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OpenInteract-1.38
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Changes for version 1.38 - 2002-02-25

  • Overall:
    • You can now tell OI to cache the user, group and theme objects in the user session. The objects will get refreshed based on the settings in the server config. Thanks to Andreas Nolte <Andreas.Nolte@bertelsmann.de> for the idea and a sample implementation.
    • Small changes to the CommonHandler to add more flexibility
    • The deprecated 'static_page' package is no longer distributed with OI.
  • Individual:
    • conf/sample-server.ini:
      • Added configuration keys session_info->cache_user, session_info->cache_group, session_info->cache_theme. The value for each key is the length of time (in minutes) the object can be cached in the user session.
    • OpenInteract.pm:
      • If session_info->cache_theme set to a positive value, cache the theme in the user's session
    • OpenInteract/Auth.pm:
      • If session_info->cache_user set to a positive value, cache the user object in the user session (only if logged in, etc.)
      • If session_info->cache_group set to a positive value, cache the group object in the user session (only if logged in, etc.)
    • OpenInteract/CommonHandler.pm:
      • Added _edit_post_action_customize() and _remove_post_action_customize() to perform actions after a successful edit or remove.
      • Added MY_SEARCH_ADDITIONAL_PARAMETERS to pass additional information to the SPOPS fetch_iterator() call. Thanks to Ewald Hinrichs <Ewald.Hinrichs@applied.de> for the suggestion.
    • OpenInteract/Template/Process.pm:
      • Changed how the $template object gets initialized: if the 'cache_tt' directory is undefined, we ensure that the COMPILE_DIR and COMPILE_EXT settings in $template are also undefined so TT does no compiling to disk. Thanks to John Sequeira <jseq@mediaone.net> for pointing out that compiling couldn't be turned off.
    • script/oi_manage:
      • In test_db_connection(), swap the $@ check and $db check around after the initial connect, and instead of the simple test for existence of $db, check to see that it's a valid DBI handle -- that is, isa('DBI::db') (Thanks to John Sequeira <jseq@mediaone.net> for prompting.)
  • Packages Changed:
  • The 'Changes' file in each package has details.
    • OpenInteract 1.37 -> 1.38
    • base: 1.63 -> 1.63 base_box: 0.42 -> 0.42 base_component: 1.30 -> 1.30 base_error: 1.39 -> 1.39 base_group: 1.32 -> 1.32 base_page: 0.77 -> 0.89 base_security: 1.54 -> 1.54 base_template: 1.27 -> 1.27 base_theme: 1.29 -> 1.29 base_user: 1.47 -> 1.49 lookup: 0.20 -> 0.20 object_activity: 0.10 -> 0.11 results_manage: 0.07 -> 0.07 system_doc: 1.29 -> 1.29 classified: 1.32 -> 1.32 full_text: 1.30 -> 1.30 news: 1.33 -> 1.33 static_page: 1.53 -> removed

Documentation

OpenInteract
A robust web application framework built to run under Apache and mod_perl
oi_manage
Manage OpenInteract websites and packages

Modules

OpenInteract
mod_perl handler to process all OpenInteract requests
OpenInteract::ApacheStartup
Central module to call for initializing an OpenInteract website
OpenInteract::Auth
Authenticate the user object and create its groups
OpenInteract::Cache
caches objects so we do not need to do a database fetch each time
OpenInteract::Cache::File
Implement caching in the filesystem
OpenInteract::Cache::IPC
Implement caching of metadata via IPC for quick access
OpenInteract::CommonHandler
Base class that with a few configuration items takes care of many common operations
OpenInteract::Config
centralized configuration information
OpenInteract::Config::Ini
Read/write INI-style (++) configuration files
OpenInteract::Config::PerlFile
Subclass OpenInteract::Config to read/write information from/to a perl file
OpenInteract::Cookies::Apache
handler to parse/output cookies from/to the client using Apache::Cookie
OpenInteract::Cookies::CGI
handler to parse/output cookies from/to the client using CGI::Cookie
OpenInteract::DBI
Centralized connection location to DBI databases
OpenInteract::Error
Provide central holding location for Interact errors
OpenInteract::Error::Main
Catches all errors and dispatches to proper handler
OpenInteract::Error::System
Catalog of system error handlers
OpenInteract::Handler::GenericDispatcher
Define task-dispatching, security-checking and other routines for Handlers to use
OpenInteract::LDAP
Centralized connection location to LDAP directories
OpenInteract::Package
Perform actions on individual packages
OpenInteract::PackageRepository
Operations to represent, install, remove and otherwise manipulate package repositories.
OpenInteract::Request
container for request info and output
OpenInteract::SPOPS
Define common behaviors for all SPOPS objects in the OpenInteract Framework
OpenInteract::SPOPS::DBI
Common SPOPS::DBI-specific methods for objects
OpenInteract::SPOPS::LDAP
Common SPOPS::LDAP-specific methods for objects
OpenInteract::SQLInstall
Dispatcher for installing various SQL data from packages to database
OpenInteract::Session
Implement session handling in the framework
OpenInteract::Session::DBI
Create sessions within a DBI data source
OpenInteract::Startup
Bootstrapper that reads in modules and initializes the environment
OpenInteract::Template
DEPRECATED
OpenInteract::Template::Context
Provide a custom context for templates in OpenInteract
OpenInteract::Template::Plugin
Custom OpenInteract functionality in templates
OpenInteract::Template::Process
Process OpenInteract templates
OpenInteract::Template::Provider
Retrieve templates for the Template Toolkit
OpenInteract::Template::Toolkit
DEPRECATED
OpenInteract::UI::Main
The primary user interface assembly 'conductor'
OpenInteract::Utility
Package of routines that do not really fit anywhere else
conf/sample-Handler.pm
Handler for this package
conf/sample-SQLInstall.pm
SQL installer for this package
OpenInteract::SampleStash
Default stash class and an example of what one looks like

Provides

OpenInteract::Config::IniFile
in OpenInteract/Config/IniFile.pm

Examples

Other files