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Added mechanism to designate arbitrary exceptions as recoverable

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This important feature is needed because, although we have a mechanism for marking exceptions that extend `RecoverableConnectorException` as recoverable at the connector level, exception may need to be treated as...

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Added resource type parameter to Provider::getConnector

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Following up on the TODO comment from #41, this PR doesn't pass the resource to `Provider::getConnector`, but rather, just the resource's type. I don't feel comfortable passing the entire resource...

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Added DeepCopy to replace __clone implementations

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This PR proposes implementing [DeepCopy](https://github.com/myclabs/DeepCopy) to avoid placing the burden on users to implement `__clone` in their transformers. However, that library currently suffers from a blocking issue (myclabs/Deepcopy#62) that prevents...

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The readme is written in a framework-agnostic way, as if one were to just use Porter in isolation, which is a good default tone to take since it makes no...

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Although we normally add a provider to the container by its class name and expect a single instance of each provider in the container, there are many valid use cases...

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A recent high-concurrency import, that fails catastrophically when the target service is down, indicated with an integer overflow that somehow state is being shared across the default implementation of the...

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CachingConnector is a poor user experience

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Having to wrap a connector in `CachingConnector` just to use caching is not as easy to use as if the cache *just worked* with any connector. Moreover, cache + connector...

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Currently Porter believes resources should always want to return structured data as an array. However, there may be use-cases where structured data is either unavailable or undesirable. I am yet...

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After rewriting a 4000 word manual for Porter v4 I didn't really feel like writing about `FetchExceptionHandler`s. This feature will seldom be required, and for those whom do need it,...

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Dev mode

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The introduction of a developer mode would allow for an opinionated preset to be applied to Porter's features set, in contrast to its defaults, which subsequently enables/disables certain features or...

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