Revision history for Perl extension Net::Amazon: 0.59 (11/02/2009)
(cb) DigitalMusicTrack.pm was not included, reported by Matt
Okeson-Harlow.
0.58 (11/01/2009)
(cb) Update the Keywords library in Validate - reported by Dave
Hodgkinson.
(cb) Added customer_location and customer_name accessors to review
results for Scott Weisman.
(cb) Nathan Handler re-re-reported a man page issue, rt 46708.
0.57 (09/08/2009)
(cb) David Raab reported an incomplete kit via rt.cpan.org. Re-run
make manifest to address my mistake.
0.56 (09/07/2009)
(cb) Add support for searching MP3 downloads as requsted by Dave
Hodgkinson.
(cb) Required for MP3 Downloads, and inspired by Vince Veselosky's
fix, update aws4-itemsearch.
(cb) secret_key is now a required parameter. Update all of the example
scripts with the secret_key parameter.
0.55 (07/20/2009)
(cb) Yuichi Tateno implemented support for the SearchIndex all. (cb) Vince Veselosky fixed adm/aws4-types script, and as a result
updated classes in Validate/Type. (cb) Update to WSDL 2009-07-16.
0.54 (06/17/2009)
(cb) Alfons Wittmann reported that signing requests broke caching due
to the current time being incorporated into every signed URL
submitted.
0.53 (06/13/2009)
(cb) Nathan Handler re-reported a man page issue on Ubuntu, rt 46708.
I managed to fix 197 issues, except for the specific one he called
out in the bug.
0.52 (06/09/2009)
(cb) Nathan Handler reported a man page issue on Ubuntu, rt 46708.
0.51 (06/05/2009)
(cb) Vince Veselosky submitted a patch to support request signing, a
feature that is required for accessing AWS after 2009-08-15.
Upgrading is recommended.
(cb) Complete the upgrade to WSDL 2009-03-31 that was started by
Vince Veselosky.
(cb) Clean-up POD issues found by pod checker. (cb) Indicate the code has moved to github.com. (cb) Update the README to reflect the actual date of the WSDL.
0.50 (07/29/2008)
(cb) Michael Hendricks submitted a patch to guarantee that error
messages are stored as an arrayref.
0.49 (04/24/2008)
(cb) Make an effort to return the price of an item. Check for the
price of an item in the following order: Amazon's price, third
party new, and then third party used. This issue was reported
by a least two different people via Mike Schilli.
0.48 (01/13/2008)
(cb) Fix from MATSUU Takuto for ReleaseDate, and Title. These methods
have been moved to the base class. The theatrical release date
is now separate from the release date function.
0.47 (12/16/2007)
(cb) Fix an issue on Darwin with Perl 5.10. Yet another issue found
by CPAN testers - thanks!
(cb) Aethon ?? (aethon@gmail.com) pointed out that OurPrice() was not
returning the correct price information. This has been an issue
since the cutover to AWS4, and is a great catch.
0.46 (11/16/2007)
(cb) Serge Dubrouski <sergeyfd@gmail.com> submitted a patch for returning
the width and height of the small, medium, and large images.
0.45 (11/11/2007)
(cb) Gregor Hermann <gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at> submitted a patch to
prevent canned tests from contacting the Amazon.com. (cb) Jochen Cichon <joschi@vfnet.de> reported a bug when specifying
multiple ResponseGroups.
(cb) Update to the latest WSDL, version 2007-10-29.
0.44 (11/03/2007)
(cb) Patch by Carl Franks <fireartist@gmail.com> to add support for
returning the currency code, and unformatted price. (cb) Patch by Carl Franks <fireartist@gmail.com> to address the confusion
between release date, and publication date. Prior to version 0.44
release date was the publication date. Now release date is the
release date, and a function to return the publication date has been
added.
0.43 (06/20/2007)
(cb) Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org> found an bug with wishlist
processing, which would cause Net::Amazon to give up prematurely. (cb) Be more graceful when dealing with Small ResponseGroups by trying
to avoid Perl warnings.
(cb) Added a gross hack to deal with Amazon's wishlist handling to ensure
the wishlist test can actually pass.
0.42 (06/18/2007)
(cb) Add scripts to automatically generate the canned test data. (cb) Serge Dubrouski <sergeyfd@gmail.com> noted an inconsistency in the
documentation for ImageUrl{Small,Medium,Large}. When I converted to
AWS4 I renamed these functions accidently. Add back the old function
names, and keep the new functions around.
0.41 (04/10/2007)
(cb) Tümer Garip <tgarip@neu.edu.tr> found a long standing bug for the
Music properties whereby track data were not correctly captured, and
returned.
(cb) Fix the Artist test to account for this lapse in the future, and add
more tests as well.
0.40 (03/12/2007)
(cb) UPC accepts a search index, so process it. (cb) Fix the documentation for ProductName. (cb) Make ProductName an alias for [Tt]itle, both ProductName suggestions
were from Frank Tobia <frank.tobia@gmail.com>. (cb) Add searches for director and title, contributed by Carl Franks
0.39 (02/18/2007)
(cb) Update documentation, 10-digit vs. 13-digit ISBN was incorrect. (cb) Add support for searching by EAN. This is only valid for
non-US locations. Suggested by Nick Faarvang. (cb) Remove UPC ItemSearch'es for non-US locales, it is invalid. (cb) Fix a long standing bug when validating search against non-US
locales.
0.38 (01/24/2007)
(cb) Update documentation, dewey_decimal_number is for non-fiction
only.
(cb) Add support for searching by ISBN.
(cb) UPC is an ItemLookup, not an ItemSearch.
0.37 (01/23/2007)
(cb) Update to WSDL 01-17-2007.
(cb) Update index.html to indicate a differences between AWS3 and
AWS4 releases.
(cb) Add POD for all types of item searches.
(cb) Add actor, and author to the SEARCH_TYPE_CLASS_MAP.
(cb) README is generated from Amazon.pm, update Amazon.pm with the
changes made to README, and regenerate README. (cb) Mike Schilli found a bug with non-US locales for Reviews where
TotalVotes was always zero. This caused a bogus warning.
0.36 (01/09/2007)
(cb) Christopher Boumenot is taking over has maintainer of Net::Amazon. (cb) Update the library to use AWS4 from AWS3. The changes involved
are quite deep. While I have strived to keep interfaces the same
that was not always possible. I am sure there are still bugs
to be had that need to be fixed.
(cb) Add searching by Author, Actor, MusicLabel, and Publisher. (cb) Add the property functions numpages(), dewey_decimal(), and
SuperSaverShipping().
(cb) Add new property classes for CE (consumer electronics), Software,
and VideoGames.
(cb) Restrucure the fetch code to reduce the need to directly poke
the XML where applicable. There is still cleanup that needs to
be done.
(cb) Remove the need to explicitly specify mode parameters. (cb) Autogenerate libraries based on data from Amazon's ECS specs to
determine a default mode for the user. (cb) Autogenerate libraries based on data form Amazon's ECS specs to
determine the search types available for a given. This
information is also locale specific.
(cb) Cleanup locale support, and add support for France, and Canada.
Locale support needs more testing.
(cb) Add support for the different search response types in AWS4:
small, medium, large, similarities, reviews, etc. The search
response type is automatically determined based on search mode.
0.35 (02/04/2006)
(ms) Took starring() out of eg/asin_dvd, looks like it is no longer
supported by amzn (reported by Joseph Ronie).
0.34 (07/11/2005)
(ms) Added similar_asins() to Net::Amazon::Property (ms) Steven Alyari reported a caching problem on v5.8.1-RC3/darwin,
where perl's hashes are stored differently between invocations
of the same program, confusing Net::Amazon's URL-based caching
algorithm. Applied his fix, which sorts the query arguments.
0.33 (02/23/2005)
(ms) Makefile.PL prerequisite changed from undef to '0'. (ms) Greg McCann <greg@cambria.com> added ThirdPartyProductInfo. (ms) Added Exchange requests with help by Greg McCann <greg@cambria.com>.
0.32 (10/16/2004)
(ms) Greg McCann <greg@cambria.com> added CollectiblePrice,
CollectibleCount, NumberOfOfferings, UsedCount, ThirdPartyNewPrice,
ThirdPartyNewCount as default properties. To get (*Count,
NumberOfOfferings), specify "offer" => "All" in the request.
0.31 (09/22/2004)
(ms) Lance P Cleveland <lance@lancecleveland.com> noticed that somewhere
between 0.26 and 0.30 the properties() method lost the ability to
be called in scalar context and return only the first result. Added
logic to re-enable it.
0.30 (09/14/2004)
(ms) Lance Cleveland <lancec@proactivewm.com> provided a patch to
fix a typo which caused N::A::Request::Similar to fail. Added more
documentation on request classes and test cases for all constructors.
0.29 (08/12/2004)
(ms) Brian <brianbrian@gmail.com> contributed code for querying sellers.
Added docs and test cases. Added a new hierarchy N::A::Result/*
to deal with responses containing results which aren't Amazon items.
(ms) fixed bug in convertoption: Override target option only if
it doesn't exist already.
0.28 (08/04/2004)
(ms) ASIN search can now process several asin numbers with one request.
Dan Kreft <dan@kreft.net> cleaned up the implementation of
Request.pm, ASIN.pm and a bunch of other files.
(ms) Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@livedoor.jp> provided a patch for
load errors on search(blended => ...), a fix for a bug with
single/multiple ProductLine(s), and a suggestion for using
ForceArray which XML::Simple. Added test cases for this patch.
(ms) Added xml_parse() method to Net::Amazon::Response which Net::Amazon
now calls to parse the returned XML. This enables the response
class (which can override it) to creatively interpret the
response XML to form the response data structure.
(ms) Added strict warnings to each and every module (ms) Added dump_responses() for easier response canning.
0.27 (07/27/2004)
(ms) Richard Giliam <nirosys@nirostasis.net> added the isbn()
method to the Book.pm property. (ms) Andy Grundman <andy@hybridized.org> provided a patch to
enforce Amazon's no-more-than-1-request-per-second rule.
A new parameter 'strict' has been added to the Net::Amazon
constructor, which will limit the number of requests if
set to 1. Defaults to 1.
0.26 (07/07/2004)
(ms) Added ProductDescription to Properties.pm (ms) Applied patch by Robert Rothenberg <wlkngowl@i-2000.com> for
Media and NumMedia properties.
0.25 (06/19/2004)
(ms) Applied patch by Robert Rothenberg <wlkngowl@i-2000.com> to
Properties.pm that returns the browse_nodes (categories) for
a result.
(ms) Dave Holland <dave@biff.org.uk> suggested to provide access
to the user agent's proxy settings. Now, proxy settings via
environment variables are supported (env_proxy()) as well as
passing Net::Amazon->new(); a prepped LWP::UserAgent instance
via the 'ua' parameter (see docs).
(ms) Accessors are no longer created in the constructors, but on the
package level. Thanks to tony@tmtm.com who reported this to the
CPAN bug tracker.
0.24 (06/10/2004)
(ms) Fixed test bug in 007Manufacturer.t (ms) Applied patch by Steve Rushe <steve@deeden.co.uk> for book->binding()
0.23 (06/06/2004)
(ms) Evaldas Imbrasas <evaldas@wolfram.com> suggested to add SalesRank
to Properties.pm -- added field and test case. (ms) Added eg/dejazz, a sample program to retrieve the 10 best-selling
jazz CDs in Germany, as presented by an article in iX magazine.
0.22 (05/09/2004)
(ms) fixed warnings during make test (backwards-compatible without
tracks())
(ms) Batara Kesuma <bkesuma@gaijinweb.com> sent in a patch to
access TotalPages (now available as $resp->total_pages()).
0.21 (03/21/2004)
(ms) Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@livedoor.jp> provided a patch to
adapt N:A for Amazon's change of "locale=jp" requests, which
should be sent to xml.amazon.co.jp, instead of xml.amazon.com:
http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=am-assocdevxml&msg=4629.1&ctx=4096
(ms) added tracks() to N:A::Properties::Music to list track titles of CDs
0.20 (03/08/2004)
(ms) rayg <rayg@varchars.com> added textstream search and support
for sorting results.
(ms) added directors(), director() and starring() to DVD.pm
0.19 (02/13/2004)
(ms) Michael Coulter <mjc@bitz.ca> noticed that eg/review had the
wrong path to Review.pm.
(ms) Sam Smith <s@msmith.net> noticed that the dependency on
LWP::UserAgent was missing from the documentation. (ms) Bill Fitzpatrick provided a patch implementing and testing
Manufacturer searches.
0.18 (12/22/2003)
(ms) Brian Hirt <bhirt@mobygames.com> provided a patch for
multiple error messages returned by some requests to AMZN.
There's two accessors now, Response->messages() returning
a ref to an array of error messages, and Response->message()
returning them stringed together for backwards compatibility.
(ms) Padraic Renaghan <padraic@renaghan.com> provided a patch
for access to upc/media/nummedia fields in Music.pm
(ms) Fixed test suite warnings with perl 5.8.2 in N::A::Property::Book.
0.17 (11/18/2003)
(ms) Robert Graff <rgraff@workingdemo.com> provided a patch for
'blended' searches.
0.16 (10/10/2003)
(ms) Replaced 'legacy call' onca/xml2 by onca/xml3, according to
the AWS newsletter.
(ms) Martin Streicher <martin.streicher@apress.com> enhanced the
"power" search script (in /eg) to limit searches to page
ranges if so requested.
0.15 (08/24/2003)
(ms) Martin Streicher <martin.streicher@apress.com> provided support
for Amazon's "Power Search". Added documentation and test case. (ms) Jackie Hamilton <kira@cgi101.com> provided a patch plus
documentation for Browse Nodes. Added test case.
0.14 (08/12/2003)
(ms) Mike Evron <evronm@dtcinc.net> suggested to implement caching
for responses. Added a Cache::File-based implementation.
0.13 (08/07/2003)
(ms) Added customer reviews for all properties. Changed default
request mode to 'heavy' for that. Now all properties have a
review_set() method returning a
Net::Amazon::Attribute::ReviewSet object, which in turn offers
a reviews() method delivering a list of
Net::Amazon::Attribute::Review objects. Check the man pages
for details. eg/review shows an example.
0.12 (07/24/2003)
(ms) Mike Evron <evronm@dtcinc.net> noticed that the SYNOPSIS code
on the main documentation page had the wrong "search" syntax
-- thanks, Mike!
(ms) Changed all tests to process canned data, live tests turned out
to be too unreliable, due to Amazon's "best effort" responses.
If you want the test suite to process live data, you need to
set the environment variable NET_AMAZON_LIVE_TESTS.
0.11 (07/14/2003)
(ms) Added 'Similar Searches' API
(ms) Adapted for new amazon.de and amazon.co.uk searches
0.10 (06/28/2003)
(ms) Adapted wishlist test case for change in AMZN's catalog (ms) Added docs for new Net::Amazon homepage at net-amazon.sourceforge.net
and mailing list
(ms) Helper in place to assist XML::Simple in choosing the right parser,
to avoid install problems due to XML::SAX::RTF.
0.09 (06/24/2003)
(ms) Tony Bowden <tony@kasei.com> suggested to have a $ua->search
method, abstracting the usage of the different request objects.
Implemented that.
(ms) Resolved warnings and strict errors in test cases
0.08 (06/22/2003)
(ms) Changed dependencies to 5.006, XML::Simple and LWP::UserAgent
0.07 (06/10/2003)
(ms) fixed bug with single-item-wishlists (ms) Lists printed as strings now have numbered bullets (ms) Tests are using new wishlist 1XL5DWOUFMFVJ (Net::Amazon) (ms) Added tests with canned reponses
0.06 (06/07/2003)
(ms) applied workaround for AMZN's wishlist bug: If a wishlist
is longer than 10 items, AMZN returns the first 10 items with
no indication if there's any followup pages. The workaround
just tries to fetch another batch in case there's exactly 10 and
hides eventually encountered errors.
Dan Sully <daniel@electricrain.com> provided a patch
to suppress a warning in case a music item isn't returning a 'year'
field
Barnaby Claydon <bclaydon@perseus.com> reported a couple of problems with wishlists, they're fixed by the following patches:
(ms) Added new property Net::Amazon::Property::DVD
(ms) Changed as_string() of default Net::Amazon::Property (used if
we come across a 'Toy' or 'Video Game' category) to return
a more human-readable format.
(ms) Implemented retry strategy on Amazon's temporary errors, if we
encounter one, we'll sleep for 1 sec and then retry at most
twice.
(ms) Accessors have been changed to return an empty string if
a value hasn't been specified in XML. Products without price and
other anomalies won't cause perl warnings anymore.
0.05 (05/31/2003)
Martha Greenberg <marthag@mit.edu> provided bug reports and patches for
(ms) Net::Amazon now takes the 'locale' parameter also in the main Net::Amazon object's constructor.
0.04 (05/29/2003)
Dan Sully <daniel@electricrain.com> provided a patch to check if a response indeed contains the {Details} hash.
0.03 (05/06/2003)
(ms) properties returns empty list on failure now
Martha Greenberg <marthag@mit.edu> provided patch for
Konstantin Gredeskoul <kig@get.topica.com> also provided an almost
identical patch to the problem :).
0.02
(ms) documentation updated
0.01
(ms) where it all started