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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.
2009-12-10- Added a "Special Exceptions" section to the "Views" narrativeChris McDonough
documentation chapter explaining the effect of raising ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.NotFound`` and ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.Forbidden`` from within view code. - When the ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.NotFound`` or ``repoze.bfg.exceptions.Forbidden`` error is raised from within a custom root factory or the ``factory`` of a route, the appropriate response is now sent to the requesting user agent (the result of the notfound view or the forbidden view, respectively). When these errors are raised from within a root factory, the ``context`` passed to the notfound or forbidden view will be ``None``. Also, the request will not be decorated with ``view_name``, ``subpath``, ``context``, etc. as would normally be the case if traversal had been allowed to take place.
2009-12-09- Remove explanation of changing the request type in a new requestChris McDonough
event subscriber, as other predicates are now usually an easier way to get this done.
2009-12-09Refactor.Chris McDonough
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2009-12-09Invert.Chris McDonough
2009-12-09- General documentation freshening which takes imperativeChris McDonough
configuration into account in more places and uses glossary references more liberally.
2009-11-24Docs updates.Chris McDonough
2009-11-23Holy circdeps batman.Chris McDonough
2009-11-23Tweaks.Chris McDonough
2009-11-22Rendering tweaks.Chris McDonough
2009-11-14Spellcheck.Chris McDonough
2009-11-01Fix ZCML definition.Chris McDonough
2009-11-01Add route predicate and route configuration glossary entries.Chris McDonough
2009-11-01View callable definition.Chris McDonough
2009-10-19Refer to webob chapter in glossary.Chris McDonough
2009-10-19Better disambiguation of predicate vs. non-predicate attributes.Chris McDonough
2009-09-19- Added a tutorial which explains how to add ZEO to a ZODB-basedChris McDonough
``repoze.bfg`` application.
2009-09-18Add a mod_wsgi configuration tutorial.Chris McDonough
2009-09-16Review and edit views chapter.Chris McDonough
2009-07-02- Added a "Resources" chapter to the narrative documentation whichChris McDonough
explains how to override resources within one package from another package.
2009-06-30- Add a ``reload_resources`` configuration file setting (aka theChris McDonough
``BFG_RELOAD_RESOURCES`` environment variable). When this is set to true, the server never needs to be restarted when moving files between directory resource overrides (esp. for templates currently). - Add a ``reload_all`` configuration file setting (aka the ``BFG_RELOAD_ALL`` environment variable) that implies both ``reload_resources`` and ``reload_templates``. - The ``static`` helper view class now uses a ``PackageURLParser`` in order to allow for the overriding of static resources (CSS / logo files, etc) using the ``resource`` ZCML directive. The ``PackageURLParser`` class was added to a (new) ``static`` module in BFG; it is a subclass of the ``StaticURLParser`` class in ``paste.urlparser``. - The ``repoze.bfg.templating.renderer_from_cache`` function now checks for the ``reload_resources`` setting; if it's true, it does not register a template renderer (it won't use the registry as a template renderer cache). - Add ``pkg_resources`` to the glossary. - Update the "Environment" docs to note the existence of ``reload_resources`` and ``reload_all``. - Use a colon instead of a tab as the separator between package name and relpath to form the "spec" when register a ITemplateRenderer.
2009-06-24Rendering.Chris McDonough
2009-06-24- ``repoze.bfg`` no longer relies on the Routes package to interpretChris McDonough
URL paths.
2009-06-24Add (painful) explanation of weak-binding route view context registrations.Chris McDonough
2009-06-22Gardening.Chris McDonough
2009-06-22Gardening.Chris McDonough
2009-06-19Edit.Chris McDonough
2009-06-01Use only useful stuff.Chris McDonough
2009-05-31- The ``request_type`` argument of ZCML ``view`` declarations andChris McDonough
``bfg_view`` decorators can now be one of the strings ``GET``, ``POST``, ``PUT``, ``DELETE``, or ``HEAD`` instead of a reference to the respective interface type imported from ``repoze.bfg.interfaces``.
2009-05-27Merge authchanges branch to trunk.Chris McDonough
2009-05-24Precision.Chris McDonough
2009-05-22Name the views chapter.Chris McDonough
2009-05-22Cleanup.Chris McDonough
2009-05-16Removed this reference.Chris McDonough
2009-05-14- Added API docs for the ``repoze.bfg.testing`` methodsChris McDonough
``registerAdapter``, ``registerUtiity``, ``registerSubscriber``, and ``cleanUp``. - Added glossary entry for "root factory".
2009-05-06FeaturesChris McDonough
-------- - Two new security policies were added: RemoteUserInheritingACLSecurityPolicy and WhoInheritingACLSecurityPolicy. These are security policies which take into account *all* ACLs defined in the lineage of a context rather than stopping at the first ACL found in a lineage. See the "Security" chapter of the API documentation for more information. - The API and narrative documentation dealing with security was changed to introduce the new "inheriting" security policy variants. - Added glossary entry for "lineage". Deprecations ------------ - The security policy previously named ``RepozeWhoIdentityACLSecurityPolicy`` now has the slightly saner name of ``WhoACLSecurityPolicy``. A deprecation warning is emitted when this policy is imported under the "old" name; usually this is due to its use in ZCML within your application. If you're getting this deprecation warning, change your ZCML to use the new name, e.g. change:: <utility provides="repoze.bfg.interfaces.ISecurityPolicy" factory="repoze.bfg.security.RepozeWhoIdentityACLSecurityPolicy" /> To:: <utility provides="repoze.bfg.interfaces.ISecurityPolicy" factory="repoze.bfg.security.WhoACLSecurityPolicy" />
2009-05-03Add GAE tutorial plus make CHANGES.txt renderings work.Chris McDonough
2009-05-01Merge "c-free" branch to trunk.Chris McDonough
2009-04-16- The interface for ``repoze.bfg.interfaces.ITraverser`` and theChris McDonough
built-in implementations that implement the interface (``repoze.bfg.traversal.ModelGraphTraverser``, and ``repoze.bfg.urldispatch.RoutesModelTraverser``) now expect the ``__call__`` method of an ITraverser to return 3 additional arguments: ``traversed``, ``virtual_root``, and ``virtual_root_path`` (the old contract was that the ``__call__`` method of an ITraverser returned; three arguments, the contract new is that it returns six). ``traversed`` will be a sequence of Unicode names that were traversed (including the virtual root path, if any) or ``None`` if no traversal was performed, ``virtual_root`` will be a model object representing the virtual root (or the physical root if traversal was not performed), and ``virtual_root_path`` will be a sequence representing the virtual root path (a sequence of Unicode names) or ``None`` if traversal was not performed. Six arguments are now returned from BFG ITraversers. They are returned in this order: ``context``, ``view_name``, ``subpath``, ``traversed``, ``virtual_root``, and ``virtual_root_path``. Places in the BFG code which called an ITraverser continue to accept a 3-argument return value, although BFG will generate and log a warning when one is encountered. - The request object now has the following attributes: ``traversed`` (the sequence of names traversed or ``None`` if traversal was not performed), ``virtual_root`` (the model object representing the virtual root, including the virtual root path if any), and ``virtual_root_path`` (the seuquence of names representing the virtual root path or ``None`` if traversal was not performed). - A new decorator named ``wsgiapp2`` was added to the ``repoze.bfg.wsgi`` module. This decorator performs the same function as ``repoze.bfg.wsgi.wsgiapp`` except it fixes up the ``SCRIPT_NAME``, and ``PATH_INFO`` environment values before invoking the WSGI subapplication. - The ``repoze.bfg.testing.DummyRequest`` object now has default attributes for ``traversed``, ``virtual_root``, and ``virtual_root_path``. - The RoutesModelTraverser now behaves more like the Routes "RoutesMiddleware" object when an element in the match dict is named ``path_info`` (usually when there's a pattern like ``http://foo/*path_info``). When this is the case, the ``PATH_INFO`` environment variable is set to the value in the match dict, and the ``SCRIPT_NAME`` is appended to with the prefix of the original ``PATH_INFO`` not including the value of the new variable. - The notfound debug now shows the traversed path, the virtual root, and the virtual root path too.
2009-03-18Fix grammar.Mike Naberezny
2009-01-17Update docs with new default project stuff.Chris McDonough
2009-01-17Bring up to date.Chris McDonough
2008-12-21Use docs link rather than SVN link.Chris McDonough
2008-12-21Point at lemonade docs.Chris McDonough
2008-12-21 - Updated paster template "ez_setup.py" to one that requiresChris McDonough
setuptools 0.6c9. - Turn ``view_execution_permitted`` from the :mod:`repoze.bfg.view` module into a documented API. - Doc cleanups.
2008-12-21 Backwards Incompatibilities (Major)Chris McDonough
- Rather than prepare the "stock" implementations of the ZCML directives from the ``zope.configuration`` package for use under :mod:`repoze.bfg`, :mod:`repoze.bfg` now makes available the implementations of directives from the ``repoze.zcml`` package (see http://static.repoze.org/zcmldocs). As a result, the :mod:`repoze.bfg` package now depends on the ``repoze.zcml`` package, and no longer depends directly on the ``zope.component``, ``zope.configuration``, ``zope.interface``, or ``zope.proxy`` packages. The primary reason for this change is to enable us to eventually reduce the number of inappropriate :mod:`repoze.bfg` Zope package dependencies, as well as to shed features of dependent package directives that don't make sense for :mod:`repoze.bfg`. Note that currently the set of requirements necessary to use bfg has not changed. This is due to inappropriate Zope package requirements in ``chameleon.zpt``, which will hopefully be remedied soon. - BFG applications written prior to this release which expect the "stock" ``zope.component`` ZCML directive implementations (e.g. ``adapter``, ``subscriber``, or ``utility``) to function now must either 1) include the ``meta.zcml`` file from ``zope.component`` manually (e.g. ``<include package="zope.component" file="meta.zcml">``) and include the ``zope.security`` package as an ``install_requires`` dependency or 2) change the ZCML in their applications to use the declarations from `repoze.zcml <http://static.repoze.org/zcmldocs/>`_ instead of the stock declarations. ``repoze.zcml`` only makes available the ``adapter``, ``subscriber`` and ``utility`` directives. - The ``http://namespaces.repoze.org/bfg`` XML namespace is now the default XML namespace in ZCML for paster-generated applications. - The copies of BFG's ``meta.zcml`` and ``configure.zcml`` were removed from the root of the ``repoze.bfg`` package. In 0.3.6, a new package named ``repoze.bfg.includes`` was added, which contains the "correct" copies of these ZCML files; the ones that were removed were for backwards compatibility purposes. Other - The minimum requirement for ``chameleon.core`` is now 1.0b13. The minimum requirement for ``chameleon.zpt`` is now 1.0b7. The minimum requirement for ``chameleon.genshi`` is now 1.0b2.
2008-11-14 - Document view registrations against classes andChris McDonough
``repoze.bfg.convention`` in context.
2008-10-15Workflow.Chris McDonough