Changes for version 1.57 - 2003-04-07

  • Overall:
    • Small bugfixes and enhancements.
  • Individual:
    • INSTALL.website:
      • Modify the sample information for configuring your database connection as it was a little confusing. Thanks to Andrew Hurst <hurst9@llnl.gov> for the pointer.
    • Makefile.PL:
      • Set the unknown version numbers to '0' instead of 'undef' -- as it was EU::MM wasn't picking up the dependency properly. Thanks to Barry Hoggard <barry@tristanmedia.com> for pointing it out.
    • conf/sample-server.ini:
      • Make the sample configuration and description a little clearer as to what's required, what various items are, etc.
    • OpenInteract/Cache.pm:
      • Force scalar context on ->id call.
    • OpenInteract/PackageRepository.pm:
      • Fix ->package_filename to work properly on Win32. Thanks to David C. Reed <dreed@xonos.com> for the fix!
    • OpenInteract/SPOPS.pm:
      • Fix problem with fetching/saving object keys when the object is using a multiple-value primary key. Thanks to damien leri <damien@babelfield.com> for pointing out the problem.
    • OpenInteract/Startup.pm:
      • Fix bug triggered when we cannot bring in all the action or SPOPS classes. (Trying to treat the hashref as an arrayref, oops.)
    • OpenInteract/Template/Plugin.pm:
      • In make_url(), use '&amp;' as a query argument separator rather than a bare '&'. Thanks to damien leri <damien@babelfield.com> for the pointer and Randal for the clarification.
    • script/oi_manage:
      • Fix some typos in the docs -- thanks to Jon <jon@3ev.com> for the pointer.
  • Packages updated:
    • OpenInteract 1.56 -> 1.57
    • base: 1.72 -> 1.72 base_box: 1.04 -> 1.05 base_error: 1.45 -> 1.45 base_group: 1.38 -> 1.38 base_page: 1.17 -> 1.23 base_security: 1.60 -> 1.60 base_template: 2.23 -> 2.23 base_theme: 1.36 -> 1.36 base_user: 1.61 -> 1.64 lookup: 1.01 -> 1.01 object_activity: 1.03 -> 1.04 results_manage: 1.01 -> 1.02 system_doc: 1.33 -> 1.33 classified: 1.38 -> 1.38 full_text: 1.34 -> 1.34 news: 1.54 -> 1.54

Documentation

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

Modules

mod_perl handler to process all OpenInteract requests
Central module to call for initializing an OpenInteract website
Authenticate the user object and create its groups
Caches objects to avoid database hits and content to avoid template processing
Implement caching in the filesystem
Base class that with a few configuration items takes care of many common operations
Central calling/caching module for components
centralized configuration information
Process global override settings for a set of configuration directives
Read/write INI-style (++) configuration files
Read/write information from/to a perl file
handler to parse/output cookies from/to the client using Apache::Cookie
handler to parse/output cookies from/to the client using CGI::Cookie
Centralized connection location to DBI databases
Provide central holding location for Interact errors
Catches all errors and dispatches to proper handler
Catalog of system error handlers
Define task-dispatching, security-checking and other routines for Handlers to use
Centralized connection location to LDAP directories
Perform actions on individual packages
Operations to represent, install, remove and otherwise manipulate package repositories.
container for request info and output
Define common behaviors for all SPOPS objects in the OpenInteract Framework
Common SPOPS::DBI-specific methods for objects
Common SPOPS::LDAP-specific methods for objects
Dispatcher for installing various SQL data from packages to database
Implement session handling in the framework
Create sessions within a DBI data source
Create sessions within a filesystem
Create sessions within a SQLite data source
Bootstrapper that reads in modules and initializes the environment
Provide a custom context for templates in OpenInteract
Custom OpenInteract functionality in templates
Process OpenInteract templates
Retrieve templates for the Template Toolkit
The primary user interface assembly 'conductor'
Package of routines that do not really fit anywhere else
Handler for this package
SQL installer for this package
Default stash class and an example of what one looks like

Provides

in OpenInteract/Config/IniFile.pm
in OpenInteract/Session/SQLite.pm