1 $Id: Changes,v 1.42 2007-08-20 15:34:01 mike Exp $
3 Revision history for Perl extension Net::Z3950::SimpleServer
6 - When the scan-handler callback returns, do not attempt to
7 copy the terms from Perl structures if the error-code is
8 non-zero (i.e. if an error has occurred). This protects
9 against a segmentation fault when the Perl callback does not
10 explicitly set $args->{NUMBER} = 0 on error.
11 - Some clarifications to documentation.
12 - Correct transcription of string-valued attributes in
14 - Scan handler is now passed RPN as well as TERM, a tree of
15 Perl structures representing the entire scan clause
16 including access-points and other attributes (which are
18 - The various classes used to represent nodes in the RPN query
19 tree (Net::Z3950::APDU::Query, Net::Z3950::RPN::And,
20 Net::Z3950::RPN::Or, Net::Z3950::RPN::AndNot,
21 Net::Z3950::RPN::Term and Net::Z3950::RPN::RSID) now all
22 share a newly introduced superclass Net::Z3950::RPN::Node,
23 making it possible to write methods that apply to all node
25 - A utility method toPQF() is provided for
26 Net::Z3950::RPN::Node, enabling the RPN tree to be converted
27 back into a flat PQF query.
28 - Add support for the Delete Result Set service.
30 1.06 Fri Aug 10 23:30:00 BST 2007
31 - New global-handle element can be specified when creating a
32 simple-server object and will be passed to all callback
33 functions. This allows global state to be eliminated from
34 SimpleServer applications ... finally!
35 - Search handler now deals correctly with undefined addinfo:
36 previously a (harmless) error message was emitted.
37 - Add Perl API to yaz_diag_srw_to_bib1(), which SimpleServer
38 applications will need if they access SRU/SRW back-end
39 databases and need to report errors.
40 - Add Perl API to yaz_diag_bib1_to_srw(), because it would
43 1.05 Wed Dec 27 13:19:13 CET 2006
44 - Taking new naming convention for YAZ constants into account.
46 1.04 Fri Dec 1 10:48:32 CET 2006
47 - Build such that SimpleServer links to new yaz shared object.
49 1.03 Tue Aug 8 17:27:16 BST 2006
50 - Rely on version 2.1.14 or later of YAZ; this is the first
51 version that reliably passes through the additional
52 information associated with errors generated while serving
53 SRU/W requests. No functional differences since 1.02.
55 1.02 Wed Jul 26 12:09:50 BST 2006
56 - Better support for Open and User/Password authentication.
57 - SimpleServer.xs's rpn2pquery() is now discarded, and YAZ's
58 yaz_rpnquery_to_wrbuf() used instead. This is more robust
59 in dealing with unusual cases such as string-valued
61 - Support for SCHEMA element when fetching records.
63 1.01 Fri Mar 24 12:09:32 GMT 2006
64 - Documentation of release 1.00's SRU/SRW facilities.
65 - Makefile.PL now fails if YAZ version is earlier than 2.0.0,
66 which was the first with SRU/SRW support.
68 1.00 Fri Mar 24 01:20:24 GMT 2006
69 - Support for SRU and SRW. Mostly this is provided by the YAZ
70 GFS, but changes are needed to allow for the case where
71 there is no RPN query (due to absent on invalid <cql2rpn>
72 element in GFS configuration) so that CQL is passed through
73 natively; and also to fake up an {REQ_FORM} and {REP_FORM}
74 parameters set to the "text/xml" OID when this information
75 is not specified by the GFS.
76 (The jump in version number is due to the SRU/W support.)
77 - Include "logging-server.pl" in the distribution: the
78 simplest possible SimpleServer application, which merely
79 logs the client-request data structures.
80 - Makefile.PL is more helpful if yaz-config isn't found.
81 - Explicitly disable prototypes in SimpleServer.xs: makes no
82 difference but suppresses an error message for a cleaner
85 0.08 Mon Jun 14 14:51:01 2004
86 - SimpleServer is now perl 5.8 thread proof
87 - Support for IMP_ID parameter in Init responses. This was
88 actually written a long time ago, but left commented out as
89 the underlying YAZ back-end server didn't support
90 implementation-ID setting. Now that it does (and has done
91 for eighteen months -- since YAZ release 1.8.6 of
92 2002/03/25!), I've finally removed the comments.
93 - Init handler now understands the setting of {ERR_CODE} as
94 more than a boolean success indicator, and also {ERR_STR}.
95 They are now passed back to the client (thanks to recent
96 changes to the YAZ generic front-end server) in accordance
97 with Z39.50 Implementor Agreement 5, found at
98 http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/agree/initdiag.html
100 0.07 Fri Jan 03 10:12:15 2003
101 - Applied Dave Mitchell's (davem@fdgroup.com) GRS-1 parsing patch.
102 Thanks Dave, and sorry it didn't find its way to release 0.06,
105 0.06 Thu Jan 02 11:15:01 2003
106 - Added support for authentication
107 - Add documentation for the object tree passed as the RPN
108 member of the search-handler's argument hash.
109 - We actually removed the vacuous Changelog and TODO files
110 back in 0.05. They should never have been here :-)
112 0.05 Tue Feb 05 21:54:30 2002
113 - Add brief documentation of the new handling
116 0.04 Tue Feb 05 21:49:56 2002
117 - Add Changelog (Why? We already have this file!)
118 - Add TODO file (although it's empty!)
119 - Change interface to constructor, and fix test.pl script to
120 use the new interface.
121 - Add support for Scan.
122 - Add support for building GRS-1 records.
123 - Add grs_test.pl test suite for new GRS-1 code.
124 - Add RPN structure to search-handler argument hash.
125 - Add PID element to init, search, fetch and present-handler
126 argument hashes (but not the sort, scan and close-handlers,
128 - Fix typos in documentation.
130 0.03 Thu Nov 09 16:22:00 2000
131 - Add the INSTALL file.
132 - Add support for a present-handler (distinct from fetch).
133 - Remove `$args->{LEN} = length($record)' from the example
134 fetch-handler in the documentation.
135 - Minor corrections to documentation, e.g. add commas after
136 elements in anonymous hash of arguments.
137 - Record syntaxes (formats) are now specified as ASCII OIDs
138 (e.g. "1.2.840.10003.5.10") rather than human-readable
139 strings (e.g. "usmarc")
140 - Add some XS code to support sorting, though it doesn't seem
141 to be finished yet, and is not wired out.
142 - Use symbolic constants (e.g. Z_ElementSetNames_generic
143 instead of hard-wired magic number 1).
144 - Add PEER_NAME element to init-handler argument hash.
145 - Minor changes to ztest.pl.
147 0.02 Mon Sep 11 12:32:00 2000
148 - First released versions
150 0.01 Wed Aug 30 14:54:01 2000
151 - original version; created by h2xs 1.19