Revision history for Perl extension Class::Factory.

1.06 Tue Nov 6 21:16:07 CET 2007

• Added remove_factory_type(), unregister_factory_type() and get_factory_type_for(). Marcel Gruenauer <marcel@cpan.org>

1.05 Thu Feb 1 22:57:21 PST 2007

• Added method get_registered_class(), suggested by Sebastian Knapp <giftnuss@netscape.net>

1.04 Mon Aug 20 22:26:15 PST 2006

• New maintainer, Fred Moyer <fred@redhotpenguin.com>
• Add Devel::Cover support, current coverage is 71%
• Moved check for Test::More to MY::test

1.03 Thu Oct 14 10:08:08 EDT 2004

• Added 'get_my_factory()' and 'get_my_factory_type()' at suggestion from Srdjan Jankovic.

1.02 Tue Oct 12 21:02:04 EDT 2004

• Ensure that new() returns undef if get_factory_class() doesn't work properly and factory_error() is overridden (and the overridden method doesn't die)
• Relatively minor documentation clarifications and additions spurred by a Perlmonks post:

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=398257

• Added a few more tests to ensure factory_log() and factory_error() working properly

1.01 (never released for some reason)

• add_factory_type() checks %INC to see if a class is already loaded. This gets rid of any 'Subroutine foo redefined' messages you might see if warnings are turned on.
• All log/error messages now have variables in apostrophes rather than brackes. So:

  "Class [$class] not found"

  becomes

  "Class '$class' not found"

It's just cleaner that way.

1.00 Mon Oct 7 11:15:50 EDT 2002

• Add overridable logging/errors (Thanks to Eric Andreychek <eric@openthought.net>)
• Subclasses do not need to implement any methods any longer -- using the module is a simple 'use base qw( Class::Factory )' away. (Thanks to Eric for the suggestion.)
• Add get_loaded_types(), get_loaded_classes(), get_registered_types() and get_registered_classes() so you can keep track of the factory state.

0.03 Sun Feb 10 13:00:20 EST 2002

      Added the ability to register a type/class without having
      Class::Factory include it. This is useful for modules that want
      to know all of their types at startup time but don't want to
      bring in a particular class until that type is requested. (See
      POD for details.)

0.02 Wed Jan 30 00:22:58 EST 2002

      Added simple constructor to be inherited as needed. This
      constructor automatically calls 'init()', not coincidentally the
      name that Class::Base uses. Small variable name changes.

0.01 Mon Jan 28 08:35:09 EST 2002

      Original version with tests, documentation and everything,
      written after the third or fourth time I cut-and-pasted a
      'add_type()' method to implement a dynamic factory class :-)