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
11 DBD::SQLite no longer required by Makefile.PL
12 CGI handler now produces response for fatal error (bug 29981)
14 Fix to redirect_request in Apache::MVC
15 Fix to mime detection by file extension
16 Fixed MODIFY_CODE_ATTRIBUTES and FETCH_CODE_ATTRIBUTES to work with mod_perl threaded model
17 - Patch from Ben Hutchings http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29984
18 fixes for bug 29982 Inconsistency between examples and tutorial (patch from Ben Hutchings)
19 fixed apache_mvc.t to work with Apache2 (bug #29979 patch from Ben Hutchings)
22 link macro now takes a target argument, and has slightly better pod
29 Apache::Request is fetched with a new object instead of instance if request options are provided
30 additional, request_options and view_options attributes of Maypole::Config are initialised with hashref
31 do_delete action now has exported attribute in ::Model::CDBI::Base
32 Fixed links in flox to cookbook (bug 22899)
33 Applied change from bug 14565
40 Fixed some db_colinfo test bugs
41 Fixed typo in edit form template
42 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
43 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
44 small improvements to some factory templates
45 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in /
46 fixed template path ordering so i.e. /tablename/list is used before /list when provided with a tablename
47 fixed template path with array refs
48 fix to template being reset from path in plain templates (i.e. where no model), may affect those relying on the bug ( bug 23722 )
49 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920)
50 fix to correct problem with LocationMatch and regex based Location directives in apache config.
51 fix to redirect_request
52 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495)
55 API additions and enhancements :
56 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
57 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
58 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
59 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
60 added CGI params to TT error template
61 improvements to factory templates
62 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden
63 added new hook - preprocess_location
64 added new attribute to Maypole::Config - request_options
65 improved pager template macro
68 Internal additions and enhancements :
69 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
70 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
71 new test to check everything compiles
72 Model inheritance re-organised
74 2.111 Mon 30 April 2007
75 - forked - see 2.111 changelog
82 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
83 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
84 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
86 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
89 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
92 Incompatible API changes:
94 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
95 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
97 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
99 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
102 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
104 API additions and enhancements:
105 Maypole::Application:
106 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
107 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
110 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
112 - get_session() method (no-op)
113 - get_user() method (no-op)
114 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
115 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
116 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
118 - start_request_hook() added
119 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
121 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
122 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
125 - improved exception handling
126 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
127 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
128 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
130 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
132 - new report_error method
133 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
135 - Improved pager macro/include
136 - Improved factory templates
137 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
139 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
141 - improved error messages in do_edit action
142 - new required_columns mutator method
143 - new column_required accessor method
146 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
147 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
148 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
149 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
150 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
151 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
153 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
154 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
155 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
156 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
157 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
158 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
159 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
160 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
161 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
162 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
163 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
164 some silent death scenarios resolved
165 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
168 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
169 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
170 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
171 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
172 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
173 Maypole::Manual::About
174 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
175 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
176 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
177 - updated Maypole::View:TT
178 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
181 HTTP::Body now required
182 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
186 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
187 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
188 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
189 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
190 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
191 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
192 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
193 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
194 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
195 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
196 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
198 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
200 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
202 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
205 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
208 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
209 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
210 for templates (Dave Howorth)
213 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
214 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
216 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
219 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
220 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
223 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
224 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
227 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
229 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
230 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
231 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
232 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
235 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
237 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
239 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
241 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
242 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
245 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
246 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
247 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
248 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
249 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
250 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
251 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
252 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
253 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
254 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
255 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
258 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
259 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
260 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
264 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
265 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
266 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
267 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
268 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
269 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
270 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
271 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
272 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
273 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
274 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
275 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
276 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
277 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
279 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
281 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
282 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
283 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
285 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
288 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
289 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
290 - Only show buttons for public actions.
291 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
292 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
294 - Other assorted css/template fixes
297 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
298 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
299 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
300 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
301 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
302 arg after fetching objects
304 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
305 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
306 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
307 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
308 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
309 - only set charset for text/*
311 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
312 - Fixed charset in http header.
313 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
315 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
316 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
318 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
319 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
320 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
321 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
322 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
323 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
324 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
325 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
326 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
327 - fixed documentation bugs
328 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
329 $r->config->{document_encoding}
330 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
331 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
332 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
333 - accessors for everything
335 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
336 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
337 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
339 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
340 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
341 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
343 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
344 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
345 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
346 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
348 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
349 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
352 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
353 - Two very trivial fixes:
354 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
355 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
357 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
358 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
359 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
360 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
361 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
362 - Add sample CSS to distribution
363 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
365 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
366 - Don't authenticate without a model class
367 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
368 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
369 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
370 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
371 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
373 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
374 - Much, much more documentation
376 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
377 - Beginnings of a test suite
378 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
379 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
380 - HTML::Mason view class
381 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
383 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
384 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
385 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
387 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
388 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
389 - Support for the "frontpage" template
390 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
391 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
392 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
393 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
394 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
397 - Fix SQLite dependency
399 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
400 - Update CDBIL dependency
401 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
402 - Better support for authentication and template changes
403 - Full set of templates
404 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
405 - display_columns method
407 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
408 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
409 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
410 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
412 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
413 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
414 (ascending and descending)
416 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
417 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
418 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC