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 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
9 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
10 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
11 new test to check everything compiles
12 Model inheritance re-organised
13 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
14 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
15 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
16 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
17 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
18 added CGI params to TT error template
19 small improvements to some factory templates
20 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in /
21 fixed template path ordering so i.e. /tablename/list is used before /list when provided with a tablename
22 fixed template path with array refs
23 fix to template being reset from path in plain templates (i.e. where no model), may affect those relying on the bug ( bug 23722 )
24 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden
25 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920)
26 fix to correct problem with LocationMatch and regex based Location directives in apache config.
27 change to view::base to only call display_columns, stringify_columns, to_cgi if model class can
28 changed template path to only look for custom, factory, etc on first/only path provided
29 fix to redirect_request
30 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495)
31 added new hook - preprocess_location
32 added new attribute to Maypole::Config - request_options
33 improved pager template macro
35 2.111 Mon 30 April 2007
36 - forked - see 2.111 changelog
43 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
44 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
45 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
47 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
50 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
53 Incompatible API changes:
55 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
56 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
58 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
60 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
63 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
65 API additions and enhancements:
67 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
68 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
71 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
73 - get_session() method (no-op)
74 - get_user() method (no-op)
75 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
76 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
77 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
79 - start_request_hook() added
80 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
82 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
83 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
86 - improved exception handling
87 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
88 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
89 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
91 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
93 - new report_error method
94 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
96 - Improved pager macro/include
97 - Improved factory templates
98 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
100 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
102 - improved error messages in do_edit action
103 - new required_columns mutator method
104 - new column_required accessor method
107 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
108 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
109 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
110 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
111 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
112 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
114 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
115 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
116 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
117 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
118 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
119 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
120 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
121 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
122 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
123 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
124 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
125 some silent death scenarios resolved
126 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
129 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
130 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
131 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
132 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
133 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
134 Maypole::Manual::About
135 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
136 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
137 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
138 - updated Maypole::View:TT
139 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
142 HTTP::Body now required
143 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
147 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
148 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
149 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
150 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
151 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
152 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
153 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
154 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
155 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
156 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
157 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
159 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
161 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
163 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
166 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
169 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
170 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
171 for templates (Dave Howorth)
174 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
175 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
177 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
180 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
181 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
184 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
185 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
188 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
190 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
191 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
192 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
193 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
196 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
198 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
200 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
202 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
203 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
206 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
207 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
208 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
209 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
210 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
211 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
212 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
213 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
214 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
215 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
216 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
219 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
220 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
221 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
225 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
226 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
227 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
228 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
229 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
230 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
231 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
232 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
233 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
234 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
235 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
236 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
237 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
238 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
240 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
242 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
243 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
244 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
246 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
249 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
250 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
251 - Only show buttons for public actions.
252 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
253 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
255 - Other assorted css/template fixes
258 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
259 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
260 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
261 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
262 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
263 arg after fetching objects
265 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
266 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
267 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
268 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
269 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
270 - only set charset for text/*
272 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
273 - Fixed charset in http header.
274 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
276 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
277 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
279 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
280 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
281 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
282 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
283 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
284 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
285 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
286 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
287 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
288 - fixed documentation bugs
289 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
290 $r->config->{document_encoding}
291 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
292 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
293 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
294 - accessors for everything
296 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
297 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
298 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
300 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
301 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
302 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
304 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
305 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
306 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
307 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
309 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
310 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
313 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
314 - Two very trivial fixes:
315 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
316 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
318 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
319 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
320 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
321 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
322 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
323 - Add sample CSS to distribution
324 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
326 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
327 - Don't authenticate without a model class
328 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
329 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
330 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
331 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
332 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
334 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
335 - Much, much more documentation
337 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
338 - Beginnings of a test suite
339 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
340 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
341 - HTML::Mason view class
342 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
344 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
345 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
346 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
348 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
349 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
350 - Support for the "frontpage" template
351 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
352 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
353 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
354 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
355 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
358 - Fix SQLite dependency
360 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
361 - Update CDBIL dependency
362 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
363 - Better support for authentication and template changes
364 - Full set of templates
365 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
366 - display_columns method
368 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
369 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
370 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
371 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
373 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
374 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
375 (ascending and descending)
377 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
378 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
379 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC