Revision history for Perl extension Workflow # $Id: Changes 341 2007-09-26 18:29:16Z jonasbn $ 0.31 Wed Sep 26 20:26:49 CEST 2007 (update not required) - Fixed failing tests in t/persister_dbi.t, this has only observed twice and does not seem to be consistent. This is related to execution time for the test suite and the use of now, using the debugger would demonstrate this. Resolves: RT #29037 - https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29037 - Cleaned TODO file a bit - Added Data::Dumper requirement to Build.PL 0.30 Tue Sep 25 12:28:12 CEST 2007 (update not required) - Added patch from Jim Brandt improving handling of date formats for real, the merge into 0.29 (see below) was not completed The patch also addresses RT #29037 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29037 which is related to a failing test: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/08/msg582727.html 0.29 Mon Sep 24 23:09:12 CEST 2007 (update not required) - Added new test file: t/persister.t for Workflow::Persister - Updated t/confition.t for better coverage - Updated t/action.t for better coverage - Updated t/validator.t for better coverage - Updated Workflow::Action::Mailer (stub now can be tested, this might however prove to be a bad idea) - Added new test file: t/action_mailer.t for Workflow::Action::Mailer - Updated t/action_null.t for better coverage - Added some more tests t/Config.t 0.28 Fri Jul 6 16:42:30 CEST 2007 (update not required) - Removed TODO.txt, the files contents have long gone been merged into the TODO file - Added a new file to the doc/ directory named developing.txt This is a collection of documentation notes on maintaining and developing the Worksflow distribution - Renamed Action::Mailer to Workflow::Action::Mailer, this however still looks like a stub that was never finished - Added more POD to: Workflow Workflow::Action::InputField Workflow::Action::Mailer Workflow::Condition Workflow::Condition::HasUser Workflow::Config::XML Workflow::Factory Workflow::History Workflow::Persister Workflow::Persister::DBI Workflow::Persister::DBI::ExtraData Workflow::Persister::DBI::AutoGeneratedId Workflow::Persister::DBI::SequenceId Workflow::Persister::RandomId Workflow::Persister::File Workflow::Persister::SPOPS Workflow::State Workflow::Validator::HasRequiredField We now have a POD coverage of 100%, this does however not say anything about the quality of the spelling or POD. All POD will however be revisited at some point. Please remember to document changes and additions. - Implemented conditional tests in t/00_load.t for SPOPS and UUID. These are conditional in their own tests, so this should of course be reflected in t/00_load.t This should address the failing test, ref: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/07/msg527994.html - Added missing version number to Workflow::Persister (1.09), the PAUSE indexer complained over degrading version number, investigating consequences No apparent consequences 0.27 Tue Jul 3 16:50:15 CEST 2007 (update not required unless you are using 0.26 or 0.25) - Fixed bug in cached condition handling (0.26 reintroduced the original race condition that was solved using the condition cache in 0.25). Condition cache is now cleared on state change and when calling get_available_action_names() - Updated some tests, nothing serious we are just on the way to better test coverage and documentation - Added more POD to: Workflow::Action Workflow::Exception Workflow::Persister::RandomId.pm Workflow::Persister::UUID.pm Workflow::Validator::MatchesDateFormat Workflow::Validator::InEnumeratedType - Added more tests of Workflow::Validator::MatchesDateFormat to t/validator_matches_date_format.t - Added more tests of Workflow::Validator::InEnumeratedType to t/validator_in_enumerated_type.t - Small fix to a test on an empty array. Empty arrays evaluate to false t/config.t, cleaned some code in Workflow::Config and Workflow::Config::Perl nothing significant - Hard coded version numbers to all modules in t/ Subversion uses different scheme so we no longer use automatically updated version numbers, added version 0.01 where no version was present - Hard coded version numbers to all modules in eg/ Subversion uses different scheme so we no longer use automatically updated version numbers, added version 0.01 where no version was present - Eliminated warning in Workflow::Factory, in check for FACTORY parameter - Added t/00_load.t, de facto usage syntax test catches compilation errors etc. - Applied patch from Jim Brandt to Workflow::Config::XML, the patch helps to catch bad XML Updated version to 1.05 - Hard coded latest versions from CPAN to all modules, Subversion uses different scheme so we no longer use automatically updated version number. Action::Mailer 1.01 Workflow 1.32 Workflow::Action 1.09 Workflow::Action::InputField 1.09 Workflow::Action::Null 1.03 Workflow::Base 1.08 Workflow::Condition 1.07 Workflow::Condition::Evaluate 1.02 Workflow::Condition::HasUser 1.05 Workflow::Config 1.11 Workflow::Config::Perl 1.02 Workflow::Config::XML 1.04 Workflow::Context 1.05 Workflow::Exception 1.08 Workflow::Factory 1.18 Workflow::History 1.09 Workflow::Persister 1.09 Workflow::Persister::DBI 1.19 Workflow::Persister::DBI::AutoGeneratedId 1.06 Workflow::Persister::DBI::ExtraData 1.05 Workflow::Persister::DBI::SequenceId 1.05 Workflow::Persister::File 1.10 Workflow::Persister::RandomId 1.03 Workflow::Persister::SPOPS 1.07 Workflow::Persister::UUID 1.03 Workflow::State 1.13 Workflow::Validator 1.05 Workflow::Validator::HasRequiredField 1.04 Workflow::Validator::InEnumeratedType 1.04 Workflow::Validator::MatchesDateFormat 1.06 - Fixed a problem in t/workflow.t which rely on DBI. DBI is not necessarily present, since this is not a requirement (DBD::Mock is), so I have made the test conditional as to whether DBI is installed as for some of the other tests. This should address the 'N/A' status, ref: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg492425.html - Updated MANIFEST - Added t/03_pod-coverage.t, de facto POD coverage test, set the environment variable TEST_POD to enable the test Currently we have BAD POD coverage so the test fails. - Added t/02_pod.t, de facto POD syntax test, set the environment variable TEST_POD to enable the test 0.26 Wed Mar 7 09:25:06 CET 2007 (update not required unless you are using 0.25) - Fixed bug in cached condition handling. The condition cache is now cleared before checking conditions so that the condition results are not taken from the cache when entering the same state again - Fixed small bug in the error message when autorunning is enabled but more than one action is available (now displays the names of these actions correctly) 0.25 Thu Dec 14 09:11:57 CET 2006 (update not required) - Applied patch from Alexander Klink via rt.cpan.org (#23736) Introduces caching of the result of a condition's evaluate() 0.24 Thu Dec 14 08:55:05 CET 2006 (update not required) - Applied patch from Alexander Klink via rt.cpan.org (#23925) Introduces may_stop property for autorunning workflow This is why this patch introduces the "may_stop" property for a state, which means that Workflow won't complain if the state is autorun and no or too many activities are present. 0.23 Tue Sep 12 16:54:25 CEST 2006 (update not required) - Applied patch from Michael Bell via rt.cpan.org (#21100) Fixes problem with handling of 0 and empty strings as parameters - Applied patch from Michael Bell via rt.cpan.org (#21101) Fixes problem with deletion of parameters - Applied yet another patch from Michael Bell via rt.cpan.org (#21099) The patch fixes some misinforming POD - Applied patch from Alexander Klink via rt.cpan.org (#21422) The patch implement more powerful observers 0.22 Fri Aug 18 23:26:55 CEST 2006 (update not required) - Applied patch from Michael Bell via rt.cpan.org (#20871), this patch also contains the patch mentioned below. - Applied patch to Workflow::Action from Michael Bell, fixing two bugs - Changed POD format to accomodate for Pod::Coverage, where B<> is not recognised, but =head<1..3> and =item is So subs are now marked with head3 instead of B<>, I am of the opinion that titles should be marked as titles and B<> (bold) should be used to emphasize important information in the POD. 0.21 Fri Jul 7 23:25:35 CEST 2006 (update not required) - Fixed bug reported by Martin Bartosch, Workflow::Context's merge method did not work properly, applied patch from Martin - Updated t/context.t to test the above fix, this got the coverage from 53.3 percent to 93.3 0.20 Fri Jul 7 22:29:19 CEST 2006 (update not required) - Fixed bug reported by Martin Bartosch, Workflow::Factory's add_config_from_file now takes an array ref as stated in the POD. - Updated t/factory.t to test the above fix, just using the scenarios from the SYNOPSIS. This fix did however not contribute to the coverage of Workflow::Factory, we lost 0.3 percent along the way going from 88.7 to 88.4 - Fixed two POD errors in Workflow::Config 0.19 Fri Jul 7 20:40:33 CEST 2006 (update not required) - The 0.18 release contained a broken Makefile.PL, thanks to Randal Schwartz for sending me the feedback to get this addressed immediately. 0.18 Fri Jul 7 14:47:00 CEST 2006 (update not required) - New maintainer, JONASBN has taken over maintenance of Workflow - Added maintainer information to Workflow.pm - Added new TODO file - Added a handful of tests to t/config.t and added dependency on Test::Exception - Somewhat applied patch from Chris Brown, the use of Perl as configuration was broken, in my attempt to implement tests prior to applying Chris Browns patch I accidently fixed the same problems it addressed. coverage of Workflow::Config::Perl has gone from 0 to 89.0 with this release - Added new files (for test): t/workflow.perl t/workflow_action.perl t/workflow_condition.perl t/workflow_errorprone.perl t/workflow_validator.perl - Added POD to Workflow::Config::Perl on parse method - Added CVS id keywords and author information to README - Added CVS id keywords and author information to .txt files in doc 0.17 Wed Nov 30 21:51:31 EST 2005 lib/Workflow/Persister/DBI.pm: - fix dumb typo that resulted in PostgreSQL getting a random-ID generator instead of a sequence-ID generator, thanks to Michael Graham for pointing it out 0.16 Tue Nov 29 22:12:25 EST 2005 META.yml: - RT #12360: Added 'no_index' section so demo modules don't get indexed; thanks to Adam Kennedy for report and fix. lib/Workflow.pm: - RT #14413: Added workflow object to Workflow::State->get_autorun_action_name() call; thanks to Jonas Nielsen for report and fix. lib/Workflow/Factory.pm: - RT #12361: Add documentation about return values/exceptions from add_config() and add_config_from_file(); thanks to Adam Kennedy for report. lib/Workflow/Persister/DBI.pm: POTENTIAL BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY: - Change 'user' field in history table to 'workflow_user' so we don't collide with PostgreSQL reserved word. (It's probably reserved elsewhere too...) If you have existing workflow tables you'll want to ALTER them to the new fieldname or look at the next changeitem to customize the field names. - Make the workflow and history fields settable by subclassing the persister -- just define 'get_workflow_fields()' and 'get_history_fields()' and return the names you want in the order specified in the docs. Thanks to Michael Graham for the nudge. - Be sure to pass in the database handle to the pre_fetch ID generator in create_workflow() (related to RT #15622) - RT #15622: While we didn't apply this patch we did cleanup some of the similar code.... - Apply patch from Frank Rothhaupt to work with Oracle sequences. lib/Workflow/Persister/DBI/SequenceId.pm: - Throw proper exception if we cannot execute the sequence SQL. 0.15 Sun Oct 17 11:17:44 EDT 2004 CPAN/Install notes: - You should now be able to reference the Workflow module via CPAN with 'install Workflow' and such. Thanks to Michael Schwern (RT bug #8011) and the PAUSE indexing server for the reports. Also thanks to Michael Roberts for releasing the 'Workflow' namespace to this module. If you're interested in workflows I strongly encourage you to check out his wftk (Workflow Toolkit) project along with the Perl interface when it's released. http://www.vivtek.com/wftk.html Build.PL/Makefile.PL: - Add Class::Factory as dependency. Thanks to Michael Schwern for the pointer via RT (bug #8010)-- during my presentation to pgh.pm on the Workflow module no less! (I added a reference to the presentation in README and Workflow.pm) - Add Class::Observable as dependency for new functionality. eg/ticket/ticket.pl: - Ensure we actually delete the SQLite database file if it exists. t/TestUtil.pm: - Always store the logfile from testing in the 't/' directory. Workflow: - Workflows are now observable. Big thanks to Tom Moertel for the suggestion. See WORKFLOWS ARE OBSERVABLE in docs. - In previous versions most properties were read-only but it wasn't enforced. Now it is. Workflow::Factory: - Add the ability to register observers from the 'workflow' configuration and add them to workflows created from fetch_workflow() and create_workflow(). Configuration information available in Workflow.pm. 0.10 Tue Oct 12 01:02:11 EDT 2004 Workflow - POTENTIAL BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY Since we've now got 'resulting_state' in a state's action that is dependent on the action results of the previous action being run (see Workflow::State change), we cannot set the 'new' workflow state before executing the action. One result: you shouldn't set the 'state' property of any created Workflow::History objects -- we'll modify the state of any history objects with an empty state before saving them (see changes for Workflow::Factory) Another result: the value of '$wf->state' inside your Action now refers to the EXISTING state of the workflow not the SOON TO BE state. Earlier versions had the SOON TO BE state set into the workflow before executing the action to make things less confusing. Now that it's changed any code you have using the state of the workflow (such as in our example 'Trouble Ticket' application in eg/ticket/) will give a different value than the previous Workflow version. This behavior seems more consistent, but comments/suggestions are welcome. - In 'execute_action()' -- once we're done executing the main action, check to see if our new state is an autorun state, and if so run it. Workflow::Action::Null - New class: use if you want to move the workflow from one state to another without actually doing anything. Workflow::Condition::Evaluate - New class: allow inline conditions expressed as Perl code in the 'test' attribution of 'condition'; has access to the values in the current workflow context in a Safe compartment. Workflow::Factory - In save_workflow(), call 'set_new_state()' with the workflow state on all unsaved Workflow::History objects before saving them. Workflow::State - Add 'autorun' property and 'get_autorun_action_name()' to retrieve the single valid action name available from an autorun state. - The 'resulting_state' property of an action within a state can now be multivalued, which means the next state depends on the return value of the action that's executed. For instance, we might have: .... So if the action 'create' returns 'admin', the new state will be 'assign as admin'; on 'helpdesk' it will be 'assign as helpdesk', and all other values will go to state 'assign as luser'. Existing behavior (actions returning nothing for a single 'resulting_state') is unchanged. 0.05 Thu Sep 30 23:11:01 EDT 2004 Workflow::Persister::DBI - Trying to fetch a workflow with a non-existent ID didn't work properly, returning an empty workflow object (which blew up when you tried to call a method on it) instead of undef (as documented). Thanks to Martin Winkler for pointing the problem out. 0.04 Sun Sep 12 22:17:48 EDT 2004 eg (example application): - Add CGI interface ('ticket.cgi') to example application, and move most of the logic into App::Web, which is now a full object instead of a bunch of class methods. Both the standalone web server ('ticket_web.pl') and the CGI script use the same logic, templates, template processing, etc. Workflow::Config - Move Perl/XML configuration parsers to separate classes and make this class a factory. - Add class method 'parse_all_files()' to allow you to pass in a list of mixed-type files (some XML, some Perl) and have them be parsed properly. - Add documentation about implementing your own configuration reader Workflow::Config::Perl - New class: code moved from Workflow::Config for perl-only parsing Workflow::Config::XML - New class: code moved from Workflow::Config for XML-only parsing Workflow::Factory - Invoke class method in Workflow::Config to deal with potentially different types of configuration (e.g., mixing and matching 'xml' and 'perl' files). Workflow::Persister::DBI::AutoGeneratedId: - Fix typo bug spotted by Martin Winkler (winkler-martin@web.de) 0.03 Mon May 24 19:16:40 EDT 2004 * Applied modified patches from Jim Smith (jgsmith@tamu.edu) to do the following: - Allow you to read in the XML/Perl configuration file from somewhere else and pass it to Workflow::Config as a scalar reference. - You can subclass Workflow::Factory and still use 'FACTORY' to import the factory of the class you want and 'instance()' to do the same. * Added docs for these new features, and added tests for at least the factory subclassing feature. 0.02 Sat May 22 00:34:43 EDT 2004 Updates to test scripts and files they require from CPAN tester report -- thanks Barbie! 0.01 Thu May 13 22:08:29 EDT 2004 First CPAN release -- everything is new!