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 link macro now takes a target argument, and has slightly better pod
21 Apache::Request is fetched with a new object instead of instance if request options are provided
22 additional, request_options and view_options attributes of Maypole::Config are initialised with hashref
23 do_delete action now has exported attribute in ::Model::CDBI::Base
24 Fixed links in flox to cookbook (bug 22899)
25 Applied change from bug 14565
32 Fixed some db_colinfo test bugs
33 Fixed typo in edit form template
34 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select
35 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params
36 small improvements to some factory templates
37 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in /
38 fixed template path ordering so i.e. /tablename/list is used before /list when provided with a tablename
39 fixed template path with array refs
40 fix to template being reset from path in plain templates (i.e. where no model), may affect those relying on the bug ( bug 23722 )
41 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920)
42 fix to correct problem with LocationMatch and regex based Location directives in apache config.
43 fix to redirect_request
44 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495)
47 API additions and enhancements :
48 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
49 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method
50 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver
51 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
52 added CGI params to TT error template
53 improvements to factory templates
54 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden
55 added new hook - preprocess_location
56 added new attribute to Maypole::Config - request_options
57 improved pager template macro
60 Internal additions and enhancements :
61 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
62 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
63 new test to check everything compiles
64 Model inheritance re-organised
66 2.111 Mon 30 April 2007
67 - forked - see 2.111 changelog
74 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
75 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
76 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
78 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
81 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
84 Incompatible API changes:
86 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
87 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
89 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
91 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
94 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
96 API additions and enhancements:
98 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
99 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
102 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
104 - get_session() method (no-op)
105 - get_user() method (no-op)
106 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
107 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
108 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
110 - start_request_hook() added
111 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
113 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
114 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
117 - improved exception handling
118 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
119 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
120 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
122 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
124 - new report_error method
125 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
127 - Improved pager macro/include
128 - Improved factory templates
129 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
131 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
133 - improved error messages in do_edit action
134 - new required_columns mutator method
135 - new column_required accessor method
138 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
139 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
140 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
141 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
142 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
143 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
145 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
146 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
147 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
148 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
149 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
150 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
151 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
152 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
153 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
154 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
155 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
156 some silent death scenarios resolved
157 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
160 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
161 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
162 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
163 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
164 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
165 Maypole::Manual::About
166 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
167 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
168 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
169 - updated Maypole::View:TT
170 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
173 HTTP::Body now required
174 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
178 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
179 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
180 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
181 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
182 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
183 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
184 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
185 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
186 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
187 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
188 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
190 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
192 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
194 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
197 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
200 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
201 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
202 for templates (Dave Howorth)
205 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
206 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
208 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
211 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
212 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
215 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
216 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
219 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
221 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
222 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
223 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
224 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
227 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
229 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
231 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
233 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
234 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
237 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
238 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
239 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
240 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
241 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
242 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
243 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
244 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
245 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
246 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
247 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
250 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
251 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
252 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
256 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
257 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
258 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
259 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
260 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
261 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
262 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
263 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
264 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
265 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
266 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
267 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
268 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
269 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
271 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
273 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
274 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
275 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
277 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
280 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
281 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
282 - Only show buttons for public actions.
283 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
284 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
286 - Other assorted css/template fixes
289 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
290 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
291 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
292 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
293 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
294 arg after fetching objects
296 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
297 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
298 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
299 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
300 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
301 - only set charset for text/*
303 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
304 - Fixed charset in http header.
305 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
307 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
308 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
310 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
311 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
312 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
313 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
314 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
315 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
316 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
317 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
318 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
319 - fixed documentation bugs
320 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
321 $r->config->{document_encoding}
322 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
323 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
324 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
325 - accessors for everything
327 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
328 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
329 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
331 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
332 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
333 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
335 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
336 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
337 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
338 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
340 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
341 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
344 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
345 - Two very trivial fixes:
346 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
347 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
349 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
350 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
351 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
352 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
353 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
354 - Add sample CSS to distribution
355 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
357 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
358 - Don't authenticate without a model class
359 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
360 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
361 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
362 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
363 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
365 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
366 - Much, much more documentation
368 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
369 - Beginnings of a test suite
370 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
371 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
372 - HTML::Mason view class
373 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
375 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
376 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
377 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
379 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
380 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
381 - Support for the "frontpage" template
382 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
383 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
384 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
385 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
386 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
389 - Fix SQLite dependency
391 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
392 - Update CDBIL dependency
393 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
394 - Better support for authentication and template changes
395 - Full set of templates
396 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
397 - display_columns method
399 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
400 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
401 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
402 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
404 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
405 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
406 (ascending and descending)
408 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
409 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
410 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC