v1.6

• [Enhancement] AbstractHBDAO class now implements Closeable interface. You can now use your DAO classes in try-with-resources statement (and not worry about closing the underlying connection).
• [Enhancement] @HBTable annotation now takes column families and max number of versions. As an implication:
  • Introduced AbstractHBDAO::getColumnFamiliesAndVersions method. Deprecated AbstractHBDAO::getColumnFamilies method.
  • Column family names used in @HBColumn annotation now must be pre-declared in @HBTable
• [Fix] In earlier versions, some methods of DAO class used to take rowkey input as a String, even when rowkey was declared as some other type (e.g. Long or custom class) in your bean-like entity class. This has now been fixed.
• [Improvement] Encapsulated serialization and deserialization exceptions thrown by methods of Codec (be it the default codec or your own) into a CodecException
• [Improvement] The default codec class (BestSuitCodec) has been supporting a flag "serializeAsString" (since v1.5). This String flag has now been made into a constant BestSuitCodec.SERIALISE_AS_STRING (to avoid spelling errors)
• [Improvement] Upgraded underlying libraries
  • Jackson from 2.4 to 2.8
  • Lombok from 1.14 to 1.16, junit from 4.11 to 4.12 (These affect test cases only)
  • etc.
• [Improvement] Improved test cases (Coverage = 85%). Improved Javadoc.