1This file documents the revision history for Perl extension Maypole. 2For information about current developments and future releases, see: 3 http://maypole.perl.org/?TheRoadmap 4 5 6 72.13 April 2008 8SVN Revision 9 10Bug Fixes : 11 DBD::SQLite no longer required by Makefile.PL 12 CGI handler now produces response for fatal error (bug 29981) 13 Fix to link macro 14 Fix to redirect_request in Apache::MVC 15 Fix to mime detection by file extension 16 Fixed MODIFY_CODE_ATTRIBUTES and FETCH_CODE_ATTRIBUTES to work with mod_perl threaded model 17 - Patch from Ben Hutchings http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29984 18 fixes for bug 29982 Inconsistency between examples and tutorial (patch from Ben Hutchings) 19 fixed apache_mvc.t to work with Apache2 (bug #29979 patch from Ben Hutchings) 20 added post_chomp as default option for TT view 21 22Improvements : 23 link macro now takes a target argument, and has slightly better pod 24 252.121 29 August 2007 26 27SVN revision 581 28 29Bug Fixes : 30 Apache::Request is fetched with a new object instead of instance if request options are provided 31 additional, request_options and view_options attributes of Maypole::Config are initialised with hashref 32 do_delete action now has exported attribute in ::Model::CDBI::Base 33 Fixed links in flox to cookbook (bug 22899) 34 Applied change from bug 14565 35 362.12 22 June 2007 37 38SVN revision 573 39 40Bug Fixes : 41 Fixed some db_colinfo test bugs 42 Fixed typo in edit form template 43 AsForm fixes to stringification _to_select 44 made DFV and FromCGI warn instead of die on unexpected cgi params 45 small improvements to some factory templates 46 fix to path handling in mod_perl and CGI when location ends in / 47 fixed template path ordering so i.e. /tablename/list is used before /list when provided with a tablename 48 fixed template path with array refs 49 fix to template being reset from path in plain templates (i.e. where no model), may affect those relying on the bug ( bug 23722 ) 50 fix to display_line macro in factory templates (bug 22920) 51 fix to correct problem with LocationMatch and regex based Location directives in apache config. 52 fix to redirect_request 53 Fixed typo in _do_update_or_create (bug 26495) 54 55 56API additions and enhancements : 57 new Class::DBI::DFV based model 58 New config method : additional, for stashing additional info, especially from additional_data method 59 new warn method in maypole/request class/object, over-ridden by Apache::MVC, etc or own driver 60 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 61 added CGI params to TT error template 62 improvements to factory templates 63 added search_columns method to base cdbi model class, provides display_columns unless over-ridden 64 added new hook - preprocess_location 65 added new attribute to Maypole::Config - request_options 66 improved pager template macro 67 68 69Internal additions and enhancements : 70 Inheritence simpler and nicer and less hacked 71 add_model_superclass method moves @ISA munging into the model 72 new test to check everything compiles 73 Model inheritance re-organised 74 752.111 Mon 30 April 2007 76 - forked - see 2.111 changelog 77 782.11 Mon 31 July 2006 79 80SVN revision 519 81 82Deprecated: 83 Directly accessing the attributes of the request object, or the parameters 84 in $r->params, or anything else, is DEPRECATED and likely to break in future 85 releases. Be good, and use proper method calls. 86 87 Maypole no longer uses Class::DBI::AsForm, instead Maypole::Model::CDBI::AsForm 88 has replaced it. 89 90 $config->{$table}{required_cols} is deprecated, please use $class->required_columns instead 91 92 93Incompatible API changes: 94 Maypole 95 - is_applicable() deprecated for is_model_applicable(). is_applicable is 96 an alias for is_model_applicable now. 97 Maypole::Constants 98 - ERROR constant now 500, previously -1 (bug #18901) 99 Maypole::Model 100 - delete and search actions are now deprecated - use do_search and do_delete 101 instead 102 Maypole::View 103 - table name rather than moniker is used to find templates 104 105API additions and enhancements: 106 Maypole::Application: 107 - -Init flag (wishlist 14123) 108 - recognises Maypole::HTTPD and installs Maypole::HTTPD::Frontend 109 as its frontend 110 Maypole::Headers: 111 add() alias to push() (wishlist 14142) 112 Maypole: 113 - get_session() method (no-op) 114 - get_user() method (no-op) 115 - get_session() is called during handler_guts() before