New features

1. We have a raft of changes coming to make it easier to share your work and view that of others. The first has already landed: When you're signed in to your org and viewing a canvas from another org, you previously couldn't run test cURLs against the API components because the API key was (correctly) shrouded. Now, however, we're allowing you to test APIs in other canvases with an API key that's specific to your org and works for all API components. This way, you can test other APIs without impacting their org's usage. It's automatic: just use the Copy cURL request feature on an out-of-org canvas and we'll provide the cURL with your org's key. See the coming soon section below for more related changes.
2. Table name editing: A while ago we created table name abstractions / aliases for internal purposes so that we could update and rebuild core tables like @sim.erc20_balance_changes without any downtime for users. Of course, we've heard from you that you want the ability to do the same for your tables! And now you can: simply edit the table name within the persistence component. For now, if you have two tables table1 and table2 and you want to rename table2->table1, you'll have to first rename table1-> any other name to free up the table1 name. Coming soon (see below): a way for you to do both changes in one fell swoop, resulting in no downtime at all.
3. More / better core tables and new API templates
   1. @sim.dex_trades: Normalized DEX trades on Ethereum (Uniswap V2/3, Balancer V2, PancakeSwap V3, Curve.fi) and Base (Uniswap V2/3, Balancer V2, Aerodrome, Infusion, Maverick V1, BaseX, PancakeSwap V3, CrocSwap/Ambient).
   2. @sim.mapping_storage_writes: Changes in values in Solidity mappings in contracts. Includes the real key (hash preimage). Includes Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum.
   3. @sim.transactions: Summaries of transactions on Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum.
   4. @sim.blocks: Block summaries. Currently Ethereum only.
   5. getFoia template: Inspired by the Freedom of Information Act, returns all instances in which a user-specified address is included as a key in a mapping.
4. Canvas metadata: Click on the icon at the top of any cavas to see some metadata about it.

5. Patch contract navigation: When you target a contract with the Patch component, we flatten all of the source code into a single file. On most contracts, you can now also navigate to any function or log where you want to include your patch using the Contract navigation feature in the left sidebar. Often it's more efficient that CTRL/CMD-F.

   

Coming soon

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

1. If you're not signed in and you visit a canvas, unless it's one of a few of our demo canvases, you're prompted to sign-in before you can view the canvas. Soon anyone will be able to open and view any canvas in read-only mode without signing in. You'll even be able to run test executions on lambdas and test queries in API components. Don't worry--you can't alter the state of someone else's canvas! As always, if you like a canvas, you can sign in, duplicate it into your org ,and modify as you wish. We'll also have more improvements coming to the non-signed-in experience soon.
2. Public org pages: want to know what we're up to in the sim org? All of our canvases our publicly accessible but right now, unless you're in the sim org, you can't see our org dashboard. Soon we'll have public org pages so that you can visit studio.sim.io/sim to see all our org dashboard, regardless of whether you're signed in and what orgs you belong to.
   1. When we introduce paid plans, one feature will be the ability to mark a canvas or an entire org as private so that they're only visible to users within the org. In the meantime, if there's anything you want private, reach out to us on Telegram and we'll do it for you manually (for free 😃).
3. Clearing schemas and persistences: You wrote some bad/incomplete data into a schema and persistence. There's no shame. We've all done it. But to reset the board, as punishment for your sins, you're going to have to duplicate the existing schema and persistence components as well as the execution edge. Then you delete the originals, reconnect the duplicates, and restart the executions. Don't forget to fix the names! It sucks, especially on bigger canvases with many components flowing into the same persistences. We've decided that the punishment doesn't fit the crime. Instead, we'll give you an option to simply clear the existing schemas and persistences.
4. Emit complex types: Sometimes you might want to emit a struct to a schema and have it show up as a JSON in your table. Right now you'd have to emit each member of the struct separately, but soon we'll allow you to emit structs and other complex types directly if you so choose.
5. Table name editing with conflict resolution: I mentioned above that if you want to rename a table with a name that's already taken, you first have to change the name of the conflicting table to free up the name. Soon you'll be able to do these together.