Revision history for Perl extension Net::Amazon:
0.23 (06/06/2004)
(ms) Evaldas Imbrasas <evaldas@wolfram.com> suggested to add SalesRank
to Properties.pm -- added field and test case.
(ms) Added eg/dejazz, a sample program to retrieve the 10 best-selling
jazz CDs in Germany, as presented by an article in iX magazine.
0.22 (05/09/2004)
(ms) fixed warnings during make test (backwards-compatible without
tracks())
(ms) Batara Kesuma <bkesuma@gaijinweb.com> sent in a patch to
access TotalPages (now available as $resp->total_pages()).
0.21 (03/21/2004)
(ms) Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@livedoor.jp> provided a patch to
adapt N:A for Amazon's change of "locale=jp" requests, which
should be sent to xml.amazon.co.jp, instead of xml.amazon.com:
http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=am-assocdevxml&msg=4629.1&ctx=4096
(ms) added tracks() to N:A::Properties::Music to list track titles of CDs
0.20 (03/08/2004)
(ms) rayg <rayg@varchars.com> added textstream search and support
for sorting results.
(ms) added directors(), director() and starring() to DVD.pm
0.19 (02/13/2004)
(ms) Michael Coulter <mjc@bitz.ca> noticed that eg/review had the
wrong path to Review.pm.
(ms) Sam Smith <s@msmith.net> noticed that the dependency on
LWP::UserAgent was missing from the documentation.
(ms) Bill Fitzpatrick provided a patch implementing and testing
Manufacturer searches.
0.18 (12/22/2003)
(ms) Brian Hirt <bhirt@mobygames.com> provided a patch for
multiple error messages returned by some requests to AMZN.
There's two accessors now, Response->messages() returning
a ref to an array of error messages, and Response->message()
returning them stringed together for backwards compatibility.
(ms) Padraic Renaghan <padraic@renaghan.com> provided a patch
for access to upc/media/nummedia fields in Music.pm
(ms) Fixed test suite warnings with perl 5.8.2 in N::A::Property::Book.
0.17 (11/18/2003)
(ms) Robert Graff <rgraff@workingdemo.com> provided a patch for
'blended' searches.
0.16 (10/10/2003)
(ms) Replaced 'legacy call' onca/xml2 by onca/xml3, according to
the AWS newsletter.
(ms) Martin Streicher <martin.streicher@apress.com> enhanced the
"power" search script (in /eg) to limit searches to page
ranges if so requested.
0.15 (08/24/2003)
(ms) Martin Streicher <martin.streicher@apress.com> provided support
for Amazon's "Power Search". Added documentation and test case.
(ms) Jackie Hamilton <kira@cgi101.com> provided a patch plus
documentation for Browse Nodes. Added test case.
0.14 (08/12/2003)
(ms) Mike Evron <evronm@dtcinc.net> suggested to implement caching
for responses. Added a Cache::File-based implementation.
0.13 (08/07/2003)
(ms) Added customer reviews for all properties. Changed default
request mode to 'heavy' for that. Now all properties have a
review_set() method returning a
Net::Amazon::Attribute::ReviewSet object, which in turn offers
a reviews() method delivering a list of
Net::Amazon::Attribute::Review objects. Check the man pages
for details. eg/review shows an example.
0.12 (07/24/2003)
(ms) Mike Evron <evronm@dtcinc.net> noticed that the SYNOPSIS code
on the main documentation page had the wrong "search" syntax
-- thanks, Mike!
(ms) Changed all tests to process canned data, live tests turned out
to be too unreliable, due to Amazon's "best effort" responses.
If you want the test suite to process live data, you need to
set the environment variable NET_AMAZON_LIVE_TESTS.
0.11 (07/14/2003)
(ms) Added 'Similar Searches' API
(ms) Adapted for new amazon.de and amazon.co.uk searches
0.10 (06/28/2003)
(ms) Adapted wishlist test case for change in AMZN's catalog
(ms) Added docs for new Net::Amazon homepage at net-amazon.sourceforge.net
and mailing list
(ms) Helper in place to assist XML::Simple in choosing the right parser,
to avoid install problems due to XML::SAX::RTF.
0.09 (06/24/2003)
(ms) Tony Bowden <tony@kasei.com> suggested to have a $ua->search
method, abstracting the usage of the different request objects.
Implemented that.
(ms) Resolved warnings and strict errors in test cases
0.08 (06/22/2003)
(ms) Changed dependencies to 5.006, XML::Simple and LWP::UserAgent
0.07 (06/10/2003)
(ms) fixed bug with single-item-wishlists
(ms) Lists printed as strings now have numbered bullets
(ms) Tests are using new wishlist 1XL5DWOUFMFVJ (Net::Amazon)
(ms) Added tests with canned reponses
0.06 (06/07/2003)
(ms) applied workaround for AMZN's wishlist bug: If a wishlist
is longer than 10 items, AMZN returns the first 10 items with
no indication if there's any followup pages. The workaround
just tries to fetch another batch in case there's exactly 10 and
hides eventually encountered errors.
Dan Sully <daniel@electricrain.com> provided a patch
to suppress a warning in case a music item isn't returning a 'year'
field
Barnaby Claydon <bclaydon@perseus.com> reported a couple of problems
with wishlists, they're fixed by the following patches:
(ms) Added new property Net::Amazon::Property::DVD
(ms) Changed as_string() of default Net::Amazon::Property (used if
we come across a 'Toy' or 'Video Game' category) to return
a more human-readable format.
(ms) Implemented retry strategy on Amazon's temporary errors, if we
encounter one, we'll sleep for 1 sec and then retry at most
twice.
(ms) Accessors have been changed to return an empty string if
a value hasn't been specified in XML. Products without price and
other anomalies won't cause perl warnings anymore.
0.05 (05/31/2003)
Martha Greenberg <marthag@mit.edu> provided bug reports
and patches for
* 'music' parameter for UPC searches (fixed in doc)
* Net::Amazon::Property::Music now deals correctly with
CDs by multiple artists.
* missing documentation of 'locale' parameter
(ms) Net::Amazon now takes the 'locale' parameter also in
the main Net::Amazon object's constructor.
0.04 (05/29/2003)
Dan Sully <daniel@electricrain.com> provided a patch
to check if a response indeed contains the {Details} hash.
0.03 (05/06/2003)
(ms) properties returns empty list on failure now
Martha Greenberg <marthag@mit.edu> provided patch for
* the now mandatory associates-id in the query
* two documentation bugs
Konstantin Gredeskoul <kig@get.topica.com> also provided an almost
identical patch to the problem :).
0.02
(ms) documentation updated
0.01
(ms) where it all started