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
33 2.111 Mon 30 April 2007
34 - forked - see 2.111 changelog
41 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
42 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
43 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
45 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
48 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
51 Incompatible API changes:
53 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
54 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
56 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
58 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
61 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
63 API additions and enhancements:
65 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
66 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
69 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
71 - get_session() method (no-op)
72 - get_user() method (no-op)
73 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
74 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
75 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
77 - start_request_hook() added
78 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
80 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
81 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
84 - improved exception handling
85 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
86 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
87 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
89 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
91 - new report_error method
92 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
94 - Improved pager macro/include
95 - Improved factory templates
96 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
98 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
100 - improved error messages in do_edit action
101 - new required_columns mutator method
102 - new column_required accessor method
105 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
106 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
107 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
108 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
109 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
110 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
112 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
113 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
114 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
115 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
116 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
117 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
118 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
119 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
120 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
121 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
122 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
123 some silent death scenarios resolved
124 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
127 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
128 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
129 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
130 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
131 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
132 Maypole::Manual::About
133 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
134 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
135 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
136 - updated Maypole::View:TT
137 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
140 HTTP::Body now required
141 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
145 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
146 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
147 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
148 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
149 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
150 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
151 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
152 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
153 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
154 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
155 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
157 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
159 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
161 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
164 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
167 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
168 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
169 for templates (Dave Howorth)
172 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
173 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
175 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
178 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
179 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
182 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
183 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
186 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
188 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
189 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
190 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
191 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
194 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
196 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
198 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
200 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
201 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
204 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
205 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
206 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
207 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
208 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
209 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
210 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
211 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
212 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
213 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
214 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
217 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
218 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
219 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
223 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
224 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
225 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
226 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
227 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
228 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
229 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
230 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
231 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
232 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
233 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
234 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
235 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
236 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
238 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
240 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
241 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
242 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
244 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
247 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
248 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
249 - Only show buttons for public actions.
250 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
251 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
253 - Other assorted css/template fixes
256 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
257 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
258 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
259 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
260 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
261 arg after fetching objects
263 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
264 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
265 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
266 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
267 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
268 - only set charset for text/*
270 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
271 - Fixed charset in http header.
272 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
274 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
275 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
277 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
278 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
279 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
280 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
281 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
282 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
283 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
284 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
285 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
286 - fixed documentation bugs
287 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
288 $r->config->{document_encoding}
289 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
290 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
291 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
292 - accessors for everything
294 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
295 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
296 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
298 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
299 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
300 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
302 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
303 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
304 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
305 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
307 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
308 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
311 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
312 - Two very trivial fixes:
313 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
314 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
316 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
317 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
318 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
319 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
320 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
321 - Add sample CSS to distribution
322 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
324 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
325 - Don't authenticate without a model class
326 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
327 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
328 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
329 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
330 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
332 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
333 - Much, much more documentation
335 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
336 - Beginnings of a test suite
337 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
338 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
339 - HTML::Mason view class
340 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
342 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
343 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
344 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
346 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
347 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
348 - Support for the "frontpage" template
349 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
350 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
351 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
352 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
353 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
356 - Fix SQLite dependency
358 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
359 - Update CDBIL dependency
360 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
361 - Better support for authentication and template changes
362 - Full set of templates
363 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
364 - display_columns method
366 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
367 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
368 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
369 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
371 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
372 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
373 (ascending and descending)
375 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
376 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
377 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC