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
7 Apache::Request is fetched with a new object instead of instance if request options are provided
8 additional, request_options and view_options attributes of Maypole::Config are initialised with hashref
9 do_delete action now has exported attribute in ::Model::CDBI::Base
10 Fixed links in flox to cookbook (bug 22899)
17 Fixed some db_colinfo test bugs
18 Fixed typo in edit form template
19 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
20 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
21 small improvements to some factory templates
22 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in /
23 fixed template path ordering so i.e. /tablename/list is used before /list when provided with a tablename
24 fixed template path with array refs
25 fix to template being reset from path in plain templates (i.e. where no model), may affect those relying on the bug ( bug 23722 )
26 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920)
27 fix to correct problem with LocationMatch and regex based Location directives in apache config.
28 fix to redirect_request
29 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495)
32 API additions and enhancements :
33 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
34 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
35 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
36 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
37 added CGI params to TT error template
38 improvements to factory templates
39 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden
40 added new hook - preprocess_location
41 added new attribute to Maypole::Config - request_options
42 improved pager template macro
45 Internal additions and enhancements :
46 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
47 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
48 new test to check everything compiles
49 Model inheritance re-organised
51 2.111 Mon 30 April 2007
52 - forked - see 2.111 changelog
59 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
60 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
61 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
63 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
66 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
69 Incompatible API changes:
71 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
72 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
74 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
76 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
79 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
81 API additions and enhancements:
83 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
84 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
87 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
89 - get_session() method (no-op)
90 - get_user() method (no-op)
91 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
92 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
93 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
95 - start_request_hook() added
96 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
98 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
99 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
102 - improved exception handling
103 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
104 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
105 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
107 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
109 - new report_error method
110 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
112 - Improved pager macro/include
113 - Improved factory templates
114 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
116 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
118 - improved error messages in do_edit action
119 - new required_columns mutator method
120 - new column_required accessor method
123 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
124 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
125 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
126 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
127 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
128 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
130 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
131 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
132 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
133 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
134 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
135 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
136 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
137 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
138 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
139 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
140 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
141 some silent death scenarios resolved
142 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
145 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
146 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
147 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
148 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
149 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
150 Maypole::Manual::About
151 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
152 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
153 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
154 - updated Maypole::View:TT
155 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
158 HTTP::Body now required
159 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
163 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
164 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
165 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
166 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
167 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
168 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
169 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
170 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
171 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
172 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
173 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
175 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
177 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
179 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
182 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
185 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
186 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
187 for templates (Dave Howorth)
190 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
191 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
193 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
196 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
197 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
200 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
201 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
204 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
206 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
207 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
208 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
209 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
212 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
214 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
216 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
218 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
219 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
222 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
223 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
224 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
225 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
226 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
227 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
228 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
229 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
230 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
231 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
232 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
235 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
236 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
237 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
241 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
242 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
243 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
244 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
245 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
246 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
247 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
248 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
249 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
250 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
251 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
252 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
253 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
254 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
256 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
258 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
259 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
260 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
262 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
265 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
266 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
267 - Only show buttons for public actions.
268 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
269 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
271 - Other assorted css/template fixes
274 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
275 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
276 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
277 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
278 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
279 arg after fetching objects
281 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
282 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
283 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
284 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
285 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
286 - only set charset for text/*
288 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
289 - Fixed charset in http header.
290 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
292 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
293 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
295 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
296 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
297 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
298 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
299 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
300 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
301 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
302 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
303 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
304 - fixed documentation bugs
305 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
306 $r->config->{document_encoding}
307 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
308 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
309 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
310 - accessors for everything
312 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
313 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
314 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
316 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
317 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
318 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
320 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
321 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
322 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
323 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
325 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
326 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
329 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
330 - Two very trivial fixes:
331 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
332 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
334 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
335 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
336 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
337 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
338 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
339 - Add sample CSS to distribution
340 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
342 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
343 - Don't authenticate without a model class
344 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
345 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
346 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
347 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
348 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
350 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
351 - Much, much more documentation
353 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
354 - Beginnings of a test suite
355 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
356 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
357 - HTML::Mason view class
358 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
360 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
361 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
362 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
364 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
365 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
366 - Support for the "frontpage" template
367 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
368 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
369 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
370 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
371 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
374 - Fix SQLite dependency
376 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
377 - Update CDBIL dependency
378 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
379 - Better support for authentication and template changes
380 - Full set of templates
381 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
382 - display_columns method
384 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
385 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
386 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
387 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
389 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
390 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
391 (ascending and descending)
393 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
394 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
395 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC