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OpenInteract-1.37

Changes for version 1.37 - 2002-01-18

  • Overall:
    • The base_page package now includes support for directory handlers, which allows you to step in at a directory request and generate specific content for that request. (Previously, index support was only for setting a filename to be used, much like DirectoryIndex in Apache.)
    • Time-expired sessions are now supported -- just add the key 'session_info'->'expires_in' to your server configuration and set it to the number of minutes an inactive session should last. (Setting it to 0/undef == forever)
    • General bugfixes
  • Structure changes:
    • You'll need to drop the table 'content_type' and add it again if you upgrade a website to the newest 'base_page' package. You can add the table again using:
      • $ oi_manage install_sql --package=base_page
    • Will do it (along with issuing a number of errors, but that's ok).
  • Individual:
    • INSTALL.website:
      • Added notes about directory permissions
    • Makefile.PL:
      • Add Class::Accessor and dependencies
    • conf/sample-httpd*.conf:
      • Added definition for 'combined' log, thanks to suggestion from Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>
    • conf/sample-server.ini:
      • Added configuration key 'session_info'->'expires_in' so you can control session inactivity expiration
      • Added the key 'template_info'->'cache_size' to control how many templates TT will keep cached in memory
    • conf/sample-server.perl:
      • Updated default actions to refer to 'page' instead of 'basicpage' (Thanks to Andreas nolte <andreas.nolte@bertelsmann.de> for poitning this out.
      • Added configuration key 'session_info'->'expires_in' so you can control session inactivity expiration
      • Added the key 'template_info'->'cache_size' to control how many templates TT will keep cached in memory
    • conf/sample-spops.perl:
      • Comment out the 'increment_field' key (if you append a config to the bottom you'll get errors) Thanks to Sloan Seaman for the spot.
    • OpenInteract.pm:
      • Clear out the stack of exceptions in SPOPS::Exception if 0.56 is being used.
      • Add 'check_database()' step that is called before any interaction with the database. This way we should be able to ensure the connection is up and provide a decent error message rather than the 'Themes not functioning' one.
    • OpenInteract/ApacheStartup.pm:
      • Win32 wasn't starting up properly due to when we were putting the config info in the OpenInteract package. Fixed -- thanks to John Sequeira <jseq@mediaone.net> for reporting the bug
    • OpenInteract/CommonHandler.pm:
      • Added MY_EDIT_FAIL_TASK, MY_REMOVE_FAIL_TASK and MY_REMOVE_DISPLAY_TASK so that the modules can have better control over what happens on success or failure.
      • create() now passes a true value for 'is_new_object' in addition to a true value for 'edit' so that show() can do the right thing.
      • Added MY_SEARCH_RESULTS_CAP and MY_SEARCH_RESULTS_CAP_FAIL_TASK so a module can define the max number of results that can be returned from a search, and if too many are returned can run a custom task. (See docs for more info.)
      • Added MY_SEARCH_FAIL_TASK so that modules can have better control over what happens when a search fails.
    • OpenInteract/Package.pm:
      • In check() added new check to conf/spops.perl file to ensure that every key in the configuration points to a hashref. (Thanks to Sloan Seaman for the spot.)
      • Added checks to export() to check for existing file/directory. (Thanks to Sloan Seaman for suggesting.)
    • OpenInteract/Session.pm:
      • Add method 'is_session_valid()' that is called every time we create a new session. Currently it checks the 'session_info'->'expires_in' key of the server configuration to see if the session has expired after n minutes of inactivity.
    • OpenInteract/Startup.pm:
      • Enable an option to be passed to create_temp_lib -- we check to see if it's set to 'lazy' and if so, we don't try to recreate the temporary lib dir if it already exists.
    • OpenInteract/Utility.pm:
      • Update _clean_attachment_filename() to first remove the website base directory from the filename, then go through the relative/absolute checks. Otherwise you wind up with something like: $WEBSITE_DIR/$WEBSITE_DIR/...
    • script/oi_manage:
      • Fix 'list_actions' and 'list_objects' so that we create an entire static environment as opposed to just the configuration (sets up the temporary lib directory properly); also, use the newly-created 'lazy' option so that we don't try to recreate the lib dir if it already exists (this might change)
      • Updated 'test_db_connection()' to ensure a database handle is returned and to wrap $db->disconnect() in eval {} to trap any errors (and report them in the status)
    • template/label_form_upload_row:
      • Widget for displaying a file upload in a row
    • template/table_bordered_begin:
      • Added support for setting the border in the inner table (Thanks to Bill Heckel <bill@billheckel.com> for the patch.)
  • Packages changed. The 'Changes' file in each package has details.
    • OpenInteract 1.36 -> 1.37
    • base: 1.63 -> 1.63 base_box: 0.41 -> 0.42 base_component: 1.30 -> 1.30 base_error: 1.37 -> 1.39 base_group: 1.30 -> 1.32 base_page: 0.40 -> 0.77 base_security: 1.53 -> 1.54 base_template: 1.27 -> 1.27 base_theme: 1.29 -> 1.29 base_user: 1.45 -> 1.47 lookup: 0.18 -> 0.20 object_activity: 0.10 -> 0.10 results_manage: 0.06 -> 0.07 system_doc: 1.28 -> 1.29 classified: 1.32 -> 1.32 full_text: 1.30 -> 1.30 news: 1.33 -> 1.33 static_page: 1.52 -> 1.53

