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OpenInteract-1.40

Changes for version 1.40 - 2002-05-07

  • Overall:
    • OpenInteract runs on Oracle! Many thanks to Ben Avery <ben@thesite.org.uk> for patient debugging and installs.
    • There is one caveat, at least for the time being: you need to use something else to store your sessions. The new OpenInteract::Session::File and OpenInteract::Session::SQLite implementations may help -- you also have the option of implementing with another DBI database.
    • Package configuration customization is much easier now -- you can centralize your modifications in a single file that doesn't get overwritten with package upgrades. See OpenInteract::Config::GlobalOverride notes below and module for details.
    • Different session storage is now available through OpenInteract::Session::File and OpenInteract::Session::SQLite. See more below.
  • Individual:
    • INSTALL.website:
      • Add note about the override_spops.ini file while discussing changing the SPOPS driver.
    • conf/sample-override_spops.ini:
      • Create file with sample override rules you can use. This file gets copied into the $WEBSITE_DIR/conf file whenever you run a 'create_website', but upgraders can copy it manually.
    • OpenInteract/CommonHandler.pm:
      • Ensure we pass along parameters to the relevant method whenever we fail a task. This ensures that the initial security (etc.) gets passed along as well. This is still a little messy, but it should work. Thanks to Sloan Seaman for bringing up the issue.
      • Fix documentation of _edit_customize() so it's testing for the right thing. (Thanks to Sloan again.)
    • OpenInteract/Config/GlobalOverride.pm:
      • Add class to process overriding rules for configuration directives. This enables you to make changes to lots of configuration items from one place, overriding the values in a package's 'conf/spops.perl', for example, so you don't have to run 'oi_manage change_spops_driver' every time you upgrade the package.
      • Note that if you use this along with the 'insert_alter' directives, you must upgrade to SPOPS 0.60, since this feature is new as of that version.
    • OpenInteract/Package.pm:
      • When running check(), stick the package dir at the head of @INC so there's no ambiguity about where the tested modules are coming from. (For instance, if you have the website templib directory in @INC for whatever reason.)
    • OpenInteract/Session/DBI.pm:
      • Allow a datasource to be specified in the server configuration. So you could use a "heavy" database (like Oracle) for most of your application while using a "light" database (like MySQL) for your sessions.
      • Improve documentation for existing features and add docs for new ones.
    • OpenInteract/Session/File.pm:
      • Add implementation for using the filesystem as a session store.
    • OpenInteract/Session/SQLite.pm:
      • Add implementation for using a SQLite database as a session store. (Note that this uses the fairly new Apache::Session::SQLite CPAN module, YMMV.)
    • OpenInteract/SPOPS.pm:
      • Modify how we store and retrieve object tracking information since it's now a normal SPOPS object. Previous interfaces should still hold, except for 'fetch_creator()' which returns a single object (or undef) instead of an arrayref.
    • OpenInteract/SQLInstall.pm:
      • Add translations for Oracle, SQLite and InterBase.
      • Change %%INCREMENT%% for Postgres from 'SERIAL' to 'INT NOT NULL'. Rather than relying on the Postgres auto-sequence naming code, we're going to create our own sequences to be consistent with Oracle. (See UPGRADE for upgrade notes.)
    • OpenInteract/Startup.pm:
      • If relevant files are present, apply OpenInteract::Config::GlobalOverride to SPOPS and action table once they're generated but before they're processed.
    • script/oi_manage:
      • Fixed message returned by initialize_request() on error (Thanks to Sloan Seaman for the spot)
      • Copy over 'conf/sample-override_spops.ini' to website when 'create_website' run.
  • Packages updated:
    • OpenInteract 1.39 -> 1.40
    • base: 1.63 -> 1.67 base_box: 0.44 -> 0.45 base_component: 1.30 -> 1.30 base_error: 1.39 -> 1.42 base_group: 1.32 -> 1.36 base_page: 0.90 -> 0.98 base_security: 1.54 -> 1.57 base_template: 1.27 -> 1.31 base_theme: 1.29 -> 1.33 base_user: 1.49 -> 1.55 lookup: 0.20 -> 0.20 object_activity: 0.11 -> 0.18 results_manage: 0.07 -> 0.08 system_doc: 1.29 -> 1.29 classified: 1.32 -> 1.35 full_text: 1.30 -> 1.31 news: 1.33 -> 1.39

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::GlobalOverride
Process global override settings for a set of configuration directives
OpenInteract::Config::Ini
Read/write INI-style (++) configuration files
OpenInteract::Config::PerlFile
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::Session::File
Create sessions within a filesystem
OpenInteract::Session::SQLite
Create sessions within a SQLite 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
OpenInteract::Session::DBI
in OpenInteract/Session/SQLite.pm

Examples

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