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() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
15 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
17 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
20 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
22 API additions and enhancements:
24 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
25 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
28 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
30 - get_session() method (no-op)
31 - get_user() method (no-op)
32 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
33 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
34 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
36 - start_request_hook() added
37 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
39 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
40 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
43 - improved exception handling
44 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
45 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
47 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
49 - new report_error method
50 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
52 - Improved pager macro/include
53 - Improved factory templates
54 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
57 - improved error messages in do_edit action
60 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
61 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
62 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
63 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
64 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
65 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
67 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
68 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
69 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
70 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
71 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
72 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
73 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
74 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
75 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
76 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
77 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
78 some silent death scenarios resolved
81 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
82 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
83 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
84 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
85 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
86 Maypole::Manual::About
87 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
88 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
89 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
90 - updated Maypole::View:TT
93 HTTP::Body now required
94 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
98 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
99 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
100 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
101 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
102 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
103 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
104 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
105 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
106 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
107 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
108 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
110 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
112 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
114 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
117 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
120 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
121 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
122 for templates (Dave Howorth)
125 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
126 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
128 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
131 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
132 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
135 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
136 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
139 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
141 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
142 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
143 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
144 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
147 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
149 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
151 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
153 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
154 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
157 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
158 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
159 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
160 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
161 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
162 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
163 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
164 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
165 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
166 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
167 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
170 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
171 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
172 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
176 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
177 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
178 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
179 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
180 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
181 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
182 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
183 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
184 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
185 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
186 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
187 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
188 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
189 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
191 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
193 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
194 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
195 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
197 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
200 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
201 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
202 - Only show buttons for public actions.
203 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
204 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
206 - Other assorted css/template fixes
209 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
210 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
211 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
212 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
213 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
214 arg after fetching objects
216 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
217 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
218 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
219 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
220 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
221 - only set charset for text/*
223 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
224 - Fixed charset in http header.
225 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
227 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
228 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
230 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
231 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
232 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
233 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
234 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
235 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
236 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
237 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
238 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
239 - fixed documentation bugs
240 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
241 $r->config->{document_encoding}
242 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
243 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
244 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
245 - accessors for everything
247 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
248 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
249 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
251 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
252 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
253 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
255 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
256 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
257 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
258 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
260 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
261 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
264 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
265 - Two very trivial fixes:
266 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
267 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
269 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
270 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
271 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
272 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
273 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
274 - Add sample CSS to distribution
275 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
277 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
278 - Don't authenticate without a model class
279 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
280 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
281 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
282 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
283 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
285 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
286 - Much, much more documentation
288 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
289 - Beginnings of a test suite
290 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
291 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
292 - HTML::Mason view class
293 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
295 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
296 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
297 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
299 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
300 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
301 - Support for the "frontpage" template
302 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
303 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
304 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
305 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
306 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
309 - Fix SQLite dependency
311 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
312 - Update CDBIL dependency
313 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
314 - Better support for authentication and template changes
315 - Full set of templates
316 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
317 - display_columns method
319 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
320 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
321 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
322 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
324 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
325 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
326 (ascending and descending)
328 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
329 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
330 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC