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 Incompatible API changes:
14 - is_applicable() renamed to is_model_applicable(), and returns boolean
15 instead of a status code. Old-style is_applicable() will still work,
18 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
21 API additions and enhancements:
23 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
24 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
27 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
29 - get_session() method (no-op)
30 - get_user() method (no-op)
31 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
32 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
33 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
35 - start_request_hook() added
36 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
38 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
39 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
42 - improved exception handling
43 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
44 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
46 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
48 - new report_error method
49 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
51 - Improved pager macro/include
52 - Improved factory templates
53 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
57 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
58 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
59 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
60 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
61 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
62 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
64 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
65 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
66 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
67 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
68 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
69 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
70 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
71 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
72 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
73 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
74 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
77 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
78 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
79 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
80 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
81 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
82 Maypole::Manual::About
83 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
84 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
85 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
86 - updated Maypole::View:TT
89 HTTP::Body now required
93 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
94 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
95 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
96 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
97 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
98 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
99 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
100 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
101 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
102 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
103 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
105 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
107 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
109 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
112 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
115 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
116 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
117 for templates (Dave Howorth)
120 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
121 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
123 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
126 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
127 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
130 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
131 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
134 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
136 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
137 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
138 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
139 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
142 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
144 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
146 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
148 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
149 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
152 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
153 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
154 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
155 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
156 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
157 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
158 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
159 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
160 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
161 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
162 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
165 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
166 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
167 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
171 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
172 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
173 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
174 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
175 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
176 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
177 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
178 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
179 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
180 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
181 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
182 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
183 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
184 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
186 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
188 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
189 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
190 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
192 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
195 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
196 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
197 - Only show buttons for public actions.
198 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
199 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
201 - Other assorted css/template fixes
204 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
205 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
206 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
207 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
208 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
209 arg after fetching objects
211 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
212 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
213 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
214 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
215 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
216 - only set charset for text/*
218 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
219 - Fixed charset in http header.
220 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
222 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
223 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
225 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
226 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
227 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
228 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
229 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
230 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
231 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
232 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
233 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
234 - fixed documentation bugs
235 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
236 $r->config->{document_encoding}
237 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
238 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
239 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
240 - accessors for everything
242 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
243 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
244 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
246 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
247 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
248 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
250 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
251 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
252 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
253 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
255 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
256 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
259 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
260 - Two very trivial fixes:
261 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
262 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
264 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
265 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
266 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
267 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
268 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
269 - Add sample CSS to distribution
270 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
272 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
273 - Don't authenticate without a model class
274 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
275 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
276 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
277 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
278 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
280 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
281 - Much, much more documentation
283 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
284 - Beginnings of a test suite
285 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
286 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
287 - HTML::Mason view class
288 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
290 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
291 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
292 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
294 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
295 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
296 - Support for the "frontpage" template
297 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
298 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
299 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
300 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
301 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
304 - Fix SQLite dependency
306 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
307 - Update CDBIL dependency
308 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
309 - Better support for authentication and template changes
310 - Full set of templates
311 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
312 - display_columns method
314 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
315 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
316 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
317 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
319 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
320 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
321 (ascending and descending)
323 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
324 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
325 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC