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Release Notes 5.0

This is the consolidated list of changes between Tapestry versions 5.0.3 and 5.0.19. Before upgrading, be sure to review the How to Upgrade instructions.

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Tapestry Version 5.0.19

Bugs Fixed

  • TAP5-419 – Logging of component class transformations has typo in prefix
  • TAP5-449 – @CleanupRender Render phase methods not always invoked
  • TAP5-815 – Asset dispatcher allows any file inside the webapp visible and downloadable
  • TAP5-894 – Fix PartialMarkupDocumentLinkerTest.stylesheet_link()
  • TAP5-936 – Tapestry wiki link links to nothing for locales other then en

Improvements Made

  • TAP5-417 – Tapestry Performance Improvements
  • TAP5-762 – Upgrade Selenium dependencies to version 1.0.1
  • TAP5-934 – Update javassist version + improve error reporting in OneShotLock

Tasks Completed

  • TAP5-819 – remove ide-specific files from all sub-modules and add them to svn:ignore

Tapestry Version 5.0.18

Bugs Fixed

  • TAP5-399 – Modified application state objects are not persisted back to the session at the end of the request
  • TAP5-401 – When rendering HTML content (not XML) Tapestry should always render open and close tags for most elements, even if the content is empty

Tapestry Version 5.0.17

Bugs Fixed

  • TAP5-354 – BeanEditForm guide references parameter "remove" which is now called "exclude"
  • TAP5-356 – Link to the Node JavaDoc from the "New And Of Note" section of the project page is broken
  • TAP5-357 – Tapestry documentation should clearly/boldly identify the release number
  • TAP5-362 – Linking to an index page can result in an empty href attribute on a PageLink, which is treated by the browser as staying on the same page
  • TAP5-370 – Error from DocumentLinker about missing <html> tag, even for XML document w/o JavaScript
  • TAP5-373 – When JavaScript libraries are moved to the "top" of the document, they should be added to the <head>, not the <body>
  • TAP5-377 – Broken links inside on project site to pipeline description and to JIRA
  • TAP5-378 – Missing i18n files for Brazilian Portuguese

Improvements Made

  • TAP5-365 – Localization support for Japanese
  • TAP5-380 – Add localiztion support for Greek

Tasks Completed

  • TAP5-379 – Add the Ars Machina Project to the list of Tapestry 5-related packages

Tapestry Version 5.0.16

Bugs Fixed

  • TAP5-1 – Clicking on a link that updates a zone before the page has fully loaded will result in a full page update and, often, a server-side exception
  • TAP5-4 – Document the need to version classpath assets to prevent unwanted client browser caching
  • TAP5-10 – An onActivate() event handler on a page can cause PageTester to fail with a NullPointerException
  • TAP5-22 – Better client side reporting of problems with Zones and triggers is needed
  • TAP5-23 – TextStreamResponse needs a charset
  • TAP5-25 – Client-side validation is triggered onblur even when switching to a different form in the same page, or to a non-form element such as a link
  • TAP5-28 – Image shows through autocomplete-menu
  • TAP5-32 – It is not possible to include a null or blank field as part of an event or page activation context
  • TAP5-34 – When using a Grid inside a Form, sorting the Grid may cause updates (when the form is submitted) to be applied to the wrong objects
  • TAP5-47 – Cookie is not a secure cookie even though all connection are HTTPS connections
  • TAP5-50 – Tabbing out of a form, including clicking a link, causes distracting client-side validations of the field just exitted
  • TAP5-105 – Defining a component in the class that does not appear in the template should be an exception (not a logged, and ignored, warning)
  • TAP5-119 – Tapestry should not use the page/component Logger for internal logging of class transformation and event dispatch logic
  • TAP5-127 – Incorrect encoding on Danish messages files leads to UnknownFormatConversionException
  • TAP5-128 – Render phase short circuiting fails to abort the event when mixins are present on the component, resulting in an IllegalStateException when trying to store a subsequent result value
  • TAP5-131 – BeanEditForm guide example about creating the FieldTranslator is inaccurate and out of date
  • TAP5-132 – ComponentSource#getPage(String) does not handle a blank page name correctly
  • TAP5-135 – Attempting to set a default sort constraint on the Grid will cause an NullPointerException inside Grid.getSortConstraints()
  • TAP5-136 – Although hibernate dependencies are not longer provided the documentation still says they are
  • TAP5-157 – Add a LinkSubmit component, for submitting a Form via a clickable link
  • TAP5-224 – DateField shows day abbreviation labels in wrong order for some non-english locales
  • TAP5-225 – DateField shows empty selection after first date select
  • TAP5-227 – Hibernate dependencies are incomplete
  • TAP5-229 – Upgrade Prototype to version 1.6.0.3 to address positioning problems in IE6/7 that cause spurious client-side exceptions
  • TAP5-230 – Defining a service that implements the HibernateConfigurer service causes injection exceptions (due to the ambiguity)
  • TAP5-233 – Ajax requests that fail give no indication on the client side; instead, an error should be presented to the user as some form of popup
  • TAP5-235 – The Tapestry Exception Report page should set a response status of SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR
  • TAP5-238 – Component reference for Grid's empty parameter is misleading; provide a good example
  • TAP5-240 – Tapestry.Initializer.validate() references non-existent variable
  • TAP5-241 – Doc out of date: Hibernate version
  • TAP5-249 – Links from tapestry5-annotations page to tapestry-ioc and tapestry-core are broken
  • TAP5-253 – Unable to effectively override default validation messages globally
  • TAP5-256 – Page Pool Limit exhausted when exception occurs (during PageAttached lifecycle) on a link
  • TAP5-257 – NPE in RequestFilter if ApplicationStateManager is used
  • TAP5-258 – RequestPageCache should canonicalize page name
  • TAP5-261 – Palette option reordering broken in IE
  • TAP5-263 – Tapestry should produce XML-style output (not SGML) even for the text/html content type, for best compatibility with browsers
  • TAP5-268 – UTF8 characters are not supported in the autocomplete mixin
  • TAP5-272 – File uploads that exceed the upload limit throw an uncatchable exception; Tapestry should notify the page about the exception
  • TAP5-276 – Add documentation about the use of @Inject to mark the correct constructor of a bean (i.e., when using BeanEditForm)
  • TAP5-279 – Client-side validation is always enabled for injected AjaxFormLoop fields
  • TAP5-281 – Form should detect when it is nested inside another Form and identify that as an error
  • TAP5-283 – FormFragments are not ignored if the form has client validation disabled
  • TAP5-284 – A component parameter default method that returns a primtive(instead of an object instance) results in an runtime exception
  • TAP5-287 – Typo in default.css setting autoloader icon height
  • TAP5-290 – Namespace error when partial-updating a zone with a block
  • TAP5-302 – URL encoded strings that contain symbols such as %2f (encoded "/") are decoded incorrectly in some environments
  • TAP5-304 – Tapestry outputs a warning when a component defined in the Java code (via @Component) does not have a corresponding element in the template; this should be escalated to an exception
  • TAP5-305 – The JVM System Properties Symbol Source should always be ordered first (ahead of ApplicationDefaults, etc.)
  • TAP5-308 – Injecting dependencies into contributeTypeCoercer method causes circular dependency error
  • TAP5-314 – issue tracking link on tapestry5 page should refer to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAP5
  • TAP5-323 – Fields marked with @Persist should not allow default values
  • TAP5-325 – Pop up error bubbles are broken in Safari
  • TAP5-326 – Class org.apache.tapestry5.internal.structure.BlockImpl should implement toString()
  • TAP5-328 – Exception when checking BeanEditor Field required in ValidationDecorator
  • TAP5-332 – Service interfaces should identify the service name and the type of service configuration (if applicable)
  • TAP5-333 – Tapestry 5 renders an XHTML label element incorrectly
  • TAP5-337 – Rapidly refreshing a page, even the same page, can cause a deadlock related to class loading
  • TAP5-342 – Form with a zone is getting an action of "#" on submit from IE 6
  • TAP5-343 – The Grid component generates non-unique HTML DOM ids for sort columns
  • TAP5-359 – Use of the email validator with client-side validation displays a pop-up error message about client-side validator "email" being missing

Improvements Made

  • TAP5-12 – Need better docs for AjaxFormLoop; component should link to AddRowLink and RemoveRowLink, and need some examples
  • TAP5-49 – Grid.defaultModel() should be a protected method so that subclasses can override the default BeanModel logic
  • TAP5-87 – PasswordField should not update its value parameter when the submitted value is blank
  • TAP5-184 – Improve error reporting when a javascript asset is intended to be included on page which has no <html> element
  • TAP5-187 – Ajax event handler methods that return a page instance, page class or page name should cause the client to redirect to that page
  • TAP5-188 – Document the need to use @Inject with @Value or @Symbol when the parameter/field type is String (to avoid injecting the service id)
  • TAP5-190 – Grid component's source parameter should autoconnect to the matching container property
  • TAP5-197 – Improved error message when using a form control component outside of a Form component
  • TAP5-200 – The Submit component doesn't need validation decoration
  • TAP5-205 – Add an empty parameter to the Loop component, to display a message when there are no items to loop over
  • TAP5-206 – Document that you should not instantiate an @Persist field in its declaration
  • TAP5-228 – When you have multiple forms on the same page that share (some of) the same properties, it is not possible to differentiate validation constraints and messages in the message catalog
  • TAP5-254 – Translation for Spanish
  • TAP5-282 – Add support for Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) locale
  • TAP5-285 – Components such as ActionLink and EventLink should require that there be *some* event handler for their triggered events
  • TAP5-297 – Provide access to the Autocompleter javascript instance
  • TAP5-301 – When using the @Property annotation, Tapestry should throw an exception rather than overwrite an existing method
  • TAP5-313 – Provide configuration to move links to JavaScript libraries to the top of the page
  • TAP5-318 – Tapestry should identify where in the template undefined components (with id, but no type or matching embedded component) are located
  • TAP5-339 – Make FileItemFactory a service so it can be overridden
  • TAP5-344 – Quickstart archetype should include an empty app.properties message catalog in the WEB-INF folder

New Features Added

  • TAP5-41 – Create a guide to creating and packaging component libraries
  • TAP5-231 – Unify injection; allow @Inject annotation on fields of service implementations
  • TAP5-275 – Add set() method to TestBase to allow private fields of objects to be set via reflection

Tasks Completed

  • TAP5-164 – Remove link to TapIDEA project from Tapestry home page
  • TAP5-322 – Update links to JumpStart because its site has moved

Tapestry Version 5.0.15

Sub-tasks Completed

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-1796 – Not all writeCookieValue functions honor the tapestry.default-cookie-max-age symbol
  • TAPESTRY-1856 – Add localization support to DateField
  • TAPESTRY-2243 – Component report crashes when project have too many dependencies
  • TAPESTRY-2324 – Wrong Submit 'selected' event fired when using a Form with a Zone parameter
  • TAPESTRY-2352 – Client side validation does not enforce the format of input (i.e., that numeric fields contain numbers)
  • TAPESTRY-2357 – Unlike Tapestry 4, Tapestry 5 does not automatically position the cursor into a form
  • TAPESTRY-2438 – ValidationException thrown from onValidateForm() should be recorded for the Form, but instead is treated as an unexpected error
  • TAPESTRY-2453 – Form enctype is not updated when an Upload component is injected via FormInjector / AjaxFormLoop
  • TAPESTRY-2460 – Nested BeanEditors (where the block parameter for a property to one BeanEditor contains another BeanEditor) results in a StackOverflowException
  • TAPESTRY-2517 – A failed service injection into a component field is visible in the browser as a spurious error about field _$resources
  • TAPESTRY-2532 – Javadoc of inPlace field in Grid class is incomplete
  • TAPESTRY-2536 – Add explicit message on module loading failure
  • TAPESTRY-2546 – Any component always outputs the same id attribute, rather than a unique id attribute for each render
  • TAPESTRY-2558 – The injection page of the user guide references commons-logging Log, not SLF4 Logger
  • TAPESTRY-2559 – The "configuration" page of the Tapestry user guide (conf.apt) has an error, comes out blank
  • TAPESTRY-2561 – Rapidly refreshing a page, even the same page, can cause a deadlock related to class loading
  • TAPESTRY-2563 – Tapestry should reject form submissions that aren't via POST or don't contain t:formdata, as likely hack attempts
  • TAPESTRY-2566 – Errors in code examples of "Securing your application with HTTPS"
  • TAPESTRY-2567 – Tapestry doesn't identify conflicting annotations on component fields
  • TAPESTRY-2578 – BeanDisplay formatting is off for fields with empty values
  • TAPESTRY-2585 – Email validator requires Void constraint type, should be null
  • TAPESTRY-2591 – Email Validator Throws MissingFormatArgumentException
  • TAPESTRY-2595 – Application State Objects are not persisted back to the session at the end of the request
  • TAPESTRY-2601 – ComponentResources.createActionLink() is incorrectly named, should be createEventLink()
  • TAPESTRY-2602 – Error bubbles are in some cases placed incorrectly
  • TAPESTRY-2606 – File system warning for certain component event request, on windows only
  • TAPESTRY-2617 – DateField component should localize the month names and day name abbreviations shown in the client web browser
  • TAPESTRY-2619 – Event Handler adds a new JSONObject to my JSONObject return
  • TAPESTRY-2626 – Dependencies on Selenium are incomplete
  • TAPESTRY-2629 – Link to tapestry5-annotations page is broken, links to old page (out of date since May 2008)
  • TAPESTRY-2636 – NoSuchElementException on submit when using a Grid with a non-default model inside a Form
  • TAPESTRY-2641 – FormSupport.defer() javadoc says defered actions will be executed after validation, but it's executed before
  • TAPESTRY-2655 – Services defined with the bind() method may conflict with services from service builder methods without error
  • TAPESTRY-2656 – GridSortModel.getSortContraints() - method name misspelled, should be getSortConstraints()
  • TAPESTRY-2658 – HibernateGridDataSource.getAvailableRows should also call applyAdditionalConstraints() to prevent java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
  • TAPESTRY-2664 – RenderSupport.addScript(String) does not add the core JavaScript dependencies
  • TAPESTRY-2668 – Setting volatile to true on Grid component in form results in NullPointerException
  • TAPESTRY-2669 – Tapestry source distribution's version of tapestry-test is actually the code for tapestry-spring

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-2137 – The common idiom of connecting a component's id to a container property should be easier: an attribute of the @Parameter annotation
  • TAPESTRY-2223 – Don't require a hibernate.cfg.xml
  • TAPESTRY-2236 – Strip trailing punctuation (_ and $) from member names, as is done with leading punctuation
  • TAPESTRY-2277 – Removing Label body should be parameterizable
  • TAPESTRY-2286 – Support JSONArray as a valid return type from AJAX event handlers
  • TAPESTRY-2287 – Include tapestry-test in release download
  • TAPESTRY-2363 – Overload method ComponentSource.getPage to accept a page class as parameter
  • TAPESTRY-2458 – Refactor DefaultHibernateConfigurer as an IOC service for easier overriding
  • TAPESTRY-2461 – Add translations for Finnish locale
  • TAPESTRY-2474 – Define and use a standard set of SL4J Markers for logging, to make it easier to filter output
  • TAPESTRY-2486 – Refactor the non-trivial BindingFactory implementations into services
  • TAPESTRY-2489 – The ServiceStatus page should not reveal so much information in production mode, out of security concerns
  • TAPESTRY-2554 – When decorating a service using a decorate method, the underlying service (or interceptor) should be available as a parameter of the service type, not just java.lang.Object
  • TAPESTRY-2576 – The text field for a DateField component should be optional
  • TAPESTRY-2577 – Add support for Russian locale
  • TAPESTRY-2584 – AspectInterceptorBuilder should allow for multiple advice per method
  • TAPESTRY-2586 – Some abstract base class methods should be overridable
  • TAPESTRY-2588 – Add translations for Danish locale
  • TAPESTRY-2589 – Add translations for Swedish locale
  • TAPESTRY-2592 – BeanEditor should provide a "BeanEditContext" into the environment. (or PropertyEditContext should include the bean class).
  • TAPESTRY-2596 – Add translations for French locale
  • TAPESTRY-2597 – Upgrade tapestry-hibernate to Hibernate 3.3.0.SP1
  • TAPESTRY-2603 – Improve @InjectContainer Javadoc
  • TAPESTRY-2610 – Allow access to component's informal parameters
  • TAPESTRY-2611 – Add loom-t5 link to Tapestry 5 home page
  • TAPESTRY-2615 – IOC autobuild conflict between org.hibernate.Session and the FullTextSession from the hibernate serach module
  • TAPESTRY-2623 – Remove excessive Tapestry.debug() messages on zone response
  • TAPESTRY-2624 – Remove unecessary comments from tapestry.js
  • TAPESTRY-2627 – The else parameter of If should have a default binding prefix of literal
  • TAPESTRY-2630 – EntityPersistentFieldStrategy converts entity PKs to strings and back unnecessarily
  • TAPESTRY-2639 – tapestry.js does not use Protoype's Class.create() properly
  • TAPESTRY-2643 – RenderSupport should have options for including a JavaScript library or Stylesheet as a String URL, not just as an Asset
  • TAPESTRY-2646 – There should be a global configuration that controls the default for Form's clientValidation and autofocus parameters
  • TAPESTRY-2654 – The Zone component should expose its body (as a Block) to make it easier to re-render the Zone's body as an Ajax partial page render
  • TAPESTRY-2662 – Upgrade Hibernate dependency to 3.3.1
  • TAPESTRY-2670 – Major fixes needed for German (DE) localization
  • TAPESTRY-2671 – TapestryFilter should display name of application, version of Tapestry at startup

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-1310 – Provide access to the current row index and current column index in Grid
  • TAPESTRY-1867 – Support a special marker interface @Local to select just services defined within the same module
  • TAPESTRY-1923 – ComponentClassResolver can/should provide access to all known page names
  • TAPESTRY-2300 – The RadioGroup component always generates its control name from its component id; a new parameter should give some override control over this
  • TAPESTRY-2509 – Add type coercions from String to Renderable, Block
  • TAPESTRY-2541 – Tapestry DOM needs basic methods to manipulate the DOM post-render
  • TAPESTRY-2571 – Add configuration to turn off the automatic creation of ValueEncoders for Hibernate entities
  • TAPESTRY-2594 – Add translations for Croatian (hr) locale
  • TAPESTRY-2638 – The name of the event triggered by a Submit component should be configurable, to allow for multiple components that trigger the same event handler method
  • TAPESTRY-2644 – Add a ComponentResources.createPageLink(...) method that uses page class instead of page name

Wish List Items Completed

  • TAPESTRY-1964 – Constant not used from app-name in TapestryModule

Tapestry Version 5.0.14

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-1588 – Validation error images are included in the markup for fields without errors, even when the form has client validation disabled
  • TAPESTRY-1997 – PersistentLocale is lower-casing locales
  • TAPESTRY-2181 – The Component Parameters Report should indicate if a component supports informal parameters
  • TAPESTRY-2384 – OutOfMemoryError exception if a regular file with no extension exists in a known component package
  • TAPESTRY-2386 – BeanDisplay component should generate more semantic output using <DL>, <DT>, <DD> instead of nested <DIV>s
  • TAPESTRY-2390 – Components or mixins requiring external javascript files and rendered via AJAX do not work
  • TAPESTRY-2408 – FormInjector doesn't work properly if the content contains multiple form elements
  • TAPESTRY-2429 – Script text added by RenderSupport.addScript() should be added raw (with XML elements not encoded as entities)
  • TAPESTRY-2433 – UTF8 characters are not supported in the autocomplete mixin
  • TAPESTRY-2447 – Clicking on a pop-up error bubble hides the bubble, then immediately fades it back in
  • TAPESTRY-2448 – When a bean class inherits properties from a base class, field annotations of the base class properties are not visible
  • TAPESTRY-2449 – Groovy can inject a base class into component classes that Tapestry rejects
  • TAPESTRY-2450 – Unlike reflective access (via PropertyAdapter), PropertyConduit does not make field annotations visible
  • TAPESTRY-2454 – tapestry-hibernate transaction management doesn't work as expected when commiting more than once on the same request
  • TAPESTRY-2459 – Submit components fires its event after "validateform" event, should be before (this is a change from prior releases)
  • TAPESTRY-2460 – Nested BeanEditors (where the block parameter for a property to one BeanEditor contains another BeanEditor) results in a StackOverflowException
  • TAPESTRY-2468 – A deadlock related to class loading (and creation) can occur
  • TAPESTRY-2471 – Parameter fields that are updated during component event processing (such as a form submit) may not clear their values at the end of the request
  • TAPESTRY-2473 – Application locks up, with all threads waiting for read lock inside ConcurrentBarrier
  • TAPESTRY-2476 – Unhelpful exception messages when a null value is bound to a required parameter
  • TAPESTRY-2478 – Non-private fields in Tapestry component classes should fail early, instead get confusing javassist.bytecode.DuplicateMemberException
  • TAPESTRY-2481 – ClassTransformation acts as if all type-level annotations are inherited; it should filter out non-inherited annotations
  • TAPESTRY-2483 – The '%' symbol passed to RenderSupport.addScript() is treated as a formatting directive, causing errors
  • TAPESTRY-2484 – Some built-in Tapestry components are final and should be extensible
  • TAPESTRY-2490 – Palette component forces an unwanted form submit under FireFox 3
  • TAPESTRY-2498 – Add JDK 1.6 compatibility via Javassist 3.8.0.GA
  • TAPESTRY-2500 – Using @PageActivationContext on an int field results in a java.lang.Verify error
  • TAPESTRY-2501 – Form input not correctly decoded in case of non-english charsets
  • TAPESTRY-2502 – When the GridDataSource reports more available rows than actual rows (due to race conditions with updates), the Grid will fail because of IndexOutOfRange exceptions
  • TAPESTRY-2504 – Unspecified ajax stream response encoding
  • TAPESTRY-2507 – Stylesheet (.css) files included by components are not added if the component is added to the page via an ajax update
  • TAPESTRY-2508 – HibernateGridDataSource calls Query.setFetchSize() not Query.setMaxResults()
  • TAPESTRY-2522 – RequestPathOptimizer will corrupt query parameters in the optimized URL if the parameters container slashes
  • TAPESTRY-2528 – It should not be possible for component classes to be directly instantiated
  • TAPESTRY-2538 – The default binding prefix for TextField.translate should be "translate" but is "prop"
  • TAPESTRY-2543 – Simplify Tapestry to use UTF-8 (or another, configurable character set) across the entire application

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-2404 – PropertyConduitSource could build a shared method to "navigate" to the final property
  • TAPESTRY-2410 – Service decorator method not invoked for @Match with "*" in middle
  • TAPESTRY-2443 – Support de_DE (German) localization
  • TAPESTRY-2452 – Introduce a new symbol for the path to the application message catalog
  • TAPESTRY-2461 – Validation and Error messages for Finnish locale
  • TAPESTRY-2467 – Method to remove or replace DOM nodes from the document
  • TAPESTRY-2469 – Update Selenium dependency to the current version, 1.0-beta-1
  • TAPESTRY-2479 – Upgrade to SLF4J version 1.5.2 (supports older versions of Log4J better)
  • TAPESTRY-2480 – Migrate Tapestry "what's new?" and upgrade information up to the project level
  • TAPESTRY-2519 – Make ClassNameLocatorImpl resolve resources from URLs that use a client-defined protocol
  • TAPESTRY-2525 – Properties files in a message catalog should be read using UTF-8 encoding, rather than default encoding
  • TAPESTRY-2531 – Upgrade EasyMock dependency to latest version, 2.4
  • TAPESTRY-2534 – An event context should be passed through the Ajax request when AjaxFormLoop adds a new row

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-1810 – ServiceBinder.bind() with an interface should check to see if there's an Impl class and bind to that.
  • TAPESTRY-2143 – Framework should include an email validator
  • TAPESTRY-2217 – Add ability to render a page as a Document
  • TAPESTRY-2235 – Annotation for managing a property as the page activation context
  • TAPESTRY-2475 – Add an implementation of GridDataSource that can be used to optimize Hibernate queries
  • TAPESTRY-2540 – Tapestry should place the Registry into the ServletContext using a well-known attribute name, for use by non-Tapestry code
  • TAPESTRY-2542 – Add new method hasBody() to ComponentResources, to reveal if component has a body or not
  • TAPESTRY-2550 – Allow Tapestry to bind a service interface to a ServiceBuilder callback to create the service
  • TAPESTRY-2552 – Provide easier overrides for Grid, BeanEditor property display & edit blocks

Tapestry Version 5.0.13

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-2096 – Confusing exception when autobuilding a class fails due to class visibility
  • TAPESTRY-2311 – "Parents before Child" concept for Component Rendering does not allow different rendering in subclasses
  • TAPESTRY-2341 – AJAX Zone updating doesn't work correctly in IE
  • TAPESTRY-2349 – FormFragment should be tied to the 'click' event of the associated checkbox
  • TAPESTRY-2360 – Forms in zones in loops have wrong zone id after update
  • TAPESTRY-2418 – Form onsubmit event handler for Zone component handling is ignored if any fields on the form have validation configured.
  • TAPESTRY-2422 – The Exception report will itself throw an exception if the exception being reported contains a write-only property
  • TAPESTRY-2436 – New FormInjectorDemo using AjaxFormLoop fails if a row is added and then removed without a form submission in between

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-2100 – Validation and Error messages for Portuguese locale
  • TAPESTRY-2281 – Update tutorial1 to correctly indicate how and why to replace Jetty 5 log4j.jar
  • TAPESTRY-2347 – Add a "resources" section to T5 home page
  • TAPESTRY-2393 – The FormFragment component should isolate its action stream (t:formdata hidden field) such that the entire client-side element may be removed
  • TAPESTRY-2428 – tapestry-hibernate should include as a dependency a default version of Hibernate with docs for how to override
  • TAPESTRY-2439 – The PropertyAdapter interface should include a property to identify the containing class
  • TAPESTRY-2440 – The quickstart archetype should enable debug logging (by default) for the new application
  • TAPESTRY-2441 – Upgrade to Scriptaculous 1.8.1
  • TAPESTRY-2442 – When Tapestry is operating inside FireFox with Firebug enabled, it should use the Firebug logging API

Tapestry Version 5.0.12

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-1921 – Add documentation for Environmental annotation, environmental services
  • TAPESTRY-2037 – NullPointerException caused by many rapid page refreshes
  • TAPESTRY-2247 – Transactions should roll back, not commit, at the end of each request
  • TAPESTRY-2258 – Error while autobuilding BeanEditForm's bean
  • TAPESTRY-2259 – Registry startup exceptions are not reported correctly
  • TAPESTRY-2260 – Null relationships cause an NPE inside Hibernate when being value encoded by RadioGroup
  • TAPESTRY-2261 – TriggerFragment mixin should work with Radio as well as Checkbox components
  • TAPESTRY-2262 – TriggerFragment mixin will run the "show" animation even when the fragment is already visible
  • TAPESTRY-2265 – Grid component documentation could be simplified
  • TAPESTRY-2267 – Services that are dependencies of other EagerLoad services may not be eagerly loaded
  • TAPESTRY-2268 – Docs: tapestry-core -> user guide -> Request Processing broken "Pipelines" link
  • TAPESTRY-2271 – Expose the Grid's rowsPerPage and row properties to Java code (instead of using @Property)
  • TAPESTRY-2276 – Required validation fails when used with select and blankOption="ALWAYS"
  • TAPESTRY-2284 – Exceptions may be incorrectly reported due to exception invoking initCause() when an exception already has a cause
  • TAPESTRY-2293 – BeanDisplay formatting is off for fields with null values
  • TAPESTRY-2305 – When Tapestry throws an exception due to an unrecognized embedded component id, it fails to list the available component ids
  • TAPESTRY-2306 – Mismatch between client-side and server-side "required" validator
  • TAPESTRY-2320 – Problems with validation popups on Internet Explorer
  • TAPESTRY-2322 – FormInjector doesn't work properly if the content contains multiple elements
  • TAPESTRY-2323 – Select component does not generate client-side validation
  • TAPESTRY-2333 – RequestPathOptimizer generates invalid URLs when a trailing slash is added to the request path
  • TAPESTRY-2336 – default.css div.t-autocomplete-menu ul style shouldn't have width, height & margin-left
  • TAPESTRY-2338 – Cached values for methods annotated with @Cached do not reset at end of Ajax request
  • TAPESTRY-2339 – The automatic ValueEncoder for Hibernate entities will sometimes encode an entity as null (rather than its primary key)
  • TAPESTRY-2340 – Documentation about informal parameters should reference the @SupportsInformalParameters annotation specifically
  • TAPESTRY-2343 – The FormInjector should copy its class attribute to the new element (on the client side)
  • TAPESTRY-2346 – Update the tapestry-core adaptive API example to match the current set of events triggered by the Form component
  • TAPESTRY-2368 – The value for the Tapestry version number symbol is not initialized correctly and is always "UNKNOWN"
  • TAPESTRY-2370 – When injecting a component into a field and the type is not a match the exception report is not sufficiently helpful
  • TAPESTRY-2371 – The QuickStart Archetype should lock down the version of Jetty used (to 6.0, now that 7.0 snapshots are starting to turn up)
  • TAPESTRY-2372 – The Tapestry tutorial should disable production mode (so that the full exception report can be seen)
  • TAPESTRY-2381 – Linking a radio button as a FormFragment trigger does not work in Internet Explorer
  • TAPESTRY-2397 – Mixins inside components should have an id that extends from from the containing component, but is still unique and URL safe
  • TAPESTRY-2398 – ClassTransformation.addInjectedField() adds fields as protected which can cause exceptions due to visibility
  • TAPESTRY-2399 – When an class loader exeption occurs while loading a base class, a new exception (int the subclass) overwrites the more useful exception from the base class
  • TAPESTRY-2400 – Advising a method where the parameter type or return type is the class containing the advised method may throw a java.lang.VerifyError
  • TAPESTRY-2401 – NullPointerExceptions inside component bindings need to do a better job of explaining what was null
  • TAPESTRY-2407 – Update master POMs to point to the moved OpenQA repositories (from which Selenium is obtained)
  • TAPESTRY-2409 – Service method advice fails when a parameter or return value type is an array
  • TAPESTRY-2415 – StreamResponse does not work on WebLogic - response not flushed, and secondary exception raised
  • TAPESTRY-2416 – When the HibernateValueEncoder is unable to convert a primary key into an entity, it should log an error
  • TAPESTRY-2424 – Validation occasionally triggers Stack Overflow Javascript Error in IE

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-1924 – Allow for templates coming from stream
  • TAPESTRY-2159 – YSlow Recommendation: Version bundled javascript and use far-future expires header
  • TAPESTRY-2253 – A brain dead implementation of toString() on a custom data object can cause the Required validator to throw a NullPointerExcepton
  • TAPESTRY-2263 – Add a reset() method to the Grid component to reset paging and sorting to initial defaults
  • TAPESTRY-2280 – Add a zone parameter to the BeanEditForm component
  • TAPESTRY-2285 – Tutorial #1 talks about "setup()" method instead of "initialize()"
  • TAPESTRY-2294 – The various link components should only generate an id attribute if the id parameter is bound
  • TAPESTRY-2297 – Element should expose namespace URL in which the element is defined
  • TAPESTRY-2308 – Don't create HttpSession when persisted property is null
  • TAPESTRY-2315 – InjectContainerWorker should use this or other local variable name than "container"
  • TAPESTRY-2327 – The Any and FormInjector components should have an element parameter, for overriding the element name
  • TAPESTRY-2334 – Optimize JavaScript generation for FormInjector
  • TAPESTRY-2342 – The InjectPageWorker should use the ComponentSource service, rather than the RequestPageCache
  • TAPESTRY-2354 – Use "flash" persistence on Form's ValidationTracker
  • TAPESTRY-2364 – YSlow Recommendation: Write Scripts at bottom of page
  • TAPESTRY-2388 – The Any component should implement the ClientElement interface, and allocate a unique client id as necesssary

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-2231 – Make Tapestry release number visible as a symbol ("tapestry.version")
  • TAPESTRY-2256 – Provide an annotation to support automatic committing of the transaction after a component or service method invocation
  • TAPESTRY-2319 – Add support for client-side form-level validation
  • TAPESTRY-2359 – Grid component should be able to update itself in place using an implicit Zone
  • TAPESTRY-2365 – It should be possible to create decorators without directly writing Javassist code
  • TAPESTRY-2378 – Add a listener interface for MarkupWriter, to allow code to be notified when elements are started and ended
  • TAPESTRY-2379 – FormInjector and FormFragment should use the (new) MarkupWriterListener interface to place the hidden field(s) in an appropriate location
  • TAPESTRY-2380 – Add AjaxFormLoop component
  • TAPESTRY-2389 – Add support to ClassTransformation to allow ComponentClassTransformWorkers to provide advice to methods
  • TAPESTRY-2405 – Add @Log annotation for component methods, that will log (at debug level) entry, exit and fail conditions
  • TAPESTRY-2421 – Allow Tapestry4/Tapestry5 to be deployed in the same WAR
  • TAPESTRY-2425 – Tapestry annotations such as @Validate, @DataType, etc. should be applicable to fields as well as accessor methods

Tapestry Version 5.0.11

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-1475 – Tapestry is missing an API for clearing out persistent properties of a particular page
  • TAPESTRY-1605 – The request encoding (for component action requests) occurs too late; after query parameters of the request have been accessed, which prevents the proper request encoding from being used
  • TAPESTRY-1780 – T5 Form component NPE if no FORM_DATA found
  • TAPESTRY-2103 – When referencing a method as part of a property expression, the method name must be case exact whereas the rest of the property expression is case insensitive
  • TAPESTRY-2108 – Tapestry.onDOMLoaded not working in konqueror
  • TAPESTRY-2117 – Circular @SubModule will crash the IOC container with OutOfMemoryException
  • TAPESTRY-2141 – NullPointerExceptions under JDK 1.5 due to underlying ThreadLocal bug
  • TAPESTRY-2145 – Documentation (including javadoc), refers to "ZoneEffects" instead of "ZoneEffect"
  • TAPESTRY-2147 – Typo in Tapestry developer "bible"
  • TAPESTRY-2149 – Tapestry should allow the pages and components to be referenced by their "unstripped" names as well
  • TAPESTRY-2150 – Tapestry should recognize pages that are "nested" beneath other pages
  • TAPESTRY-2151 – Date format used by DateField shows the year as two digits, not four
  • TAPESTRY-2172 – DateField component shows up misplaced in major browsers
  • TAPESTRY-2177 – Conversion of context parameters to server-side objects uses the TypeCoercer rather than the correct ValueEncoder
  • TAPESTRY-2184 – Null pointer exception when creating an action link during a component event request
  • TAPESTRY-2188 – GridModel and GridDataSource should be changed to support multiple sort columns
  • TAPESTRY-2190 – JSONObjectEventResultProcessor sends the wrong content type value
  • TAPESTRY-2192 – DateField.xdoc:65:11: The element type "p" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</p>"
  • TAPESTRY-2206 – Tapestry should have a different data type for numbers than for strings
  • TAPESTRY-2208 – The data type "checkbox" should be renamed to "boolean" to reflect what it is, rather than how it is rendered
  • TAPESTRY-2209 – JSONObject response contains additional {}
  • TAPESTRY-2212 – Index.tml generated by Quickstart Archetype is broken due to recent Index page change.
  • TAPESTRY-2219 – Enum label overrides, as outlined in the Tapestry Tutorial, no longer work
  • TAPESTRY-2220 – In some cases, component event requests are incorrectly interpretted as render requests (with a page activation context)
  • TAPESTRY-2221 – Exception message when a context value is null or blank is confusing
  • TAPESTRY-2226 – Requests for the root index page that include a page activation context fail with a 404 error
  • TAPESTRY-2229 – BeanEditForm is including properties that are read only, causing errors when the form is submitted
  • TAPESTRY-2238 – Returning a Block from an Ajax form submission fails with IllegalStateException
  • TAPESTRY-2240 – Groovy classes can no longer be used as component classes because of the public metaClass field
  • TAPESTRY-2245 – GridDataSource getAvailableRows() method called inefficiently

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-1336 – Refactor ApplicationGlobals's store methods
  • TAPESTRY-1612 – Allow access to the PageTester registry
  • TAPESTRY-1835 – Need an API to see if a field is required or optional
  • TAPESTRY-1890 – Allow Tapestry applications to NOT autoload modules from library
  • TAPESTRY-1930 – Render missing parameter names in different font and/or text style.
  • TAPESTRY-1932 – Extend PropertyModel to allow access to annotations associated with the property
  • TAPESTRY-1954 – Move the ClassNameLocator service to the tapestry-ioc module
  • TAPESTRY-1955 – Hibernate SessionFactory close on webapp destroy
  • TAPESTRY-1978 – When supplying an empty parameter binding, indicate problem parameter in error message.
  • TAPESTRY-1983 – Add parameter to Grid component that will add additional columns to the BeanModel
  • TAPESTRY-1999 – Allow the context for an event to be specified as a List as well as an Object array
  • TAPESTRY-2078 – More understandable error messages needed when incorrect classes found in component/page packages
  • TAPESTRY-2087 – Add "else" parameter to Unless component.
  • TAPESTRY-2164 – The Tapestry binary distribution should include appropriate third party dependencies
  • TAPESTRY-2173 – When Tapestry must instantiate an Application State Object without an explicit ApplicationStateCreator, it should autobuild the object rather than just use the default constructor
  • TAPESTRY-2180 – Add release notes about API changes
  • TAPESTRY-2182 – NullPointerExceptions, due to reading nested properties that do not suppress null values, do not indicate problematic expression for AbstractPropertyOutput derivatives
  • TAPESTRY-2200 – Need a mechanism via which display and/or edit BeanBlocks may be overridden
  • TAPESTRY-2204 – Upgrade tapestry-test to use Selenium 0.9.2
  • TAPESTRY-2205 – Upgrade to Javassist 3.7
  • TAPESTRY-2218 – Grid component should render informal parameters
  • TAPESTRY-2222 – The exception report should highlight the lines related to the application in the stack trace
  • TAPESTRY-2227 – Typo in User Guide -> Persistent Data -> Persistence Strategy
  • TAPESTRY-2237 – Grid should make its "currentPage" value available to containing components

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-1653 – Provide automatic ValueEncoders for Hibernate entities
  • TAPESTRY-1778 – Allow extending the PageTester with extra modules for better integration with tapestry-spring
  • TAPESTRY-1919 – Let Tapestry control HTTP/HTTPS in links via page configuration
  • TAPESTRY-2169 – Create an ExceptionAnalysisDisplay component
  • TAPESTRY-2170 – Add annotation to inject a component defined in the template
  • TAPESTRY-2197 – Support for "index" pages in packages
  • TAPESTRY-2202 – When the BeanEditForm or BeanEditor components must create the bean to be editted, it should be autobuilt (supporting injection) rather than just instantiated via the default constructor
  • TAPESTRY-2214 – Select component should provide control over a blank option for optional selects
  • TAPESTRY-2216 – Add a @Property annotation for fields to create a getter and setter method
  • TAPESTRY-2241 – Add new parameter "include" to BeanEditor, Grid, etc. to limit properties to a provided list, and rename existing "remove" parameter to "exclude"
  • TAPESTRY-2244 – Add @Cached annotation for caching method values
  • TAPESTRY-2246 – Add @Persist strategy for Hibernate entities

Tasks Completed

Tapestry Version 5.0.10

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-1518 – Add support for JDK 1.5 Generics when defining pages and accessing bean properties
  • TAPESTRY-1594 – tapestry-upload processes requests with multipart content even if Tapestry doesn't recognize the page
  • TAPESTRY-1727 – Exception report page doesn't display object arrays very nicely
  • TAPESTRY-1850 – Hibernate Sessions are not being closed at the end of the request
  • TAPESTRY-1853 – Create a guide to using the Grid component
  • TAPESTRY-1901 – Grid component calls prepare() and getRowValue() with incorrect values after items are removed
  • TAPESTRY-1969 – Error messages in Errors component are misaligned in Internet Explorer 7
  • TAPESTRY-2027 – AbstractIntegrationTestSuite does not allow custom selenium browser selection
  • TAPESTRY-2048 – Tapestry default.css includes a bad rule for the autocomplete mixin's styles
  • TAPESTRY-2052 – Disabled fields still perfom client side validation
  • TAPESTRY-2054 – page activation context with spaces are incorrectly decoded when using forms
  • TAPESTRY-2061 – tapestry-component-report reports only components with parameters
  • TAPESTRY-2080 – PageRenderRequestFilter's service() method should throw IOException as PageRenderRequestHandler does
  • TAPESTRY-2083 – Using @Inject with a primitive field fails with a "cannot find constructor" transformation error
  • TAPESTRY-2085 – When a user submit a form with a TextField and the value is missing or blank, the value null is passed through the component to the model property
  • TAPESTRY-2088 – ClassNotFoundException when passing an int[] parameter to a component
  • TAPESTRY-2089 – File upload does not ever invoke FileCleaner.exitWhenFinished()
  • TAPESTRY-2094 – Exception when creating service MultipartDecoder prevents the use of the Upload component
  • TAPESTRY-2095 – Incorrect optimization for requests that contain a colon but do not contain a slash
  • TAPESTRY-2099 – Contribution to PartialMarkupRenderer should be named "Heartbeat" not "Heatbeat"
  • TAPESTRY-2112 – Tapestry should use ValueEncoders, not simple type coercion, to convert between event context values, URL strings, and event method handler parameters
  • TAPESTRY-2118 – ComponentReport.extractSubpackage throws ArrayOutOfBoundException
  • TAPESTRY-2128 – If-Modified-Since always returns not modified for js and css in jar files

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-1416 – Add support for programatically adding new columns to a Grid
  • TAPESTRY-1642 – When the Label component has a body, it should render that rather than using the field's label
  • TAPESTRY-1887 – Extend the AbstractLink class to provide access to the clientId and disabled flag, as well as to the URL
  • TAPESTRY-2036 – Add a parameter to the Output component to add control over whether output is filtered or unfiltered
  • TAPESTRY-2040 – Allow subclasses of the Autocomplete mixin greater control over the JSON and markup rendered to the client
  • TAPESTRY-2081 – It should be possible to override a Grid column header as easily as overriding a Grid cell
  • TAPESTRY-2097 – Render exceptions should identify the components that are actively rendering
  • TAPESTRY-2101 – DateField icon should be configurable
  • TAPESTRY-2134 – Add a link to InterLDAP project
  • TAPESTRY-2142 – Document the Layout component pattern
  • TAPESTRY-2144 – Upgrade to Prototype 1.6.0.2

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-1843 – Tapestry should have a "production mode" (vs. development mode)
  • TAPESTRY-2002 – Add annotations to easily set content type and response encoding
  • TAPESTRY-2009 – Add examples to component reference
  • TAPESTRY-2076 – Component report should break out as one class per page and include examples
  • TAPESTRY-2084 – Add control over whether whitespace is stripped from templates by default

Tasks Completed

  • TAPESTRY-1851 – Extend scripts and Ant build.xml to make rolling out a release easier
  • TAPESTRY-2069 – Replace LGPL JavaScript calendar with a properly licensed one

Tapestry Version 5.0.9

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-2074 – Tapestry fails with URISyntaxException when the project folder contains spaces

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-1647 – Need to be able to render elements before and after form labels

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-1724 – Add ability for pages to be notified about errors within themselves so that they can override the default error handling behavior

Tapestry Version 5.0.8

Release not made public due to TAPESTRY-2074

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-1315 – Context expression without period results in StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
  • TAPESTRY-1377 – NullPointerException invoking methods on the Request service
  • TAPESTRY-1546 – Add inheritInformalParameters flag to the @Component annotation
  • TAPESTRY-1595 – Add support for ignoring paths that belong to other servlets in the web application
  • TAPESTRY-1598 – Tapestry should not require explicit value encoders (via the encoder parameter) where it can automatically coerce the value between string and the appropriate server-side type
  • TAPESTRY-1600 – Cannot render XML from page templates: XML declaration and namespaces are removed
  • TAPESTRY-1636 – Template reloading in Tomcat doesn't work
  • TAPESTRY-1713 – Tapestry doesn't run correctly on Websphere 6.1 due to an incorrect implementation of HttpServletRequest.getServletPath()
  • TAPESTRY-1823 – It is not possible to create a reasonable implementation of RequestExceptionHandler without importing internal interfaces and services
  • TAPESTRY-1840 – Tapestry 5 does not compile with Java 6
  • TAPESTRY-1849 – There are two virtually identical PersistentLocaleImpl classes, one unused (probably an incomplete refactoring)
  • TAPESTRY-1880 – DateField component should support editting of time as well as date
  • TAPESTRY-1926 – DateField disabling does not work
  • TAPESTRY-1941 – ValidationTracker retaining field values inconsistently
  • TAPESTRY-1948 – Null pointer exception when performing a partial page render
  • TAPESTRY-1957 – EnumValueEncoder missing null check when converting to client value
  • TAPESTRY-1984 – Error occurs with a multipart (file upload) request if the request encoding is null
  • TAPESTRY-1988 – Page activation paremeter with escaped ( %2f ) slash ( " / " ) character not passed correctly
  • TAPESTRY-2005 – Using component classes as component parameters fails (Could not find a coercion)
  • TAPESTRY-2007 – PNG images related to validation render poorly in IE
  • TAPESTRY-2013 – BeanEditor does not support informal parameters
  • TAPESTRY-2017 – AssetDispatcher doesn't stream asset when the 'If-Modified-Since' header can't be converted to a date
  • TAPESTRY-2019 – Autocompleter mixin now fails with a NullPointerException
  • TAPESTRY-2028 – Mimimize whitespace in the output markup
  • TAPESTRY-2033 – Optimized requests paths are broken for root paths within contexts
  • TAPESTRY-2044 – Component action requests are not capable of handling the case where the active page and the page containing the component are different

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-1478 – Validation messages for zh_CN locale
  • TAPESTRY-1502 – Generated URLs should be relative to request base URL
  • TAPESTRY-1599 – Make it possible to differentiate between preparing for a Form render vs. preparing for a Form submission
  • TAPESTRY-1639 – Components that generate hyperlinks (ActionLink, PageLink, EventLink) should have a getLink() method to retrieve the link as generated
  • TAPESTRY-1671 – Need a way to redirect to external URLs
  • TAPESTRY-1739 – Add byte, short and float Translators
  • TAPESTRY-1802 – Add documentation for the intended project layout
  • TAPESTRY-1818 – Template parser should handle CDATA blocks
  • TAPESTRY-1830 – Add ability to store temporary data without having to define new properties
  • TAPESTRY-1940 – Italian translation of messages for Error component, and validation
  • TAPESTRY-1991 – It should be easier to access an Application State Object without forcing its creation
  • TAPESTRY-2008 – Validation popup bubbles are somewhat distracting, should be simplified
  • TAPESTRY-2012 – Add BeanEditor support for data types "password" and "longtext"
  • TAPESTRY-2014 – ComponentResources should expose the page's lifecycle to interested listeners
  • TAPESTRY-2021 – It should be possible to turn off the generation of CSS classes for table headers and table cells inside a Grid
  • TAPESTRY-2049 – Avoid reflection when instantiating component instances
  • TAPESTRY-2056 – Add configurable null handling for text fields
  • TAPESTRY-2057 – Add EventLink component that can create a link that triggers an arbitrarily named event in its container

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-1526 – Strip the folder name used to identify libraries from logical page names, just as the subfolder is stripped
  • TAPESTRY-1847 – Grid component should output additional CSS classes into TDs to identify first and last column, first and last row
  • TAPESTRY-2006 – Replace naive page pool mechanism with a more realistic one that can handle larger sites
  • TAPESTRY-2042 – Make it possible to merge action requests with rendering, as with Tapestry 4

Tapestry Version 5.0.7

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-1541 – Can't find page with same name as parent folder
  • TAPESTRY-1608 – Some documentation pages link to the out-of-date PDF tutorial, rather than the current HTML tutorial
  • TAPESTRY-1627 – Start page redirect requests can return an empty response.
  • TAPESTRY-1723 – tapestry-upload does not use character encoding
  • TAPESTRY-1745 – Palette javascript errors in Internet Explorer
  • TAPESTRY-1748 – Field validators continue to generate client-side JavaScript even though the Form is configured to not do client-side validation
  • TAPESTRY-1816 – Some tapestry-ioc tests fail on IBM JDK due to subtle differences in JDK implementations
  • TAPESTRY-1834 – Fields not rewritten when modifying existing methods
  • TAPESTRY-1838 – Palette javascript Error when an item contains a quote
  • TAPESTRY-1863 – Tapestry should verify that marker annotations have retention type runtime
  • TAPESTRY-1864 – Code sample in documentation on how to add a new property editor incorrect
  • TAPESTRY-1871 – Null date displayed in a Grid raises error
  • TAPESTRY-1879 – PageLink does not have an anchor parameter
  • TAPESTRY-1882 – Formatted messages are not localized properly
  • TAPESTRY-1922 – EJB3 Beans can not be referenced as properties inside JBoss 4.0
  • TAPESTRY-1925 – Obscure exception when a Collection (not a List) is used as a GridDataSource
  • TAPESTRY-1934 – Tapestry should enforce that component classes only extend from other (transformed) component classes, or java.lang.Object
  • TAPESTRY-1936 – Non-null return value from form action event causes exception
  • TAPESTRY-1937 – If a single module contains more than one integration test (subclass of AbstractIntegrationTestSuite), then the second one fails
  • TAPESTRY-1943 – Site menu is the same on all pages
  • TAPESTRY-1947 – Mangled URLs that should result in standard 404 error pages are instead resulting in a Tapestry exception report
  • TAPESTRY-1949 – Component action requests where the action context contains a period are not parsed correctly leading to request failures
  • TAPESTRY-1951 – "No ClassLoaders found for" exception
  • TAPESTRY-1952 – The "match any event" feature for the OnEvent handler is not useful and should be removed
  • TAPESTRY-1966 – Non-private/non-static fields in a page should be an exception, not a warning
  • TAPESTRY-1975 – Template parser is insufficiently picky about component ids

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-1360 – Add a @Width annotation to set the width of input fields generated by BeanEditForm
  • TAPESTRY-1576 – Getting access to the created configuration
  • TAPESTRY-1862 – Change Tapestry to be compatible with Eclipse/Maven Plugin 0.0.11
  • TAPESTRY-1897 – Upgrade to Javassist 3.6 for improved JDK 1.6 support
  • TAPESTRY-1900 – Allow multiple markers annotations per service
  • TAPESTRY-1903 – Upgrade to Prototype 1.6 / Scriptaculous 1.8
  • TAPESTRY-1917 – Tapestry should list available pages, components and mixins at startup, and when classes change
  • TAPESTRY-1918 – Tapestry's reload logic should be able to see additions, not just deletions and changes
  • TAPESTRY-1935 – Create an annotation to add a CSS stylesheet to the rendered page
  • TAPESTRY-1942 – Client side validation should be triggered when the user moves out of a field
  • TAPESTRY-1973 – Tapestry 5 Tutorial Improvements
  • TAPESTRY-1990 – More flexibility for specifying timeouts and other time periods in minutes, seconds, etc. rather than milliseconds

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-1476 – Component events for input translation and validation
  • TAPESTRY-1509 – Create an annotation to add a static JavaScript library to the rendered page
  • TAPESTRY-1829 – Allow @Marker annotation on module classes, to automatically mark all services of that module with the annotation
  • TAPESTRY-1860 – Extend ObjectLocator to create a proxied, autobuilt service
  • TAPESTRY-1891 – Tapestry IoC Service Proxies should be serializable
  • TAPESTRY-1931 – Add an annotation to allow explicit setting of property types
  • TAPESTRY-1994 – Allow easy override of the default Tapestry stylesheet

Tasks Completed

Tapestry Version 5.0.6

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-1328 – Support for form elements inside a Grid
  • TAPESTRY-1345 – Exception generated when a page does not have a template is confusing: "No root element has been defined."
  • TAPESTRY-1389 – Coercion to numeric types does not check for null
  • TAPESTRY-1417 – CSS classes on text input fields are discarded when field is in error
  • TAPESTRY-1471 – Controlling the order of properties within a BeanModel is too complex and needs an improved API
  • TAPESTRY-1506 – Add support for anchors when generating links
  • TAPESTRY-1597 – When a List is converted to a SelectModel, the keys are converted unnecessarily to strings
  • TAPESTRY-1604 – Attributes of elements do not have entity values quoted (including the " character itself) resulting in invalid markup
  • TAPESTRY-1606 – Anchor-Links in "Component Index" web page for T5 doesn't work with FireFox
  • TAPESTRY-1625 – T5 Form Component Generates Script Tag With Deprecated Language Attribute
  • TAPESTRY-1626 – T5 Form Component Generates contactForm:errors Div With Invalid Empty List
  • TAPESTRY-1629 – Licenses are not distributed correctly
  • TAPESTRY-1631 – tapestry-spring initializes lazy-init beans too soon
  • TAPESTRY-1648 – Coercing from null to BigDecimal causes an NPE
  • TAPESTRY-1667 – Parameters bound to expansions may be cached when they should not be
  • TAPESTRY-1702 – Missing coercion from primitive arrays to List
  • TAPESTRY-1709 – Radio component throws an exception when used with RadioGroup and Label
  • TAPESTRY-1730 – Order of event handler method invocation should be greatest number of parameters to fewest
  • TAPESTRY-1731 – @Inject @Symbol does not work inside a component
  • TAPESTRY-1735 – PageLink doesn't have a disabled parameter
  • TAPESTRY-1746 – Input validation documentation includes an invalid template that results in a parser error
  • TAPESTRY-1752 – Expansions used in bound parameters are never re-evaluated
  • TAPESTRY-1769 – Bug when component name i same as component package
  • TAPESTRY-1785 – Move non-component classes out of corelib.components
  • TAPESTRY-1789 – Exception messages listing pages, components, etc, should strip out the "core/" prefix
  • TAPESTRY-1790 – Component Report generates bad links to apidocs when the apidocs are generated at the project level
  • TAPESTRY-1809 – archetype.xml doesn't account for change to .tml (/WEB-INF/Start.html should be /Start.tml)
  • TAPESTRY-1815 – The InjectComponent annotation is misnamed, should be InjectContainer
  • TAPESTRY-1824 – Code example on Alias page of tapestry-core guide is wrong, has extra "new"
  • TAPESTRY-1825 – Full Tapestry releases should have the artifacts deployed with the updateReleaseInfo flag set
  • TAPESTRY-1831 – Builtin services (TypeCoercer, ClassFactory, etc.) are not marked with the @Builtin annotation

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-1372 – Allow contributions to the Hibernate Configuration
  • TAPESTRY-1469 – Templates should support an outer t:container element for when a template consists of non-tree structured content
  • TAPESTRY-1579 – Allow multiple BeanEditor components within a form
  • TAPESTRY-1603 – BeanEditForm submit button cannot be uniquely identified for CSS purposes
  • TAPESTRY-1607 – Tapestry modules should have a link to Tapestry's JIRA instance
  • TAPESTRY-1615 – ClassTransformation needs ability to rename a method and extend the beginning of a method
  • TAPESTRY-1619 – Add coercion from type [C ( simple char ) to type java.lang.Character
  • TAPESTRY-1633 – PropertyDisplayContext should expose the id/propertyName of the currently rendering property
  • TAPESTRY-1697 – There is no link to the bug database on the Tapestry project site
  • TAPESTRY-1737 – When a property name in a property expression is not valid, the exception message should list the available property names
  • TAPESTRY-1738 – Render debugging output is incredibly verbose, and should only be output at the TRACE (i.e. more vebose than DEBUG) logging level
  • TAPESTRY-1750 – Separate out Tapestry annotations for use in other tiers (without dragging in all of Tapestry)
  • TAPESTRY-1777 – Allow HTML 4 doctypes to be used in component templates
  • TAPESTRY-1781 – Tapestry templates should use the extension .tml (Tapestry Markup Language) since they may contain other than (X)HTML
  • TAPESTRY-1800 – Having two different Inject annotations with virtually identical behavior is confusing, they should be consolidated
  • TAPESTRY-1808 – Automatic coercion from String to File would be handy

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-1358 – Create BeanDisplay component to display the content of a single bean
  • TAPESTRY-1634 – Create a DateField component that uses client-side JavaScript
  • TAPESTRY-1676 – Add component for editing a single bean property
  • TAPESTRY-1722 – Startup service for Tapestry IoC to perform initialization when the Registry starts up
  • TAPESTRY-1741 – TestBase/MockTester should give each Mock a name based on the type of mock, which assists with debugging
  • TAPESTRY-1742 – Support removal and reordering of BeanModel properties inside Grid and BeanEditForm components
  • TAPESTRY-1786 – Add JVM system property for adding modules to the IoC container
  • TAPESTRY-1798 – Injection via Marker Annotations
  • TAPESTRY-1841 – Extend PageRenderSupport to have equivalent support for CSS stylesheets
  • TAPESTRY-1845 – Need a simple way to access a component's messages for use in testing
  • TAPESTRY-1848 – Make status of Tapestry IoC services available programattically and via a simple user interface

Tasks Completed

  • TAPESTRY-1367 – Documentation error on Application State page: ApplicationStateConfiguration should be ApplicationStateContribution

Wish List Items Completed

  • TAPESTRY-1704 – Convert logging strategy from commons-logging to Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J)

Tapestry Version 5.0.5

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-1294 – Tapestry does not set an output encoding which prevents Unicode content from being output correctly
  • TAPESTRY-1423 – Tapestry IoC fails to get the correct class from javassist.CtClass when the instance is already a proxy
  • TAPESTRY-1425 – Eager Loaded service (builder) cannot use object injection
  • TAPESTRY-1434 – Service builder methods do not allow services to be defined in terms of non-interface class, even though ServiceBinder does
  • TAPESTRY-1443 – org.apache.tapestry5.annotations.Service annotation is ignored
  • TAPESTRY-1447 – Headers are not set appropiately to allow the browser to cache javascript resources.
  • TAPESTRY-1451 – T5 website: Broken Link to script.aculo.us
  • TAPESTRY-1464 – Cannot Subclass TapestryFilter to add custom init() and destroy() logic
  • TAPESTRY-1465 – BeanEditForm and Grid are not extensible in terms of supported property types to be editted or viewed
  • TAPESTRY-1480 – Implement Radio component
  • TAPESTRY-1481 – ActionLink and PageLink render an id attribute, but don't provide a clientId property, making it impossible to reference them in JavaScript
  • TAPESTRY-1491 – No way to get the logical page name for a page instance
  • TAPESTRY-1494 – Artifact snapshots are being deployed to the tapestry-repository, not the tapestry-snapshot-repository
  • TAPESTRY-1497 – EagerLoad is too early for a normal Tapestry application
  • TAPESTRY-1498 – nbsp in template causes exception in SAX Parser.
  • TAPESTRY-1504 – When a Map is converted to a SelectModel, the keys are converted unnecessarily to strings
  • TAPESTRY-1511 – VerifyError when using inner classes inside components
  • TAPESTRY-1528 – No way to cleanup the thread without access to the Registry
  • TAPESTRY-1537 – Release notes for 5.0.4 claim that TAPESTRY-1294 is fixed, which it isn't
  • TAPESTRY-1559 – application package initializer removed while merging svn
  • TAPESTRY-1562 – Spurious warnings about missing component ids due to case-sensitive checking of template ids vs. declared components
  • TAPESTRY-1571 – CheckForUpdatesFilter can cause deadlock
  • TAPESTRY-1583 – The "block:" binding prefix may only reference blocks that appear before the reference in the template, an error occurs if the block is defined later in the template
  • TAPESTRY-1585 – tapestry-upload has an incorrect manifest entry for the module class
  • TAPESTRY-1590 – Page templates in WEB-INF located based on logical page name (which may not match the class name)
  • TAPESTRY-1593 – Various typos in docs/comments
  • TAPESTRY-1596 – Contributing a service to the Alias service configuration fails if the service uses a non-standard scope, such as perthread
  • TAPESTRY-1614 – No "expires" header should be set in asset download requests, as that can confuse the browser, preventing changes versions of assets from being downloaded

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-1359 – The BeanEditForm component should attempt to create its object parameter if it is null
  • TAPESTRY-1409 – Extend StreamResponse to support setting headers in the Response prior to streaming the contents from the InputStream
  • TAPESTRY-1439 – Convert Tutorial from Pages/PDF to new module using APT format
  • TAPESTRY-1457 – No way for PageLink to distinguish between an explicitly empty page activate context and normal delegation to the target page's passivate event
  • TAPESTRY-1479 – It would be nice to have a pipeline between the Dispatchers and the RequestHandlers (for component action requests and for page render requests)
  • TAPESTRY-1493 – Grid component should display sort icon next to all sortable fields
  • TAPESTRY-1505 – The quickstart archetype should include an empty bind() method
  • TAPESTRY-1523 – Split mock-control managing logic in TestBase so that it can be used in a JUnit test suite
  • TAPESTRY-1572 – AbstractIntegrationTestSuite should mark setup() and cleanup() as alwaysRun

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-1354 – Implement a file upload component
  • TAPESTRY-1356 – Implement client-side field persistence
  • TAPESTRY-1369 – There should be a global application-level message catalog for messages common to all pages & components
  • TAPESTRY-1370 – Add a component event result processor for Class instances
  • TAPESTRY-1373 – Recreate T4's Palette component for T5
  • TAPESTRY-1446 – @Symbol annotation for injecting a specific symbol
  • TAPESTRY-1463 – Way to inherit binding from containing component
  • TAPESTRY-1466 – Support expansions inside ordinary attributes
  • TAPESTRY-1492 – The Session interface needs methods for getting and setting the session timeout
  • TAPESTRY-1503 – BeanEditForm should default its object parameter to container property that matches its id
  • TAPESTRY-1610 – Implement regular expression based input validation (client and server)

Tasks Completed

  • TAPESTRY-1485 – Remove the Any component --- not necessary because of expansions in attributes
  • TAPESTRY-1501 – Remove Img component, not needed because expansions are allowed in attributes
  • TAPESTRY-1566 – Hibernate configuration documentation is out of date / broken
  • TAPESTRY-1570 – wrong link to RequestGlobals in the guide

Wish List Items Completed

  • TAPESTRY-1472 – The module and filter are coded against Spring's WebApplicationContext, but doesn't use any APIs not present in ApplicationContext

Tapestry Version 5.0.4

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-1263 – Can't use HTML entities in templates
  • TAPESTRY-1264 – Can't specify DOCTYPE in template
  • TAPESTRY-1317 – Service contributors are not case insensitive with respect to the service id.
  • TAPESTRY-1333 – Cannot bundle component classes & templates in WEB-INF/classes when deploying to Tomcat (& JBoss)
  • TAPESTRY-1337 – PageTester can't handle pages with context assets
  • TAPESTRY-1338 – ApplicationStateObjects not properly instantiated when using PageTester
  • TAPESTRY-1357 – Quickstart archetype still uses out-of-date @Id and @Contribute annotations
  • TAPESTRY-1363 – Some of the Java comments in the generated AppModule class are out of date
  • TAPESTRY-1371 – The Submit component should have a defer parameter, but just has a _defer private instance variable.
  • TAPESTRY-1387 – @Inject should expose annotations on the field to the ObjectProvider
  • TAPESTRY-1411 – PageLink component does not render informal parameters

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-1365 – RandomDataSource should allow any type of value for the oneOf() method, not just String
  • TAPESTRY-1424 – @OnEvent annotation should be simplified to specify at most one event and at most one component id

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-1330 – The @Scope annotaton should be allowed on service implementation classes (in addition to service builder methods inside a module class)
  • TAPESTRY-1331 – Need an @InjectValue annotation for cases where a value to insert contains a colon
  • TAPESTRY-1353 – Include copies of common DTDs in the JAR such that the template parser does not need to access the network to parse templates with specific doctypes
  • TAPESTRY-1368 – The @ApplicationState annotation should be capable of enhancing a boolean field to indicate whether the state object already exists
  • TAPESTRY-1382 – Strip out duplication of names in the class name -> page name / component type conversion

Tapestry Version 5.0.3

Bugs Fixed

  • TAPESTRY-1270 – The StringTranslator should return null when an empty text field is submitted with a form, not the empty string
  • TAPESTRY-1275 – Recursive Components cause heap space overflow
  • TAPESTRY-1282 – Assets should be streamed with an appropriate content type, even when the container is unable to provide the content type
  • TAPESTRY-1291 – Race condition in IoC service creation can create runtime failures
  • TAPESTRY-1297 – incorrect context generated for URLs with final slash
  • TAPESTRY-1300 – Unit tests require english locale to run succesfully
  • TAPESTRY-1303 – Update licences and notice files for external dependencies (javassist, etc.)
  • TAPESTRY-1314 – ExceptionAnalyzer throws NPE when an exception message is null
  • TAPESTRY-1316 – Address class loader issues inside JBoss
  • TAPESTRY-1321 – JBoss deployment error
  • TAPESTRY-1322 – Spurious errors in log concerning page "favicon"
  • TAPESTRY-1329 – The favicon.ico file is not generated into the project by the quickstart archetype
  • TAPESTRY-1343 – Under Tomcat, a root path URL such as http://.../context (without a trailing slash) causes a StringIndexOutOfBoundsException inside PageRenderDispatcher
  • TAPESTRY-1344 – Render phase methods should be allowed to return a Renderable object
  • TAPESTRY-1346 – tapestry-hibernate module depends on missing ComponentClassLocator service

Improvements Made

  • TAPESTRY-1025 – Add support for eager loading of services
  • TAPESTRY-1295 – Event handling methods that have too many parameters for the event context should be silently skipped
  • TAPESTRY-1298 – ExceptionReport can be too verbose and repetative
  • TAPESTRY-1308 – Exceptions while building services are poorly reported
  • TAPESTRY-1320 – Render phase BeginRender should respond to a "false" result by switching to phase AfterRender (rather than phase CleanupRender).
  • TAPESTRY-1323 – Support caseless mapped service configurations
  • TAPESTRY-1335 – The "infrastructure:" object provider prefix is too long and the name is confusing, rename to "alias:"
  • TAPESTRY-1339 – Rework Tapestry IoC to remove the concept of module ids and qualified service ids
  • TAPESTRY-1342 – When an exception is reported concerning a particular method, the string identifying the method should include the file name and line number (if available)

New Features Added

  • TAPESTRY-1276 – If component should include an optional negate parameter
  • TAPESTRY-1284 – Tapestry Spring integration module
  • TAPESTRY-1292 – Allow lists to be used as select models
  • TAPESTRY-1302 – JavaScript support
  • TAPESTRY-1311 – Identify type of component via tag element name in templates
  • TAPESTRY-1319 – tapestry.InfrastructureOverrides is not yet implemented
  • TAPESTRY-1325 – Add an "asset:" object provider, to simplfy injecting assets into services
  • TAPESTRY-1341 – Allow service builders named "build" and determine service id from the result type