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 Incompatible API changes:
17 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
18 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
20 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
23 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
25 API additions and enhancements:
27 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
28 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
31 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
33 - get_session() method (no-op)
34 - get_user() method (no-op)
35 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
36 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
37 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
39 - start_request_hook() added
40 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
42 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
43 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
46 - improved exception handling
47 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
48 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
50 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
52 - new report_error method
53 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
55 - Improved pager macro/include
56 - Improved factory templates
57 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
60 - improved error messages in do_edit action
63 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
64 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
65 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
66 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
67 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
68 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
70 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
71 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
72 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
73 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
74 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
75 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
76 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
77 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
78 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
79 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
80 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
81 some silent death scenarios resolved
84 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
85 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
86 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
87 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
88 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
89 Maypole::Manual::About
90 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
91 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
92 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
93 - updated Maypole::View:TT
96 HTTP::Body now required
97 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
101 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
102 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
103 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
104 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
105 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
106 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
107 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
108 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
109 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
110 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
111 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
113 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
115 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
117 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
120 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
123 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
124 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
125 for templates (Dave Howorth)
128 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
129 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
131 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
134 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
135 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
138 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
139 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
142 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
144 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
145 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
146 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
147 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
150 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
152 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
154 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
156 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
157 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
160 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
161 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
162 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
163 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
164 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
165 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
166 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
167 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
168 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
169 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
170 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
173 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
174 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
175 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
179 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
180 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
181 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
182 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
183 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
184 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
185 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
186 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
187 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
188 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
189 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
190 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
191 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
192 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
194 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
196 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
197 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
198 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
200 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
203 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
204 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
205 - Only show buttons for public actions.
206 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
207 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
209 - Other assorted css/template fixes
212 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
213 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
214 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
215 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
216 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
217 arg after fetching objects
219 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
220 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
221 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
222 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
223 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
224 - only set charset for text/*
226 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
227 - Fixed charset in http header.
228 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
230 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
231 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
233 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
234 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
235 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
236 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
237 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
238 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
239 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
240 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
241 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
242 - fixed documentation bugs
243 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
244 $r->config->{document_encoding}
245 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
246 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
247 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
248 - accessors for everything
250 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
251 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
252 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
254 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
255 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
256 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
258 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
259 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
260 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
261 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
263 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
264 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
267 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
268 - Two very trivial fixes:
269 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
270 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
272 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
273 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
274 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
275 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
276 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
277 - Add sample CSS to distribution
278 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
280 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
281 - Don't authenticate without a model class
282 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
283 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
284 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
285 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
286 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
288 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
289 - Much, much more documentation
291 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
292 - Beginnings of a test suite
293 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
294 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
295 - HTML::Mason view class
296 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
298 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
299 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
300 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
302 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
303 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
304 - Support for the "frontpage" template
305 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
306 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
307 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
308 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
309 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
312 - Fix SQLite dependency
314 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
315 - Update CDBIL dependency
316 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
317 - Better support for authentication and template changes
318 - Full set of templates
319 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
320 - display_columns method
322 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
323 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
324 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
325 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
327 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
328 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
329 (ascending and descending)
331 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
332 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
333 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC