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 Now uses Class::C3 in all Classes to simplify inheritence
15 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
16 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
17 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
19 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
22 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
25 Incompatible API changes:
27 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
28 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
30 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
32 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
35 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
37 API additions and enhancements:
39 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
40 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
43 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
45 - get_session() method (no-op)
46 - get_user() method (no-op)
47 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
48 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
49 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
51 - start_request_hook() added
52 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
54 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
55 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
58 - improved exception handling
59 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
60 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
61 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
63 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
65 - new report_error method
66 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
68 - Improved pager macro/include
69 - Improved factory templates
70 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
72 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
74 - improved error messages in do_edit action
75 - new required_columns mutator method
76 - new column_required accessor method
79 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
80 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
81 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
82 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
83 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
84 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
86 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
87 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
88 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
89 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
90 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
91 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
92 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
93 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
94 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
95 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
96 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
97 some silent death scenarios resolved
98 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
101 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
102 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
103 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
104 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
105 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
106 Maypole::Manual::About
107 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
108 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
109 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
110 - updated Maypole::View:TT
111 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
114 HTTP::Body now required
115 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
119 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
120 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
121 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
122 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
123 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
124 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
125 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
126 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
127 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
128 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
129 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
131 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
133 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
135 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
138 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
141 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
142 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
143 for templates (Dave Howorth)
146 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
147 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
149 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
152 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
153 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
156 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
157 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
160 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
162 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
163 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
164 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
165 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
168 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
170 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
172 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
174 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
175 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
178 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
179 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
180 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
181 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
182 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
183 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
184 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
185 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
186 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
187 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
188 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
191 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
192 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
193 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
197 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
198 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
199 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
200 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
201 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
202 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
203 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
204 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
205 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
206 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
207 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
208 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
209 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
210 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
212 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
214 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
215 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
216 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
218 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
221 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
222 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
223 - Only show buttons for public actions.
224 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
225 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
227 - Other assorted css/template fixes
230 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
231 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
232 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
233 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
234 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
235 arg after fetching objects
237 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
238 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
239 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
240 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
241 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
242 - only set charset for text/*
244 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
245 - Fixed charset in http header.
246 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
248 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
249 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
251 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
252 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
253 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
254 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
255 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
256 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
257 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
258 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
259 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
260 - fixed documentation bugs
261 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
262 $r->config->{document_encoding}
263 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
264 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
265 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
266 - accessors for everything
268 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
269 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
270 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
272 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
273 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
274 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
276 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
277 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
278 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
279 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
281 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
282 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
285 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
286 - Two very trivial fixes:
287 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
288 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
290 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
291 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
292 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
293 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
294 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
295 - Add sample CSS to distribution
296 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
298 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
299 - Don't authenticate without a model class
300 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
301 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
302 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
303 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
304 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
306 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
307 - Much, much more documentation
309 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
310 - Beginnings of a test suite
311 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
312 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
313 - HTML::Mason view class
314 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
316 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
317 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
318 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
320 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
321 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
322 - Support for the "frontpage" template
323 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
324 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
325 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
326 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
327 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
330 - Fix SQLite dependency
332 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
333 - Update CDBIL dependency
334 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
335 - Better support for authentication and template changes
336 - Full set of templates
337 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
338 - display_columns method
340 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
341 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
342 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
343 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
345 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
346 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
347 (ascending and descending)
349 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
350 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
351 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC