thirdparty/google_appengine/lib/webob/docs/news.txt
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:20:33 +0000
changeset 935 09f47e08f805
parent 109 620f9b141567
permissions -rw-r--r--
Adust the as_table tag to render a pick link if appropriate The templates are adjusted to pass on a 'reference' value, which is the url_name of the view from which the entity should be picked. The as_table (and related) function(s) construct and then pass on this argument and enable takes_contex so that we have access to the context of the enclosing template. We only extract ReferenceProperties that end with '_link_id' since that is how all RP's are currently named. It is not possible to create a field with the same name as the RP, as GAE will try to interpret it's contents as the key of an entity before even calling any function we can override. Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier

News
====

.. contents::

0.9
---

* Added ``req.urlarg``, which represents positional arguments in
  ``environ['wsgiorg.routing_args']``.

* For Python 2.4, added attribute get/set proxies on exception objects
  from, for example, ``webob.exc.HTTPNotFound().exception``, so that
  they act more like normal response objects (despite not being
  new-style classes or ``webob.Response`` objects).  In Python 2.5 the
  exceptions are ``webob.Response`` objects.

Backward Incompatible Changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* The ``Response`` constructor has changed: it is now ``Response([body],
  [status], ...)`` (before it was ``Response([status], [body], ...)``).
  Body may be str or unicode.

* The ``Response`` class defaults to ``text/html`` for the
  Content-Type, and ``utf8`` for the charset (charset is only set on
  ``text/*`` and ``application/*+xml`` responses).

Bugfixes and Small Changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

* Added ``resp.write(text)`` method, which is equivalent to
  ``resp.body += text`` or ``resp.unicode_body += text``, depending on
  the type of ``text``.

* The ``decode_param_names`` argument (used like
  ``Request(decode_param_names=True)``) was being ignored.

* Unicode decoding of file uploads and file upload filenames were
  causing errors when decoding non-file-upload fields (both fixes from
  Ryan Barrett).

0.8.5
-----

* Added response methods ``resp.encode_content()`` and
  ``resp.decode_content()`` to gzip or ungzip content.

* ``Response(status=404)`` now works (before you would have to use
  ``status="404 Not Found"``).

* Bugfix (typo) with reusing POST body.

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

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

0.8.4
-----

* ``__setattr__`` would keep ``Request`` subclasses from having
  properly settable environ proxies (like ``req.path_info``).

0.8.3
-----

* ``request.POST`` was giving FieldStorage objects for *every*
  attribute, not just file uploads.  This is fixed now.


* Added request attributes ``req.server_name`` and ``req.server_port``
  for the environ keys ``SERVER_NAME`` and ``SERVER_PORT``.

* Avoid exceptions in ``req.content_length``, even if
  ``environ['CONTENT_LENGTH']`` is somehow invalid.

0.8.2
-----

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

* Made separate ``.exception`` attribute on ``webob.exc`` objects,
  since new-style classes can't be raised as exceptions.

* Deprecate ``req.postvars`` and ``req.queryvars``, instead using the
  sole names ``req.GET`` and ``req.POST`` (also ``req.str_GET`` and
  ``req.str_POST``).  The old names give a warning; will give an error
  in next release, and be completely gone in the following release.

* ``req.user_agent`` is now just a simple string (parsing the
  User-Agent header was just too volatile, and required too much
  knowledge about current browsers).  Similarly,
  ``req.referer_search_query()`` is gone.

* Added parameters ``version`` and ``comment`` to
  ``Response.set_cookie()``, per William Dode's suggestion.

* Was accidentally consuming file uploads, instead of putting the
  ``FieldStorage`` object directly in the parameters.

0.8.1
-----

* Added ``res.set_cookie(..., httponly=True)`` to set the ``HttpOnly``
  attribute on the cookie, which keeps Javascript from reading the
  cookie.

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

* Set default ``Last-Modified`` when using ``response.cache_expire()``
  (fixes issue with Opera)

* Generally fix ``.cache_control``

0.8
---

First release.  Nothing is new, or everything is new, depending on how
you think about it.