V3.6.0

• Support for integer and floating point arrays: store

  • short[], char[], int[], long[] and
  • float[] and double[]

  (or their Kotlin counterparts, e.g. FloatArray) without a converter.

  A simple example is a shape entity that stores a palette of RGB colors:

  @Entity
  public class Shape {
  
      @Id public long id;
  
      // An array of RGB color values that are used by this shape.
      public int[] palette;
  
  }
  
  // Find all shapes that use red in their palette
  try (Query<Shape> query = store.boxFor(Shape.class)
          .query(Shape_.palette.equal(0xFF0000))
          .build()) {
          query.findIds();
  }

  This can also be useful to store vector embeddings produced by machine learning, e.g.:

  @Entity
  public class ImageEmbedding {
  
      @Id public long id;
  
      // Link to the actual image, e.g. on Cloud storage
      public String url;
  
      // The coordinates computed for this image (vector embedding)
      public float[] coordinates;
  
  }

• Fix incorrect Cursor code getting generated when using @Convert to convert to a String array.

• The io.objectbox.sync plugin now also automatically adds a Sync-enabled JNI library on macOS and Windows (previously on Linux x64 only; still need to add manually for Linux on ARM).

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