Revision history for Perl extension e2interface.

0.34 Thu Aug 07 2003

• Fixed a bug in E2::Interface::extract_cookies: either HTTP::Cookies or e2's server is unreliable as to whether is structures the cookie as 'userpass="...";' or 'userpass=...;'. I believe this hit me before, so I switched from one to the other--now I realize it needs to cover both.
• I think I finally found a usable workaround for the issue of E2 not escaping titles. E2::Interface:: post_process now escapes all '<', '>', and '&' between "<e2link .*?>" and "</e2link>".

0.33 Sun Jul 20 2003

• Resolved a problem with E2::Interface::parse_twig and unicode, so we no longer have to strip unicode to avoid parse errors.
• Updated E2::Interface::post_process to leave unicode intact--this also removes the requirement for Unicode::String. Also modified the demoronizer to convert nonstandard Microsoft encoding to html entities.
• Fixed a bug that caused E2::E2Node::get_my_writeup to often return undef even if the user has a writeup in the selected node.
• Various fixes to E2::UserSearch::compare (added a couple new keys, fixed a bug that terminated execution).
• Added softlink parameter to E2::Node::load and E2::Node::load_by_id.
• Removed 'TYPE' parameter in E2::Node::load_by_id and E2::Node::load_from_xml, because, basically, it didn't make any sense.
• Changed a bunch of use()s to require()s in E2::Interface so use_threads runs much, much faster if called early.
• Added a third parameter to E2::Interface::thread_then to allow a piece of code to be run after the deferred method finishes, regardless of whether exceptions were thrown.
• Fixed a couple bugs in E2::Interface::finish that were causing strange behaviour when it was called without a specified job.
• Added a workaround to the various e2 xmltrue exports that don't in fact escape fields that they should be escaping (E2::Interface::post_process)

0.32 Wed Jun 18 2003

• Removed E2::Ticker::scratch_pad and created E2::Scratchpad, adding the ability to update scratchpads.
• Various documentation tweaking and updating (writing a script to autoupdate online docs)
• Added the ability to use multiple parameters in calls to the E2::Message methods archive, unarchive, and delete; added E2::Message::perform to allow a list of messages to be archived, unarchived, and deleted all in the same HTTP request.
• Added E2::Writeup::vote (basically redundant with E2::E2Node::vote, but E2::Writeup should have the method as well for the sake of intuitiveness (intuititon?).
• Added E2::Writeup::reply
• E2::E2Nodes now call clone() on any E2::Writeups they create.
• Created generate_e2_docs, a script that automatically keeps e2interface's online documentation up-to-date with each release.
• Fixed a bug in E2::Writeup::update that caused a run-time error.

0.31 Tue Jun 10 2003

• Fixed a bug in E2::Interface::extract_cookie introduced in 0.30--the method was writing directly to a reference rather than to the data the reference pointed to
• Simplified E2::Ticker::parse()
• Modified E2::Ticker and its descendants to be reentrant (or at least more reentrant--strange things still might happen if one uses multiple threads AND calls more than one "update" type of methods simultaneously AND doesn't use E2::Interface::thread_then() to retrieve the data immediately upon completion)
• Added E2::Ticker::use_string()--we can now load tickers from xml strings rather than directly from the e2 servers, if we wish
• Added E2::UserSearch::compare() and stats(), so E2::UserSearch can now do nodetracker-like comparisons
• Added threading to the list of data that is cloned by a call to E2::Interface::clone(), so background threads can now be shared between multiple objects
• Added E2::Interface::debug() and debugging info to all classes of e2interface
• Added E2::Interface::join_threads() and E2::Interface::detach_threads() to allow threads to be finished (getting tired of those "A thread exited while 14 other threads were still running" warnings.

0.30 Wed May 14 2003

• Added multithreading for all network-dependant methods
• Reworked E2::Interface::clone() so that changes made to cloned objects after the call to clone() will be propogated
• Reworked E2::Interface::login() to request cookies instead of packing them itself (there was an issue with case-sensitivity of usernames they way it was originally implemented)
• Added E2::Interface::document()--callers now have access to the document most recently retrieved and processed.
• Added archive handling to E2::Message.
• Brought docs up-to-date.

0.22 Sun Apr 20 2003 (unreleased)

• Brought E2::Ticker up to parity with the current everything2 tickers.
• Centralized parse code at E2::Interface::parse_twig
• Test cases are now included in the tarball.

0.21 Sun Mar 16 2003

• Added E2::Room, E2::Session, and E2::ClientVersion.
• Added additional tickers to E2::Ticker.
• Various bugfixes and new test cases.
• Initial CPAN release.

0.20 Sun Mar 02 2003

• Split most of the modules into either subclasses of E2::Node or E2::Ticker and consolidated a lot of the process_request and XML::Twig::parse calls.
• Standardized the exception handling and documented possible exceptions for each method.
• Split E2::User into E2::User and E2::UserSearch.
• Added E2::Usergroup and E2::Superdoc.
• Removed E2::Code and E2::Nodetrack for the time being.
• Updated all the documentation and added a couple test cases, in order to be ready for the initial public (e2-wide) release.

0.13 Sun Feb 23 2003

• Migrated E2::User return values to hashrefs.
• Added E2::Xmltrue and edited E2::Node ande E2::User to inherit it (so they now provide a consistent interface).
• Added E2::Ticker

0.12 Fri Feb 21 2003

• Migrated some list return values to hashrefs.
• Fixed (workaround) the character encoding bug that caused expat to die on certain nodes.
• Added an (optional) dot directory to the user's home, allowing cookies and other data to persist.
• Added E2::Code, E2::Nodetrack

0.11 Thu Nov 21 2002

• Replaced parser XML::Simple with XML::Twig for thread safety.
• Added E2::User, E2::Search

0.10 Fri Nov 15 2002

• Initial release to clientdev usergroup on E2