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diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt index 7c2af4451..b8747f06c 100644 --- a/CHANGES.txt +++ b/CHANGES.txt @@ -9,9 +9,48 @@ Bug Fixes return the empty list. This was incorrect, it should have unconditionally returned ``[Everyone]``, and now does. +- Explicit url dispatch regexes can now contain colons. + https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/issues/629 + +- On at least one 64-bit Ubuntu system under Python 3.2, using the + ``view_config`` decorator caused a ``RuntimeError: dictionary changed size + during iteration`` exception. It no longer does. See + https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/issues/635 for more information. + +- In Mako Templates lookup, check if the uri is already adjusted and bring + it back to an asset spec. Normally occurs with inherited templates or + included components. + https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/issues/606 + https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/issues/607 + +- In Mako Templates lookup, check for absolute uri (using mako directories) + when mixing up inheritance with asset specs. + https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/issues/662 + Features -------- +- Third-party custom view and route predicates can now be added for use by + view authors via ``pyramid.config.Configurator.add_view_predicate`` and + ``pyramid.config.Configurator.add_route_predicate``. So, for example, + doing this:: + + config.add_view_predicate('abc', my.package.ABCPredicate) + + Might allow a view author to do this in an application that configured that + predicate:: + + @view_config(abc=1) + + See "Adding A Third Party View or Route Predicate" in the Hooks chapter for + more information. + + Note that changes made to support the above feature now means that only + actions registered using the same "order" can conflict with one another. + It used to be the case that actions registered at different orders could + potentially conflict, but to my knowledge nothing ever depended on this + behavior (it was a bit silly). + - Custom objects can be made easily JSON-serializable in Pyramid by defining a ``__json__`` method on the object's class. This method should return values natively serializable by ``json.dumps`` (such as ints, lists, @@ -29,15 +68,57 @@ Features HEAD is a variant of GET that omits the body, and WebOb has special support to return an empty body when a HEAD is used. -- ``config.set_request_property`` now causes less code to be executed at - request construction time. +- ``config.set_request_method`` has been introduced to support extending + request objects with arbitrary callables. This method expands on the + previous ``config.set_request_property`` by supporting methods as well as + properties. This method now causes less code to be executed at + request construction time than ``config.set_request_property`` in + version 1.3. -- Don't add a ``?`` to URLs generated by request.resource_url if the +- Don't add a ``?`` to URLs generated by ``request.resource_url`` if the ``query`` argument is provided but empty. -- Don't add a ``?`` to URLs generated by request.route_url if the +- Don't add a ``?`` to URLs generated by ``request.route_url`` if the ``_query`` argument is provided but empty. - The static view machinery now raises (rather than returns) ``HTTPNotFound`` and ``HTTPMovedPermanently`` exceptions, so these can be caught by the NotFound view (and other exception views). + +- The mako renderer now accepts a def name and returns the template def + result for the view being called. The uri format using an asset spec is + package:path/to/template#defname.mako. The old way of returning a tuple + from the view is supported for backward compatibility, ('defname', {}). + +- When there is a predicate mismatch exception (seen when no view matches for + a given request due to predicates not working), the exception now contains + a textual description of the predicate which didn't match. + +- An ``add_permission`` directive method was added to the Configurator. This + directive registers a free-standing permission introspectable into the + Pyramid introspection system. Frameworks built atop Pyramid can thus use + the the ``permissions`` introspectable category data to build a + comprehensive list of permissions supported by a running system. Before + this method was added, permissions were already registered in this + introspectable category as a side effect of naming them in an ``add_view`` + call, this method just makes it possible to arrange for a permission to be + put into the ``permissions`` introspectable category without naming it + along with an associated view. Here's an example of usage of + ``add_permission``:: + + config = Configurator() + config.add_permission('view') + +- The ``UnencryptedCookieSessionFactoryConfig`` now accepts + ``signed_serialize`` and ``signed_deserialize`` hooks which may be used + to influence how the sessions are marshalled (by default this is done + with HMAC+pickle). + +Deprecations +------------ + +- The ``pyramid.config.Configurator.set_request_property`` has been + documentation-deprecated. The method remains usable but the more + featureful ``pyramid.config.Configurator.set_request_method`` should be + used in its place (it has all of the same capabilities but can also extend + the request object with methods). |