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 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
15 Incompatible API changes:
17 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
18 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
20 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
22 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
25 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
27 API additions and enhancements:
29 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
30 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
33 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
35 - get_session() method (no-op)
36 - get_user() method (no-op)
37 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
38 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
39 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
41 - start_request_hook() added
42 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
44 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
45 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
48 - improved exception handling
49 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
50 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
51 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
53 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
55 - new report_error method
56 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
58 - Improved pager macro/include
59 - Improved factory templates
60 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
62 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
64 - improved error messages in do_edit action
67 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
68 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
69 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
70 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
71 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
72 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
74 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
75 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
76 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
77 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
78 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
79 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
80 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
81 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
82 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
83 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
84 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
85 some silent death scenarios resolved
86 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
89 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
90 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
91 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
92 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
93 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
94 Maypole::Manual::About
95 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
96 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
97 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
98 - updated Maypole::View:TT
101 HTTP::Body now required
102 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
106 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
107 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
108 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
109 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
110 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
111 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
112 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
113 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
114 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
115 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
116 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
118 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
120 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
122 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
125 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
128 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
129 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
130 for templates (Dave Howorth)
133 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
134 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
136 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
139 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
140 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
143 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
144 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
147 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
149 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
150 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
151 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
152 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
155 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
157 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
159 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
161 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
162 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
165 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
166 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
167 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
168 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
169 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
170 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
171 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
172 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
173 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
174 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
175 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
178 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
179 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
180 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
184 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
185 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
186 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
187 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
188 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
189 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
190 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
191 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
192 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
193 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
194 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
195 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
196 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
197 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
199 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
201 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
202 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
203 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
205 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
208 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
209 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
210 - Only show buttons for public actions.
211 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
212 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
214 - Other assorted css/template fixes
217 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
218 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
219 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
220 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
221 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
222 arg after fetching objects
224 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
225 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
226 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
227 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
228 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
229 - only set charset for text/*
231 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
232 - Fixed charset in http header.
233 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
235 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
236 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
238 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
239 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
240 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
241 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
242 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
243 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
244 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
245 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
246 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
247 - fixed documentation bugs
248 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
249 $r->config->{document_encoding}
250 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
251 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
252 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
253 - accessors for everything
255 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
256 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
257 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
259 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
260 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
261 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
263 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
264 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
265 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
266 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
268 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
269 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
272 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
273 - Two very trivial fixes:
274 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
275 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
277 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
278 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
279 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
280 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
281 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
282 - Add sample CSS to distribution
283 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
285 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
286 - Don't authenticate without a model class
287 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
288 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
289 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
290 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
291 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
293 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
294 - Much, much more documentation
296 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
297 - Beginnings of a test suite
298 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
299 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
300 - HTML::Mason view class
301 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
303 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
304 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
305 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
307 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
308 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
309 - Support for the "frontpage" template
310 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
311 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
312 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
313 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
314 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
317 - Fix SQLite dependency
319 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
320 - Update CDBIL dependency
321 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
322 - Better support for authentication and template changes
323 - Full set of templates
324 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
325 - display_columns method
327 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
328 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
329 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
330 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
332 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
333 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
334 (ascending and descending)
336 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
337 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
338 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC