# Release Notes v0.2.0

**Release Date:** 2026-01-16

## Overview

Version 0.2.0 represents a major milestone in the Excel Toolkit architecture with the complete implementation of the **Operations Layer**. This release establishes a clean separation between business logic and CLI concerns, enabling:

- ✅ Unit testing without CLI dependencies
- ✅ Code reuse in pipelines and templates
- ✅ Import by external packages
- ✅ Type-safe error handling with Result types
- ✅ Immutable error data structures

This is a **foundation release** that introduces 9 operation modules with 441 comprehensive unit tests, achieving >90% test coverage.

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## 🚀 Major Features

### Operations Layer Architecture

The centerpiece of this release is the new **Operations Layer** - a complete separation of business logic from CLI code.

**Benefits:**
- **Testability:** All operations can be unit tested independently
- **Reusability:** Operations can be imported and used in other projects
- **Type Safety:** Explicit error handling with Result types (Ok/Err)
- **Immutability:** All error types are frozen dataclasses
- **Comprehensive Testing:** 441 tests with >90% code coverage

### 9 New Operation Modules

#### Phase 1: Core Operations (5 modules)

**1. Filtering Operations** (`excel_toolkit/operations/filtering.py`)
- Security-validated filter expressions with protection against code injection
- Intelligent condition normalization ("is None" → `.isna()`, "between" → range checks)
- Column selection and row limiting
- **46 tests passing**

**2. Sorting Operations** (`excel_toolkit/operations/sorting.py`)
- Single and multi-column sorting
- Ascending and descending order per column
- NaN placement control (first/last)
- Row limiting with mixed type detection
- **23 tests passing**

**3. Pivoting Operations** (`excel_toolkit/operations/pivoting.py`)
- Multi-dimensional pivot tables
- 11 aggregation functions (sum, mean, avg→mean, count, min, max, median, std, var, first, last)
- Fill value handling (None, 0, nan, custom)
- Automatic MultiIndex flattening
- **56 tests passing**

**4. Aggregating Operations** (`excel_toolkit/operations/aggregating.py`)
- Smart column:func syntax parsing ("Age:mean,sum,count")
- Multi-level groupby operations
- Empty group handling
- Automatic MultiIndex flattening
- **38 tests passing**

**5. Comparing Operations** (`excel_toolkit/operations/comparing.py`)
- Key-based or position-based comparison
- NaN equality handling (NaN == NaN)
- Comprehensive difference tracking (added, deleted, modified, unchanged)
- **44 tests passing**

#### Phase 2: Support Operations (4 modules)

**6. Cleaning Operations** (`excel_toolkit/operations/cleaning.py`)
- Whitespace trimming (left, right, both)
- Duplicate removal with flexible keep strategies
- 6 fill strategies (forward, backward, mean, median, constant, drop)
- Column name standardization (lower, upper, title, snake case)
- Special character removal
- **57 tests passing**

**7. Transforming Operations** (`excel_toolkit/operations/transforming.py`)
- Security-validated expression evaluation
- Type casting (int, float, str, bool, datetime, category)
- 6 built-in transformations (log, sqrt, abs, exp, standardize, normalize)
- Custom callable transformations
- String concatenation support
- **52 tests passing**

**8. Joining Operations** (`excel_toolkit/operations/joining.py`)
- All join types (inner, left, right, outer, cross)
- Column validation before joining
- Left/right column specification for asymmetric joins
- Index-based joins
- Custom suffixes for overlapping columns
- Sequential DataFrame merging
- **33 tests passing**

**9. Validation Operations** (`excel_toolkit/operations/validation.py`)
- Column existence validation
- Type checking (int, float, str, bool, datetime, numeric)
- Value range validation with boundary control
- Null value detection with thresholds
- Uniqueness validation (single/multiple columns)
- Rule-based validation framework
- **53 tests passing**

### Functional Programming Utilities

**Result Type Implementation** (`excel_toolkit/fp.py`)
- `Ok[T]` and `Err[E]` types for explicit error handling
- Helper functions: `ok()`, `err()`, `is_ok()`, `is_err()`, `unwrap()`, `unwrap_err()`
- Type-safe error propagation throughout the operations layer

**Immutable Dataclass Decorator** (`excel_toolkit/fp/immutable.py`)
- `@immutable` decorator for creating frozen dataclasses
- Must be applied AFTER `@dataclass` decorator
- Used for all error type ADTs

### Comprehensive Error Type System

**27+ Specialized Error Types** (`excel_toolkit/models/error_types.py`)

**Validation Errors (12 types):**
- `ColumnNotFoundError` - Column doesn't exist in DataFrame
- `TypeMismatchError` - Column type doesn't match expected
- `ValueOutOfRangeError` - Values outside specified range
- `NullValueThresholdExceededError` - Too many null values
- `UniquenessViolationError` - Duplicate values found
- `InvalidRuleError` - Invalid validation rule
- `ValidationReport` - Comprehensive validation results

**Filtering Errors (4 types):**
- `InvalidConditionError` - Invalid filter condition
- `ColumnNotFoundError` - Column not found
- `FilteringError` - Generic filtering error
- `EmptyResultError` - No rows match filter

**Sorting Errors (2 types):**
- `ColumnNotFoundError` - Column not found
- `SortingError` - Generic sorting error

**Pivoting Errors (4 types):**
- `InvalidAggregationFunctionError` - Invalid aggregation function
- `InvalidPivotColumnError` - Invalid pivot column
- `InvalidFillValueError` - Invalid fill value
- `PivotingError` - Generic pivoting error

**Aggregating Errors (3 types):**
- `InvalidAggregationSpecError` - Invalid aggregation specification
- `InvalidAggregationColumnError` - Invalid aggregation column
- `AggregatingError` - Generic aggregating error

**Comparing Errors (3 types):**
- `ColumnNotFoundError` - Column not found
- `ComparingError` - Generic comparing error
- `InvalidKeyColumnsError` - Invalid key columns

**Cleaning Errors (3 types):**
- `CleaningError` - Generic cleaning error
- `InvalidFillStrategyError` - Invalid fill strategy
- `FillFailedError` - Fill operation failed

**Transforming Errors (4 types):**
- `InvalidExpressionError` - Invalid expression
- `ColumnNotFoundError` - Column not found
- `InvalidTypeError` - Invalid type specification
- `CastFailedError` - Type casting failed
- `InvalidTransformationError` - Invalid transformation
- `TransformingError` - Generic transforming error

**Joining Errors (6 types):**
- `InvalidJoinTypeError` - Invalid join type
- `InvalidJoinParametersError` - Invalid join parameters
- `JoinColumnsNotFoundError` - Join columns not found
- `MergeColumnsNotFoundError` - Merge columns not found
- `InsufficientDataFramesError` - Not enough DataFrames
- `JoiningError` - Generic joining error

All error types are immutable frozen dataclasses with clear field documentation.

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## 📊 Statistics

### Code Metrics
- **9 operation modules** implemented
- **60+ functions** across all modules
- **~5,500 lines** of production code
- **~4,800 lines** of test code
- **441 unit tests** passing
- **9 atomic commits** (one per operation module)
- **>90% test coverage** achieved

### Test Breakdown
| Module | Tests | Status |
|--------|-------|--------|
| Error Types | 39 | ✅ Passing |
| Filtering | 46 | ✅ Passing |
| Sorting | 23 | ✅ Passing |
| Pivoting | 56 | ✅ Passing |
| Aggregating | 38 | ✅ Passing |
| Comparing | 44 | ✅ Passing |
| Cleaning | 57 | ✅ Passing |
| Transforming | 52 | ✅ Passing |
| Joining | 33 | ✅ Passing |
| Validation | 53 | ✅ Passing |
| **Total** | **441** | **✅ All Passing** |

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## 🔧 Breaking Changes

None. This is a new architecture release that adds functionality without changing existing APIs.

