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 API additions and enhancements:
20 -Init flag (wishlist 14123)
22 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142)
24 - session() attribute, and get_session() method (no-op)
25 - user() attribute, and get_user() method (no-op)
26 - get_session() now called during handler_guts() before authenticate()
27 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(),
28 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in
30 - start_request_hook() added
31 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass()
32 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action
36 - Improved pager macro/include
39 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346)
40 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991)
41 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975)
42 Apache2 fix in Apache::MVC (bug 13888)
43 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the
44 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs
46 Improved Template error reporting (14133)
47 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124)
48 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014)
49 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards
50 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566)
51 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI
54 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263)
55 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073)
56 Numerous major and minor updates to docs.
57 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook
58 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from
59 Maypole::Manual::About
60 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance
61 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology
62 - updated Maypole::Manual::View
63 - updated Maypole::View:TT
68 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 )
69 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 )
70 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 )
71 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 )
72 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 )
73 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 )
74 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work
75 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list
76 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI
77 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field
78 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields
80 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5
82 2.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005
84 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests
87 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error
90 2.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005
91 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension
92 for templates (Dave Howorth)
95 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg)
96 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there
98 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors
101 2.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005
102 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN)
105 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and
106 clashed with 'description' columns in the database
109 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single,
111 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base
112 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake)
113 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird)
114 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings
117 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request
119 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit
121 2.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004
123 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better
124 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed
127 2.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004
128 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his
129 hard work and 120kb documentation patches.
130 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with
131 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers)
132 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes
133 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options
134 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with
135 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use
136 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with
137 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance
140 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects().
141 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually
142 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others.
146 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base
147 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth)
148 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg)
149 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and
150 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth)
151 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config
152 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz)
153 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents.
154 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects.
155 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth)
156 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2
157 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters
158 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for
159 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps
161 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label,
163 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth)
164 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor)
165 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct
167 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit.
170 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates
171 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
172 - Only show buttons for public actions.
173 (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)
174 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro.
176 - Other assorted css/template fixes
179 2.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004
180 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz)
181 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth)
182 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth)
183 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first
184 arg after fetching objects
186 2.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004
187 - increased version number of Apache::MVC
188 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms)
189 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant
190 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth)
191 - only set charset for text/*
193 2.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004
194 - Fixed charset in http header.
195 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates
197 2.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004
198 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy
200 2.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004
201 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack)
202 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates
203 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC
204 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end
205 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI
206 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST
207 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack)
208 - added exception handling (Simon Flack)
209 - fixed documentation bugs
210 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with
211 $r->config->{document_encoding}
212 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN.
213 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant.
214 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config
215 - accessors for everything
217 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack)
218 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual
219 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload
221 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with
222 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this
223 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards
225 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter
226 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack)
227 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic)
228 - zero search fix (Dave Slack)
230 1.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004
231 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from
234 1.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004
235 - Two very trivial fixes:
236 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time
237 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true
239 1.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004
240 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module
241 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg)
242 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower)
243 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus)
244 - Add sample CSS to distribution
245 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set
247 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found
248 - Don't authenticate without a model class
249 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne)
250 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch
251 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg)
252 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka)
253 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower)
255 1.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004
256 - Much, much more documentation
258 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole)
259 - Beginnings of a test suite
260 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache
261 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules
262 - HTML::Mason view class
263 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements
265 1.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004
266 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug.
267 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled.
269 1.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004
270 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects
271 - Support for the "frontpage" template
272 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely
273 refactored into the Apache::MVC class
274 - The beginnings of the documentation framework
275 - Support for paging and ordering in searches
276 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable
279 - Fix SQLite dependency
281 1.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004
282 - Update CDBIL dependency
283 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one
284 - Better support for authentication and template changes
285 - Full set of templates
286 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup
287 - display_columns method
289 1.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004
290 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole.
291 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller
292 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC
294 0.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004
295 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column
296 (ascending and descending)
298 0.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004
299 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options
300 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC