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
20 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
21 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
22 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
24 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
27 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
30 Incompatible API changes:
32 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
33 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
35 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
37 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
40 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
42 API additions and enhancements:
44 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
45 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
48 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
50 - get_session() method (no-op)
51 - get_user() method (no-op)
52 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
53 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
54 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
56 - start_request_hook() added
57 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
59 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
60 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
63 - improved exception handling
64 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
65 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
66 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
68 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
70 - new report_error method
71 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
73 - Improved pager macro/include
74 - Improved factory templates
75 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
77 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
79 - improved error messages in do_edit action
80 - new required_columns mutator method
81 - new column_required accessor method
84 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
85 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
86 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
87 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
88 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
89 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
91 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
92 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
93 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
94 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
95 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
96 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
97 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
98 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
99 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
100 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
101 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
102 some silent death scenarios resolved
103 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
106 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
107 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
108 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
109 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
110 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
111 Maypole::Manual::About
112 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
113 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
114 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
115 - updated Maypole::View:TT
116 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
119 HTTP::Body now required
120 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
124 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
125 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
126 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
127 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
128 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
129 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
130 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
131 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
132 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
133 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
134 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
136 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
138 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
140 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
143 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
146 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
147 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
148 for templates (Dave Howorth)
151 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
152 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
154 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
157 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
158 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
161 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
162 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
165 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
167 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
168 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
169 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
170 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
173 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
175 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
177 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
179 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
180 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
183 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
184 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
185 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
186 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
187 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
188 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
189 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
190 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
191 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
192 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
193 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
196 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
197 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
198 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
202 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
203 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
204 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
205 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
206 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
207 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
208 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
209 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
210 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
211 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
212 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
213 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
214 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
215 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
217 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
219 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
220 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
221 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
223 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
226 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
227 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
228 - Only show buttons for public actions.
229 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
230 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
232 - Other assorted css/template fixes
235 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
236 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
237 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
238 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
239 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
240 arg after fetching objects
242 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
243 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
244 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
245 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
246 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
247 - only set charset for text/*
249 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
250 - Fixed charset in http header.
251 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
253 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
254 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
256 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
257 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
258 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
259 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
260 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
261 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
262 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
263 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
264 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
265 - fixed documentation bugs
266 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
267 $r->config->{document_encoding}
268 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
269 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
270 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
271 - accessors for everything
273 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
274 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
275 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
277 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
278 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
279 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
281 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
282 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
283 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
284 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
286 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
287 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
290 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
291 - Two very trivial fixes:
292 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
293 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
295 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
296 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
297 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
298 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
299 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
300 - Add sample CSS to distribution
301 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
303 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
304 - Don't authenticate without a model class
305 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
306 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
307 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
308 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
309 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
311 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
312 - Much, much more documentation
314 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
315 - Beginnings of a test suite
316 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
317 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
318 - HTML::Mason view class
319 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
321 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
322 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
323 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
325 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
326 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
327 - Support for the "frontpage" template
328 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
329 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
330 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
331 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
332 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
335 - Fix SQLite dependency
337 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
338 - Update CDBIL dependency
339 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
340 - Better support for authentication and template changes
341 - Full set of templates
342 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
343 - display_columns method
345 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
346 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
347 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
348 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
350 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
351 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
352 (ascending and descending)
354 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
355 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
356 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC