Revision history for Perl extension Workflow

1.42 2015-09-06 Maintenance release, update not required

- Release migrated from Module::Build to Dist::Zilla

- All version numbers aligned, so traceability to distribution is more  
  transparent, this is a best practice and since we hold a lot of modules
  it makes sense to do this


1.41 2014-08-15 Maintenance release, update not required

- Fixed POD issue with encoding, so we now support UTF-8 for authors
  names

- Minor POD fix by dtikhonov to POD introduced in 1.40

- Adjusted permissions on some files, which were executable for no
  apparent reason


1.40 2014-06-01 Bug fix release, update recommended

- Update recommended due to bug fix by dtikhonov in observer handling

- Merged pull request from dtikhonov holding a bug fix in observer
  handling and a feature enabling attribute validation for actions, see
  the POD added to Workflow::Action

- Cleaned up the Build.PL file

- Repository migrated from SourceForge, Subversion to git (Github)


1.39 2013-08-02 Maintenance release, update not required

- Fixed up Changes file as part of my Questhub quest adhering to the standard
  described in: CPAN::Changes::Spec

  Quest: http://questhub.io/realm/perl/quest/51f0fd8e18ba7dcf4b000040
  Spec: https://metacpan.org/module/CPAN::Changes::Spec


1.38 2013-07-07 Bug fix release, update recommended

- Patch to minor bug where Worflow history did not set proper timezone
  in Workflow::Persister::DBI

  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85380 [RT:85380]

- Added information on issue with Perl 5.8.8 in the
  INCOMPATIBILITIES section

- Updated ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS section

- Corrected some minor POD issues


1.37 2013-07-03 Bug fix release, update recommended

- Added patch from Heiko Schlittermann fixing an issue with serialization of
  context (was evaluated as release 1.35_1)

  https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=64940


1.36 2013-07-02  Bug fix release, update recommended

- Update recommended if you use release 1.35

- Applied minor patch from Oliver Welter following up on the custom workflow 
  patch in release 1.35


1.35 2012-11-08 Maintenance release, update not required 

- Applied patches from Scott Hardin implementing lazy evaluation of
  conditions

- Applied patch from Oliver Welter implementing support for multiple
  factories

  https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18159

- Added patch from Oliver Welter implementing the feature of creating
  custom workflow classes, in addition a patch to silence some
  warning emitted during test from Workflow::Validator

- Added patch from Scott Hardin implementing nested conditions

- Added patch from Steven van der Vegt RT #52841 implementing
  autorun for the INITIAL state

  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52841

- Added patch from Steven van der Vegt RT #52862 improving the
  reporting on validation exceptions

  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52862

- Eliminated README and migrated information into the main POD and
  introduced INSTALL file for the installation relevant information. README is now generated from the main POD by Build.PL


1.34 2010-08-06 Bug fix release, update not required

- Implemented work-around for RT #53909
  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=53909

  The issue demonstrated here, which can be observed in perl versions newer
  than 5.10.0 seems to be related to a issue mentioned here:

  http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=70171

  RT #53909 is based on blead perl, in which also a fix has now been
  implemented, but we still have issues with a lot of perl releases currently
  out there, see:

  http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Workflow+1.33

  So this work-around seems to fix the issue, since I can no longer replicate
  the error. The problem seem to be the clearing of a package scoped variable,
  the array @observations in t/SomeObserver.pm

- Fixed example application, it was relying on a test module in a
  broken way, a path processed using a regex was not reliable


1.33 2010-01-30 Bug fix release, update not required 

- Patch from Ivan Paponov, bug in relation to action groups and use
  of default. Bumping up version of Workflow::Factory to 1.19 and Workflow::State to 1.15

- Patches from Alejandro Imass

  - Changed @FIELDS to @PROPS in Action.pm and InputField.pm for
    mk_accesors as FIELDS was very confusing with regard to action
    input fields.

   - Formalized Workflow::Action::new() as a public method with
     corresponding pod example.

   - Optional class property for Workflow::Action::InputField.
     Previously, public method new() made little sense if InputField
     always instantiates from Workflow::Action::InputField. Now
     fields can derive from custom class.

   - Updated pod to reflect the new formal abillity to add extra
     properties for actions and input fields.