authenticate() 116 - new preprocess_path() method added and called by parse_path(), 117 parse_path() will leave any properties set by preprocess_path() in 118 place 119 - start_request_hook() added 120 - status() attribute added (though only used by start_request_hook() 121 so far) 122 - setup() split into setup(), setup_model(), and load_model_subclass() 123 - added new path processing methods for ssl and default table/action 124 - added make_path() 125 - added make_uri() 126 - improved exception handling 127 - now uses File::MMagic::XS to guess mime type of output unless already set 128 - new component method provides Maypole::Component functionality 129 - new object method gets/sets first/only object in objects 130 Maypole::Model 131 - do_delete, do_search in place of delete/search actions 132 Maypole::View::TT: 133 - new report_error method 134 - new embedded error report page in __DATA__ 135 Templates: 136 - Improved pager macro/include 137 - Improved factory templates 138 - added the status() attribute, although it's not used in many places 139 yet 140 - Changed factory edit/view to use object instead of objects 141 Maypole::Model::CDBI 142 - improved error messages in do_edit action 143 - new required_columns mutator method 144 - new column_required accessor method 145 146Bug fixes: 147 Fix to cgi_maypole.t (bug 11346) 148 Fix to TT error reporting (bug 13991) 149 Template xhtml validation (bug 13975) 150 Apache2 fixes in Apache::MVC (bug 13888) 151 Fixed inheritance issues in Mp::Application - Mp::App now manipulates the 152 caller's @ISA directly, and doesn't inject itself into the chain (bugs 153 12923 & 14120) 154 Improved Template error reporting (14133) 155 Maypole::Session::generate_unique_id() now returns the id (bug 14124) 156 Moved ar accessor to Apache::MVC (bug 14014) 157 Refactored core to support further development in 2.11 and onwards 158 Fixed related_class() method (bug 14566) 159 Added a cgi() attribute in Maypole::CGI 160 Factory templates now less vulnerable to XSS (bug 16659) 161 Reduced risk of XSS in factory templates (bug 16659) 162 model search/delete methods in model and subclassing the cdbi mode (bug 16661) 163 fixed problems with stringify_self and untaint missing ignore columns (bug 15678) 164 fixed Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain to JustWork(TM) with plain CDBI Classes (bug 16977) 165 some silent death scenarios resolved 166 Now initializes template_args, stash, parmas, objects and others to correct data type. (bug 15147) 167 168Documentation: 169 Fix to documentation for CGI::Maypole (bug 7263) 170 Simplified Net::Amazon example (bug 14073) 171 Numerous major and minor updates to docs. 172 Renamed Maypole::Manual::Request to Maypole::Manual::Cookbook 173 Added Maypole::Manual::Install, with material removed from 174 Maypole::Manual::About 175 Added Maypole::Manual::Inheritance 176 Added Maypole::Manual::Terminology 177 - updated Maypole::Manual::View 178 - updated Maypole::View:TT 179 Examples of fancy forms and templates using new features 180 181Requirements: 182 HTTP::Body now required 183 CGI::Untaint >= 1.26 now required rather than >= 0 184 185 1862.10 Tue 19 Jul 2005 187 Multiple Template Paths added ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=13447 ) 188 Small fix to templates/factory/frontpage ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11236 ) 189 MasonX support in Maypole::Application ( https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=12383 ) 190 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain / Maypole Config issue ( http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=11530 ) 191 Repeat Submission detection support ( Bug #6500 ) 192 Fix to setup_database in Maypole::Model::CDBI ( Bug #12384 ) 193 Fix to plugin to allow Maypole::Plugin::Config::YAML to work 194 Fix to Maypole::Model::CDBI order sub from list 195 Improvement to primary display column using CDBI 196 Improved efficiency of finding stringified columns using new classmetadata field 197 Fixed BeerDB to untaint pub fields 198 199 Additional Requirements : Digest::MD5 200 2012.09 Mon Jan 25 22:00:00 2005 202 Fixes: 203 - Fixed plugin inheritance set up by Maypole::Application, added tests 204 205 Templates: 206 - factory/addnew will only prefill values when there's a row creation error 207 208 2092.08 Mon Jan 24 20:45:00 2005 210 - Added $r->config->template_extension() to set optional file extension 211 for templates (Dave Howorth) 