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
15 Fixed some db_colinfo test bugs
16 Fixed typo in edit form template
17 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
18 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
19 small improvements to some factory templates
20 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in /
21 fixed template path ordering so i.e. /tablename/list is used before /list when provided with a tablename
22 fixed template path with array refs
23 fix to template being reset from path in plain templates (i.e. where no model), may affect those relying on the bug ( bug 23722 )
24 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920)
25 fix to correct problem with LocationMatch and regex based Location directives in apache config.
26 fix to redirect_request
27 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495)
30 API additions and enhancements :
31 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
32 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
33 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
34 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
35 added CGI params to TT error template
36 improvements to factory templates
37 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden
38 added new hook - preprocess_location
39 added new attribute to Maypole::Config - request_options
40 improved pager template macro
43 Internal additions and enhancements :
44 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
45 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
46 new test to check everything compiles
47 Model inheritance re-organised
49 2.111 Mon 30 April 2007
50 - forked - see 2.111 changelog
57 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
58 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
59 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
61 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
64 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
67 Incompatible API changes:
69 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
70 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
72 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
74 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
77 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
79 API additions and enhancements:
81 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
82 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
85 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
87 - get_session() method (no-op)
88 - get_user() method (no-op)
89 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
90 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
91 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
93 - start_request_hook() added
94 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
96 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
97 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
100 - improved exception handling
101 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
102 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
103 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
105 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
107 - new report_error method
108 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
110 - Improved pager macro/include
111 - Improved factory templates
112 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
114 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
116 - improved error messages in do_edit action
117 - new required_columns mutator method
118 - new column_required accessor method
121 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
122 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
123 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
124 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
125 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
126 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
128 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
129 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
130 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
131 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
132 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
133 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
134 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
135 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
136 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
137 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
138 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
139 some silent death scenarios resolved
140 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
143 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
144 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
145 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
146 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
147 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
148 Maypole::Manual::About
149 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
150 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
151 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
152 - updated Maypole::View:TT
153 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
156 HTTP::Body now required
157 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
161 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
162 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
163 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
164 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
165 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
166 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
167 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
168 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
169 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
170 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
171 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
173 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
175 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
177 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
180 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
183 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
184 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
185 for templates (Dave Howorth)
188 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
189 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
191 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
194 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
195 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
198 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
199 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
202 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
204 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
205 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
206 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
207 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
210 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
212 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
214 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
216 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
217 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
220 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
221 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
222 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
223 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
224 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
225 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
226 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
227 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
228 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
229 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
230 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
233 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
234 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
235 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
239 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
240 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
241 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
242 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
243 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
244 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
245 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
246 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
247 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
248 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
249 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
250 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
251 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
252 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
254 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
256 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
257 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
258 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
260 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
263 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
264 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
265 - Only show buttons for public actions.
266 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
267 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
269 - Other assorted css/template fixes
272 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
273 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
274 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
275 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
276 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
277 arg after fetching objects
279 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
280 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
281 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
282 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
283 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
284 - only set charset for text/*
286 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
287 - Fixed charset in http header.
288 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
290 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
291 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
293 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
294 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
295 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
296 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
297 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
298 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
299 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
300 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
301 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
302 - fixed documentation bugs
303 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
304 $r->config->{document_encoding}
305 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
306 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
307 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
308 - accessors for everything
310 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
311 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
312 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
314 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
315 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
316 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
318 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
319 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
320 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
321 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
323 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
324 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
327 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
328 - Two very trivial fixes:
329 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
330 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
332 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
333 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
334 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
335 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
336 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
337 - Add sample CSS to distribution
338 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
340 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
341 - Don't authenticate without a model class
342 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
343 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
344 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
345 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
346 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
348 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
349 - Much, much more documentation
351 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
352 - Beginnings of a test suite
353 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
354 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
355 - HTML::Mason view class
356 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
358 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
359 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
360 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
362 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
363 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
364 - Support for the "frontpage" template
365 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
366 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
367 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
368 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
369 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
372 - Fix SQLite dependency
374 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
375 - Update CDBIL dependency
376 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
377 - Better support for authentication and template changes
378 - Full set of templates
379 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
380 - display_columns method
382 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
383 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
384 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
385 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
387 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
388 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
389 (ascending and descending)
391 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
392 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
393 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC