doc/changes/3.20.rst
author Philippe Pepiot <philippe.pepiot@logilab.fr>
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:27:39 +0100
changeset 11899 bf6106b91633
parent 10504 3755cd64fff8
child 12792 e2cdb1be6bd9
permissions -rw-r--r--
[schema] load schema from modules names instead of directories Introspect cubicweb, cubes and apphome using pkgutil to generate the full list of modules names for loading the schema. Keep historical behavior and check if source .py file exists if a module is found using python bytecode file (.pyc and .pyo) Loading schema from apphome require apphome to be present in sys.path and that "schema" module resolve to a file located in apphome. Update migraction tests to explicitely update sys.path when loading schema from different apps, use a contextmanager for this so it's more readable. Require updated logilab-common and yams

3.20 (06/01/2015)
=================

New features
------------

* virtual relations: a new ComputedRelation class can be used in
  schema.py; its `rule` attribute is an RQL snippet that defines the new
  relation.

* computed attributes: an attribute can now be defined with a `formula`
  argument (also an RQL snippet); it will be read-only, and updated
  automatically.

  Both of these features are described in `CWEP-002`_, and the updated
  "Data model" chapter of the CubicWeb book.

* cubicweb-ctl plugins can use the ``cubicweb.utils.admincnx`` function
  to get a Connection object from an instance name.

* new 'tornado' wsgi backend

* session cookies have the HttpOnly flag, so they're no longer exposed to
  javascript

* rich text fields can be formatted as markdown

* the edit controller detects concurrent editions, and raises a ValidationError
  if an entity was modified between form generation and submission

* cubicweb can use a postgresql "schema" (namespace) for its tables

* "cubicweb-ctl configure" can be used to set values of the admin user
  credentials in the sources configuration file

* in debug mode, setting the _cwtracehtml parameter on a request allows tracing
  where each bit of output is produced

.. _CWEP-002: http://hg.logilab.org/review/cwep/file/tip/CWEP-002.rst


API Changes
-----------

* ``ucsvreader()`` and ``ucsvreader_pb()`` from the ``dataimport`` module have
  2 new keyword arguments ``delimiter`` and ``quotechar`` to replace the
  ``separator`` and ``quote`` arguments respectively. This makes the API match
  that of Python's ``csv.reader()``.  The old arguments are still supported
  though deprecated.

* the migration environment's ``remove_cube`` function is now called ``drop_cube``.

* cubicweb.old.css is now cubicweb.css.  The previous "new"
  cubicweb.css, along with its cubicweb.reset.css companion, have been
  removed.

* the jquery-treeview plugin was updated to its latest version


Deprecated Code Drops
----------------------

* most of 3.10 and 3.11 backward compat is gone; this includes:

  - CtxComponent.box_action() and CtxComponent.build_link()
  
  - cubicweb.devtools.htmlparser.XMLDemotingValidator
  
  - various methods and properties on Entities, replaced by cw_edited
    and cw_attr_cache
  
  - 'commit_event' method on hooks, replaced by 'postcommit_event'
  
  - server.hook.set_operation(), replaced by
    Operation.get_instance(...).add_data()
  
  - View.div_id(), View.div_class() and View.create_url()
  
  - `*VComponent` classes
  
  - in forms, Field.value() and Field.help() must take the form and
    the field itself as arguments
  
  - form.render() must get `w` as a named argument, and
    renderer.render() must take `w` as first argument
  
  - in breadcrumbs, the optional `recurs` argument must be a set, not
    False
  
  - cubicweb.web.views.idownloadable.{download_box,IDownloadableLineView}
  
  - primary views no longer have `render_entity_summary` and `summary`
    methods
  
  - WFHistoryVComponent's `cell_call` method is replaced by
    `render_body`
  
  - cubicweb.dataimport.ObjectStore.add(), replaced by create_entity
  
  - ManageView.{folders,display_folders}