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() renamed to is_model_applicable(), and returns boolean
15 instead of a status code. Old-style is_applicable() will still work,
18 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
21 API additions and enhancements:
23 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
24 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
27 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
29 - get_session() method (no-op)
30 - get_user() method (no-op)
31 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
32 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
33 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
35 - start_request_hook() added
36 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
38 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
39 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
42 - improved exception handling
43 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
44 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
46 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
48 - new report_error method
49 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
51 - Improved pager macro/include
52 - Improved factory templates
53 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
56 - improved error messages in do_edit action
59 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
60 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
61 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
62 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
63 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
64 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
66 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
67 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
68 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
69 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
70 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
71 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
72 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
73 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
74 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
75 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
76 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
79 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
80 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
81 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
82 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
83 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
84 Maypole::Manual::About
85 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
86 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
87 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
88 - updated Maypole::View:TT
91 HTTP::Body now required
92 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
96 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
97 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
98 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
99 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
100 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
101 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
102 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
103 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
104 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
105 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
106 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
108 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
110 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
112 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
115 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
118 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
119 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
120 for templates (Dave Howorth)
123 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
124 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
126 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
129 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
130 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
133 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
134 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
137 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
139 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
140 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
141 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
142 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
145 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
147 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
149 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
151 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
152 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
155 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
156 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
157 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
158 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
159 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
160 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
161 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
162 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
163 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
164 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
165 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
168 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
169 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
170 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
174 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
175 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
176 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
177 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
178 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
179 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
180 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
181 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
182 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
183 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
184 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
185 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
186 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
187 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
189 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
191 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
192 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
193 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
195 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
198 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
199 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
200 - Only show buttons for public actions.
201 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
202 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
204 - Other assorted css/template fixes
207 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
208 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
209 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
210 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
211 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
212 arg after fetching objects
214 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
215 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
216 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
217 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
218 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
219 - only set charset for text/*
221 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
222 - Fixed charset in http header.
223 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
225 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
226 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
228 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
229 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
230 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
231 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
232 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
233 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
234 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
235 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
236 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
237 - fixed documentation bugs
238 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
239 $r->config->{document_encoding}
240 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
241 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
242 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
243 - accessors for everything
245 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
246 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
247 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
249 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
250 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
251 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
253 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
254 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
255 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
256 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
258 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
259 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
262 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
263 - Two very trivial fixes:
264 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
265 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
267 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
268 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
269 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
270 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
271 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
272 - Add sample CSS to distribution
273 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
275 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
276 - Don't authenticate without a model class
277 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
278 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
279 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
280 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
281 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
283 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
284 - Much, much more documentation
286 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
287 - Beginnings of a test suite
288 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
289 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
290 - HTML::Mason view class
291 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
293 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
294 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
295 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
297 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
298 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
299 - Support for the "frontpage" template
300 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
301 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
302 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
303 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
304 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
307 - Fix SQLite dependency
309 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
310 - Update CDBIL dependency
311 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
312 - Better support for authentication and template changes
313 - Full set of templates
314 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
315 - display_columns method
317 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
318 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
319 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
320 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
322 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
323 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
324 (ascending and descending)
326 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
327 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
328 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC