Changelog

Chula v0.13.3 (dev)

Released 2011-11-30

• Add support for using the Eventlet wsgi provider.
• Add max-request, keep-alive, preload, worker-provider, and access-log support to chula-run.
• Switch to httplib2 when running bat tests.
• Fix various http GET/POST bugs.

Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula

Chula v0.12.0 (latest)

Released 2011-08-02

• Add support for using the Gunicorn wsgi provider.
• Add support for using the Tornado wsgi provider.
• Add support for “restfull” urls. This feature is only available when using the regex mapper, see: Configuration.
• Don’t include a stacktrace for 404 requests served by chula.www.controller.error.Error._crappy_static_server().

Documentation:Chula-0.12.0 Download:/downloads/Chula-0.12.0.tar.gz Download:/downloads/Chula-0.12.0.checksums Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.12.0

Chula v0.11.0 (stable)

Released 2011-07-11

• Improved setup to use distribute’s setuptools, or distutils.
• Added (previously removed) support for python-2.5.

Documentation:Chula-0.11.0 Download:/downloads/Chula-0.11.0.tar.gz Download:/downloads/Chula-0.11.0.checksums Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.11.0

Chula v0.10.0

Released 2011-06-16

• Fixed major defect in the http status header sent by chula.www.adapters.fcgi.adapter and chula.www.adapters.wsgi.adapter. Prior to this fix it appears the status code would look something like 404 OK in the event of a not found error condition. The code had OK hard coded, and thus wasn’t taking into consideration the actual status. This is now fixed using httplib.responses for the W3C string representations of the status code(s).
• Set psycopg2.extensions.{UNICODE,UNICODEARRAY} globally in chula.db.engines.postgresql. This considerably simplifies unicode struggles when downstream code doesn’t know what encoding was used. With this change all data returned by psycopg2 will be of type unicode instead of str.
• Switched the chula.config.Config.auto_reload logic to fully reload everything. Previously there were situations where code imported by model classes was not getting reloaded. This is currently experimental, and might eat your computer.
• Improved chula.www.controller.error.Error._crappy_static_server() so it can serve almost any static content (hypothetically). For sure it can serve html files, which was sadly not supported previously.
• Improved chula-run to use Gevent’s wsgi server (http://www.gevent.org/gevent.wsgi.html) when available. If not available the builtin wsgiref.simple_server is used.
• Added a default chula.logger.Logger instance to chula.www.controller.base.Controller.
• Added logging for 404 failures when chula.www.controller.error.Error._crappy_static_server() is in use.
• Added logging for unhandled exceptions in controller methods decorated as a webservice, via chula.webservice.expose().
• Added a chula.www.controller.error.Error.e404_render() method to the base error controller for custom rendering while still using chula.www.controller.error.Error._crappy_static_server() for testing.
• Added a skeleton application for use as a reasonable starting place for a hello world type application (https://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/master/apps/skel).

Documentation:Chula-0.10.0 Download:/downloads/Chula-0.10.0.tar.gz Download:/downloads/Chula-0.10.0.checksums Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.10.0

Chula v0.9.0

Released 2011-03-24

• Added chula-run to serve a Chula application using Python’s reference wsgiref.simple_server. Remember this is just for debugging and developing. When running your application for real you’ll want to use something like Nginx via FastCGI.
• [GH-19] Added chula.www.controller.error as a default error controller. This provides basic static content handling as well as [crude] stack trace formatting in html when debugging is enabled.
• Added support for chula.config.Config.auto_reload to make coding even funner.
• Removed dependency on setuptools, now we only use distutils.
• [GH-16] Improved logging. Both error and debug logging use files. This fixes the long standing stderr blocking issue.
• Improved build process to reference build artifacts directly from pypi.
• [GH-20] Fixed chula.nosql.couch.Documents to use document=value.

Documentation:Chula-0.9.0 Download:/downloads/Chula-0.9.0.tar.gz Download:/downloads/Chula-0.9.0.checksums Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.9.0

Chula v0.8.0

Released 2010-12-26

• Added support for couchdb-python-0.7.0 (api changes).
• Added support for raw (json/xml) http posts (GH-17).
• Added support for the Python provided json library (now the default).
• Added support for “zero config” CouchDB access. Previously the code would raise an excception of the server url was not specified, now it assumes http://localhost:5984 if no configuration is provided.
• Added support for optional webservice indentation when using the JSON transport. This is useful for situations where you prefer to have payload you can actually read, and are ok with the performance impact.
• Exposed chula.config.Config.log_level in the config object.
• Improved nosql.couch class constructors to avoid kwargs overflow (GH-18).
• Improved the Getting Started documentation a bit.
• Improved name of queue msg purging exception to be more accurate.
• Removed old xml based changelog and doc files.
• Removed support for Python-2.5 (though you can still use it).

Documentation:Chula-0.8.0 Download:/downloads/Chula-0.8.0-py2.6.egg Download:/downloads/Chula-0.8.0-py3.1.egg Download:/downloads/Chula-0.8.0.tar.gz Download:/downloads/Chula-0.8.0-py2.6.linux-x86_64.exe (unsupported) Download:/downloads/Chula-0.8.0.checksums Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.8.0

Older releases

Chula v0.7.0

Released 2010-06-29

• Added support for native CouchDB sorting
• Removed support for app level sorting of CouchDB documents

Documentation:Chula-0.7.0 Download:/downloads/Chula-0.7.0-py2.6.egg Download:/downloads/Chula-0.7.0-py2.5.egg Download:/downloads/Chula-0.7.0.tar.gz Download:/downloads/Chula-0.7.0-py2.6.linux-x86_64.exe (unsupported) Download:/downloads/Chula-0.7.0-py2.5.win32.exe (unsupported) Download:/downloads/Chula-0.7.0.checksums Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.7.0

Chula v0.6.0

Released 2010-05-07

• Updated the manifest to include apps, and test cases
• Added support for Google App Engine.
• Added ability to fetch data from CouchDB using views
• Removed dependency on pytz.
• Removed usage of socket.gethostname(), which can have a negative impact on performance (especially in heavily threaded applications). This also makes it possible to use Chula in environments that do not have access to socket.
• When looking for simplejson, also try using the copy that ships with Django.
• Updated the logger to not use a file handler when chula.config.Config.log is None.
• Fixed defect in Couchdb connection cache.
• Performance improvements to nosql.couch

Documentation:Chula-0.6.0 Download:/downloads/Chula-0.6.0-py2.6.egg Download:/downloads/Chula-0.6.0-py2.5.egg Download:/downloads/Chula-0.6.0.tar.gz Download:/downloads/Chula-0.6.0-py2.6.linux-x86_64.exe (unsupported) Download:/downloads/Chula-0.6.0-py2.5.win32.exe (unsupported) Download:/downloads/Chula-0.6.0.checksums Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.6.0

Chula v0.5.0

Released 2010-02-22

• Added support for Setuptools. This results in Chula being installable via easy_install.
• Added a bit more documentation on how to install Chula.

Documentation:Chula-0.5.0 Download:/downloads/Chula-0.5.0-py2.6.egg Download:/downloads/Chula-0.5.0-py2.5.egg Download:/downloads/Chula-0.5.0.tar.gz Download:/downloads/Chula-0.5.0-py2.6.linux-x86_64.exe (unsupported) Download:/downloads/Chula-0.5.0-py2.5.win32.exe (unsupported) Download:/downloads/Chula-0.5.0.checksums Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.5.0

Chula v0.4.0

Released 2010-02-10

• Added simple wrapper around couchdb-python
• Added support for CouchDB session store. This means you now can choose between PostgreSQL/Memcached or CouchDB/Memcached.
• Added singleton decorator
• Added initial logging support
• Added a regex style url mapper. This means you can now choose between automatic class mapping and hand crafted mappings via regular expressions (this should be similar to Django style routing).
• Added (initial) documentation using Sphinx (not yet published)
• Updated memcache.py to version 1.45
• Fixed regression in chula.www.cookie where the cookie domain was getting prefixed with ”.” once for every cookie - oops.
• Refactored session into a package. When the CouchDB backend was added, not all of the failover logic was being implemented. To clean things up properly the session logic had to be abstracted away from the backends. Now there is a single session class that supports n number of backends that all use the same interface.
• Moved third party libs (fcgi, selenium, memcache) into chula.vendor

Download:Chula-0.4.0.tar.gz Documentation:Chula-0.4.0 Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.4.0

Chula v0.3.0

Released 11/03/2009

• Improved cookie handling (better RFC compliance)
• worked around Python-2.6 deprecation of Exception.message
• More unit and bat tests
• Enforced str key types with memcached
• Disabled memcached key sanitization by default

Download:Chula-0.3.0.tar.gz Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.3.0

Chula v0.2.0

Released 09/27/2009

• Added chula.data.str2unicode
• Added initial bat tests
• Improved handling of exceptions during controller import
• Improved chula.mail to properly handle unicode
• Moved unit tests out of the source tree
• Added support for Selenium tests

Download:Chula-0.2.0.tar.gz Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.2.0

Chula v0.1.0

Released 06/29/2009

• Fixed corner case in FieldStorage array structures
• Fixed defect in chula.date.str2date() with UTC +n
• Fixed run_tests so it works without Chula being installed
• Improved chula.data.str2date to support years 1000 to 2999 (jmathai).
• Improved chula.data.str2date to support a unix timetamp
• Added two sample applications
• Added documentation (one of the sample apps)
• Added support for custom queue messages
• Minor tweaks to reduce memory consumption
• Made session optional, but enabled by default

Download:Chula-0.1.0.tar.gz Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.1.0

Chula v0.0.6

Released 04/11/2009

• Added support for FasgCGI
• Added an ASCII transport to chula.webservice
• Added a webservice decorator: chula.webservice.expose
• Added testutils module
• Fixed defect where error controller not found when using controller packages
• Fixed defect in data.commaify with less than 2 decimals
• Improved the timer to not break xhtml compliance

Download:Chula-0.0.6.tar.gz Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.0.6

Chula v0.0.5

Released 12/11/2008

• Improved chula.collection adding an add() method
• Improved chula.webservice removing dependency on mod_python
• Improved chula.www.cookie removing dependency on mod_python
• Improved env to hold GET, POST (previously only a combo)
• Improved support for copy.deepcopy on chula.collection
• Improved error.e404 used when method resolution fails
• Improved “under construction” flow by removing dependency on session
• Improved chula.queue to keep processed/failed messages for later review
• Changed behavior to always call the error controller on exception. This is slightly less convienent, but encourages better testing of error handling code paths for apps using Chula.
• Changed behavior to call e404 when the controller requested isn’t found
• Added initial support for WSGI
• Added initial suport for the Python simple_server

Download:Chula-0.0.5.tar.gz Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.0.5

Chula v0.0.4

Released 8/19/2008

• Changed dependency checking to be further down the stack
• Cleaned up directory structure of source tree a little
• Improved installer to use distro specific locations
• Promoted chula.collection into a package
• Promoted chula.db into a package (much better now)
• Fixed defect in chula.collection when copy.deepcopy is used
• Wired up specified error controller (previously unused)
• Added chula.collection.UboundCollection
• Added chula.data.isregex and chula.db.cregex
• Added chula.mail
• Added chula.system
• Added support for an “under construction” controller
• Added support for sqlite to chula.db.datastore
• Added tcp based message queue (working, but very much not ready to be used)

Download:Chula-0.0.4.tar.gz Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.0.4

Chula v0.0.3

Released 6/15/2008

• Added module for working with caching services, currently only Memcache is supported.
• Added support for controllers inside of packages, previously only a single namespace was supported. Note that this feature is probably going to be moved into a FileMapper so the StandardMapper can move to more of a map based model.
• Added render method to pager.Pager for those that want to subclass the output. The base method simply returns the pager unmodified.
• Remove “danger” logic from db.py as it’s best left up to the consumer to handle that type of logic. It was poorly implemented anyway :)

Download:Chula-0.0.3.tar.gz Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.0.3

Chula v0.0.2

Released 1/21/2008

• Fixed defect where env.host is None
• Fixed defect where env.protocol_type is None
• Fixed defect where request_uri of: “/?” was loading e404
• Fixed defect where session not deleted on logout
• More gracefully handle clients lacking cookie support
• Allow the controller to have direct access to the cookie object. This provides access to it’s destroy() method, useful for logout pages.
• Tweaks to improve support for static content
• Improved reliability/accuracy of session
• Added timer to html output (turn off with chula.config.Config.add_timer)
• Handle exception on premature client disconnection

Download:Chula-0.0.2.tar.gz Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.0.2

Chula v0.0.1

Released 12/14/2007

• Initial release

Download:Chula-0.0.1.tar.gz Source:http://github.com/jmcfarlane/chula/tree/v0.0.1