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
8 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
9 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
10 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
12 Incompatible API changes:
14 - is_applicable() renamed to is_model_applicable(), and returns boolean
15 instead of a status code. Old-style is_applicable() will still work,
18 API additions and enhancements:
20 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
21 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
24 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
26 - get_session() method (no-op)
27 - get_user() method (no-op)
28 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
29 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
30 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
32 - start_request_hook() added
33 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
35 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
36 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
39 - improved exception handling
41 - new report_error method
42 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
44 - Improved pager macro/include
45 - Improved factory templates
46 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
50 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
51 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
52 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
53 Apache2 fix in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
54 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
55 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
57 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
58 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
59 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
60 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
61 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
62 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
65 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
66 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
67 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
68 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
69 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
70 Maypole::Manual::About
71 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
72 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
73 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
74 - updated Maypole::View:TT
79 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
80 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
81 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
82 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
83 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
84 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
85 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
86 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
87 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
88 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
89 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
91 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
93 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
95 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
98 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
101 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
102 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
103 for templates (Dave Howorth)
106 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
107 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
109 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
112 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
113 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
116 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
117 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
120 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
122 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
123 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
124 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
125 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
128 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
130 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
132 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
134 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
135 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
138 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
139 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
140 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
141 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
142 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
143 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
144 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
145 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
146 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
147 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
148 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
151 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
152 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
153 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
157 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
158 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
159 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
160 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
161 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
162 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
163 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
164 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
165 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
166 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
167 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
168 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
169 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
170 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
172 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
174 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
175 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
176 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
178 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
181 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
182 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
183 - Only show buttons for public actions.
184 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
185 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
187 - Other assorted css/template fixes
190 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
191 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
192 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
193 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
194 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
195 arg after fetching objects
197 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
198 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
199 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
200 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
201 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
202 - only set charset for text/*
204 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
205 - Fixed charset in http header.
206 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
208 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
209 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
211 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
212 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
213 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
214 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
215 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
216 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
217 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
218 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
219 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
220 - fixed documentation bugs
221 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
222 $r->config->{document_encoding}
223 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
224 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
225 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
226 - accessors for everything
228 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
229 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
230 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
232 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
233 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
234 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
236 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
237 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
238 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
239 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
241 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
242 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
245 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
246 - Two very trivial fixes:
247 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
248 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
250 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
251 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
252 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
253 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
254 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
255 - Add sample CSS to distribution
256 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
258 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
259 - Don't authenticate without a model class
260 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
261 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
262 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
263 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
264 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
266 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
267 - Much, much more documentation
269 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
270 - Beginnings of a test suite
271 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
272 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
273 - HTML::Mason view class
274 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
276 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
277 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
278 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
280 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
281 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
282 - Support for the "frontpage" template
283 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
284 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
285 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
286 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
287 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
290 - Fix SQLite dependency
292 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
293 - Update CDBIL dependency
294 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
295 - Better support for authentication and template changes
296 - Full set of templates
297 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
298 - display_columns method
300 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
301 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
302 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
303 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
305 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
306 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
307 (ascending and descending)
309 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
310 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
311 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC