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
6 Fixed some db_colinfo test bugs
7 Fixed typo in edit form template
8 Now uses Class::C3 in all Classes to simplify inheritence
9 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
10 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
11 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
12 new test to check everything compiles
13 Model inheritance re-organised
14 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
15 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
16 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
17 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
18 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
19 added CGI params to TT error template
20 small improvements to some factory templates
21 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in /
22 fixed template path ordering so i.e. /tablename/list is used before /list when provided with a tablename
23 fixed template path with array refs
24 fix to template being reset from path in plain templates (i.e. where no model), may affect those relying on the bug ( bug 23722 )
25 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden
26 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920)
27 fix to correct problem with LocationMatch and regex based Location directives in apache config.
28 change to view::base to only call display_columns, stringify_columns, to_cgi if model class can
35 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
36 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
37 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
39 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
42 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
45 Incompatible API changes:
47 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
48 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
50 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
52 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
55 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
57 API additions and enhancements:
59 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
60 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
63 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
65 - get_session() method (no-op)
66 - get_user() method (no-op)
67 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
68 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
69 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
71 - start_request_hook() added
72 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
74 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
75 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
78 - improved exception handling
79 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
80 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
81 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
83 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
85 - new report_error method
86 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
88 - Improved pager macro/include
89 - Improved factory templates
90 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
92 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
94 - improved error messages in do_edit action
95 - new required_columns mutator method
96 - new column_required accessor method
99 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
100 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
101 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
102 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
103 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
104 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
106 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
107 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
108 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
109 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
110 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
111 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
112 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
113 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
114 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
115 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
116 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
117 some silent death scenarios resolved
118 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
121 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
122 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
123 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
124 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
125 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
126 Maypole::Manual::About
127 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
128 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
129 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
130 - updated Maypole::View:TT
131 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
134 HTTP::Body now required
135 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
139 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
140 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
141 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
142 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
143 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
144 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
145 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
146 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
147 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
148 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
149 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
151 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
153 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
155 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
158 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
161 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
162 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
163 for templates (Dave Howorth)
166 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
167 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
169 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
172 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
173 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
176 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
177 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
180 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
182 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
183 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
184 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
185 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
188 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
190 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
192 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
194 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
195 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
198 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
199 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
200 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
201 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
202 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
203 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
204 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
205 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
206 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
207 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
208 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
211 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
212 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
213 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
217 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
218 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
219 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
220 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
221 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
222 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
223 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
224 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
225 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
226 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
227 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
228 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
229 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
230 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
232 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
234 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
235 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
236 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
238 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
241 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
242 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
243 - Only show buttons for public actions.
244 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
245 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
247 - Other assorted css/template fixes
250 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
251 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
252 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
253 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
254 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
255 arg after fetching objects
257 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
258 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
259 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
260 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
261 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
262 - only set charset for text/*
264 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
265 - Fixed charset in http header.
266 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
268 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
269 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
271 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
272 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
273 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
274 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
275 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
276 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
277 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
278 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
279 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
280 - fixed documentation bugs
281 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
282 $r->config->{document_encoding}
283 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
284 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
285 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
286 - accessors for everything
288 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
289 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
290 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
292 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
293 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
294 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
296 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
297 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
298 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
299 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
301 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
302 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
305 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
306 - Two very trivial fixes:
307 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
308 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
310 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
311 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
312 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
313 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
314 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
315 - Add sample CSS to distribution
316 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
318 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
319 - Don't authenticate without a model class
320 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
321 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
322 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
323 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
324 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
326 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
327 - Much, much more documentation
329 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
330 - Beginnings of a test suite
331 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
332 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
333 - HTML::Mason view class
334 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
336 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
337 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
338 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
340 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
341 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
342 - Support for the "frontpage" template
343 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
344 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
345 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
346 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
347 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
350 - Fix SQLite dependency
352 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
353 - Update CDBIL dependency
354 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
355 - Better support for authentication and template changes
356 - Full set of templates
357 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
358 - display_columns method
360 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
361 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
362 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
363 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
365 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
366 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
367 (ascending and descending)
369 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
370 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
371 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC