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
9 do_delete action now has exported attribute in ::Model::CDBI::Base
16 Fixed some db_colinfo test bugs
17 Fixed typo in edit form template
18 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
19 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
20 small improvements to some factory templates
21 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in /
22 fixed template path ordering so i.e. /tablename/list is used before /list when provided with a tablename
23 fixed template path with array refs
24 fix to template being reset from path in plain templates (i.e. where no model), may affect those relying on the bug ( bug 23722 )
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 fix to redirect_request
28 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495)
31 API additions and enhancements :
32 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
33 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
34 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
35 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
36 added CGI params to TT error template
37 improvements to factory templates
38 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden
39 added new hook - preprocess_location
40 added new attribute to Maypole::Config - request_options
41 improved pager template macro
44 Internal additions and enhancements :
45 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
46 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
47 new test to check everything compiles
48 Model inheritance re-organised
50 2.111 Mon 30 April 2007
51 - forked - see 2.111 changelog
58 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
59 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
60 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
62 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
65 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
68 Incompatible API changes:
70 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
71 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
73 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
75 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
78 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
80 API additions and enhancements:
82 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
83 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
86 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
88 - get_session() method (no-op)
89 - get_user() method (no-op)
90 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
91 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
92 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
94 - start_request_hook() added
95 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
97 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
98 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
101 - improved exception handling
102 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
103 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
104 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
106 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
108 - new report_error method
109 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
111 - Improved pager macro/include
112 - Improved factory templates
113 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
115 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
117 - improved error messages in do_edit action
118 - new required_columns mutator method
119 - new column_required accessor method
122 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
123 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
124 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
125 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
126 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
127 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
129 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
130 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
131 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
132 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
133 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
134 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
135 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
136 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
137 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
138 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
139 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
140 some silent death scenarios resolved
141 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
144 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
145 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
146 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
147 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
148 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
149 Maypole::Manual::About
150 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
151 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
152 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
153 - updated Maypole::View:TT
154 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
157 HTTP::Body now required
158 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
162 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
163 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
164 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
165 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
166 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
167 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
168 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
169 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
170 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
171 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
172 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
174 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
176 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
178 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
181 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
184 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
185 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
186 for templates (Dave Howorth)
189 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
190 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
192 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
195 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
196 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
199 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
200 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
203 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
205 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
206 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
207 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
208 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
211 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
213 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
215 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
217 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
218 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
221 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
222 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
223 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
224 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
225 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
226 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
227 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
228 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
229 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
230 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
231 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
234 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
235 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
236 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
240 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
241 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
242 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
243 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
244 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
245 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
246 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
247 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
248 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
249 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
250 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
251 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
252 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
253 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
255 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
257 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
258 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
259 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
261 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
264 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
265 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
266 - Only show buttons for public actions.
267 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
268 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
270 - Other assorted css/template fixes
273 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
274 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
275 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
276 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
277 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
278 arg after fetching objects
280 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
281 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
282 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
283 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
284 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
285 - only set charset for text/*
287 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
288 - Fixed charset in http header.
289 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
291 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
292 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
294 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
295 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
296 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
297 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
298 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
299 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
300 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
301 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
302 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
303 - fixed documentation bugs
304 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
305 $r->config->{document_encoding}
306 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
307 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
308 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
309 - accessors for everything
311 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
312 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
313 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
315 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
316 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
317 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
319 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
320 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
321 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
322 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
324 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
325 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
328 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
329 - Two very trivial fixes:
330 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
331 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
333 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
334 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
335 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
336 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
337 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
338 - Add sample CSS to distribution
339 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
341 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
342 - Don't authenticate without a model class
343 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
344 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
345 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
346 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
347 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
349 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
350 - Much, much more documentation
352 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
353 - Beginnings of a test suite
354 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
355 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
356 - HTML::Mason view class
357 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
359 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
360 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
361 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
363 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
364 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
365 - Support for the "frontpage" template
366 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
367 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
368 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
369 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
370 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
373 - Fix SQLite dependency
375 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
376 - Update CDBIL dependency
377 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
378 - Better support for authentication and template changes
379 - Full set of templates
380 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
381 - display_columns method
383 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
384 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
385 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
386 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
388 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
389 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
390 (ascending and descending)
392 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
393 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
394 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC