1 This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Maypole.
2 For information about current developments and future releases, see:
3 http://maypole.perl.org/?TheRoadmap
8 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
9 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
10 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
12 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
15 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
18 Incompatible API changes:
20 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
21 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
23 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
25 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
28 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
30 API additions and enhancements:
32 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
33 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
36 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
38 - get_session() method (no-op)
39 - get_user() method (no-op)
40 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
41 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
42 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
44 - start_request_hook() added
45 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
47 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
48 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
51 - improved exception handling
52 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
53 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
54 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
56 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
58 - new report_error method
59 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
61 - Improved pager macro/include
62 - Improved factory templates
63 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
65 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
67 - improved error messages in do_edit action
68 - new required_columns mutator method
69 - new column_required accessor method
72 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
73 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
74 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
75 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
76 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
77 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
79 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
80 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
81 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
82 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
83 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
84 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
85 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
86 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
87 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
88 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
89 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
90 some silent death scenarios resolved
91 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
94 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
95 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
96 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
97 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
98 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
99 Maypole::Manual::About
100 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
101 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
102 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
103 - updated Maypole::View:TT
104 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
107 HTTP::Body now required
108 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
112 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
113 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
114 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
115 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
116 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
117 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
118 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
119 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
120 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
121 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
122 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
124 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
126 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
128 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
131 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
134 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
135 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
136 for templates (Dave Howorth)
139 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
140 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
142 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
145 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
146 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
149 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
150 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
153 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
155 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
156 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
157 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
158 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
161 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
163 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
165 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
167 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
168 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
171 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
172 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
173 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
174 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
175 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
176 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
177 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
178 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
179 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
180 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
181 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
184 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
185 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
186 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
190 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
191 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
192 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
193 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
194 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
195 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
196 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
197 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
198 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
199 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
200 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
201 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
202 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
203 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
205 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
207 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
208 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
209 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
211 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
214 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
215 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
216 - Only show buttons for public actions.
217 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
218 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
220 - Other assorted css/template fixes
223 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
224 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
225 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
226 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
227 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
228 arg after fetching objects
230 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
231 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
232 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
233 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
234 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
235 - only set charset for text/*
237 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
238 - Fixed charset in http header.
239 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
241 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
242 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
244 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
245 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
246 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
247 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
248 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
249 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
250 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
251 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
252 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
253 - fixed documentation bugs
254 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
255 $r->config->{document_encoding}
256 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
257 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
258 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
259 - accessors for everything
261 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
262 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
263 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
265 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
266 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
267 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
269 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
270 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
271 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
272 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
274 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
275 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
278 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
279 - Two very trivial fixes:
280 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
281 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
283 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
284 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
285 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
286 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
287 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
288 - Add sample CSS to distribution
289 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
291 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
292 - Don't authenticate without a model class
293 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
294 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
295 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
296 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
297 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
299 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
300 - Much, much more documentation
302 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
303 - Beginnings of a test suite
304 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
305 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
306 - HTML::Mason view class
307 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
309 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
310 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
311 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
313 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
314 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
315 - Support for the "frontpage" template
316 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
317 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
318 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
319 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
320 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
323 - Fix SQLite dependency
325 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
326 - Update CDBIL dependency
327 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
328 - Better support for authentication and template changes
329 - Full set of templates
330 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
331 - display_columns method
333 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
334 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
335 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
336 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
338 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
339 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
340 (ascending and descending)
342 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
343 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
344 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC