Nagare Changelog¶

0.5.1¶

Project only hosted on Github now
Documentation served as github.io pages
Documentation generated with Sphinx
Documentations added:
- internationalization
- nagare.wsgi.WSGIApp
- application deployment
- log service
Running now on Stackless, Pypy (experimental) and CPython (with limitations)
Request and Response object factories added
Improved components garbage collector
Callbacks registered with .action() and .answer() can have parameters and keywords
No more lambda for the validators (lambda v: IntValidator(v).greater_than(10) => IntValidator().greater_than(10))
Translation domain added to the i18n service API
Custom data-* HTML5 attributes can be created as data_* keywords
The <div> automatically added in the asynchronous views have the nagare-generated and nagare-async-view classes

Mercurial migration
new site, examples and documentation design
tutorial
i18n service (messages catalogs, HTTP language negotiation, timezones, dates, currencies, numbers …)
multiprocess / thread scopes differences handled by the new nagare.local service
HTML5 renderer (nagare.namespaces.xhtml5.Renderer)
user impersonnalisation (stackable user objects)
stackable security rules
standalone publisher threads pool fully configurable
dummy sessions manager for completly Restful applications (no state kept on the server)
fastcgi over unix socket
the DOCTYPE can be changed
the content type of an XML response can be changed
configurable default initial renderer
relative logger names
nagare-admin shell prompt displays the name of the application
application name can be inserted as $name in the configuration file

A renderer can create an asynchronous renderer: comp.render(xhtml.AsyncRenderer()) => comp.render(h.AsyncRenderer())
New versions of YUI, IPython, SQLAlchemy, lxml and WebOb

refactoring of the sessions managers:
- session objects now keep track of their sessions manager
- no more sessions manager factories
- configurable pickler / unpickler objects
- configuration switch states_history to set if an objects graphs history must be kept
- new sessions manager (type=memory) that keeps the objects graphs in memory, without any pickling
logging service added:
- one dedicated logger for each published applications is created
- easy configuration and use of this dedicated logger
- all the [logging] sections of all the published applications are merged before to configure the Python logging system
preliminary Comet support added (currently only working in a multi-threaded env.)
last exception raised kept by the WSGIApp objects and exception hook added
with_request parameter added to all the callback registrations and Update() objects
translation of Python modules to Javascript added
configurable name for the security cookie (one of the post Nagare security audit actions)
configuration of the WSGIApp objects split accross multiples set_*` methods
get_registered_applications() added to the publisher objects
full YUI bundled with Nagare
New versions:
- Stackless Python 2.6.4 is now the recommanded Python version
- virtualenv updated to 1.4.5
- SQLAlchemy updated to 0.5.8
- Elixir updated to 0.7.1
- Lxml updated to 2.2.4
- YUI updated to 2.8.0r4

with the YUI connection manager, a large browser response must be reassembled (Firefox only)
late creation of the SQLAlchemy database engines and metadatas binding
input fields ot type button now working in an Ajax submit
Var.var() now working in a unicode context
nagare-admin create-rules had problems when a static directory didn’t exist
bad boolean expressions parenthesis translation in pyjs fixed
parsing (X)HTML from URL now working under Windows

Python Stackless 2.6.2 is now the recommanded Python version.

When an AJAX update contains CSS or Javascript urls, they are correctly fetched.
Multiple AJAX updates object added
Session lock added (distributed lock when memcached is used)
A session can now contains SQLAlchemy (and Elixir) entities
LRU management of the sessions and continuations
nagare-admin create-rules administrative command added. Generation of the Apache / lighttpd / ngnix rewrite rules to serve the statics contents. See nagare-admin
nagare-admin batch administrative command added. To execute Python statements. See nagare-admin
Easy WSGI pipe creation
An application can now be registered under several urls
The automatic reloader can be configured with a list of files to watch
API to logout and change the user identity/password added
automatic generation of a link(rel="canonical" ...) in the page header as an alias without the session and continuation parameters
min_compress_len parameter added in the memcached configuration
YUI AJAX modules updated to 2.7.0
SQLAlchemy updated to 0.5.x

Complete refactoring of the AJAX communication. The “wire” format is now Javascript.
component.Component.init() and presentation.init_for() API changes. See Significative “RESTful” URLs

Initial release