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CHANGES for ARSperl
Revision history for ARSperl.
BM = Bill Middleton <wjm@metronet.com>
JCM = Jeff Murphy <jcmurphy@buffalo.edu>
JWM = Joel Murphy <jmurphy@acsu.buffalo.edu>
note: items tagged with a + denoted changes that are incompatible with
previous versions of arsperl and may require altering of some arsperl
scripts.
MM/DD/YY
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11/23/99 (1.65)
o (JCM) added better support for decoding filters/activelinks
for arsystem 4.0 (not finished yet)
o (JCM) added support for data type "decimal" when performing
(Set|Create)Entry
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04/7/99 (1.6403 BETA)
o (JCM) tested/fixed compiling against pre-4.0 apis.
o (JCM) OO: now checks named params to ensure you don't
mis-spell them.
o (JCM) attachment allows specify a 'name' hash key so you can
customize the name that appears in the attachment field
in the usertool. Nick Stoughton <NickS@ISRWORLD.com>
o (JCM) OO: form->setSort method added
o (JCM) OO: better error handling/catching
o (JCM) OO: fixed bug in value2internal
o (JCM) fixed NTRegisterServer(), fixed example/3.x/Notifier.pl
o (JCM) OO: fixed ARS::AR_RETURN_* bugs (erik.dorfman@intelsat.int)
o (JCM) fixed bug in ars_GetListServer() for api >= 4.0
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03/12/99 (1.6400 BETA)
o (JCM) added new LIBS line to Makefile.PL to cover NCR Unix
("Hill, David K" <david.k.hill@intel.com>)
o (JCM) added ars_GetEntryBLOB (attachment field handling)
thanks to "Kaelin Colclasure" <kaelin@talarian.com>
for supplying part of the code for the BLOB functions.
o (JCM) simplified Makefile.PL configuration steps
o (JCM) added attachment example scripts
o (JCM) added basic OO layer
o (JCM) added small test suite
o (JCM) fixed some broken 4.0 related conditional compilation
stuff
o (JCM) makefile now automatically converts C header files into
perl files so that all constants (C 'defines') are
available.
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01/04/99 (1.63)
o (JCM) fixed some missing conditional compilation #if's in code
o (JCM) changes "require Config" to "use Config" in Makefile.PL
at the request of activestate
o (JCM) added MANIFEST file to distribution
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12/28/98 (1.62)
o (JCM) added extra decoding code to GetFilter.pl example script
o (JCM) syntax errors fixed in some example scripts
o (JCM) added bug fix to NTRegisterServer from G David Frye <gdf@uiuc.edu>
o (JCM) ars4.0 integration (see RELNOTES for important compatibility
information)
o (JCM) perl_qualifier now takes a control struct
o (JCM) if compiled against API>=4.0 then __ars_init __ars_term
no longer do anything (but are still there). the functionality
of each of these have been rolled into ars_Login and ars_Logoff
respectively.
o (JCM) added ars_APIVersion()
o (JCM) GetActiveLink, when compiled against 4.0 returns ARMessageStruct
o (JCM) applied some changes contributed by Murray Nesbitt
<murray@ActiveState.com> so that it will compile against the
active state version of perl more easily.
o (JCM) changed licensing to match that of perl itself.
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09/16/98 (1.61)
o (JCM) new utility: example/AddUsersToGroup.pl - bulk add a bunch
of users to a specified group
o (JCM) new utility: example/DelUsersFromGroup.pl - bulk delete a bunch
of users from a specified group
o (JCM) fixed uninitialized variable warnings
o (JCM) fixed various problems with join schema entry-id handling
o (JCM) fixed bug in indexList returned by ars_GetSchema()
+ (JCM) updated all Get<object> functions so that changeDiary
is fully decoded.
+ (JCM) changed return value of ars_DeleteEntry() so that
ars_DeleteEntry() || die() will work as expected.
o (JCM) fixed problem in example/Show_ALink.pl
o (JCM) added/updated helper func: ars_decodeStatusHistory()
o (JCM) added example/ars_decodeStatusHistory.pl
o (JCM) fixed ars_GetSchema typo/bug w/regards to adminGroupList
o (JCM) fixed GetField.pl example so that it decodes everything
o (JCM) patch for bug in ars_GetServerInfo()
o (JCM) updated Makefile.PL to dynamically generate the support.h
file based on the ar.h file specified.
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05/04/98 (1.6001 BETA)
o (BM) patch for bug in ars_CreateEntry()
o (JCM) added ARS32 conditional compilation for AdminExtension
routines (which were removed as of ars3.2 api)
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03/31/98 (1.6000 BETA)
o (BM) removed most of the PPERLC and AWP stuff that was intended
to help the port to ActiveState perl. Use the One True Perl.
o (BM) Changed many of the allocations to use perl's memory manager,
except where the structure or element is grown further internally
by ARS, or where the structure is non-trivial to free(). I still
have concerns about some of the un-freed allocations in
supportrev.c, but at least ALL of the demo scripts,
including ARSDoc-1.11 (with small patch submitted to list) now
run, and produce the right results.
o (BM) Removed all references to ZEROMEM in favor of perl's Zero, which
is guaranteed to work everywhere, and doesn't need additional logic.
o (BM) fixed a couple of small typos, including one in a elliptical
declaration (...) which didn't have a comma separator.
o (BM) Changed the logic of CVLD in one place that was attempting to free()
null pointers.
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03/31/98 (1.56)
o (JCM) fixed a problem caused by some debugging code that
was left in 1.55 accidentally.
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03/30/98 (1.55)
o (JCM) added ars_GetListEntry.pl example to show how to use
custom query-list fields.
o (JCM) numerous documentation updates by D.J.Adams@soton.ac.uk
o (JCM) fixed bug in macroParm decoding. (D.J.Adams@soton.ac.uk)
o (JCM) fixed bug when decoding results of GetFilter/GetActiveLink
in regards to set fields actions: values assigned to
diary fields were not being interpretted correctly.
(D.J.Adams@soton.ac.uk)
o (JCM) patched perl_BuildEntryIdList to make it more robust
(Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@wait.de>)
o (JCM) patched ars_GetCharMenu for bug "GetCharMenu doesn't
return a qualifier for query menus" (D.J.Adams@soton.ac.uk)
o (JCM) fixed dup_FieldValueOrArith to support decoding of
query style menus.
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02/09/98 (1.54)
o (JCM) fixed bug in ars_EncodeDiary()
o (JCM) added ars_MergeEntry.pl example script
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12/15/97 (1.53)
o (JCM) fixed some minor errors in doc
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11/19/97 (1.5206)
o (JCM) added ars_GetVUI to the ARS.pm exports line.
o (JCM) added refreshCode to GetCharMenu hash
o (JCM) fixed bug in groupList value change in 1.5205
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11/04/97 (1.5205)
o (JCM) updated the groupList value returned by GetSchema()
so that it contains the correct key words.
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10/29/97 (1.5204)
o (JCM) added ars_GetControlStructFields()
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10/20/97 (1.5203)
o (JCM) beginnings of a WinNT port (not completed yet)
o (JCM) added "timestamp" to the return hash of GetEscalation()
o (JCM) added some extra malloc/free debugging stuff
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10/13/97 (1.5202)
o (JCM) removed a superfluous debugging statement
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10/09/97 (1.5201)
o (JCM) fixed problem in GetEscalation
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10/08/97 (1.52)
o (JCM) fixed core dump problem due to uninitialized variable(s)
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10/07/97 (1.51)
o (JCM) fixed some typos/symbol errors. added a missing routine.
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10/06/97 (1.50)
o (JCM) removed ars_errstr from C code. replaced with ars_errhash.
modified ARS.pm to refer to hash when $ars_errstr is
accessed. $ars_errstr no longer tie'd to main:: package.
o (JCM) bug fix (Sid Van den Heede) "affecting getting of
displayInstanceList"
o (JCM) bug fix (James LewisMoss) for ars_GetCharMenu()
o (JCM) bug fix (Ian Flanigan) for perl_ARIndexStruct()
o (JCM) modified GetListEntry(), GetEntry(), SetEntry() and
DeleteEntry() to make operations on join schemas
transparent.
o (JCM) added a ARVerifyUser call to ars_Login so that
ars_Login() || die() will work as one would expect it to.
o (JCM) added $VERSION to the perl module file.
o (JCM) added "log to file" action to GetFilter action hash
(requested by D.J.Adams@soton.ac.uk)
o (JCM) added updated doc tree to main distribution (contributed by
D.J.Adams@soton.ac.uk)
o (JCM) new functions and doc on new functions and new examples for some
of these new functions.
+ (JCM) altered return value of perl_ARStatusStruct so that it
returns a hash of the various StatusStruct members so that
reversing the operation is simpler. scripts that, for example,
retrieve active link definitions and print them out that previous
expected the {message} key to point to a string will need to
be updated.
o (JCM) added valueType to the assign structure to assist in
reversing the operation (converting perl to C API assign
structure).
o (JCM) added displayTag as an optional parameter to ars_LoadQualifier()
so that you can build queries against customized views (that
are stored on the server).
o (JCM) altered ARError() so that return codes of OK or WARNING don't
signal an error. For example, GetListEntries would return
nothing if you matched more than the max allowed, now it returns
the max allowable number of records and places a warning message
into the error hash.
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05/22/97 (1.46)
o (JWM) bug fixes
o (JWM) new function: ars_MergeEntry(), ars_EncodeDiary()
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04/25/97 (1.45)
o (JCM) bug fix to GetListSchema routine
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02/20/97 (1.44)
o (JCM) added some minor code to aid in decoding qualifier
structs. added some examples of decoding them.
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02/18/97 (1.42)
o (JWM) added destructors for the ARS package that will correctly
call ARTermination when the package is unloaded (when your
script exits).
o (JWM) fixed minor type casting problem that prevented compilation
on HP-UX
o (JCM) compiled with -Wall and cleaned up some suspicious code.
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02/17/97 (1.41)
o (JCM) added NT routines to html doc
o (JCM) fixed a few compile-time problems
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02/13/97 (1.4)
o (JCM) re-organized documentation and web pages
o (JCM) added NT (notifier) functions
o (JWM) bug fixes for 1.32beta
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02/10/97 (1.32beta)
o (JWM) 3.0 integration
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11/11/96 (1.31)
o (JCM) minor stuff: added an ifndef in the GetCharMenu routine
for ars 2.0 users. 2.0 doesnt support SQL menu constructions.
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11/11/96 (1.3)
o (JWM) undef works in setEntry now.
o (JWM) added ars_Import to complement ars_Export
o (JCM) Profiling code added to keep track of number of
queries made.
o (JWM) Field caching code added to make some of the functions
more efficient.
o (JCM) New functions: ars_GetFilter(), ars_GetCharMenu(),
ars_GetServerStatistics
o (JWM) Internal GetField call now caches results to minimize
number of queries made.
o (JCM) Examples of new functions.
o (JCM) "WhoUsesIt.pl" utility
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01/12/96 (1.0beta)
o (JWM) First release
o (JCM) Installation, history, and Gnu documentation added.
Removed -lars from makefile (internal C library that wasn't
released), not needed for arsperl.
o (JCM) Added example scripts and html documentation.
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