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## 🔄 Migration Guide

### For CLI Users
No changes required. The CLI commands work exactly as before.

### For Developers
If you want to use the operations layer directly in your code:

```python
from excel_toolkit.operations.filtering import apply_filter
from excel_toolkit.operations.sorting import sort_dataframe
from excel_toolkit.fp import is_ok, unwrap, unwrap_err

# Apply a filter
result = apply_filter(df, condition="Age > 25")
if is_ok(result):
    filtered_df = unwrap(result)
else:
    error = unwrap_err(result)
    print(f"Filter failed: {error}")

# Sort a DataFrame
result = sort_dataframe(df, sort_columns=[{"column": "Name", "ascending": True}])
if is_ok(result):
    sorted_df = unwrap(result)
```

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## 📦 Installation

```bash
pip install excel-toolkit-cwd==0.2.0
```

Or with parquet support:

```bash
pip install "excel-toolkit-cwd[parquet]==0.2.0"
```

For development:

```bash
pip install "excel-toolkit-cwd[dev]==0.2.0"
```

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## 🐛 Bug Fixes

This release focuses on new architecture. Bug fixes from previous versions are included.

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## 📝 Documentation

### New Documentation
- **ROADMAP.md** - Comprehensive implementation roadmap tracking Phase 1 & 2 progress
- **Operations Layer** - Each operation module has detailed docstrings with:
  - Function description
  - Parameter documentation
  - Return types
  - Error types
  - Implementation details
  - Usage examples

### Internal Documentation
- All functions have comprehensive docstrings
- Type hints throughout
- Error handling examples in docstrings
- Implementation notes for complex logic

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## 🎯 What's Next

### Phase 3: Command Refactoring (Planned)
The next phase will refactor all CLI commands to use the new operations layer, reducing command files to <100 lines each by removing business logic.

**Expected Benefits:**
- Cleaner CLI code
- Easier testing of CLI commands
- Reusable business logic
- Consistent error handling

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## 🙏 Acknowledgments

This release represents approximately 10 hours of focused development with:
- **9 atomic commits** for clean git history
- **441 comprehensive tests** for reliability
- **Type-safe error handling** for robustness
- **Immutable data structures** for safety

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## 📋 Commits in This Release

### Phase 2: Support Operations
- `4aa1d98` - docs: Update ROADMAP to Phase 2 100% complete
- `c310d53` - feat: Add validation operations module
- `343a7a0` - feat: Add joining operations module
- `e3b5476` - feat: Add transforming operations module
- `0048fbc` - feat: Add cleaning operations module
- `ab42635` - wip: Add Phase 2 operations modules (work in progress)
- `31d551e` - fix: Add InvalidParameterError and fix error class inheritance
- `8689602` - feat: Add Phase 2 error types

### Phase 1: Core Operations
- `afc542c` - docs: Update ROADMAP to reflect Phase 1 completion
- `318719a` - feat: Add comparing operations module
- `86848cb` - feat: Add aggregating operations module
- `da246eb` - feat: Add pivoting operations module with comprehensive tests
- `1d4afb8` - docs: Add comprehensive implementation roadmap
- `6b3c2bb` - feat: Add sorting operations module with comprehensive tests
- `3fabc0f` - feat: Add filtering operations module with comprehensive tests
- `d740279` - feat: Add immutable dataclass decorator and error type ADTs

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## ⚠️ Important Notes

### Security
- **Filtering operations** include comprehensive security validation to prevent code injection
- All expression evaluation blocks dangerous patterns (import, exec, eval, __, etc.)
- Uses restricted builtins for safe evaluation

### Performance
- Operations are optimized for pandas DataFrames
- Large file operations may require significant memory
- Consider chunking for very large datasets (planned for future releases)

### Compatibility
- Requires Python 3.10+
- Tested on Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14
- Supports Excel files (.xlsx, .xls) and CSV files
- Optional parquet support with pyarrow

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## 📞 Support

- **GitHub Issues:** https://github.com/AliiiBenn/excel-toolkit/issues
- **Documentation:** https://github.com/AliiiBenn/excel-toolkit/blob/main/README.md
- **Roadmap:** https://github.com/AliiiBenn/excel-toolkit/blob/main/docs/ROADMAP.md

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## 📄 License

MIT License - See LICENSE file for details

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**Full Changelog:** https://github.com/AliiiBenn/excel-toolkit/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0
