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
8 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters
9 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future
10 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls.
12 Incompatible API changes:
14 - is_applicable() renamed to is_model_applicable(), and returns boolean
15 instead of a status code. Old-style is_applicable() will still work,
18 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete
21 API additions and enhancements:
23 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
24 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend
27 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
29 - get_session() method (no-op)
30 - get_user() method (no-op)
31 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
32 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
33 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
35 - start_request_hook() added
36 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook()
38 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
39 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
42 - improved exception handling
44 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions
46 - new report_error method
47 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__
49 - Improved pager macro/include
50 - Improved factory templates
51 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places
55 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
56 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
57 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
58 Apache2 fix in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
59 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
60 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
62 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
63 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
64 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
65 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
66 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
67 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
70 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
71 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
72 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
73 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
74 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
75 Maypole::Manual::About
76 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
77 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
78 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
79 - updated Maypole::View:TT
84 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
85 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
86 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
87 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
88 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
89 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
90 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
91 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
92 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
93 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
94 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
96 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
98 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
100 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
103 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
106 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
107 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
108 for templates (Dave Howorth)
111 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
112 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
114 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
117 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
118 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
121 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
122 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
125 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
127 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
128 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
129 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
130 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
133 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
135 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
137 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
139 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
140 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
143 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
144 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
145 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
146 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
147 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
148 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
149 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
150 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
151 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
152 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
153 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
156 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
157 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
158 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
162 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
163 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
164 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
165 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
166 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
167 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
168 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
169 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
170 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
171 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
172 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
173 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
174 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
175 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
177 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
179 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
180 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
181 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
183 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
186 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
187 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
188 - Only show buttons for public actions.
189 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
190 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
192 - Other assorted css/template fixes
195 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
196 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
197 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
198 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
199 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
200 arg after fetching objects
202 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
203 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
204 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
205 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
206 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
207 - only set charset for text/*
209 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
210 - Fixed charset in http header.
211 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
213 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
214 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
216 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
217 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
218 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
219 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
220 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
221 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
222 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
223 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
224 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
225 - fixed documentation bugs
226 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
227 $r->config->{document_encoding}
228 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
229 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
230 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
231 - accessors for everything
233 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
234 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
235 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
237 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
238 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
239 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
241 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
242 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
243 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
244 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
246 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
247 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
250 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
251 - Two very trivial fixes:
252 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
253 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
255 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
256 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
257 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
258 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
259 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
260 - Add sample CSS to distribution
261 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
263 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
264 - Don't authenticate without a model class
265 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
266 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
267 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
268 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
269 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
271 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
272 - Much, much more documentation
274 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
275 - Beginnings of a test suite
276 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
277 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
278 - HTML::Mason view class
279 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
281 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
282 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
283 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
285 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
286 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
287 - Support for the "frontpage" template
288 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
289 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
290 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
291 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
292 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
295 - Fix SQLite dependency
297 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
298 - Update CDBIL dependency
299 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
300 - Better support for authentication and template changes
301 - Full set of templates
302 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
303 - display_columns method
305 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
306 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
307 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
308 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
310 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
311 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
312 (ascending and descending)
314 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
315 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
316 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC