repoze.bfg web framework 1.1a8 has been released
You can install it via:
easy_install -i http://dist.repoze.org/bfg/dev/simple repoze.bfg
The 1.1-series docs have been updated and are available at:
http://docs.repoze.org/bfg/1.1/
This release is a general mishmash of bufgixes, features, and refactorings.
The changes that are between 1.1a7 and 1.1a8 follow:
1.1a8 (2009-10-27)
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Features
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- Add ``path_info`` view configuration predicate.
- ``paster bfgshell`` now supports IPython if it's available for
import. Thanks to Daniel Holth for the initial patch.
- Add ``repoze.bfg.testing.registerSettings`` API, which is documented
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.
- The name ``root`` is available as an attribute of the request
slightly earlier now (before a NewRequest event is emitted).
``root`` is the result of the application "root factory".
- Added ``max_age`` parameter to ``authtktauthenticationpolicy`` ZCML
directive. If this value is set, it must be an integer representing
the number of seconds which the auth tkt cookie will survive.
Mainly, its existence allows the auth_tkt cookie to survive across
browser sessions.
Bug Fixes
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- Fix bug encountered during "scan" (when ``<scan ..>`` directive is
used in ZCML) introduced in 1.1a7. Symptom: ``AttributeError:
object has no attribute __provides__`` raised at startup time.
- The ``reissue_time`` argument to the ``authtktauthenticationpolicy``
ZCML directive now actually works. When it is set to an integer
value, an authticket set-cookie header is appended to the response
whenever a request requires authentication and 'now' minus the
authticket's timestamp is greater than ``reissue_time`` seconds.
Documentation
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- Add a chapter titled "Request and Response" to the narrative
documentation, content cribbed from the WebOb documentation.
- Call out predicate attributes of ZCML directive within "Views"
chapter.
- Fix route_url documentation (``_query`` argument documented as
``query`` and ``_anchor`` argument documented as ``anchor``).
Backwards Incompatibilities
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- The ``authtkt`` authentication policy ``remember`` method now no
longer honors ``token`` or ``userdata`` keyword arguments.
Internal
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- Change how ``bfg_view`` decorator works when used as a class method
decorator. In 1.1a7, the``scan``directive actually tried to grope
every class in scanned package at startup time, calling ``dir``
against each found class, and subsequently invoking ``getattr``
against each thing found by ``dir`` to see if it was a method. This
led to some strange symptoms (e.g. ``AttributeError: object has no
attribute __provides__``), and was generally just a bad idea. Now,
instead of groping classes for methods at startup time, we just
cause the ``bfg_view`` decorator itself to populate the method's
class' ``__dict__`` when it is used as a method decorator. This
also requires a nasty _getframe thing but it's slightly less nasty
than the startup time groping behavior. This is essentially a
reversion back to 1.1a6 "grokking" behavior plus some special magic
for using the ``bfg_view`` decorator as method decorator inside the
``bfg_view`` class itself.
- The router now checks for a ``global_response_headers`` attribute of
the request object before returning a response. If this value
exists, it is presumed to be a sequence of two-tuples, representing
a set of headers to append to the 'normal' response headers. This
feature is internal, rather than exposed externally, because it's
unclear whether it will stay around in the long term. It was added
to support the ``reissue_time`` feature of the authtkt
authentication policy.
- The interface ITraverserFactory is now just an alias for ITraverser.
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