1 News

     2 ====

     3 

     4 .. contents::

     5 

     6 0.9

     7 ---

     8 

     9 * Added ``req.urlarg``, which represents positional arguments in

    10   ``environ['wsgiorg.routing_args']``.

    11 

    12 * For Python 2.4, added attribute get/set proxies on exception objects

    13   from, for example, ``webob.exc.HTTPNotFound().exception``, so that

    14   they act more like normal response objects (despite not being

    15   new-style classes or ``webob.Response`` objects).  In Python 2.5 the

    16   exceptions are ``webob.Response`` objects.

    17 

    18 Backward Incompatible Changes

    19 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    20 

    21 * The ``Response`` constructor has changed: it is now ``Response([body],

    22   [status], ...)`` (before it was ``Response([status], [body], ...)``).

    23   Body may be str or unicode.

    24 

    25 * The ``Response`` class defaults to ``text/html`` for the

    26   Content-Type, and ``utf8`` for the charset (charset is only set on

    27   ``text/*`` and ``application/*+xml`` responses).

    28 

    29 Bugfixes and Small Changes

    30 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    31 

    32 * Use ``BaseCookie`` instead of ``SimpleCookie`` for parsing cookies.

    33 

    34 * Added ``resp.write(text)`` method, which is equivalent to

    35   ``resp.body += text`` or ``resp.unicode_body += text``, depending on

    36   the type of ``text``.

    37 

    38 * The ``decode_param_names`` argument (used like

    39   ``Request(decode_param_names=True)``) was being ignored.

    40 

    41 * Unicode decoding of file uploads and file upload filenames were

    42   causing errors when decoding non-file-upload fields (both fixes from

    43   Ryan Barrett).

    44 

    45 0.8.5

    46 -----

    47 

    48 * Added response methods ``resp.encode_content()`` and

    49   ``resp.decode_content()`` to gzip or ungzip content.

    50 

    51 * ``Response(status=404)`` now works (before you would have to use

    52   ``status="404 Not Found"``).

    53 

    54 * Bugfix (typo) with reusing POST body.

    55 

    56 * Added ``226 IM Used`` response status.

    57 

    58 * Backport of ``string.Template`` included for Python 2.3

    59   compatibility.

    60 

    61 0.8.4

    62 -----

    63 

    64 * ``__setattr__`` would keep ``Request`` subclasses from having

    65   properly settable environ proxies (like ``req.path_info``).

    66 

    67 0.8.3

    68 -----

    69 

    70 * ``request.POST`` was giving FieldStorage objects for *every*

    71   attribute, not just file uploads.  This is fixed now.

    72 

    73 

    74 * Added request attributes ``req.server_name`` and ``req.server_port``

    75   for the environ keys ``SERVER_NAME`` and ``SERVER_PORT``.

    76 

    77 * Avoid exceptions in ``req.content_length``, even if

    78   ``environ['CONTENT_LENGTH']`` is somehow invalid.

    79 

    80 0.8.2

    81 -----

    82 

    83 * Python 2.3 compatibility: backport of ``reversed(seq)``

    84 

    85 * Made separate ``.exception`` attribute on ``webob.exc`` objects,

    86   since new-style classes can't be raised as exceptions.

    87 

    88 * Deprecate ``req.postvars`` and ``req.queryvars``, instead using the

    89   sole names ``req.GET`` and ``req.POST`` (also ``req.str_GET`` and

    90   ``req.str_POST``).  The old names give a warning; will give an error

    91   in next release, and be completely gone in the following release.

    92 

    93 * ``req.user_agent`` is now just a simple string (parsing the

    94   User-Agent header was just too volatile, and required too much

    95   knowledge about current browsers).  Similarly,

    96   ``req.referer_search_query()`` is gone.

    97 

    98 * Added parameters ``version`` and ``comment`` to

    99   ``Response.set_cookie()``, per William Dode's suggestion.

   100 

   101 * Was accidentally consuming file uploads, instead of putting the

   102   ``FieldStorage`` object directly in the parameters.

   103 

   104 0.8.1

   105 -----

   106 

   107 * Added ``res.set_cookie(..., httponly=True)`` to set the ``HttpOnly``

   108   attribute on the cookie, which keeps Javascript from reading the

   109   cookie.

   110 

   111 * Added some WebDAV-related responses to ``webob.exc``

   112 

   113 * Set default ``Last-Modified`` when using ``response.cache_expire()``

   114   (fixes issue with Opera)

   115 

   116 * Generally fix ``.cache_control``

   117 

   118 0.8

   119 ---

   120 

   121 First release.  Nothing is new, or everything is new, depending on how

   122 you think about it.

   123