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
9 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
10 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
11 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
12 new test to check everything compiles
13 Model inheritance re-organised
14 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
15 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
16 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
17 new build_form_elements attribute for Maypole request, set it to 0 to avoid building cgi form if you don't need it
18 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
19 added CGI params to TT error template
20 small improvements to some factory templates
21 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in /
28 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
29 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
30 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
32 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
35 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
38 Incompatible API changes:
40 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
41 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
43 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
45 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
48 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
50 API additions and enhancements:
52 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
53 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
56 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
58 - get_session() method (no-op)
59 - get_user() method (no-op)
60 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
61 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
62 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
64 - start_request_hook() added
65 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
67 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
68 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
71 - improved exception handling
72 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
73 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
74 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
76 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
78 - new report_error method
79 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
81 - Improved pager macro/include
82 - Improved factory templates
83 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
85 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
87 - improved error messages in do_edit action
88 - new required_columns mutator method
89 - new column_required accessor method
92 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
93 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
94 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
95 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
96 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
97 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
99 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
100 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
101 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
102 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
103 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
104 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
105 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
106 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
107 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
108 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
109 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
110 some silent death scenarios resolved
111 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
114 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
115 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
116 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
117 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
118 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
119 Maypole::Manual::About
120 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
121 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
122 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
123 - updated Maypole::View:TT
124 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
127 HTTP::Body now required
128 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
132 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
133 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
134 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
135 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
136 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
137 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
138 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
139 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
140 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
141 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
142 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
144 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
146 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
148 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
151 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
154 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
155 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
156 for templates (Dave Howorth)
159 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
160 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
162 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
165 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
166 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
169 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
170 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
173 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
175 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
176 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
177 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
178 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
181 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
183 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
185 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
187 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
188 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
191 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
192 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
193 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
194 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
195 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
196 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
197 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
198 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
199 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
200 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
201 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
204 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
205 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
206 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
210 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
211 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
212 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
213 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
214 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
215 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
216 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
217 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
218 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
219 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
220 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
221 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
222 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
223 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
225 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
227 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
228 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
229 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
231 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
234 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
235 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
236 - Only show buttons for public actions.
237 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
238 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
240 - Other assorted css/template fixes
243 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
244 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
245 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
246 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
247 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
248 arg after fetching objects
250 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
251 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
252 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
253 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
254 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
255 - only set charset for text/*
257 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
258 - Fixed charset in http header.
259 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
261 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
262 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
264 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
265 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
266 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
267 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
268 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
269 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
270 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
271 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
272 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
273 - fixed documentation bugs
274 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
275 $r->config->{document_encoding}
276 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
277 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
278 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
279 - accessors for everything
281 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
282 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
283 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
285 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
286 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
287 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
289 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
290 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
291 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
292 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
294 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
295 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
298 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
299 - Two very trivial fixes:
300 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
301 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
303 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
304 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
305 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
306 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
307 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
308 - Add sample CSS to distribution
309 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
311 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
312 - Don't authenticate without a model class
313 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
314 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
315 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
316 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
317 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
319 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
320 - Much, much more documentation
322 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
323 - Beginnings of a test suite
324 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
325 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
326 - HTML::Mason view class
327 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
329 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
330 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
331 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
333 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
334 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
335 - Support for the "frontpage" template
336 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
337 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
338 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
339 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
340 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
343 - Fix SQLite dependency
345 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
346 - Update CDBIL dependency
347 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
348 - Better support for authentication and template changes
349 - Full set of templates
350 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
351 - display_columns method
353 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
354 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
355 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
356 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
358 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
359 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
360 (ascending and descending)
362 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
363 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
364 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC