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 Now uses Class::C3 in all Classes to simplify inheritence
9 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked
10 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model
11 new Class::DBI::DFV based model
18 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
19 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
20 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
22 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm
25 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead
28 Incompatible API changes:
30 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is
31 an alias for is_model_applicable now.
33 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901)
35 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
38 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates
40 API additions and enhancements:
42 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
43 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
46 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
48 - get_session() method (no-op)
49 - get_user() method (no-op)
50 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
51 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
52 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
54 - start_request_hook() added
55 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
57 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
58 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
61 - improved exception handling
62 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set
63 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality
64 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects
66 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
68 - new report_error method
69 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
71 - Improved pager macro/include
72 - Improved factory templates
73 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
75 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects
77 - improved error messages in do_edit action
78 - new required_columns mutator method
79 - new column_required accessor method
82 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
83 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
84 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
85 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
86 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
87 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
89 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
90 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
91 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
92 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
93 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
94 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
95 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659)
96 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659)
97 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661)
98 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678)
99 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977)
100 some silent death scenarios resolved
101 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147)
104 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
105 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
106 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
107 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
108 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
109 Maypole::Manual::About
110 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
111 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
112 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
113 - updated Maypole::View:TT
114 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features
117 HTTP::Body now required
118 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0
122 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
123 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
124 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
125 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
126 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
127 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
128 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
129 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
130 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
131 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
132 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
134 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
136 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
138 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
141 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
144 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
145 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
146 for templates (Dave Howorth)
149 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
150 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
152 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
155 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
156 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
159 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
160 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
163 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
165 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
166 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
167 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
168 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
171 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
173 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
175 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
177 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
178 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
181 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
182 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
183 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
184 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
185 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
186 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
187 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
188 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
189 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
190 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
191 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
194 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
195 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
196 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
200 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
201 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
202 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
203 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
204 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
205 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
206 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
207 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
208 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
209 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
210 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
211 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
212 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
213 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
215 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
217 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
218 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
219 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
221 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
224 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
225 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
226 - Only show buttons for public actions.
227 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
228 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
230 - Other assorted css/template fixes
233 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
234 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
235 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
236 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
237 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
238 arg after fetching objects
240 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
241 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
242 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
243 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
244 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
245 - only set charset for text/*
247 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
248 - Fixed charset in http header.
249 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
251 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
252 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
254 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
255 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
256 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
257 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
258 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
259 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
260 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
261 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
262 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
263 - fixed documentation bugs
264 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
265 $r->config->{document_encoding}
266 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
267 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
268 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
269 - accessors for everything
271 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
272 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
273 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
275 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
276 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
277 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
279 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
280 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
281 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
282 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
284 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
285 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
288 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
289 - Two very trivial fixes:
290 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
291 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
293 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
294 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
295 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
296 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
297 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
298 - Add sample CSS to distribution
299 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
301 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
302 - Don't authenticate without a model class
303 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
304 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
305 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
306 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
307 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
309 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
310 - Much, much more documentation
312 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
313 - Beginnings of a test suite
314 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
315 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
316 - HTML::Mason view class
317 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
319 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
320 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
321 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
323 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
324 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
325 - Support for the "frontpage" template
326 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
327 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
328 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
329 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
330 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
333 - Fix SQLite dependency
335 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
336 - Update CDBIL dependency
337 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
338 - Better support for authentication and template changes
339 - Full set of templates
340 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
341 - display_columns method
343 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
344 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
345 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
346 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
348 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
349 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
350 (ascending and descending)
352 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
353 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
354 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC