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 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
9 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
10 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
11 new test to check everything compiles
12 Model inheritance re-organised
13 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
14 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
15 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
16 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
17 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
18 added CGI params to TT error template
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 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden
25 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920)
26 fix to correct problem with LocationMatch and regex based Location directives in apache config.
27 change to view::base to only call display_columns, stringify_columns, to_cgi if model class can
28 changed template path to only look for custom, factory, etc on first/only path provided
29 fix to redirect_request
30 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495)
32 2.111 Mon 30 April 2007
33 - forked - see 2.111 changelog
40 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
41 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
42 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
44 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
47 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
50 Incompatible API changes:
52 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
53 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
55 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
57 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
60 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
62 API additions and enhancements:
64 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
65 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
68 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
70 - get_session() method (no-op)
71 - get_user() method (no-op)
72 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
73 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
74 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
76 - start_request_hook() added
77 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
79 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
80 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
83 - improved exception handling
84 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
85 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
86 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
88 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
90 - new report_error method
91 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
93 - Improved pager macro/include
94 - Improved factory templates
95 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
97 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
99 - improved error messages in do_edit action
100 - new required_columns mutator method
101 - new column_required accessor method
104 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
105 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
106 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
107 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
108 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
109 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
111 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
112 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
113 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
114 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
115 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
116 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
117 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
118 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
119 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
120 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
121 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
122 some silent death scenarios resolved
123 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
126 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
127 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
128 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
129 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
130 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
131 Maypole::Manual::About
132 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
133 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
134 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
135 - updated Maypole::View:TT
136 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
139 HTTP::Body now required
140 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
144 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
145 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
146 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
147 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
148 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
149 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
150 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
151 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
152 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
153 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
154 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
156 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
158 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
160 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
163 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
166 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
167 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
168 for templates (Dave Howorth)
171 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
172 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
174 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
177 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
178 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
181 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
182 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
185 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
187 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
188 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
189 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
190 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
193 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
195 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
197 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
199 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
200 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
203 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
204 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
205 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
206 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
207 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
208 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
209 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
210 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
211 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
212 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
213 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
216 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
217 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
218 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
222 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
223 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
224 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
225 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
226 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
227 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
228 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
229 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
230 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
231 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
232 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
233 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
234 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
235 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
237 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
239 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
240 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
241 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
243 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
246 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
247 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
248 - Only show buttons for public actions.
249 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
250 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
252 - Other assorted css/template fixes
255 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
256 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
257 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
258 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
259 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
260 arg after fetching objects
262 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
263 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
264 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
265 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
266 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
267 - only set charset for text/*
269 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
270 - Fixed charset in http header.
271 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
273 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
274 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
276 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
277 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
278 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
279 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
280 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
281 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
282 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
283 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
284 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
285 - fixed documentation bugs
286 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
287 $r->config->{document_encoding}
288 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
289 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
290 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
291 - accessors for everything
293 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
294 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
295 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
297 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
298 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
299 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
301 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
302 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
303 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
304 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
306 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
307 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
310 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
311 - Two very trivial fixes:
312 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
313 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
315 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
316 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
317 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
318 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
319 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
320 - Add sample CSS to distribution
321 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
323 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
324 - Don't authenticate without a model class
325 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
326 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
327 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
328 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
329 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
331 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
332 - Much, much more documentation
334 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
335 - Beginnings of a test suite
336 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
337 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
338 - HTML::Mason view class
339 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
341 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
342 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
343 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
345 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
346 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
347 - Support for the "frontpage" template
348 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
349 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
350 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
351 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
352 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
355 - Fix SQLite dependency
357 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
358 - Update CDBIL dependency
359 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
360 - Better support for authentication and template changes
361 - Full set of templates
362 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
363 - display_columns method
365 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
366 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
367 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
368 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
370 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
371 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
372 (ascending and descending)
374 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
375 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
376 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC