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
5 2.111 Sat 21 April 2007
8 Fixed typo in edit form template
9 Fixed extra html filter in link macro in factory templates
10 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495)
11 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920)
12 fixed template path with array refs
13 fixed redirect_request
14 fixed db_colinfo.t test when no mysql
22 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
23 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
24 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
26 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
29 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
32 Incompatible API changes:
34 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
35 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
37 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
39 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
42 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
44 API additions and enhancements:
46 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
47 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
50 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
52 - get_session() method (no-op)
53 - get_user() method (no-op)
54 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
55 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
56 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
58 - start_request_hook() added
59 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
61 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
62 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
65 - improved exception handling
66 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
67 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
68 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
70 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
72 - new report_error method
73 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
75 - Improved pager macro/include
76 - Improved factory templates
77 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
79 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
81 - improved error messages in do_edit action
82 - new required_columns mutator method
83 - new column_required accessor method
86 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
87 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
88 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
89 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
90 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
91 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
93 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
94 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
95 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
96 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
97 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
98 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
99 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
100 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
101 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
102 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
103 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
104 some silent death scenarios resolved
105 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
108 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
109 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
110 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
111 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
112 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
113 Maypole::Manual::About
114 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
115 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
116 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
117 - updated Maypole::View:TT
118 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
121 HTTP::Body now required
122 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
126 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
127 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
128 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
129 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
130 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
131 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
132 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
133 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
134 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
135 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
136 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
138 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
140 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
142 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
145 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
148 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
149 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
150 for templates (Dave Howorth)
153 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
154 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
156 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
159 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
160 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
163 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
164 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
167 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
169 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
170 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
171 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
172 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
175 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
177 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
179 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
181 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
182 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
185 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
186 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
187 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
188 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
189 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
190 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
191 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
192 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
193 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
194 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
195 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
198 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
199 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
200 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
204 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
205 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
206 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
207 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
208 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
209 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
210 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
211 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
212 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
213 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
214 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
215 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
216 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
217 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
219 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
221 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
222 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
223 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
225 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
228 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
229 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
230 - Only show buttons for public actions.
231 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
232 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
234 - Other assorted css/template fixes
237 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
238 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
239 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
240 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
241 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
242 arg after fetching objects
244 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
245 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
246 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
247 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
248 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
249 - only set charset for text/*
251 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
252 - Fixed charset in http header.
253 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
255 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
256 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
258 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
259 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
260 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
261 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
262 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
263 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
264 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
265 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
266 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
267 - fixed documentation bugs
268 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
269 $r->config->{document_encoding}
270 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
271 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
272 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
273 - accessors for everything
275 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
276 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
277 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
279 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
280 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
281 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
283 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
284 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
285 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
286 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
288 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
289 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
292 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
293 - Two very trivial fixes:
294 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
295 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
297 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
298 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
299 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
300 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
301 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
302 - Add sample CSS to distribution
303 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
305 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
306 - Don't authenticate without a model class
307 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
308 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
309 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
310 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
311 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
313 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
314 - Much, much more documentation
316 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
317 - Beginnings of a test suite
318 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
319 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
320 - HTML::Mason view class
321 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
323 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
324 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
325 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
327 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
328 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
329 - Support for the "frontpage" template
330 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
331 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
332 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
333 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
334 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
337 - Fix SQLite dependency
339 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
340 - Update CDBIL dependency
341 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
342 - Better support for authentication and template changes
343 - Full set of templates
344 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
345 - display_columns method
347 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
348 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
349 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
350 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
352 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
353 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
354 (ascending and descending)
356 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
357 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
358 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC