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
11 DBD::SQLite no longer required by Makefile.PL
12 CGI handler now produces response for fatal error (bug 29981)
14 Fix to redirect_request in Apache::MVC
15 Fix to mime detection by file extension
16 Fixed MODIFY_CODE_ATTRIBUTES and FETCH_CODE_ATTRIBUTES to work with mod_perl threaded model
17 - Patch from Ben Hutchings http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29984
20 link macro now takes a target argument, and has slightly better pod
27 Apache::Request is fetched with a new object instead of instance if request options are provided
28 additional, request_options and view_options attributes of Maypole::Config are initialised with hashref
29 do_delete action now has exported attribute in ::Model::CDBI::Base
30 Fixed links in flox to cookbook (bug 22899)
31 Applied change from bug 14565
38 Fixed some db_colinfo test bugs
39 Fixed typo in edit form template
40 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
41 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
42 small improvements to some factory templates
43 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in /
44 fixed template path ordering so i.e. /tablename/list is used before /list when provided with a tablename
45 fixed template path with array refs
46 fix to template being reset from path in plain templates (i.e. where no model), may affect those relying on the bug ( bug 23722 )
47 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920)
48 fix to correct problem with LocationMatch and regex based Location directives in apache config.
49 fix to redirect_request
50 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495)
53 API additions and enhancements :
54 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
55 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
56 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
57 new build_form_elements attribute for Maypole request and Maypole::Config, set it to 0 to avoid building cgi form if you don't need it
58 added CGI params to TT error template
59 improvements to factory templates
60 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden
61 added new hook - preprocess_location
62 added new attribute to Maypole::Config - request_options
63 improved pager template macro
66 Internal additions and enhancements :
67 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
68 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
69 new test to check everything compiles
70 Model inheritance re-organised
72 2.111 Mon 30 April 2007
73 - forked - see 2.111 changelog
80 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
81 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
82 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
84 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
87 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
90 Incompatible API changes:
92 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
93 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
95 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
97 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
100 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
102 API additions and enhancements:
103 Maypole::Application:
104 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
105 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
108 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
110 - get_session() method (no-op)
111 - get_user() method (no-op)
112 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
113 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
114 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
116 - start_request_hook() added
117 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
119 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
120 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
123 - improved exception handling
124 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
125 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
126 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
128 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
130 - new report_error method
131 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
133 - Improved pager macro/include
134 - Improved factory templates
135 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
137 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
139 - improved error messages in do_edit action
140 - new required_columns mutator method
141 - new column_required accessor method
144 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
145 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
146 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
147 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
148 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
149 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
151 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
152 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
153 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
154 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
155 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
156 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
157 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
158 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
159 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
160 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
161 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
162 some silent death scenarios resolved
163 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
166 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
167 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
168 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
169 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
170 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
171 Maypole::Manual::About
172 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
173 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
174 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
175 - updated Maypole::View:TT
176 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
179 HTTP::Body now required
180 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
184 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
185 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
186 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
187 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
188 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
189 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
190 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
191 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
192 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
193 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
194 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
196 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
198 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
200 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
203 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
206 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
207 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
208 for templates (Dave Howorth)
211 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
212 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
214 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
217 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
218 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
221 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
222 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
225 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
227 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
228 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
229 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
230 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
233 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
235 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
237 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
239 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
240 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
243 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
244 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
245 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
246 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
247 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
248 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
249 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
250 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
251 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
252 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
253 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
256 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
257 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
258 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
262 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
263 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
264 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
265 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
266 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
267 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
268 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
269 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
270 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
271 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
272 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
273 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
274 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
275 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
277 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
279 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
280 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
281 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
283 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
286 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
287 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
288 - Only show buttons for public actions.
289 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
290 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
292 - Other assorted css/template fixes
295 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
296 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
297 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
298 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
299 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
300 arg after fetching objects
302 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
303 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
304 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
305 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
306 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
307 - only set charset for text/*
309 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
310 - Fixed charset in http header.
311 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
313 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
314 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
316 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
317 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
318 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
319 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
320 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
321 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
322 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
323 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
324 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
325 - fixed documentation bugs
326 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
327 $r->config->{document_encoding}
328 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
329 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
330 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
331 - accessors for everything
333 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
334 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
335 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
337 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
338 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
339 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
341 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
342 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
343 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
344 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
346 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
347 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
350 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
351 - Two very trivial fixes:
352 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
353 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
355 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
356 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
357 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
358 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
359 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
360 - Add sample CSS to distribution
361 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
363 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
364 - Don't authenticate without a model class
365 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
366 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
367 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
368 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
369 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
371 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
372 - Much, much more documentation
374 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
375 - Beginnings of a test suite
376 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
377 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
378 - HTML::Mason view class
379 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
381 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
382 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
383 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
385 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
386 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
387 - Support for the "frontpage" template
388 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
389 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
390 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
391 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
392 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
395 - Fix SQLite dependency
397 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
398 - Update CDBIL dependency
399 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
400 - Better support for authentication and template changes
401 - Full set of templates
402 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
403 - display_columns method
405 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
406 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
407 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
408 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
410 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
411 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
412 (ascending and descending)
414 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
415 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
416 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC