[Openinteract-dev] new SPOPS imminent

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

Here's the changelog for SPOPS 0.81 so far. The big change is ditching 
the awful debugging and implementing Log4perl everywhere.

Did I miss anything? Otherwise I'll put this out in the next day or so.

Chris

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0.81

Overall:

   * Use Log::Log4perl to do logging/debugging. All internal SPOPS
     classes, and the code generated by them, has been modified to use
     it. A script (eg/modify_debug_to_l4p.pl) is provided for you to
     convert your own code.

   * Modify slightly the default behavior for 'sql_quote()' as defined
     in SPOPS::SQLInterface. Nobody should notice...

Individual:

   * SPOPS.pm:

     - Add a 'initialize_custom()' step to 'new()' to allow subclasses
     to do customization in the constructor. Thanks Simon!

     - Replace '_w()' and '_wm()' with calls to log4perl -- this is for
     backwards compatibility only; you should run
     eg/modify_debug_to_l4p.pl to get on the bandwagon

   * SPOPS/ClassFactory/DefaultBehavior.pm:

     - Fix a 'return' where the error message was truncated due to
     commas rather than period being used. Thanks to Simon for the
     spot.

   * SPOPS/ClassFactory/DBI.pm:

     - Fix a 'return' where the error message was truncated due to
     commas rather than period being used. Thanks to Simon for the
     spot.

   * SPOPS/DBI.pm:

     - Provide better error message from 'id_clause()' when we don't
     have any type information available. Thanks to Simon Ilyushchenko
     (si...@cs...) for the report.

     - For constructing group queries (fetch_group, fetch_iterator),
     add the class's table to the 'from' array if it's not already
     there. This allows you to specify join queries and 'assume' the
     class table will be added.

     - In save() only call pre_fetch_id() or post_fetch_id() if an ID
     is NOT ALREADY DEFINED.

     - Applied patch from Pawel Gajda to fix lazy loading problem.

   * SPOPS/DBI/([:driver:]).pm:

     - Get rid of all driver implementations of 'sql_quote()' since
     it's defined in SPOPS::SQLinterface and they were all using the
     same definition anyway.

   * SPOPS/HashFile.pm:

     - Don't dereference a hash, gets rid of warning many OI users saw
     since they upgraded to 5.8...

   * SPOPS/Loopback.pm:

     - Add a simple (!) ability for 'fetch_group' to parse the 'where'
     clause and use options from 'value' to substitute for a
     placeholder.

   * SPOPS/Manual/Configuration.pm:

     - Fix configuration typo (using 'publisher_link' instead of
     'publisher_book' in links_to configuration). Thanks Simon!

   * SPOPS/Secure.pm:

     - Add warnings when our definitions of global_current_user and
     global_current_groups are found.

   * SPOPS/SQLInterface.pm:

    - Add to default 'sql_quote()' a check to see if the $value to be
    quoted is defined; if not use 'NULL'. Thanks to Simon for the
    report. Also, document the 'sql_quote()' method and make the new
    default to use the two-argument form of DBI->quote( $value, $type ).

   * SPOPS/Tool/DateConvert.pm:

     - When converting FROM an object TO a string (e.g., during a
     save()), if the given item isn't a reference then just return it,
     assuming it's a date in the right string format.

   * SPOPS/Tool/UTFConvert.pm:

     - Determine at runtime whether we're running in 5.6.0 or less or
     5.6.1 or greater and use different encoding/decoding schemes as
     appropriate. (Thanks to the Arvato folks for providing the
     post-5.6.1 version...)