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
11 DBD::SQLite no longer required by Makefile.PL
12 CGI handler now produces response for fatal error (bug 29981)
14 Fix to redirect_request in Apache::MVC
15 Fix to mime detection by file extension
16 Fixed MODIFY_CODE_ATTRIBUTES and FETCH_CODE_ATTRIBUTES to work with mod_perl threaded model
17 - Patch from Ben Hutchings http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29984
18 fixes for bug 29982 Inconsistency between examples and tutorial (patch from Ben Hutchings)
19 fixed apache_mvc.t to work with Apache2 (bug #29979 patch from Ben Hutchings)
20 added post_chomp as default option for TT view
23 link macro now takes a target argument, and has slightly better pod
30 Apache::Request is fetched with a new object instead of instance if request options are provided
31 additional, request_options and view_options attributes of Maypole::Config are initialised with hashref
32 do_delete action now has exported attribute in ::Model::CDBI::Base
33 Fixed links in flox to cookbook (bug 22899)
34 Applied change from bug 14565
41 Fixed some db_colinfo test bugs
42 Fixed typo in edit form template
43 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
44 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
45 small improvements to some factory templates
46 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in /
47 fixed template path ordering so i.e. /tablename/list is used before /list when provided with a tablename
48 fixed template path with array refs
49 fix to template being reset from path in plain templates (i.e. where no model), may affect those relying on the bug ( bug 23722 )
50 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920)
51 fix to correct problem with LocationMatch and regex based Location directives in apache config.
52 fix to redirect_request
53 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495)
56 API additions and enhancements :
57 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
58 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
59 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
60 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
61 added CGI params to TT error template
62 improvements to factory templates
63 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden
64 added new hook - preprocess_location
65 added new attribute to Maypole::Config - request_options
66 improved pager template macro
69 Internal additions and enhancements :
70 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
71 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
72 new test to check everything compiles
73 Model inheritance re-organised
75 2.111 Mon 30 April 2007
76 - forked - see 2.111 changelog
83 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
84 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
85 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
87 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
90 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
93 Incompatible API changes:
95 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
96 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
98 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
100 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
103 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
105 API additions and enhancements:
106 Maypole::Application:
107 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
108 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
111 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
113 - get_session() method (no-op)
114 - get_user() method (no-op)
115 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
116 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
117 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
119 - start_request_hook() added
120 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
122 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
123 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
126 - improved exception handling
127 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
128 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
129 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
131 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
133 - new report_error method
134 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
136 - Improved pager macro/include
137 - Improved factory templates
138 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
140 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
142 - improved error messages in do_edit action
143 - new required_columns mutator method
144 - new column_required accessor method
147 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
148 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
149 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
150 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
151 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
152 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
154 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
155 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
156 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
157 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
158 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
159 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
160 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
161 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
162 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
163 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
164 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
165 some silent death scenarios resolved
166 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
169 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
170 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
171 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
172 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
173 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
174 Maypole::Manual::About
175 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
176 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
177 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
178 - updated Maypole::View:TT
179 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
182 HTTP::Body now required
183 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
187 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
188 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
189 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
190 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
191 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
192 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
193 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
194 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
195 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
196 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
197 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
199 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
201 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
203 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
206 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
209 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
210 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
211 for templates (Dave Howorth)
214 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
215 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
217 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
220 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
221 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
224 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
225 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
228 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
230 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
231 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
232 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
233 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
236 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
238 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
240 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
242 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
243 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
246 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
247 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
248 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
249 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
250 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
251 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
252 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
253 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
254 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
255 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
256 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
259 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
260 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
261 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
265 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
266 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
267 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
268 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
269 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
270 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
271 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
272 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
273 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
274 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
275 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
276 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
277 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
278 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
280 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
282 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
283 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
284 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
286 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
289 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
290 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
291 - Only show buttons for public actions.
292 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
293 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
295 - Other assorted css/template fixes
298 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
299 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
300 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
301 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
302 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
303 arg after fetching objects
305 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
306 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
307 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
308 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
309 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
310 - only set charset for text/*
312 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
313 - Fixed charset in http header.
314 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
316 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
317 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
319 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
320 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
321 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
322 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
323 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
324 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
325 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
326 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
327 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
328 - fixed documentation bugs
329 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
330 $r->config->{document_encoding}
331 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
332 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
333 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
334 - accessors for everything
336 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
337 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
338 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
340 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
341 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
342 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
344 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
345 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
346 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
347 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
349 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
350 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
353 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
354 - Two very trivial fixes:
355 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
356 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
358 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
359 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
360 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
361 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
362 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
363 - Add sample CSS to distribution
364 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
366 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
367 - Don't authenticate without a model class
368 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
369 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
370 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
371 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
372 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
374 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
375 - Much, much more documentation
377 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
378 - Beginnings of a test suite
379 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
380 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
381 - HTML::Mason view class
382 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
384 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
385 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
386 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
388 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
389 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
390 - Support for the "frontpage" template
391 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
392 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
393 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
394 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
395 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
398 - Fix SQLite dependency
400 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
401 - Update CDBIL dependency
402 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
403 - Better support for authentication and template changes
404 - Full set of templates
405 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
406 - display_columns method
408 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
409 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
410 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
411 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
413 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
414 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
415 (ascending and descending)
417 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
418 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
419 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC