[release] Purplship SDK 2020.12 (docs and contribution friendly)

Docs and Contribution Friendly

• Introduce Purplship SDK docs with Mkdocs
• Introduce formal Purplship Extension with the Metadata definition
• Introduce basic documentation for Custom Carrier
• Add Purplship extension template

Purplship SDK 2020.12.1 [patch]

What's New

• Introduced MeasurementOptions as Dimension and Weight output customization for each carrier
• Introduced label_type as a requirement for shipment creation

Fixes

• Fix unsupported Canada post decimal values for dimensions and weight
• Prevent confusing Purolator exception when address properties are required and not defined
• Fix invalid CM -> IN conversion
• Consolidated Purolator shipment cancellation request

Purplship SDK 2020.12

Changes

• Organize formaters and parsers in dedicated modules
• Enhance canadapost shipment cancellation handling refund when a shipment has already been submitted
• Introduce lxml-stubs to improve typing for lxml type usage
• Introduce phonenumbers package to handle international phone numbers parsing

Purplship SDK 2020.11.1 release [patch]

Fixes

• Fix Canada postal code space trimming
• Fix canadapost rate options value computation

Purplship SDK 2020.11

Change Logs

• Add alpha support for Dicom, BoxKnight, USPS (reimplementation)
• Consolidate universal models
  • Add weight_unit for commodities
  • Add Incoterm
  • Change Country names format
• Improve package presets measurements
• Uniformize mappers implementation functions across carriers

Purplship SDK 2020.10.0

purplship-SDK 2020.10.0

• Integrate Canpar services [Beta]
• Integrate shipment cancellation request
• Enrich unified shipping API models
• Consolidate extensions updates and pickup services with purplship-server integration tests

Purplship SDK 2020.9.0

Change Logs

• Improve purplship extension namespace structure
• Merge freight and package higher level APIs
• Rename carriers integration based on specialize services
  • dhl -> dhl_express
  • fedex -> fedex_express
  • ups -> ups_package
  • ups (freight) -> ups_freight
  • purolator -> purolator_courier
• Integrate Pickup services for all supported carriers (beta)
• Integrate Address validation service for all supported carriers (beta)

PurplShip 2020.7.1 release

Bugfix

• Fix error caused by bytearray serialization attempt in request core helper

PurplShip 2020.7.0 release

What's new

• Enrich logs
• Collect and format Error fields

Breaking changes

• Replace RateDetails expected_delivery date by transit_days count

PurplShip 2020.6.1 release

Breaking changes

• Rename carrier identifier keys for clarity
  • renaming: carrier -> carrier_name
  • renaming: carrier_name -> carrier_id