evolução de Joins FluentQuery | S19 | Joins fluentes e fortemente tipados unificados (Inner, Left, Right, Full, Cross). |
| ✅ | Evolução REST Fluente | S20 | Factories aprimoradas para TRestClient e suporte nativo a records/arrays. |
| ✅ | Test Runner Nativo na IDE | S36 | Plugin Expert nativo de Test Runner na IDE com integração DUnitX, DUnit, DUnit2 e TestInsight desacoplada e relatórios ricos. |
| ✅ | Indexador de Símbolos Públicos | [dext index] | Extrair e gerar mapas de símbolos públicos (Markdown, JSON, CSV) com números de linha para agentes de IA e NotebookLM. |
| 📝 | Otimização de Hydration FastPath ORM | S57 | Hidratação zero-alloc em structs/records, streaming ExecuteToUtf8Proc no DbSet e mappers RTTI pré-compilados. |
| 🟡 | Dext IDE Explorer | S05 | Ferramenta visual inicial para Migrations na IDE (Somente scaffolding de TFDConnection implementado). |
| 🔴 | Dext Studio (Expert) | S15 | Expert visual na IDE para mapeamento de schema e sync contínuo via YAML. |
| 🟡 | Middleware Pack | - | SPA Fallback, Forwarded Headers e Resiliência. |
| ✅ | Provedores CommandLine & UserSecrets | S67 | Pipeline enterprise de configuração em 5 camadas com parsing de argumentos CLI e segredos de desenvolvimento isolados. |
| 🟡 | Gaps da revisão do livro | S68 | Backlog executável P0+P1 entregue (Problem Details, Accepted, ValidateModel, ValidateOnStart, Domain 422, health probes, TestClient, MaxPageSize, reload de features, filtros tenant em DML). P2 só com design review. |
| Status | Tarefa | Spec | Descrição |
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| ✅ | gRPC & Protobuf | S02 | Motor nativo IOCP/EPOLL para comunicação binária. |
| ✅ | Motor de Servidor Nativo | S39 | Motor de servidor de alta performance 100% Pascal (http.sys, epoll sockets). |
| ✅ | WebSocket & SignalR | S40 | Codec do protocolo RFC 6455 e integração do transporte de Hub compatível com SignalR. |
| ✅ | HTTP/2 Framing | S41 | Compressão HPACK HTTP/2, codec de frames e multiplexação de streams para gRPC. |
| ✅ | OAuth2 & OIDC | S06 | Suporte nativo a JWT, Google/Microsoft Login. |
| ✅ | Live Tracing (Core) | S03 | Infraestrutura de instrumentação em tempo real. |
| 🟡 | Dashboard Log Live | - | Interface web para visualização de logs e SQL em tempo real. |
| ✅ | Provider de EntityDataSet | S51 | Providers plugáveis (REST/gRPC) para o EntityDataSet. |
| ✅ | Redis Client (Dext.Redis) | S13 | Client Redis async de alta performance com suporte a RESP3 e RedisJSON. |
| 🟡 | SOA via Interfaces | S14 | SOA e RPC via gRPC Code-First transparente para interfaces Delphi. |
| ✅ | APM & Telemetry Sinks | S35 | Envio assíncrono em lotes de telemetria e logs para Seq e coletores OpenTelemetry (OTLP). |
| ✅ | Indy HTTP Fallback | S37 | Abstração do cliente HTTP para suporte a fallback com Indy em versões antigas. |
| ✅ | Cliente Hub Delphi | S42 | Biblioteca cliente nativa em Delphi para conexão com Dext Hubs (WebSocket/SSE). |
| ✅ | Processor Groups | S48 | Otimização de Windows Processor Groups (escala NUMA-Aware) para >64 cores lógicos. |
| ✅ | Expor TCP/UDP & MQTT | S47 | Desacoplar motor core IOCP/Epoll para sockets puros e client/broker MQTT nativo. |
| ✅ | Método HTTP QUERY | S49 | Suporte ao método HTTP QUERY padronizado (RFC 10008) no cliente e no servidor. |
| ✅ | Evolução do Epoll Linux | S50 | CPU Pinning, TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT, TFO, zero-copy sendfile, buffer pools lock-free e keep-alive timing wheels. |
| ✅ | Codecs Diretos & Geração Estática | S54 | Runtime finalizado: codecs compartilhados por offset direto e geração estática para gRPC, REST/JSON, hidratação ORM e sync do EntityDataSet. Expert DX adiado. |
| ✅ | Suporte a Base Path (#182) | S55 | Suporte a hospedagem sob prefixo de caminho (HTTP.sys prefix, TDextPathBaseMiddleware e Request.ToAppUrl). |
| ✅ | Model Context Protocol (MCP) | S23 | Integração nativa do servidor MCP v2025-03-26 com API builder e suporte a HTTP.sys. |
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Suporte a OData: Suporte completo a queries OData.
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GraphQL: Camada nativa para exposição de grafos de dados.
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Microservices Mesh: Service discovery e Load Balancing nativo.
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Proxy SOCKS5: S52 suporte a túneis de cliente, Socks over TLS e servidor SOCKS5.
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Cloud Object Storage & Serviços: S53 armazenamento S3-Compatível (AWS, OCI, MinIO) e backlog de integrações cloud (Filas, E-mail, Document DBs).
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UI Nativo com Skia
Last update: July 2026