Version 1.10.0 - KiCad integration

[jbtronics]

Part-DB 1.10.0

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KiCad integration

Part-DB now supports the experimental HTTP library feature in the KiCad nightly builds (KiCad 7.99). It allows to define metadata like the KiCad footprints and symbols on Part-DB parts and use Part-DB as libray inside KiCad.
See here for more information.

If you want to try it out, install the latest KiCad nightly build and create the following file with the name partdb_demo.kicad_httplib with the following content and add it as library inside KiCad. This will load parts from the Part-DB demo instance:

For performance reasons this was disabled on the demo instance. Please try it on your own Part-DB instance.

{
    "meta": {
        "version": 1.0
    },
    "name": "Part-DB demo",
    "description": "A KiCad library sourced from the Part-DB demo instance",
    "source": {
        "type": "REST_API",
        "api_version": "v1",
        "root_url": "https://demo.part-db.de/en/kicad-api/",
        "token": "tcp_d985d460a387a55bd5076766f0ccf71094af7a93cc4ad38879c44c8370e97097"
    }
}

Full changelog below:

Database schema changed: You need to run php bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate after upgrade!

New features

• Added KiCad integration, which allows to use Part-DB as a datasource inside KiCad. See docs for more info.

Bugfixes

• Show a flash warning, when trying to withdraw/add an amount of 0 to parts instead of failing (issue Adding/Withdrawing 0 quantity ends up by strangely formatted HTTP500 error #448)

Miscellaneous

• Updated translations
• Updated dependencies
• Updated symfony to 6.4
• Fixed some deprecations

Full Changelog: v1.9.1...v1.10.0

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This discussion was created from the release Version 1.10.0.

[Pyromane]

Thank you for checking if the correct console user is used in update 1.10.1!

[rdalen]

I expected to be able to define the reference-prefix at category-level in Part-DB, but i notice that only a reference prefix on part-level shows up in KiCad. Otherwise every part gets the prefix U in KiCad. Is this a Part-DB issue or a KiCad issue?

[jbtronics]

This was actually a bug in Part-DB and the reference prefix setting on categories was not used.
This is fixed in Part-DB 1.11.3

[rdalen]

Thnx! - It works when i define the reference prefix in the same category as where i define the symbol - in my example in de category "common diodes". When i define the reference prefix one level higher - in my example in the category "Diodes" so that the reference prefix applies to all types of diodes - then it doesn't work.

[jbtronics]

Yes thats currently the intended behavior. The reference prefix does not inherit to sub categories.

I would expect that it should not be too much work to set this on all sub categories.