X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=catagits%2FCatalyst-Runtime.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=TODO;h=2dd12f7840c0634778d5a503b6477fbe0c33f2d7;hp=44f794d0fdf36cd51c4b94f143588eaa52537181;hb=48d435ba6a0925260fd58c8c18ff425e99708eae;hpb=76721d3c6f8660effa365b8c1574b1e87f4973cb diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 44f794d..2dd12f7 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -1,92 +1,63 @@ -Pending patches: - - meta test for MX::Emulate::CAF needed by Catalyst::Plugin::Cache::Curried - -Back-compat investigation / known issues: - - - Get engines tested: - - Catalyst-Engine-Zeus - - Catalyst-Engine-XMPP2 - - Catalyst-Engine-HTTPEngine - - Catalyst-Engine-HTTP-Prefork - - Catalyst-Engine-SCGI - - Catalyst-Engine-Wx - - - CatalystX-Imports, Class::MOP doesn't consider anon subs in the symbol - table as methods, tests + fix, or explanation and documentation? - (rafl & phaylon) - - - Run another round of repository smokes against latest 5.80 trunk, manually - go through all the things which are broken (t0m). - - - Catalyst-Plugin-Session-State-Cookie - Catalyst-Plugin-Session-Store-FastMmap - Catalyst-Plugin-Session-PerUser - Catalyst-Plugin-Session-Store-File - Catalyst-Authentication-Credential-HTTP - Catalyst-Plugin-SmartURI - - All fixed by Scope::Upper - - - Catalyst-Log-Log4perl Deep recursion on subroutine "MockApp::setup" - (rafl) - - - Catalyst-Plugin-Cache dies due to mk_accessors('meta') - - - CatalystX-CRUD fails tests against 5.80 (karpet) - - - Catalyst-Plugin-Authorization-ACL fails as - Catalyst::Dispatcher::_do_forward does not fix arguments if you throw - an exception. Needs a test case (Caelum) - - - Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication::Store::DBIC relies on - hooking the setup_finished class data method in a plugin - (see t/cdi_backcompat_accessor_override.t). - Is this insane / should we support this? - - - Issues with TWMC not being loaded when it used to be in 5.70 - (Bill Moseley) - - - Fix memory leaks (I already tried Devel::Leak::Object, but no joy). - - - In 5.70, you can have a component which doesn't inherit from ::Component, - and has no new method, and it'll do the right thing for you. We should - still support that, but warn for/deprecate it so it can go for 5.9X... - This obviously needs better tests :/ - -Cleanups: - - - Update Test suite to not assume MyApp ISA Controller - - After that set up attr handlers that will output helpful error messages - when you do it as well as how to fix it. - - - Eliminate all instances of $instance->{$key}, I think the only thing - left is lib/Catalyst/Engine/HTTP.pm: $self->{inputbuf}, which I haven't - touched as it is used as an lvalue in a lot of places (t0m) - - - Find whatever in the test suite craps a file called GLOB(0xfoo) onto my - disk and fix it. (Believed to be in the optional TEST_HTTP tests?) (t0m) - - - Deprecate runtime plugins with warning. - -Documentation: - - - extends in components with attributes must be inside a BEGIN block. - - - How to write Moosified Catalyst components. - - - Manual / Tutorial updates - - - Fix the Roadmap to be less full of lies. - - - With 5.7 people did extends qw/Moose::Object Catalyst::Component/, now - Catalyst::Component isa Moose::Object so now isa doesn't linearize - anymore, docs of what doesn't work and why (rafl) - -Profiling: - - - vs 5.70 and optimisation as needed. - -Tests: - - - Moosified test application? - - - Test warning from back-compat methods in Catalyst::Dispatcher +# Known Bugs: + + - Bug ->go or ->visit causes actions which have Args or CaptureArgs called + twice when called via ->go or ->visit. + + Test app: http://github.com/bobtfish/catalyst-app-bug-go_chain/tree/master + + - Bricas' Exception blog post + + http://bricas.vox.com/library/post/catalyst-exceptionclass.html + + Broken by recent exception refactoring + +# Compatibility warnings to add: + + - $self->config should warn as config should only ever be called as a + class method. + +# Proposed functionality / feature additions: + +## Log setup needs to be less lame + +So Catalyst::Plugin::Log::* can die +in a fire. Having $c->log_class would be a good start. kane volunteered +to do some of this. + +Simple example: Catalyst::Plugin::Log::Colorful should just be a +subclass of Catalyst::Log, no ::Plugin:: needed. + +See also: Catalyst::Plugin::Log::Dispatch and +http://github.com/willert/catalyst-plugin-log4perl-simple/tree + +# REFACTORING + +## The horrible hack for plugin setup - replacing it: + + * Have a look at the Devel::REPL BEFORE_PLUGIN stuff + I wonder if what we need is that combined with plugins-as-roles + +## App / ctx split: + + NOTE - these are notes that t0m thought up after doing back compat for + _component_class, may be inaccurate, wrong or missing things + bug mst (at least) to correct before trying more than the first 2 + steps. Please knock yourself out on the first two however :) + + - Eliminate actions in MyApp from the main test suite + - Uncomment warning in C::C::register_action_methods, add tests it works + by mocking out the logging.. + - Remove MyApp @ISA controller (ask metaclass if it has attributes, and if + so you need back compat :/) + - Make Catalyst::Context, move the per request stuff in there, handles from + main app class to delegate + - Make an instance of the app class which is a global variable + - Make new instance of the context class, not the app class per-request + - Remove the components as class data, move to instance data on the app + class (you probably have to do this for _all_ the class data, good luck!) + - Make it possible for users to spin up different instances of the app class + (with different config etc each) + - Profit! (Things like changing the complete app config per vhost, i.e. + writing a config loader / app class role which dispatches per vhost to + differently configured apps is piss easy) +