Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Introduced flexible, generic reading and writing strategies for RO-Crate archives, supporting folders, ZIP files, and ZIP streams.
  • Added factory utilities for streamlined creation of crate readers and writers.
  • Enabled static, automatic, and customizable HTML previews for crates, including FreeMarker-based templates.
  • Enhanced metadata context access and manipulation with new read-only methods.
  • Added new utility for adding folders and files to ZIP streams.
  • Added support for writing RO-Crates to ZIP streams and reading from ZIP streams.

• Improvements

  • Upgraded dependencies and plugins for better compatibility and performance.
  • Improved error handling, logging, and validation throughout the application.
  • Streamlined and deprecated legacy reader/writer classes in favor of new generic strategies.
  • Enhanced preview generation with better tool availability checks and fallback mechanisms.
  • Refined organization provider to use updated API endpoints and improved JSON parsing.

• Bug Fixes

  • Fixed handling of organization names from external providers.
  • Corrected minor documentation typos and improved Javadoc clarity.

• Documentation

  • Expanded README with updated usage examples and detailed preview options.
  • Added new template and example metadata files.

• Tests

  • Added comprehensive tests for new reading/writing strategies and preview features.
  • Refactored and extended context and preview tests for broader coverage.
  • Simplified and unified test classes to use new reader and writer abstractions.

• Chores

  • Updated .gitignore to exclude new build artifacts and system files.
  • Cleaned up code formatting and deprecated outdated interfaces and classes.