   - With the ability to derive custom properties for classes and
     fields there is little need IMHO to define InputField "type" any
     further, but leave it implementation dependent. The rationale is
     that validators intrinsically define this. Updating pod
     accordingly.

- Patches from Thomas Erskine

   - Added 3 new accessors to Workflow::Factory:

	 - get_persister_for_workflow_type
	 - get_persisters
	 - get_validators

   - Added check for existing context so context is not overwritten
     if existing, fixing a bug. Version bumped up to 1.19

   - Fixing bug in Workflow::Persister::File, adding context
     parameters to serialization. Version bumped up to 1.11

   - Added return of empty list for accessor, in Workflow::Action .
     Version bumped up to 1.10

- Patches from Danny Sadinoff to following classes

	Workflow::Config, bumped up to version 1.13
	Workflow::Persister, bumped up to version 1.10
	Workflow::Factory, bumped up to version 1.19

	- Adding ability to control initial state name via workflow config

	- Adding ability to control initial history record details via
    Persister subclass code

- Addressing a bug reported by Sergei Vyshenski, related to a
  possible API breakage. Please refer to t/add_config_bug.t, which demonstrates the presence of the bug in 1.32 and it's absence in
  0.31. Workflow::Factory bumped up to version: 1.19

- Applied patch from Andrew O'Brien implementing dynamic loading of
  config files RT #18265 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18265.
  Bumped up version for Workflow::Factory to 1.19

1.32 2009-01-26 Bug fix release, update not required 

- Bumped up version for Workflow::State to 1.14 considering patches
  from action_group and test_condition patches from Ivan Paponov
  implementing support for a group tag on actions

- Addressing RT #40750
  http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=40750

  Removed VERSION file, this has now been obsoleted

  We are now resolving the version number for the distribution from Workflow.pm the main module, this mean a jump from 0.31 to 1.32, but it does mean that an installation can be traced back to a given distribution

- Patch to implement proper dynamic names for conditions with a
  'test' attribute. Added RT: #38024

- Added List::MoreUtils to requirements, we use this for test, I have
  moved the test related modules to the build_requires section in
  Build.PL, so List::MoreUtils is not mistaken for an application
  level requirement

  Refactored two tests, to use List::MoreUtils all method (asserting
  presence of numerous actions)

- Fixed minor bug in error message in: Workflow::State, reported
  by Robert Stockdale, RT #38023

- We introduce a more fine grained control  of the auto commit
  feature, implemented by Jim Brandt

- We introduce typed condition, implemented by Jim Brandt. Typed
  conditions makes it possible for different workflows to hold unique methods for workflow steps even with names colliding.

  Example workflow foo and bar can have a condition baz, but baz are two different implementations in foo and bar respectively

- time_zone parameter can now be passer around for use by the
  Workflow DateTime objects internally


0.31 2007-09-26 Bug fix release, 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 2007-09-25 Bug fix release, 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 2007-09-24  Maintenance release, 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 2007-07-06 Maintenance release, 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 2007-07-03 Bug fix release, update not required (see note below)

- 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 2007-03-07 Bug fix release, update not required, see note below

- 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 2006-12-14 Feature release, 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 2006-12-14 Feature release, 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 2006-09-12 Feature release, 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 2006-08-18 Feature release, 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 2006-07-07 Bug fix release, 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 2006-07-07 Bug fix release, 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 2006-07-07 Bug fix release, 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 2006-07-07 Maintenance release, 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 2005-11-30

  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 2005-11-29

  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 2004-10-17

  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
     <tmoertel@cpan.org> 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 2004-10-12

  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:

     <state name="create user">
         <action name="create">
           <resulting_state return="admin"    state="assign as admin" />
           <resulting_state return="helpdesk" state="assign as helpdesk" />
           <resulting_state return="*"        state="assign as luser" />
         </action>
        ....

       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 2004-09-30

  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 <mw@arsnavigandi.de> for
      pointing the problem out.


0.04 2004-09-12

  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 2004-05-24

      * 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 2004-05-22

      Updates to test scripts and files they require from CPAN tester
      report -- thanks Barbie!


0.01 2004-05-13

      First CPAN release -- everything is new!