212 213 Fixes: 214 - Maypole::Application adds plugin classes to caller's @ISA (Marcus Ramberg) 215 - FETCH_CODE_ATRIBUTES in M::M::Base should return an empty list if there 216 are no attributes 217 - M::M::CDBI will warn() about Class::DBI::FromCGI errors 218 219 2202.07 Sun Jan 16 18:45:00 2005 221 (This version was not uploaded to CPAN) 222 223 Internal changes: 224 - Removed Maypole::Model->description. It didn't work as expected and 225 clashed with 'description' columns in the database 226 227 Fixes: 228 - Model->process() shouldn't set $r->objects() to a list with a single, 229 undefined element 230 - Fixed overriding $r->template_args->{classmetadata} in M::V::Base 231 (Thanks to Dave Howorth for spotting the mistake) 232 - #9473: Maypole::Model::CDBI->related_class (Thanks David Baird) 233 - #9434: M::M::CDBI->search generated "uninitialized value" warnings 234 235 Templates: 236 - The addnew template will attempt to prefill form fields with request 237 parameters 238 - edit template includes 'addnew' if there is no object to edit 239 2402.06 Wed Dec 29 01:30:00 2004 241 Fixes: 242 - Minor restructuring of the manual so search.cpan.org indexes it better 243 - #9129: Skip t/apache_mvc.t if Apache::Request isn't installed 244 245 2462.05 Fri Dec 24 03:20:00 2004 247 - Revised and updated documentation. Many thanks to Dave Howorth for his 248 hard work and 120kb documentation patches. 249 - Added support for request and response HTTP headers with 250 $r->headers_in & $r->headers_out (Maypole::Headers) 251 - Support for compound primary keys for Maypole::Model::CDBI classes 252 - Template toolkit objects are configurable with M::Config->view_options 253 - Templating performance should be improved when running Maypole with 254 mod_perl since compiled templates remain in memory. CGI users can use 255 TT2's COMPILE_DIR or COMPILE_EXT options with 256 Maypole::Config->view_options to improve performance 257 258 Internal changes: 259 - Added a new override for the model: fetch_objects(). 260 - 'classmetadata' template variables can now be overriden individually 261 - New unit tests for Maypole, CGI::Maypole, Maypole::Headers, and others. 262 More to come. 263 264 Fixes: 265 - Maypole::CLI is more tolerant of trailing slashes in the request/uri_base 266 - fixed a bug in CGI::Maypole::parse_location() (Dave Howorth) 267 - Also applied that fix to Apache::MVC (Marcus Ramberg) 268 - some fixes for Maypole::Config, Maypole::Model::Base and 269 Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain (Dave Howorth) 270 - Documented adding new accessors to Maypole::Config 271 - Added Apache::RequestIO to Apache::MVC (michael#diaspora.gen.nz) 272 - Applied patch to fix length of utf8 documents. 273 - support compound primary keys in CDBI fetch_objects. 274 - Check if has_a actually points to a Maypole::Model (Dave Howorth) 275 - Make test suite work with DBD::SQLite2 276 - default search() action removes empty fields from search parameters 277 - #6622 - Maypole::Application will create a separate Maypole::Config for 278 each application (instead of the current workaround for multiple apps 279 under mod_perl) 280 - #7643 - improve M::V::Base's error() messages. prefix error with label, 281 and carp() 282 - #7651 - minor POD improvements in M::M::CDBI (Dave Howorth) 283 - #7834 - minor POD update in M::M::CDBI (Kevin Connor) 284 - #7917 - if do_edit fails for object creation, try again with the correct 285 template (addnew) 286 - #7930 - handle Class::DBI constraint failures in do_edit. 287 288 Templates: 289 - add support for compound primary keys in factory templates 290 (Dagfinn Ilmari Manns�ker) 291 - Only show buttons for public actions. 292 (Dagfinn Ilmari Manns�ker) 293 - Split the meat of the view template off to a view_item macro. 294 - New login template 295 - Other assorted css/template fixes 296 297 2982.04 Tue Oct 27 14:00:00 2004 299 - fixed Apache::MVC version (Randal Schwartz) 300 - fixed template_args (Dave Howorth) 301 - new Maypole::Config documentation (Dave Howorth) 302 - Maypole::Model::Base::process() no more steals you the first 303 arg after fetching objects 304 3052.03 Tue Oct 26 13:00:00 2004 306 - increased version number of Apache::MVC 307 - fixed display_tables bug (Steve Simms) 308 - fixed templates, now again XHTML compliant 309 - documentation fix (Dave Howorth) 310 - only set charset for text/* 311 3122.02 Mon Oct 25 13:00:00 2004 313 - Fixed charset in http header. 314 - replaced action links with forms in factory templates 315 3162.01 Sun Oct 24 14:50:00 2004 317 - documentation fix to make t/03podcoverage happy 318 3192.0 Fri Oct 22 20:00:00 2004 320 - added parse_args() (Simon Flack) 321 - call additional_data() and authenticate() for plain templates 322 - merged Apache2::MVC (mod_perl2 support) into Apache::MVC 323 - added Maypole::Application universal front-end 324 - config parameter handling for Maypole::Model::CDBI 325 - $r->{query} is now deprecated, use $r->{params} for GET and POST 326 - fixed multiple value handling (Simon Flack) 327 - added exception handling (Simon Flack) 328 - fixed documentation bugs 329 - changed default documentencoding to utf8. Change with 330 $r->config->{document_encoding} 331 - removed Maypole::View::Mason as it's distributed separately on CPAN. 332 - factory templates are now XHTML 1.1 compliant. 333 - made the config hash into -> Maypole::Config 334 - accessors for everything 335 - win32 support 336 - new documentation for Maypole.pm (Simon Flack) 337 - moved doc/*.pod to lib/Maypole/Manual 338 - added Maypole::Model::Base::is_public() to make it simple to overload 339 :Exported behavior 340 - added support for replacing use base qw/All My Modules/ with 341 use Maypole::Application qw/Redirect AnotherPlugin/; note that this 342 will only triggers with parameters to import, to preserve backwards 343 compability. 344 - fixed search ordering in Maypole::Model::CDBI and parameter 345 handling in CGI::Maypole (Dave Slack) 346 - sweet new factory templates (Danijel Milicevic) 347 - zero search fix (Dave Slack) 348 3491.7 Sat Jul 17 20:15:26 BST 2004 350 - Emergency release - we lost the "use Maypole::Constants" from 351 CLI.pm somehow 352 3531.6 Fri Jul 16 23:51:21 BST 2004 354 - Two very trivial fixes: 355 - Put ::Plain in the MANIFEST, so it actually ships this time 356 - Make CLI test == OK, not just true 357 3581.5 Mon Jun 21 14:36:54 BST 2004 359 - CLI mode correctly uses Constants module 360 - Template footers as well as headers (Markus Ramberg) 361 - Fix problems on failed object create (Jesse Sheidlower) 362 - Fix related() to deal with latest version of Class::DBI (Markus) 363 - Add sample CSS to distribution 364 - Maypole::Model::CDBI::Plain, for those who already have a CDBI set 365 of classes set up 366 - Friendlier errors when a template can't be found 367 - Don't authenticate without a model class 368 - #6569 Passing DBI options in setup() (Mickael Joanne) 369 - #6571 User-defined ok_tables: patch 370 - #6572 Makefile patch: require up-to-date CBDI::AsForm (Markus Ramberg) 371 - #6573 Set empty params to '' instead of undef (Jody Belka) 372 - #6617 Required cols patch in CDBI.pm (Jesse Sheidlower) 373 3741.4 Fri Apr 16 18:11:41 BST 2004 375 - Much, much more documentation 376 - CLI debugging mode 377 - CGI frontend (CGI::Maypole) 378 - Beginnings of a test suite 379 - Maypole::Constants module to remove dependency on Apache 380 - Refactoring of view classes to base/module-specific modules 381 - HTML::Mason view class 382 - Various small template bug fixes and enhancements 383 3841.3 Fri Mar 26 19:16:33 GMT 2004 385 - Fix serious order/CDBI::Page interaction bug. 386 - Die if model/view class can't be compiled. 387 3881.2 Thu Mar 25 12:35:21 GMT 2004 389 - Ensure safety when dereferencing any ->objects 390 - Support for the "frontpage" template 391 - Maypole itself no longer uses ->{ar}, which is now completely 392 refactored into the Apache::MVC class 393 - The beginnings of the documentation framework 394 - Support for paging and ordering in searches 395 - Stringify column changed from magic "name" to customizable 396 property 397 - Move BeerDB to ex/ 398 - Fix SQLite dependency 399 4001.1 Wed Feb 25 10:29:25 GMT 2004 401 - Update CDBIL dependency 402 - Don't stringify to "name" if there isn't one 403 - Better support for authentication and template changes 404 - Full set of templates 405 - Allow passing of username and password to ->setup 406 - display_columns method 407 4081.0 Wed Feb 11 17:34:12 GMT 2004 409 - Renamed from Apache::MVC to Maypole. 410 - Clearer separation of model and view classes from controller 411 - Factoring out of Apache-specific code back into Apache::MVC 412 4130.2 Thu Feb 5 18:03:33 GMT 2004 414 - This release adds paging of list results and ordering by column 415 (ascending and descending) 416 4170.01 Thu Jan 8 15:50:17 2004 418 - original version; created by h2xs 1.22 with options 419 -AX -b 5.6.0 -n Apache::MVC 420 421