Deprecations

• SimpleExtractor and SimpleValidator are now deprecated. The classes remain available for the time being, but DSL methods that returned those classes now return only HtmlExtractor and HtmlValidator instances;
• The Validated type alias is now deprecated. Users should now use Either, Right and Left directly;
• The asDate content parser was deprecated in favor of asLocalDate and asDateTime;
• The DSL validation operator ~/~ was renamed to >/~ in order to have the same precedence as the extraction operators >> and >?>;
• The and DSL operator is deprecated and will be removed in future versions;

New features

• The concrete type of the models in scala-scraper is now passed down from the Browser to Element instances extracted from documents. This allows users to use features unique of each browser (such as modifying or interacting with elements) while still using the scala-scraper DSL to exteact and query them;
• HtmlExtractor[E, A] is now a proper instance of ElementQuery[E] => A and have map and mapQuery methods to map the extraction results and the preceding query, respectively;
• Content extractors, which were previously just functions, are now full-fledged HtmlExtractor instances and can be used by themselves, e.g. doc >> elements, doc >> elementList("myQuery") >> formData;
• A new PolyHtmlExtractor class was created, allowing the implementation of extractors whose return type depends on the type of the element or document being extracted;
• Overall code cleanup and simplification of some concepts.