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OpenInteract-1.07
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Changes for version 1.07 - 2001-06-10

  • Overall
    • This version runs on mod_perl/Win32 with a supported database.
    • This version now runs on PostgreSQL (version dependencies unknown) along with Sybase ASE, Sybase ASA, and MS SQL Server. (This is in addition to MySQL from previously.)
    • This version requires SPOPS 0.40, since it's the first version which supports PostgreSQL, along with a few other items.
    • Hopefully debugging is more efficient -- at least when you want to turn debugging off. All files have been changed to use the following construction:
      • $R->DEBUG && $R->scrib( 1, "..." );
    • so that (the relatively expensive) scrib() method doesn't even get called if debugging isn't turned on for your app.
  • script/oi_manage:
    • fixed typo in method call in remove_template() (thanks to Olaf Stauffer <olaf.stauffer@web.de> for spotting)
    • tiny change so that you can call use the action name 'install-template' and 'install_template' synonymously (anyplace you see a '_' you can also use a '-'. Note that this ONLY APPLIES TO COMMANDS.
    • added the command 'change_spops_driver' so you can modify the drivers (e.g., 'SPOPS::DBI::MySQL' -> 'SPOPS::DBI::Sybase') for many objects at once.
    • when you run the 'upgrade_package' command, a file named 'UPGRADE' will be displayed in the status. You should put any package-specific upgrading notes here.
    • ensure that the 'website_name' parameter fits our naming conventions (thanks to Nimrod Levy <nlevy@intes.net> for the catch)
    • the 'test_db' command now tries to create a table, which tests whether the given user has such permissions.
    • ensure the user running 'install_package' has permission to write to the base installation directory and to the base package repository.
  • conf/sample-package.pod:
    • Added more headers to the skeleton documentation generated for a package.
  • conf/sample-server.perl:
    • Changed the default cookie processing class to 'OpenInteract::Cookies::Apache' (change from {system_alias}->{'OpenInteract::Cookies'} to {system_alias}->{'OpenInteract::Cookies::Apache'}), since right now everyone is required to have Apache::Request for parameters anyway. Unless you're running Win32, then use {system_alias}->{'OpenInteract::Cookies::CGI'} since Apache::Request had a few hiccups running there.
    • Added 'long_read_len' and 'long_trunc_ok' in the db_info key.
    • Added 'remember_field' to the 'login' key
  • OpenInteract/DBI.pm:
    • Added {LongReadLen} and {LongTruncOk} as database handle properties. **NOTE** If you're upgrading, please add something like the following to your conf/server.perl file:
      • db_info => { ..., long_read_len => 65536, long_trunc_ok => 0, },
    • There are defaults defined for these but it's better to make them explicit in your configuration.
  • OpenInteract/Package.pm:
    • Make various modifications to work under Win32. Primarily to check directory specifications and to accommodate the version of Archive::Tar that is distributed with ActivePerl.
    • Fix _copy_handler_files() to not replace ALL 'OpenInteract' instances in the file/path, just the relevant one (thanks to Olaf Stauffer <olaf.stauffer@web.de> for the spot)
    • Small fixes to error reporting (primarily in install_distribution())
    • Small fix so we don't copy over coderefs from the conf/action.perl and conf/spops.perl files when installing a package from the base installation to a website
  • OpenInteract/PackageRepository.pm:
    • Fixed docs for the 'find_file' method to match the implementation.
    • Pass the package name from 'find_file' to 'fetch_package_by_name' in a hashref rather than by itself (duh)
  • OpenInteract/Request.pm: added 'DEBUG()' method to get (if available) application-level debugging and if not, to use the class variable 'DEBUG'. This allows '$R->DEBUG && $R->scrib( ... )' so that scrib() won't get called if you're not using debugging in your app. Cool.
  • OpenInteract/SPOPS.pm: Updated the object tracking save/retrieval so that it's not using the 'oid' field any longer.
  • OpenInteract/SQLInstall.pm:
    • Fixed Sybase IDENTITY specification (thanks to Harry Danilevsky <hdanilevsky@DeerfieldCapital.com> for pointing it out)
    • Allow user to specify a different database type than the driver name (useful if you're using DBD::ODBC with MS SQL Server, which uses the SPOPS driver 'Sybase' and the DBD driver 'ODBC')
    • Document the 'field_type' parameter when you're specifying SQL statements (rather than SPOPS objects) to be built with the data files (thanks to Harry Danilevsky <hdanilevsky@DeerfieldCapital.com> for pointing it out)
    • New key in struct files: %%INCREMENT_TYPE%%. This allows you to specify linking fields to be the same type -- for instance, an IDENTITY field in T-SQL is NUMERIC( x, y ) while an AUTO_INCREMENT field in MySQL is an INTEGER, as is a SERIAL (sequence) field in PostgreSQL. (Example: 'pkg/base_group/struct/group_table.sql' and 'pkg/base_user/struct/user.sql' for the increment, then 'pkg/base_group/struct/link_table.sql' for the increment type.)
  • OpenInteract/Startup.pm: require_module() can now take either an arrayref of classes to include or a single class to include. (Previously only an arrayref.)
  • doc/database.html: Added some preliminary instructions for creating a new database and user to work with OpenInteract -- currently only with MySQL and PostgreSQL.
  • Packages
    • Many packages have changed. One of the larger-scale changes resulted from renaming the 'level' field in the security object to 'security_level'. See the each individual package's 'Changes' file for more details.
    • Here are the different versions:
    • OpenInteract 1.06 -> 1.07
    • base: 1.30 -> 1.42 base_box: 0.14 -> 0.20 base_component: 1.14 -> 1.18 base_error: 1.14 -> 1.21 base_group: 1.11 -> 1.16 base_security: 1.20 -> 1.30 base_template: 1.11 -> 1.17 base_theme: 1.11 -> 1.17 base_user: 1.15 -> 1.21 static_page: 1.24 -> 1.36 system_doc: 1.15 -> 1.19 classified: 1.12 -> 1.18 full_text: 1.11 -> 1.16 news: 1.15 -> 1.26

Documentation

OpenInteract
A robust web application framework built to run under Apache and mod_perl
oi_manage
Manage OpenInteract websites and packages

Modules

OpenInteract::ApacheStartup
Central module to call for initializing an OpenInteract website
OpenInteract::Config
centralized configuration information
OpenInteract::Config::PerlFile
Subclass OpenInteract::Config to read/write information from/to a perl file
OpenInteract::DBI
Centralized connection location to DBI databases
OpenInteract::Error
Provide central holding location for Interact errors
OpenInteract::Package
Perform actions on individual packages
OpenInteract::PackageRepository
Operations to represent, install, remove and otherwise manipulate package repositories.
OpenInteract::Request
container for request info and output
OpenInteract::SPOPS
Define common behaviors for all SPOPS objects in the OpenInteract Framework
OpenInteract::SQLInstall
Dispatcher for installing various SQL data from packages to database
OpenInteract::Startup
Bootstrapper that reads in modules, manipulates @INC, etc.
conf/sample-Handler.pm
Handler for this package
conf/sample-SQLInstall.pm
SQL installer for this package
OpenInteract::SampleStash
Default stash class and an example of what one looks like

Examples

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