Documentation

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

Modules

OpenInteract
mod_perl handler to process all OpenInteract requests
OpenInteract::ApacheStartup
Central module to call for initializing an OpenInteract website
OpenInteract::Auth
Authenticate the user object and create its groups
OpenInteract::Cache
caches objects so we do not need to do a database fetch each time
OpenInteract::Cache::File
Implement caching in the filesystem
OpenInteract::Cache::IPC
Implement caching of metadata via IPC for quick access
OpenInteract::CommonHandler
Base class that with a few configuration items takes care of many common operations
OpenInteract::Config
centralized configuration information
OpenInteract::Config::Ini
Read/write INI-style (++) configuration files
OpenInteract::Config::PerlFile
Subclass OpenInteract::Config to read/write information from/to a perl file
OpenInteract::Cookies::Apache
handler to parse/output cookies from/to the client using Apache::Cookie
OpenInteract::Cookies::CGI
handler to parse/output cookies from/to the client using CGI::Cookie
OpenInteract::DBI
Centralized connection location to DBI databases
OpenInteract::Error
Provide central holding location for Interact errors
OpenInteract::Error::Main
Catches all errors and dispatches to proper handler
OpenInteract::Error::System
Catalog of system error handlers
OpenInteract::Handler::GenericDispatcher
Define task-dispatching, security-checking and other routines for Handlers to use
OpenInteract::LDAP
Centralized connection location to LDAP directories
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::SPOPS::DBI
Common SPOPS::DBI-specific methods for objects
OpenInteract::SPOPS::LDAP
Common SPOPS::LDAP-specific methods for objects
OpenInteract::SQLInstall
Dispatcher for installing various SQL data from packages to database
OpenInteract::Session
Implement session handling in the framework
OpenInteract::Session::DBI
Create sessions within a DBI data source
OpenInteract::Startup
Bootstrapper that reads in modules and initializes the environment
OpenInteract::Template
DEPRECATED
OpenInteract::Template::Context
Provide a custom context for templates in OpenInteract
OpenInteract::Template::Plugin
Custom OpenInteract functionality in templates
OpenInteract::Template::Process
Process OpenInteract templates
OpenInteract::Template::Provider
Retrieve templates for the Template Toolkit
OpenInteract::Template::Toolkit
DEPRECATED
OpenInteract::UI::Main
The primary user interface assembly 'conductor'
OpenInteract::Utility
Package of routines that do not really fit anywhere else
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

Provides

OpenInteract::Config::IniFile
in OpenInteract/Config/IniFile.pm

Examples

Other files