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
10 Apache::Request is fetched with a new object instead of instance if request options are provided
11 additional, request_options and view_options attributes of Maypole::Config are initialised with hashref
12 do_delete action now has exported attribute in ::Model::CDBI::Base
13 Fixed links in flox to cookbook (bug 22899)
14 Applied change from bug 14565
21 Fixed some db_colinfo test bugs
22 Fixed typo in edit form template
23 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
24 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
25 small improvements to some factory templates
26 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in /
27 fixed template path ordering so i.e. /tablename/list is used before /list when provided with a tablename
28 fixed template path with array refs
29 fix to template being reset from path in plain templates (i.e. where no model), may affect those relying on the bug ( bug 23722 )
30 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920)
31 fix to correct problem with LocationMatch and regex based Location directives in apache config.
32 fix to redirect_request
33 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495)
36 API additions and enhancements :
37 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
38 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
39 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
40 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
41 added CGI params to TT error template
42 improvements to factory templates
43 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden
44 added new hook - preprocess_location
45 added new attribute to Maypole::Config - request_options
46 improved pager template macro
49 Internal additions and enhancements :
50 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
51 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
52 new test to check everything compiles
53 Model inheritance re-organised
55 2.111 Mon 30 April 2007
56 - forked - see 2.111 changelog
63 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
64 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
65 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
67 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
70 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
73 Incompatible API changes:
75 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
76 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
78 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
80 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
83 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
85 API additions and enhancements:
87 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
88 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
91 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
93 - get_session() method (no-op)
94 - get_user() method (no-op)
95 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
96 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
97 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
99 - start_request_hook() added
100 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
102 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
103 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
106 - improved exception handling
107 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
108 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
109 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
111 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
113 - new report_error method
114 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
116 - Improved pager macro/include
117 - Improved factory templates
118 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
120 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
122 - improved error messages in do_edit action
123 - new required_columns mutator method
124 - new column_required accessor method
127 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
128 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
129 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
130 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
131 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
132 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
134 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
135 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
136 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
137 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
138 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
139 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
140 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
141 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
142 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
143 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
144 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
145 some silent death scenarios resolved
146 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
149 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
150 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
151 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
152 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
153 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
154 Maypole::Manual::About
155 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
156 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
157 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
158 - updated Maypole::View:TT
159 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
162 HTTP::Body now required
163 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
167 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
168 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
169 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
170 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
171 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
172 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
173 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
174 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
175 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
176 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
177 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
179 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
181 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
183 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
186 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
189 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
190 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
191 for templates (Dave Howorth)
194 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
195 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
197 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
200 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
201 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
204 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
205 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
208 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
210 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
211 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
212 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
213 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
216 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
218 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
220 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
222 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
223 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
226 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
227 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
228 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
229 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
230 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
231 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
232 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
233 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
234 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
235 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
236 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
239 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
240 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
241 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
245 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
246 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
247 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
248 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
249 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
250 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
251 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
252 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
253 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
254 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
255 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
256 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
257 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
258 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
260 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
262 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
263 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
264 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
266 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
269 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
270 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
271 - Only show buttons for public actions.
272 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
273 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
275 - Other assorted css/template fixes
278 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
279 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
280 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
281 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
282 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
283 arg after fetching objects
285 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
286 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
287 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
288 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
289 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
290 - only set charset for text/*
292 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
293 - Fixed charset in http header.
294 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
296 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
297 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
299 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
300 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
301 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
302 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
303 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
304 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
305 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
306 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
307 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
308 - fixed documentation bugs
309 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
310 $r->config->{document_encoding}
311 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
312 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
313 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
314 - accessors for everything
316 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
317 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
318 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
320 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
321 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
322 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
324 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
325 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
326 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
327 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
329 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
330 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
333 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
334 - Two very trivial fixes:
335 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
336 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
338 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
339 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
340 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
341 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
342 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
343 - Add sample CSS to distribution
344 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
346 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
347 - Don't authenticate without a model class
348 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
349 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
350 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
351 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
352 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
354 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
355 - Much, much more documentation
357 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
358 - Beginnings of a test suite
359 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
360 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
361 - HTML::Mason view class
362 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
364 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
365 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
366 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
368 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
369 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
370 - Support for the "frontpage" template
371 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
372 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
373 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
374 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
375 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
378 - Fix SQLite dependency
380 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
381 - Update CDBIL dependency
382 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
383 - Better support for authentication and template changes
384 - Full set of templates
385 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
386 - display_columns method
388 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
389 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
390 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
391 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
393 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
394 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
395 (ascending and descending)
397 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
398 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
399 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC