TM - Changes

Revision history for Perl extension TM

Note: Entries marked with

! indicate a break of backwards compatibility.
~ indicate a future break of compatibility, marked as deprecated

1.56 Mon Nov 8 07:49:21 CET 2010

fix: removed lingering test/performance code (rho)

1.55 Sun Nov 7 15:44:43 CET 2010

fix: TM::IndexAble misbehaved with closed indices and empty lists ~ mod: pumped up to Perl 5.10 as prereq (rho)
fix: TM::IndexAble small memory leak at deindex (rho)
add: TM::IndexAble deindex parameters (rho)
fix: BDB did not properly store top-level keys (rho)
add: first version of TM::ObjectAble (rho)
fix: LibXML operator overloading changed and triggered fails in 06*xtmserializ (rho)
mod: relaxed speedup tests to diagnostics (fails on some platforms, difficult to control) (rho) ~ mod: MemCached, BDB files will soon go into separate distribution (rho)

1.54 Tue Aug 3 12:25:03 CEST 2010

add: TM axes: one more to compute characteristics based on oc types (rho)
fix: newly introduced problem with XTM serialization (rho)
add: TM::Index::Taxonomy for taxo intensive apps (rho)
fix: MLDBM could be fooled into empty maps if file existed with size 0 (rho)
add: TM::IndexAble, an experimental trait to provide index functionality for maps (rho)
add: EXPERIMENTAL & undocumented TM::ResourceAble::BDB, a Berkeley DB backed store (rho)
fix: speed problems with MLDBM backed store (rho)
fix: speed problems with AsTMa serializer (rho)
mod: speedup when parsing LARGE AsTMa streams (rho)
add: EXPERIMENTAL TM::ResourceAble::MemCached, a memcached backed store (rho)

1.53 Sat Jun 5 16:17:56 CEST 2010

add: extended Serializable::CSV serialization (rho)
mod: sync_in/out and source_in/out allow to pass through parameters (rho)
fix: added dependency
add: Serializable::CSV has also first serialize support (rho)
fix: XTM serialization: namespaces, instanceOf (rho)
add: TM::Index::Reified for apps which excessively call is_reified (rho), TODO: more tests

1.52 Tue Jun 1 07:27:10 CEST 2010

fix: missing dependency :/ (rho)

1.51 Sun May 30 19:14:21 CEST 2010

fix: internalize will get 'undef' when invoking it with undef => 'http:...' (perl 5.10, az, rho)
fix: tids did not recognize reified subject addresses of assocs (az)
add: TM::Serializable::CSV deserialize (rho)
~: all workbench related stuff is now marked "deprecated", will be replaced by ts (TempleScript)

1.50 Sun May 2 17:25:23 CEST 2010

fixed: version 0.42 of BerkeleyDB does not like empty files to tie with (rho)

1.49 Tue Apr 13 20:44:25 CEST 2010

fixed: dependency on YAML::Syck missing (az)
fixed: cparser target mentions TM::QL (az)

1.48 Mon Apr 12 07:51:27 CEST 2010

fix: removed test code in TM::Serializable::AsTMa with unsatisfied dependency (rho)

1.47 Sat Apr 10 11:01:06 CEST 2010

fix: &TM::add and &TM::clear did not touch map subcomponents so that MLDBM picked that up (rho)
mod: retrieve uses now shorthands not to confuse MLDBM trait (created huge memory problems) (rho)
add: TM::Analysis::entropy (rho)
add: TM::Graph::neighborhood (rho)
fix: TM::Serialize::AsTMa: missing eol at end of file added (rho)
fix: TM::Serialize::AsTMa: inline data with \n's treated correctly (rho)
fix: TM::toplets & asserts did not play well with DBM-backed store - memory hog (rho)
mod: removed implicit dependency from URI::Escape (produced wrong version numbers with dh-make-perl) (rho)
add: JTM support via JSON and YAML (az)

1.46 Sat Nov 14 17:36:21 CET 2009

mod: dependency to URI and not URI::file
!del: TM::QL and all related packages (problem with smoke testers, decoupling)

1.45 Mon Apr 13 16:45:08 CEST 2009

fix: deserialization to astma1 "topic reifies non-assoc" handled properly (az)
fix: bug in TM::asserts (comparison based on mem address and not on LID!)
add: added TM::clear method to remove all content in one go
mod: CTM parser: deserializes now returns map object
mod: AsTMa deserializer: additional omit_provenance option

1.44 Sat Oct 4 19:40:52 CEST 2008

fix: toplets did not return correct results (rho)
adapt: new LWP::Simple chokes on non-absolute URLs and causes hiccups (rho)
fix: TM: synopsis wrong (retrieve, asserts), (rho)
change: test files do not show STDERR messages (rho)
add: TM::Coverage to display coverage information (rho)

1.43 Mon Jul 21 20:44:09 CEST 2008

change: Makefile.PL adapted to new mcpani version
change: Makefile.PL uses 5.8 (instead of v5.8) to not upset 5.5 interpreters
fix: diff handling (az)

1.42 Mon Jun 30 21:09:29 CEST 2008

fix: bug (03resource) made wrong assumption about inline: resources
fix: bug (TM.pm) getting all assertions ARRAY ref'ed
fix: version bug when creating the TM::Axes pod ~ add: package TM::Materialized::MLDBM2 is replaced/renamed to TM::ResourceAble::MLDBM (old now deprecated)
change: README updated
fix: infrastructure was only initialized by first new TM => one could not access it before a dummy instantiation
change: default configuration for Log4Perl does not any longer write a file tm.log, but logs to STDERR
change: TM::Materialized::MLDBM uses Storable for serializing
change: moved smallest working version up to Perl v5.8 (from v5.6)
update: TM::FAQ
fix: AsTMa= 1.x identifiers could not start with is-a-...., in-, ex-, oc-, bn because of clashes with symbols IN, EX, ...
fix: AsTMa= 1.x comment chars can now be escaped: \ will suppress comment, \\ will escape the escape
change: $TM::toplet_ctr is now made 'our' instead of 'my'
add: EXPERIMENTAL read support for CTM

1.41 Sat May 17 13:05:24 CEST 2008

fix: MLDBM2 did not properly address $TM::log
add: more test cases for XTM support
add: DTDs for the zoo of XTM versions

1.40 Mon May 12 21:18:12 CEST 2008

add: XTM 1.0 serialize/deserialize support (based on az-ware)
add: XTM 2.0 preliminary support (serialize, deserialize)

1.39 Thu May 8 08:11:29 CEST 2008

add: TM::Graph: improved documentation
fix: TM::DM: doc
change: tm workbench got plugin infrastructure
add: TM::Bulk: added vortex axes peers and peers*, plus test cases
add: TM: methods types, typesT, instances, ... generalized to handle lists of tids
fix: AsTMa 1.x deserializer did not allow identifiers with _- to reify assocs
fix: TM::QL::PE needed to load XML::LibXML if use it loose context
add: precompiled CParser version for TM::QL (reduces start-up time by 10 secs)
fix: bug in TM::DM::toplets when using local identifiers

1.38 Fri Apr 11 21:45:50 CEST 2008

TM::Graph: doc fixes, fixed bug for nesting repeats
TM::* : analysis: fixed missing test cases

1.37 Wed Apr 9 20:08:00 CEST 2008

importing into private trac
test autoupload

1.36 Sa 29. Mär 15:58:42 CET 2008

README: overhaul
TM: diff: added missing differential assertions (fix, rho), TODO: this all needs more test cases

1.35 Do 27. Mär 18:52:36 CET 2008

TM: more documentation fixes (rho)
TM: constructor psis parameter now not any long official (rho) ! TM: everything is a subclass of 'thing' (rho, it was actually always the case)
added examples directory ! TM: are_instances operates now on lists and not anymore on references (rho)

1.34 Mo 24. Mär 10:50:05 CET 2008

fixed: spurious error message in t/096 because of whacky tmp file creation (rho)
fixed: deactivated speed test for indices (rho), TODO systematic test

1.33 So 23. Mär 20:39:55 CET 2008

TM::* removed dependency from Test::Deeply::NoTest (conflicts with Class::Trait under Perl 5.10)
TM: reactivated diff code and added test cases for it (rho, TODO identification stuff flaky)

1.32 Mi 19. Mär 17:17:11 CET 2008

t/*.t trying to massage Class::Trait invocations such that they work with Perl 5.10

1.31 Di 18. Mär 13:37:54 CET 2008

TM::Bulk: added peers and peers* (rho)
TM::Bulk: added associations (rho)
TM::Bulk: fixed broken test cases (rho)
TM::DM: fixed names, occurrences bug (a->z)
TM: major reorg of the documentation (rho/a->z)
TM::hash: no longer publicly documented (but works as before) (rho)
TM::Axes: documentation of match search specifications (rho)
TM: duplicate subject indicators are now systematically suppressed (a->z)
TM::Tau: added some magic to treat < and the same (rho)
TM::Serializable::AsTMa: changed default omit_trivia to 1 (rho)
TM: 'add' method now tries to protect local LIDs, see doc (rho)
TM: 'insane' method tries to detect inconsistencies in the TM structure (rho) ! TM: 'toplets' return **REAL*** structures, not just IDs (rho)
TM: 'asserts' return assertions, analog to toplets (rho)
TM::Statistics: you have to ask for nr_toplets and nr_asserts (rho) ! TM: had to rename 'hash' because of a possible collision with another package (CPAN smoke tests), (rho)
mldbm2.t: added "real" temp file handling (triggered spurious errors at smoke tests) (rho) ! TM: toplets return now only topic-like things (not assertions) (rho)
TM: asserts returns now assertions, names, assocs, occs (rho) ! TM: toplets does not try anymore to make the list unique (rho) ! TM: methods is_reified and reifies aligned to canonical TMDM interpretation (rho)
TM::Serializable::AsTMa: newly introduced directive %trace allows a bit more debugging (rho)

1.30 Sa 28. Jul 18:40:45 CEST 2007

        ! TM::Bulk: renaming of basenames to names, documentation
        ! TM::Bulk: vortex request fields aligned with modern TMDM/TMRM view
        ! TM::ResourceAble::mtime now returns 0 (not undef) when the resource cannot be determined
        ! TM::Tree: cluster moved into TM::Graph (just rename your use trait from TM::Tree to TM::Graph)
        - TM : get_players has now the role optional
        - TM::Graph added: (contains cluster, frontier and is_path)

1.29 Mo 16. Jul 21:14:31 CEST 2007

made Log4Perl log object native into TM.pm (should now work stand-alone)
TM: internalize always took (undef, \ 'http://some.uri') parameters, documented now
bugfix: TM::Synchronizable::MapSphere did not find child map implementation

1.28 Do 28. Jun 19:33:06 CEST 2007

TM::MapSphere: mounted map topics get additional meta information as occurrences

1.27 Mi 27. Jun 19:00:04 CEST 2007

added TM::Bulk trait (for mass retrieval)

1.26 Mon Apr 16 14:13:57 EST 2007

added: diff for maps (EXPERIMENTAL, test cases missing, az)

1.25 Fri Jan 5 18:51:12 EST 2007

added: TODO list
rearranged (and generalized): TS.pm atomification handling
TMQL: added || shortcut, removed computed_content
TMQL: rearranged grammar, generalized to content whereever possible
TMQL: XML generation, content variable, attribute values variable
16tmql.t now responds to parameter (id of test case)
fixed: TS ts_uo_eq treated one tuple sequence as set, the other as bag
added dependencies: Term::ReadLine, XML::Simple (was missing in previous version)

1.24 Sun Dec 24 17:52:02 EST 2006

added: parameter control of things to ask in TM::Analysis
added: workbench tm
added: TM::Serializable::Summary: creates a short overview of the map content
moved: selection mechanism of TMDM::topics is also available for TM::midlets
! changed: TM::midlet() expects that all IDs passed in are already absolute
added: TM/QL/*
aligned TMQL support with latest spec (not complete yet, though)
added: rudimentary AsTMa 1.0 serialization support (az)

1.23 Fri Dec 1 17:56:09 EST 2006

modified: TM: match_forall hook char.irole -> char.topic, old deprecated
created: TM::Index to hold all index-related functionality
modified: TM index handling now can used lists of indices in match_forall

1.22 Thu Nov 30 18:22:51 EST 2006

improved: TM::DM documentation
rearranged traits to do 'inheritance'
improved: TM::Tau documentation
re-added: TM::Overview (tutorials missing)
created: TM::FAQ (draft state)
fixed: taxonomy bug in types (variable scoping wrong)
changed: meaning of 'instances': a thing has ALL topics as instances (even itself)
added: TM::Analysis orphanage: figures out topics which have no instances, no types, ...
added: TM::DM has more sophistication in selecting topics from a map
changed: TM::Analysis is now a trait

1.21 Sun Oct 1 11:01:40 EST 2006

added: first experimental TMQL support (test cases not yet included)
improved: PSI docu (somewhat)
introduced: traits (Class::Trait) to solve some architectural problems
reintroduced: tree analysis
improved: TM docu
added: first support for indices, significant speedup
patched: identifiers in AsTMa[12] can also contain . (dot)

1.20 Sun Oct 1 08:33:21 EST 2006

added TM::Tau::Filter
added TM::Analysis (first part)

1.19 Thu Sep 28 18:18:42 EST 2006

split mapsphere test into two parts (MLDBM does not like it to be used with different serializers in one program)
added torture test for hierarchical MLDBM2 databases

1.18 Sun Sep 24 18:24:11 EST 2006

added first MapSphere support (experimental)
added more subjects in TM::PSI

1.17 Sat Sep 23 09:26:42 EST 2006

added BerkeleyDB based MLDBM map implementation (TM::Materialized::MLDBM2)
fixed/reduced package dependencies

1.16 Tue Sep 19 20:15:49 EST 2006

added driver for maps stored via MLDBM

1.15 Sun Sep 17 12:03:54 EST 2006

added AsTMa 2.0 parser
added merging tests

1.14 Sat Sep 16 17:08:10 EST 2006

reanimated AsTMa 1.x parser
added TM::Resource to capture generic resource handling (adapted TM::M::File)

1.13 Sat Sep 16 10:27:01 EST 2006

another consolidation after much infrastructure work

... only internal distributions for experimentation...

1.10 Tue Jul 27 13:48:21 EST 2004

complete reorganisation and new (yeah) basic data structures

-- COMPATIBILITY LEAP ----------------------------------------------

1.05 Tue Jan 13 08:29:29 EST 2004

public version, packaging

1.01-1.04 pure internal development version

added abstraction layer for virtual maps and tau expressions
added transactions
reorganised driver infrastructure 10 times
update AsTMa= parser to latest spec

1.00 Sun Jun 29 19:56:20 EST 2003

feature poor reimplementation with completely revamped data structure

-- COMPATIBILITY LEAP ----------------------------------------------

0.36 Not published

added freeze and thaw commands to xtm.pl

0.35 Mon Aug 5 21:20:43 EST 2002

added missing maps/test.ltm (need better cpan simulator)

0.34 Sun Aug 4 21:32:45 EST 2002

added LTM/CParser (would not build automatically on some systems?)
more speed improvements in XTM::Memory (topics query)
fixed documentation bug for induced_topic_tree
added class-instance as special association type to induced_topic_tree
added loop support (via shared trees) in induced_topic_tree, pruning reduces runtime
added some PSIs to XTM::PSI
added method descriptions to the most important base classes

0.33 Fri Jul 26 21:35:17 EST 2002

fixed bug which raises exception when XTM::Path creating /topic[@id = '...']
changed simple search syntax in XTM::Memory 'regexp' -> 'regexps'
added commands 'merge', 'duplicate_suppression', 'follow_maps' to xtm.pl
added consistency to be passed through all sync_ins also through XTM::Virtual
added t/08topic.t for simple tests
added 'is-reified-by' clauses in AsTMa (XTM::AsTMa::Parser) for topics and associations
added AsTMa directive auto_complete
added AsTMa directive encoding to occur several times in a document
added first (still experimental) version of LTM parsing, see XTM::LTM
fixed strange 'cannot add to undefined' error in XTM::Path when using XTM::Path::create and find inside one program (workaround, not solved yet)
allowed several scope topics for an association (follows XTM and LTM)
added caching to XTM::Path, already parsed expressions are cached
added variable to XTM::Path (similar to SQL prepare/expecute)
added method add_defaults to XTM::topic to add default type/scope to topic components if missing
modified Memory, generic for major performance improvements when merging (still some potential to be used)
modified Memory: merging dies if a topic is merged with an existing but both have a
different addressable resource
fixed bug in XTM::Path not detecting correctly strings '0'

0.32 Sun Jun 30 20:36:01 EST 2002

added XTM::grammar, a package to hold element dependencies and nesting (internal mainly)
added XTM::Path, XPath-like navigation through XTM::base data structures
XTM::Memory::id: setting of id added
XTM::topic, doc corrections
using a precompiled version of the Parse::Recdescent (considerable AsTMa= speedup)
fixed potential problems in XTM::generic
added merging code to XTM::Memory, is controlled via a hash in XTM constructor (BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY?)
fixed docu/code mismatch in XTM::topic (occurrences)
added scope_eq to XTM::scope
added canonicalize to XTM::topic (removes duplicates, sorts things)
added more query clauses for the simple query language in XTM::Memory
more directives for XTM::AsTMa (naming, encoding). Use with care.

0.31 Thu May 16 16:56:40 EST 2002

got rid of XTM::XML::ParseError and used XML::SAX::Exception instead

0.30 Wed May 8 17:50:02 EST 2002

removed dependency of File::Slurp (weird version number), reported by az
fixed bug in incorrectly reporting line numbers in AsTMa::Parser, reported by az
various documention bugs fixed (still much to do)
astma2xtm.pl: some minor changes in switches (see man page)
AsTMa parser: local comments MUST have at least one blank before the '#' (see docs, may break some maps, sorry)
activated tests (old XML::LibXML core dump error has disappeared)

0.29 Feb 25 07:23 EST 2002

Debian test version

0.28 Wed Jan 16 22:17:57 EST 2002

fixed empty character handling in AsTMa::Parser, added line number for better debugging
added more accurate dependencies
added some explanation to the README
fixed XTM::XML::MemoryBuilder to work with SAX::Expat, LibXML::SAX and PurePerl (still a problem there)
AsTMa parser: added directives %cancel, %log

0.27 Mon Jan 14 12:23:41 EST 2002

added missing XTM::AsTMA::MemoryBuilder
fixed test suite bugs which occur at some other Perl installations

0.26 Mon Dec 31 21:49:37 EST 2001

add xml output serialization for (most) classes
revamped XML::ATM into XML::AsTMa, XML::ATM is not distributed any more
added astma2xtm.pl into bin/ (converter), this obsoletes atm2xtm.pl
fixed some bugs in XTM::XML
added connected methods to topic and association to return all topic refs mentioned there
added test for topic IDs in XTM::topic.pm (experimental), have to be valid XML identifiers
started to move to Test::More for testing
added bin/prettifyxtm.pl
fixed unclean code in XTM::topic::has_instanceOf, checking for URIs now
moved XML parsing to XML::LibXML::SAX using the XML::SAX factory
moved most testing to Test::More, added numerous tests
added population mechanism into XTM::topic to load default values
added auto_complete parameter to all XTM::IO subclasses to control auto_completion, default is 1
updated README to reflect Perl version 5.6.1
added support rt.cpan.org to README
added 'stats' command to xtm.pl
added commands 'topics' and 'assocs' to xtm.pl
modified URIs handling in xtm.pl:URIs without a scheme will default as file: URIs

0.25 Mon Dec 17 18:06:24 EST 2001

added statistics to info() in XTM
added clusters() in XTM

0.24 Sat Oct 20 18:46:32 EST 2001

fixed bug of not escaping & in XTM::ATM for occurrences
fixed bug of not checking for all URI schemes in XTM::ATM
fixed too restrictive pattern in XTM::ATM to allow valid XML ids as topic ids

0.23 Sat Oct 13 12:32:11 EST 2001

added XTM::ATM support, documentation in docs/astma.html
fixed hickup in pod in XTM::Virtual
silenced 'Uninitialized value....' during make test in XTM::XML and XTM::ATM
fixed some documentation errors, formatting
added more map debugging facility in XTM (see XTM::info)
added map meta information to XTM and xtm.pl
distinguished between topic and assoc searches in xtm.pl
straightened syntax for XTM::topics 'assocs .....' to allow no trailing characters
changed meaning of parameters of induced_vortex in a subtle but dangerous way

0.22 Sat Mar 17 10:22:40 EST 2001

fixed test maps which made 'make test' fail
fixed nr of subtests in 04virtual.t
removed debugging output from XTM::Virtual
fixed missing use XTM::generic in XTM::subjectIndicatorRef

0.21 Sat Mar 10 11:24:10 EST 2001

added XTM::Virtual
added virtual map support into xtm.pl
added commodity function (induce*) to XTM
induced_vortex induced_assoc_tree
added XTM::base as introductory package
moved XTM::XML::PSI to XTM::PSI
removed _massage from XTM::XML::Grove2TM
relaxed is-a ... pattern for queryingto allow for PSIs
unified various redundant subroutines in XTM::Memory

0.20 Sat Feb 24 23:28:45 EST 2001

minor release gap because of completely reorganised package structure
honoring XTM-1.0 http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/xtm1-20010223.html (modulo TNC)
consolidated topics and c_topics into some simple query language driven routine
moved all thread code into separate server distribution
added xtm.pl workbench

0.12 Sat Feb 17 10:15:39 EST 2001

fixed memory management which cause loooong hangs on the server at some requests
fixed small bug in xtmctrl which made it complain in interactive mode
optimized a bit assoc via <topic> with <topic> queries
optimized XTM::Virtual cache management, small reorgs there
introduced config management via additional switch to xtmd.pl

0.11..0.07 not documented, intermediate panic releases

0.06 Fri Feb 9 13:49:13 EST 2001

fixed daemonization
optimized XTM::Memory::topictree handling a bit
XTM December version of the standard implemented, not fully complete

0.04 Sun Dec 31 14:18:45 2000

original version; created by h2xs 1.19
cloned from inofficial TM-0.04 version

0.01 Tue Jul 27 13:27:54 2004

original version; created by h2xs 1.23 with options
-n TM -X