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2010-08-13- The Configurator now accepts a dotted name *string* to a package asChris McDonough
a ``package`` constructor argument. The ``package`` argument was previously required to be a package *object* (not a dotted name string). - The ``repoze.bfg.configuration.Configurator.with_package`` method was added. This method returns a new Configurator using the same application registry as the configurator object it is called upon. The new configurator is created afresh with its ``package`` constructor argument set to the value passed to ``with_package``. This feature will make it easier for future BFG versions to allow dotted names as arguments in places where currently only object references are allowed (the work to allow dotted names isntead of object references everywhere has not yet been done, however). - The ``repoze.bfg.configuration.Configurator.maybe_dotted`` method resolves a Python dotted name string supplied as its ``dotted`` argument to a global Python object. If the value cannot be resolved, a ``repoze.bfg.configuration.ConfigurationError`` is raised. If the value supplied as ``dotted`` is not a string, the value is returned unconditionally without any resolution attempted.
2010-08-08- New public interface: ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.IExceptionResponse``.Chris McDonough
This interface is provided by all internal exception classes (such as ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.NotFound`` and ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.Forbidden``), instances of which are both exception objects and can behave as WSGI response objects. This interface is made public so that exception classes which are also valid WSGI response factories can be configured to implement them or exception instances which are also or response instances can be configured to provide them. - New API class: ``repoze.bfg.view.AppendSlashNotFoundViewFactory`` (undoes previous custom_notfound_view on request passsed to append_slash_notfound_view). - Previously, two default view functions were registered at Configurator setup (one for ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.NotFound`` named ``default_notfound_view`` and one for ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.Forbidden`` named ``default_forbidden_view``) to render internal exception responses. Those default view functions have been removed, replaced with a generic default view function which is registered at Configurator setup for the ``repoze.bfg.interfaces.IExceptionResponse`` interface that simply returns the exception instance; the ``NotFound` and ``Forbidden`` classes are now still exception factories but they are also response factories which generate instances that implement the new ``repoze.bfg.interfaces.IExceptionResponse`` interface.
2010-07-28- A ``repoze.bfg.events.subscriber`` decorator was added. ThisChris McDonough
decorator decorates module-scope functions, which are then treated as event listeners after a scan() is performed. See the Events narrative documentation chapter and the ``repoze.bfg.events`` module documentation for more information.
2010-07-26merge generic_rendering branchChris McDonough
2010-07-24add set_request_factoryChris McDonough
2010-07-12- New internal exception: ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.URLDecodeError``.Chris McDonough
This URL is a subclass of the built-in Python exception named ``UnicodeDecodeError``. - When decoding a URL segment to Unicode fails, the exception raised is now ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.URLDecodeError`` instead of ``UnicodeDecodeError``. This makes it possible to register an exception view invoked specifically when ``repoze.bfg`` cannot decode a URL.
2010-04-25- Add a new method of the Configurator named ``derive_view`` which canChris McDonough
be used to generate a BFG view callable from a user-supplied function, instance, or class. This useful for external framework and plugin authors wishing to wrap callables supplied by their users which follow the same calling conventions and response conventions as objects that can be supplied directly to BFG as a view callable. See the ``derive_view`` method in the ``repoze.bfg.configuration.Configurator`` docs.
2010-04-25Merge i18n branch via svn merge --ignore-ancestry -r9030:9150 ↵Chris McDonough
$REPOZE_SVN/repoze.bfg/branches/i18n No foreigners were harmed in the coding of this feature.
2010-04-21Moved i18n work to a branch and revert to pre-i18n-feature state via svn ↵Chris McDonough
merge -r9054:9030 svn+ssh://repoze@svn.repoze.org/svn/repoze.bfg/trunk
2010-04-19Go with a subclass of z.i18nmid.Message with the args reordered as a compromise.Chris McDonough
Make get_translation always return something.
2010-04-19Wherein I start the docs I should not have to write.Chris McDonough
2010-04-19Docstrings.Chris McDonough
2010-04-19Pass along translate function to templates.Chris McDonough
2010-04-19Dip a toe in the i18n waters.Chris McDonough
2010-04-18- Use "Venusian" (`http://docs.repoze.org/venusianChris McDonough
<http://docs.repoze.org/venusian>`) to perform ``bfg_view`` decorator scanning rather than relying on a BFG-internal decorator scanner. (Truth be told, Venusian is really just a generalization of the BFG-internal decorator scanner). - A new install-time dependency on the ``venusian`` distribution was added. - Remove ``repoze.bfg.compat.pkgutil_26.py`` and import alias ``repoze.bfg.compat.walk_packages``. These were only required by internal scanning machinery; Venusian replaced the internal scanning machinery, so these are no longer required.
2009-12-25Fix syntax errors found via manuel, and add manuel-style markers to preventChris McDonough
untestable code blocks from being tested.
2009-12-24- Document the previously existing (but non-API)Chris McDonough
``repoze.bfg.configuration.Configurator.setup_registry`` method as an official API of a ``Configurator``.
2009-12-23- Add ``hook_zca`` and ``unhook_zca`` methods to the ``Configurator``Chris McDonough
API. - Add roles to configurator API docs.
2009-12-23- Added the ``repoze.bfg.authentication``,Chris McDonough
``repoze.bfg.authorization``, and ``repoze.bfg.interfaces`` modules to API documentation.
2009-12-20Document presence of the registry attribute.Chris McDonough
2009-12-20Get rid of add_adapter and add_utility APIs (config.registry.registerAdapter ↵Chris McDonough
and config.registry.registerUtility will work).
2009-12-19- Add four new testing-related APIs to theChris McDonough
``repoze.bfg.configuration.Configurator`` class: ``testing_securitypolicy``, ``testing_models``, ``testing_add_subscriber``, and ``testing_add_template``. These were added in order to provide more direct access to the functionality of the ``repoze.bfg.testing`` APIs named ``registerDummySecurityPolicy``, ``registerModels``, ``registerEventListener``, and ``registerTemplateRenderer`` when a configurator is used. The ``testing`` APIs named are nominally deprecated (although they will likely remain around "forever", as they are in heavy use in the wild). - Doc-deprecated most helper functions in the ``repoze.bfg.testing`` module. These helper functions likely won't be removed any time soon, nor will they generate a warning any time soon, due to their heavy use in the wild, but equivalent behavior exists in methods of a Configurator.
2009-12-19- Add a new API to the ``repoze.bfg.configuration.Configurator``Chris McDonough
class: ``add_settings``. This API can be used to add "settings" (information returned within via the ``repoze.bfg.settings.get_settings`` API) after the configurator has been initially set up. This is most useful for testing purposes.
2009-12-19- Add two new APIs to the ``repoze.bfg.configuration.Configurator``Chris McDonough
class: ``add_adapter`` and ``add_utility``. These, respectively, perform the same functions as the ``registerAdapter`` and ``registerUtility`` functions of a ZCA registry. They were added to allow for a more consistent testing API for applications that make use of the ZCA directly. - Cause the ``adapter``, ``utility``, and ``subscriber`` ZCML directives to use a ``Configurator`` instance and associated configurator APIs rather than a ZCA registry directly.
2009-12-17FeaturesChris McDonough
-------- - The ``Configurator`` object now has two new methods: ``begin`` and ``end``. The ``begin`` method is meant to be called before any "configuration" begins (e.g. before ``add_view``, et. al are called). The ``end`` method is meant to be called after all "configuration" is complete. Previously, before there was imperative configuration at all (1.1 and prior), configuration begin and end was invariably implied by the process of loading a ZCML file. When a ZCML load happened, the threadlocal data structure containing the request and registry was modified before the load, and torn down after the load, making sure that all framework code that needed ``get_current_registry`` for the duration of the ZCML load was satisfied. Some API methods called during imperative configuration, (such as ``Configurator.add_view`` when a renderer is involved) end up for historical reasons calling ``get_current_registry``. However, in 1.2a5 and below, the Configurator supplied no functionality that allowed people to make sure that ``get_current_registry`` returned the registry implied by the configurator being used. ``begin`` now serves this purpose. Inversely, ``end`` pops the thread local stack, undoing the actions of ``begin``. We make this boundary explicit to reduce the potential for confusion when the configurator is used in different circumstances (e.g. in unit tests and app code vs. just in initial app setup). Existing code written for 1.2a1-1.2a5 which does not call ``begin`` or ``end`` continues to work in the same manner it did before. It is however suggested that this code be changed to call ``begin`` and ``end`` to reduce the potential for confusion in the future. - All ``paster`` templates which generate an application skeleton now make use of the new ``begin`` and ``end`` methods of the Configurator they use in their respective copies of ``run.py`` and ``tests.py``. Documentation ------------- - All documentation that makes use of a ``Configurator`` object to do application setup and test setup now makes use of the new ``begin`` and ``end`` methods of the configurator. Bug Fixes --------- - When a ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.NotFound`` or ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.Forbidden`` *class* (as opposed to instance) was raised as an exception within a root factory (or route root factory), the exception would not be caught properly by the ``repoze.bfg.`` Router and it would propagate to up the call stack, as opposed to rendering the not found view or the forbidden view as would have been expected.
2009-12-09Make ConfigurationError into an API.Chris McDonough
2009-11-27Remove ``zcml_configure`` API.Chris McDonough
2009-11-27Meh.Chris McDonough
2009-11-27Meh.Chris McDonough
2009-11-27Add threadlocal to API.Chris McDonough
2009-11-27Coverage.Chris McDonough
Remove set_security_policies configurator API method.
2009-11-27- The ``repoze.bfg.testing.setUp`` function now accepts three extraChris McDonough
optional keyword arguments: ``registry``, ``request`` and ``hook_zca``. If the ``registry`` argument is not ``None``, the argument will be treated as the registry that is set as the "current registry" (it will be returned by ``repoze.bfg.threadlocal.get_current_registry``) for the duration of the test. If the ``registry`` argument is ``None`` (the default), a new registry is created and used for the duration of the test. The value of the ``request`` argument is used as the "current request" (it will be returned by ``repoze.bfg.threadlocal.get_current_request``) for the duration of the test; it defaults to ``None``. If ``hook_zca`` is ``True`` (the default), the ``zope.component.getSiteManager`` function will be hooked with a function that returns the value of ``registry`` (or the default-created registry if ``registry`` is ``None``) instead of the registry returned by ``zope.component.getGlobalSiteManager``, causing the Zope Component Architecture API (``getSiteManager``, ``getAdapter``, ``getUtility``, and so on) to use the registry we're using for testing instead of the global ZCA registry. - The ``repoze.bfg.testing.tearDown`` function now accepts an ``unhook_zca`` argument. If this argument is ``True`` (the default), ``zope.component.getSiteManager.reset()`` will be called, causing the "base" registry to once again start returnining the result of ``zope.component.getSiteManager``. - Remove hook_zca and unhook_zca methods from Configurator.
2009-11-27Get rid of ``zcml_file`` argument in configurator constructor in favor of ↵Chris McDonough
the load_zcml API. Get rid of hook_zca argument in configurator constructor in favor of a ``hook_zca`` method. Provide an ``unhook_zca`` method.
2009-11-24Make hooking getSiteManager optional.Chris McDonough
2009-11-24Docs updates.Chris McDonough
2009-11-23- The ``repoze.bfg.interfaces.ITemplateRendererFactory`` interface wasChris McDonough
removed; it has become unused. - Change imperative API.
2009-11-23Avoid stupidness.Chris McDonough
2009-11-23Change the API.Chris McDonough
2009-11-21Add meager API docs for Configurator.Chris McDonough
2009-11-11I know it's not valid Python but dammit it should be,Chris McDonough
2009-11-10Make the docs not lie about argument order.Chris McDonough
2009-11-06- ``repoze.bfg.testing.registerRoutesMapper`` testing facility added.Chris McDonough
This testing function registers a routes "mapper" object in the registry, for tests which require its presence. This function is documented in the ``repoze.bfg.testing`` API documentation.
2009-10-23Remove 'Respond' exception (its addition would be purely speculative: we ↵Chris McDonough
solved the reissue_time authentication policy issue a different way).
2009-10-21Add Respond exception.Chris McDonough
2009-10-19- Add ``repoze.bfg.testing.registerSettings`` API, which is documentedChris McDonough
in the "repoze.bfg.testing" API chapter. This allows for registration of "settings" values obtained via ``repoze.bfg.settings.get_settings()`` for use in unit tests.
2009-10-19Organize into separate authentication and authorization sections.Chris McDonough
2009-10-16- Add ``zcml_configure`` to ``repoze.bfg.testing`` module API. ThisChris McDonough
function populates a component registry from a ZCML file for testing purposes.
2009-10-15FeaturesChris McDonough
-------- - Add ``setUp`` and ``tearDown`` functions to the ``repoze.bfg.testing`` module. Using ``setUp`` in a test setup and ``tearDown`` in a test teardown is now the recommended way to do component registry setup and teardown. Previously, it was recommended that a single function named ``repoze.bfg.testing.cleanUp`` be called in both the test setup and tear down. ``repoze.bfg.testing.cleanUp`` still exists (and will exist "forever" due to its widespread use); it is now just an alias for ``repoze.bfg.testing.setUp`` and is nominally deprecated. - The BFG component registry is now available in view and event subscriber code as an attribute of the request ie. ``request.registry``. This fact is currently undocumented except for this note, because BFG developers never need to interact with the registry directly anywhere else. - The BFG component registry now inherits from ``dict``, meaning that it can optionally be used as a simple dictionary. *Component* registrations performed against it via e.g. ``registerUtility``, ``registerAdapter``, and similar API methods are kept in a completely separate namespace than its dict members, so using the its component API methods won't effect the keys and values in the dictionary namespace. Likewise, though the component registry "happens to be" a dictionary, use of mutating dictionary methods such as ``__setitem__`` will have no influence on any component registrations made against it. In other words, the registry object you obtain via e.g. ``repoze.bfg.threadlocal.get_current_registry`` or ``request.registry`` happens to be both a component registry and a dictionary, but using its component-registry API won't impact data added to it via its dictionary API and vice versa. This is a forward compatibility move based on the goals of "marco". Documentation ------------- - Various tutorial test modules updated to use ``repoze.bfg.testing.setUp`` and ``repoze.bfg.testing.tearDown`` methods in order to encourage this as best practice going forward. Backwards Incompatibilities --------------------------- - Importing ``getSiteManager`` and ``get_registry`` from ``repoze.bfg.registry`` is no longer supported. These imports were deprecated in repoze.bfg 1.0. Import of ``getSiteManager`` should be done as ``from zope.component import getSiteManager``. Import of ``get_registry`` should be done as ``from repoze.bfg.threadlocal import get_current_registry``. This was done to prevent a circular import dependency. - Code bases which alternately invoke both ``zope.testing.cleanup.cleanUp`` and ``repoze.bfg.testing.cleanUp`` (treating them equivalently, using them interchangeably) in the setUp/tearDown of unit tests will begin to experience test failures due to lack of test isolation. The "right" mechanism is ``repoze.bfg.testing.cleanUp`` (or the combination of ``repoze.bfg.testing.setUp`` and ``repoze.bfg.testing.tearDown``). but a good number of legacy codebases will use ``zope.testing.cleanup.cleanUp`` instead. We support ``zope.testing.cleanup.cleanUp`` but not in combination with ``repoze.bfg.testing.cleanUp`` in the same codebase. You should use one or the other test cleanup function in a single codebase, but not both. Internal -------- - Created new ``repoze.bfg.configuration`` module which assumes responsibilities previously held by the ``repoze.bfg.registry`` and ``repoze.bfg.router`` modules (avoid a circular import dependency). - The result of the ``zope.component.getSiteManager`` function in unit tests set up with ``repoze.bfg.testing.cleanUp`` or ``repoze.bfg.testing.setUp`` will be an instance of ``repoze.bfg.registry.Registry`` instead of the global ``zope.component.globalregistry.base`` registry. This also means that the threadlocal ZCA API functions such as ``getAdapter`` and ``getUtility`` as well as internal BFG machinery (such as ``model_url`` and ``route_url``) will consult this registry within unit tests. This is a forward compatibility move based on the goals of "marco". - Removed ``repoze.bfg.testing.addCleanUp`` function and associated module-scope globals. This was never an API.
2009-10-10- Add a new ``repoze.bfg.testing`` API: ``registerRoute``, forChris McDonough
registering routes to satisfy calls to e.g. ``repoze.bfg.url.route_url`` in unit tests.
2009-09-30- For behavior like Django's ``APPEND_SLASH=True``, use theChris McDonough
``repoze.bfg.view.append_slash_notfound_view`` view as the Not Found view in your application. When this view is the Not Found view (indicating that no view was found), and any routes have been defined in the configuration of your application, if the value of ``PATH_INFO`` does not already end in a slash, and if the value of ``PATH_INFO`` *plus* a slash matches any route's path, do an HTTP redirect to the slash-appended PATH_INFO. Note that this will *lose* ``POST`` data information (turning it into a GET), so you shouldn't rely on this to redirect POST requests.