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 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
22 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
25 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
27 API additions and enhancements:
29 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
30 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
33 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
35 - get_session() method (no-op)
36 - get_user() method (no-op)
37 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
38 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
39 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
41 - start_request_hook() added
42 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
44 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
45 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
48 - improved exception handling
49 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
50 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
52 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
54 - new report_error method
55 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
57 - Improved pager macro/include
58 - Improved factory templates
59 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
62 - improved error messages in do_edit action
65 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
66 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
67 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
68 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
69 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
70 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
72 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
73 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
74 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
75 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
76 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
77 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
78 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
79 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
80 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
81 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
82 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
83 some silent death scenarios resolved
84 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
87 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
88 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
89 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
90 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
91 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
92 Maypole::Manual::About
93 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
94 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
95 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
96 - updated Maypole::View:TT
99 HTTP::Body now required
100 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
104 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
105 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
106 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
107 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
108 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
109 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
110 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
111 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
112 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
113 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
114 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
116 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
118 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
120 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
123 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
126 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
127 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
128 for templates (Dave Howorth)
131 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
132 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
134 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
137 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
138 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
141 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
142 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
145 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
147 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
148 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
149 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
150 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
153 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
155 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
157 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
159 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
160 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
163 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
164 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
165 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
166 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
167 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
168 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
169 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
170 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
171 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
172 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
173 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
176 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
177 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
178 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
182 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
183 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
184 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
185 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
186 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
187 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
188 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
189 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
190 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
191 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
192 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
193 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
194 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
195 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
197 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
199 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
200 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
201 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
203 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
206 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
207 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
208 - Only show buttons for public actions.
209 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
210 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
212 - Other assorted css/template fixes
215 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
216 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
217 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
218 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
219 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
220 arg after fetching objects
222 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
223 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
224 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
225 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
226 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
227 - only set charset for text/*
229 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
230 - Fixed charset in http header.
231 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
233 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
234 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
236 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
237 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
238 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
239 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
240 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
241 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
242 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
243 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
244 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
245 - fixed documentation bugs
246 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
247 $r->config->{document_encoding}
248 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
249 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
250 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
251 - accessors for everything
253 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
254 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
255 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
257 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
258 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
259 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
261 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
262 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
263 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
264 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
266 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
267 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
270 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
271 - Two very trivial fixes:
272 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
273 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
275 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
276 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
277 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
278 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
279 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
280 - Add sample CSS to distribution
281 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
283 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
284 - Don't authenticate without a model class
285 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
286 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
287 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
288 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
289 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
291 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
292 - Much, much more documentation
294 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
295 - Beginnings of a test suite
296 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
297 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
298 - HTML::Mason view class
299 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
301 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
302 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
303 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
305 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
306 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
307 - Support for the "frontpage" template
308 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
309 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
310 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
311 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
312 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
315 - Fix SQLite dependency
317 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
318 - Update CDBIL dependency
319 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
320 - Better support for authentication and template changes
321 - Full set of templates
322 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
323 - display_columns method
325 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
326 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
327 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
328 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
330 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
331 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
332 (ascending and descending)
334 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
335 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
336 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC