[jifty-devel] Preliminary changelog for the forthcoming jifty
release
Jesse Vincent
jesse at bestpractical.com
Thu Nov 23 22:27:51 EST 2006
Below is a first cut at the new jifty release changelog. If I've done
something truly horrible, please scream at me in the next little bit.
I'm going to put a _dev release up on CPAN now.
-j
New authors
• Add yves in authors, for localisation, debian packaging -yves
• Added PJF to AUTHORS file. -pjf
• Added evdb as a new author -evdb
PubSub (audreyt, clkao, jesse)
• Audrey, Jesse and CL hacked out a PubSub message bus and a preliminary
Comet implementation.
• Doc for how subscription stuff works. a bit of refactoring toward a second
transport
• Added sample apps and design docs from the PubSub/Comet hackathon
Database
• Initial support for prefetched collections. -jesse
• Added support for SQL::ReservedWords to the schema tool, to stop me from
building applications for Postgres on SQLite and hurting myself later
-jesse
• Add a CheckSchema option to the config file to govern the SQL Schema
keyword checking -jesse
• Classify databases failing an SQL::ReservedWords check for nicer output
-gaal
• Better debugging information when running actions -jesse
Documentation
• Updated tutorial to remove mention of the deprecated download area. -pjf
• Provided extra tips on how to install Jifty using Perl's standard CPAN
module on both Unix-like and Win32 systems. -pjf
• Documented PageRegions usage -wolfgang
• Show an example of a canonicalizer (lifted from the jifty presentations).
-falcone
• Document the ability to frob other pieces of the action from a
canonicalizer -falcone
• Jifty::Manual::UsingCSSandJS - Fix the misspelled "app.css" to the correct
"app.js"; minor reformatting. -audreyt
• Jifty::Manual::Models - It mentions <> as the SQL inequality operator, but
all internal code uses != instead; change the doc to match reality.
-audreyt
• Jifty::Manual::Cookbook - Trivial typo. -audreyt
• Jifty::Manual::AccessControl, Jifty::Manual::RequestHandling - Change C<
objEmeth > to the more readable C<< obj->meth >> POD syntax. -audreyt
• expanded AccessControl.pod to reflect changes in Login plugin -wolfgang
• added a pod describing Jifty's request handling process -wolfgang
• added a german translation for Tutorial.pod -wolfgang
• Minor fixes to pod -evdb
• added explanations about Login Plugin to AccessControl.pod -wolfgang
• updated Models.pod to reflect recent changes -wolfgang
• added a section on 'limit' to 'Models.pod' -wolfgang
• Supply documentation for all of the methods which had been missing it
-jesse
• Jifty::Param::Schema merge algorithm rescued from the obscurity of commit
logs. -jesse
• Corrected Jifty::Record::current_user_can: The right is 'update', not
'edit' -jesse
• Jifty::Record::current_user_can: "admin" should have been "delete" -jesse
• Added the time and date filters to the cookbook. -nelhage
• Improved docs for Jifty::RightsFrom -jesse
• Improved docs for Jifty::Record (Access control related functionality)
-jesse
• Added a documentation fileon CSS and JS -wolfgang
• Jifty::Param::Schema - Trivial doc fix to s/Wifty/MyApp/. -audreyt
• Jifty::Action - add documentation for the automatic moniker generation
algorithm. -audreyt
• Minor documentation updates -gaal
• Jifty::Script::FastCGI doc - it's share/web/ not web/ nowadays. -audreyt
• Two simple POD typos, one spotted by Gaal Yahas. -audreyt
• Minor spelling corrections. -jpeacock
• Fixed a cookbook typo, and add some sentences describing an issue when
defer{} failed to dwim. -gugod
• A cookbook recipe to do ajax canonicalization. -gugod
• Jifty::Action POD: Copy-n-paste the synopsis from Jifty::Param::Schema and
correctly L<> there. -audreyt
Plugins
• First release for plugins AuthLDAPOnly and AuthLDAPLogin, all comments are
welcome -yves
• Login plugin : Add missing Notification::ConfirmLostPassword, dispatcher
for passwordreminder, let to reset lost password -yves
• Added an action to let the user change his/her password in the login plugin
-yves
• AuthLDAP plugins: minor doc and debian rules fix -yves
• You can now run actions and get back arbitrary data formats from the REST
dispatcher -nelhage
• REST dispatcher cleanups. -jesse
• First cut at XML webservices in the REST plugin -jesse
• The first bit of major refactoring of the REST plugin. -jesse
• we loves our ACLs, we do. The REST plugin was violating too much
encapsuplation -jesse
• Added Module::Install files for plugins EditInPlace and Login; some of them
were in the MANIFEST but not the repository, so we were getting false
warnings of missing files when running 'make distclean'. -jpeacock
• Add license to Login plugin's Makefile.PL. NOTE: remember to increment the
plugin's $VERSION strings before releasing to CPAN (else updates won't get
installed). -jpeacock
Internals
• Jifty.pm: Load I18N after plugins, but before the main classloader, so the
main classes has access to _(). - audreyt
• Removed support for Devel::Gladiator. It was very, very beta and caused
server processes to end up as zombies -jesse
• qw'' is just weird. Change all instances to qw(). -schwern
• Jifty::Action::Record 'use'd DateManip but never uses it. -schwern
• It also used UNIVERSAL::require but did all of its requires via
Jifty::Util. -schwern
• Yet another fix to the URI-from-env feature, fixes a failing test (reported
by alexmv++). -gaal
• Guessing request schemes from the environment is fragile, so make the
fallback on BaseURL more reliable. -gaal
• when inferring a scheme for the application, look at REQUEST_URI instead of
assuming http://. Fixes tangent() on non-http:// apps. -gaal
• Use Jifty->app_class whenever possible -alexmv
• Code cleanups in Jifty/Subs.pm -alexmv
• Fix for when Jifty->web->url is called with query parameters -alexmv
• Added a Module::Pluggable subclass to get our own (somewhat improved)
require behaviour -jesse
• We were not properly removing blank values on record create -jesse
• Better handling of current_user when used as a class method -jesse
• use ApplicationClass, not Application Name in the login plugin -clkao
• Add _is_readable in Jifty::Record, which means the record should bypass
current_user_can in check_read_rights. -clkao
• Add results_are_readable argument to collection to mark records with
_is_readable. -clkao
• Minor refactoring to enable non-cookie based session storage -jesse
• Use Jifty->app_class to construct app-space class names. -clkao
Web UI
• Links and Form titles needed to be better escaped -jesse
• Add delete option in admin view (for Jamalle - private joke) -yves
• Jifty::Param - It's no longer a Jifty::Web::Form::Field subclass. -audreyt
• Add the ability to send "notes" to users from your canonicalizer. This is
separate from the warning and error spans used by the validator -falcone
• validator.xml - allow us to update action data just by changing it. Without
this you had to set ajax_canonicalizes on a field in order to change it and
have it propagated back. --falcone
• Some refactoring of form field rendering, and adding a focus => argument to
form fields to focus them on page load. -nelhage
• Switch our implementation of autofocus to use behavior, rather than a
custom onload event -jesse
• Fix calendar div & IE select box problem -ishigaki
• Do a slightly more generic dereferencing on the user object's friendly name
in the sidebar -jesse
• Fixing autocomplete so we render the autocomplete div *before
• the javascript, so the JS can hook it. -nelhage
• Remove useless check in buttonToLink to get a javascript performance boost.
-hlb
• Make render_messages sort on result moniker as well. -audreyt
• Jifty::Response: Ensure consistent ordering from monikers. -audreyt
Jifty Actions
• Jifty::Action: Generate stable auto-monikers for actions based on the
caller stack. -audreyt
• Negative searching for Search actions -jesse
• Added an option to search the contents of any text field to jifty search
actions -nelhage
• Jifty::Action::Record: Allow the same for user-generated param vs CRUD
actions. -audreyt
• Jifty::Action - Autoincrement the per-request stash counter for the case of
looped action creation. -audreyt
• Fixed 'mandatory' validation misbehavior -- 'mandatory' now handled
correctly -wolftang
• Jifty::Param::Schema: Allow partial override of superclass's PARAMS by
simply declaring a sub "param" and fill them with the fields you'd
override. -audreyt
• Jifty::Web / Jifty::Action: Stickiness now works on autogenerated monikers.
-audreyt
bin/jifty
• Change Jifty::Util's probe of bin/jifty from -x to -r for poor people on
filesystems that does not have a executable bit. (The maybe_command is
still needed for the .bat case.) -audrety
• Fix the bin/jifty detection logick: The .bat extension exists for MSWin32,
cygwin and os2, so use MM->maybe_command for those three platforms.
-audreyt
• Also, the -e check is redundant after -x, and in Win32 we can use bin/
jifty.bat alone without bin/jifty, so make the check respect that case.
Reported by: Stephen at s-team -audreyt
Building apps
• Small error string change to suggest looking for missing use lines in
models where refer_to is used -bartb
• Ongoing work to pass through Class::ReturnValue errors all the way from
Jifty::DBI to the view layer -jesse
• create scaffolding actions with the new Jifty::Param::Schema syntax
--falcone
Dependencies and installation
• Makefile.PL typo. Spotted by David Adler -jesse
• Files for debian packaging, now rather for actual cpan release than for
svn. -yves
• Update MANIFEST.SKIP and run 'make manifest' to ensure that new files get
added properly. -jpeacock
• Added a dependency on libextutils-command-perl to debian control file
-bartb
• Older DBI versions didn't provide the API we're using. (0.22 is known bad)
-jesse
• Remove PerlIO::gzip as a Jifty dependency. -audreyt
• Older XML::Writer versions failed tests. Dependency bumped - Thanks to
Jonathan Stowe -jesse
• Reverting to dumping using YAML.pm *again*, because YAML::Syck generates
XML that makes YAML segfault :/ -nelhage
• Fixed missing dependency on Module::CoreList -- Thanks to Henry Baragar
-jesse
Internationalization
• The ubiquitous "There was an error completing the request. Please try again
later.") error message should be localised. -audreyt
• We now default the location of the jifty siteconfig file -jesse
• For some reason, loc('') started spewing out PO metadata. This seems to be
b0rkeness on the Locale::Maketext layer, but for now generalize the undef
detection logic in Jifty::I18N to recognize that case. -audreyt
• "You need to fill in this field" needs to be localized. -audreyt
• Stopped the internationalization system from exploding if a plugin doesn't
have a module_dir -alexmv
• The internationalization system now extracts messages from TemplateRoot,
not share. -clkao
• Plugin internationalization and french po files -yves
• Jifty::I18N: New ->refresh method so .po files are reloaded properly when
DevelMode is on. -audreyt
• Even more l10n on Jifty::Action::Record. -audreyt
Testing
• Jifty::Test: canonpath-ed for Win32 -ishigaki
• make sure to skip 04memcached.t if you don't have Cache::Memcached
-ishigaki
• skip all the live tests (that call 'start_ok') on Win32 -ishigaki
• shut up warnings when tests have no plan (t/Continuations/03-gc.t)
-ishigaki
• Added Jifty::Test->web to allow using Jifty->web in tests without a bunch
of scaffolding.
• Converted search tests to using Jifty::Test->web -schwern
• Basic compile and startup tests for the Chat sample -schwern
Email notifications
• When sending email notifications, encode the message body -clkao
• MIME-encode notification subjects. -clkao
• Content-transfer-encoding needs to be 8bit. -clkao
• Don't set notification transfer_encoding to 8bit if it's actually
multipart. -clkao
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