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
10 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
11 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
12 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
14 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
17 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
20 Incompatible API changes:
22 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
23 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
25 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
27 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
30 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
32 API additions and enhancements:
34 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
35 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
38 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
40 - get_session() method (no-op)
41 - get_user() method (no-op)
42 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
43 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
44 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
46 - start_request_hook() added
47 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
49 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
50 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
53 - improved exception handling
54 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
55 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
56 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
58 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
60 - new report_error method
61 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
63 - Improved pager macro/include
64 - Improved factory templates
65 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
67 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
69 - improved error messages in do_edit action
70 - new required_columns mutator method
71 - new column_required accessor method
74 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
75 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
76 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
77 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
78 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
79 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
81 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
82 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
83 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
84 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
85 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
86 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
87 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
88 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
89 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
90 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
91 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
92 some silent death scenarios resolved
93 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
96 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
97 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
98 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
99 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
100 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
101 Maypole::Manual::About
102 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
103 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
104 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
105 - updated Maypole::View:TT
106 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
109 HTTP::Body now required
110 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
114 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
115 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
116 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
117 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
118 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
119 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
120 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
121 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
122 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
123 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
124 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
126 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
128 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
130 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
133 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
136 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
137 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
138 for templates (Dave Howorth)
141 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
142 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
144 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
147 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
148 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
151 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
152 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
155 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
157 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
158 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
159 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
160 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
163 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
165 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
167 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
169 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
170 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
173 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
174 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
175 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
176 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
177 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
178 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
179 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
180 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
181 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
182 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
183 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
186 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
187 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
188 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
192 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
193 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
194 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
195 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
196 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
197 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
198 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
199 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
200 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
201 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
202 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
203 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
204 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
205 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
207 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
209 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
210 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
211 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
213 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
216 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
217 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
218 - Only show buttons for public actions.
219 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
220 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
222 - Other assorted css/template fixes
225 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
226 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
227 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
228 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
229 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
230 arg after fetching objects
232 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
233 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
234 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
235 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
236 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
237 - only set charset for text/*
239 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
240 - Fixed charset in http header.
241 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
243 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
244 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
246 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
247 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
248 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
249 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
250 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
251 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
252 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
253 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
254 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
255 - fixed documentation bugs
256 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
257 $r->config->{document_encoding}
258 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
259 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
260 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
261 - accessors for everything
263 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
264 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
265 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
267 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
268 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
269 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
271 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
272 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
273 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
274 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
276 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
277 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
280 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
281 - Two very trivial fixes:
282 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
283 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
285 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
286 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
287 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
288 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
289 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
290 - Add sample CSS to distribution
291 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
293 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
294 - Don't authenticate without a model class
295 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
296 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
297 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
298 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
299 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
301 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
302 - Much, much more documentation
304 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
305 - Beginnings of a test suite
306 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
307 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
308 - HTML::Mason view class
309 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
311 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
312 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
313 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
315 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
316 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
317 - Support for the "frontpage" template
318 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
319 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
320 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
321 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
322 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
325 - Fix SQLite dependency
327 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
328 - Update CDBIL dependency
329 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
330 - Better support for authentication and template changes
331 - Full set of templates
332 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
333 - display_columns method
335 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
336 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
337 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
338 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
340 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
341 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
342 (ascending and descending)
344 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
345 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
346 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC