Release Notes of 2009

2009-12-15

• Class (fix): call-by-reference errors in shortcut methods (v/v1/m)
  
• Reader (add): support for cnonce re-use for more efficient Digest Auth operations
  
• RemoteStore (tweak): support for cnonce re-use during Digest Auth
  
• AskQueryHandler (tweak): new parameter structure in getFinalQueryResult
  
• SelectQueryHandler (add): experimental config option: store_cache_results (intermediate tables are kept)
  
• SelectQueryHandler (tweak): major refactoring for improved table JOINing (in the future) and better code readability
  

2009-12-07

• ARC2 (fix): improved splitURI method (thanks to Jeff Stuckman)
  
• ARC2 (tweak): getComponent accepts caller objects as 3rd parameter now
  
• Resource (add): setProp method
  
• RDFParser & RDFXMLParser (tweak): set_time_limit is now called automatically (unless keep_time_limit is set to true via the configuration)
  
• Store (add): checkTables and repairTables methods
  
• LoadQueryHandler (tweak): improved code to auto-repair broken mysql tables, new config option: store_reset_on_table_crash
  

2009-11-24

• ARC2 (fix): splitURI bug around slash/hash-free URIs and special namespaces (thx to Jeff Stuckman)
  
• RDFXMLSerializer (fix): index structures with flat object values caused an error in getNodeTag method
  
• TurtleSerializer (tweak): certain schema terms will be serialized to qnames ( rdfs:domain/range etc)
  
• StoreSelectQueryHandler (fix): long table/store names (> 64 chars) caused MySQL errors when TMP tables were created
  
• Reader (tweak): increased the length in fgets during header parsing to support long headers
  

2009-11-16

• Reader (tweak): multi-value response headers are now turned into arrays
  
• TurtleParser (tweak): improved error reporting (thx to Frederick Giasson)
  

2009-11-09

• ARC2 (add): Atom ns detection, getRSS10Serializer method
  
• Class (add): toRSS10 method
  
• Reader (tweak): improved SSL support (thx to Hannes Muehleisen)
  
• RDFExtractor (tweak): use of img @alt in getPlainContent is now optional
  
• RdfaExtractor (fix): no use of img @alt any more (thx to Toby Inkster)
  
• RSSParser (add): support for Atom links (only the href value)
  
• RDFXMLSerializer (add): support for default xmlns and typed nodes
  
• StoreEndpoint (fix): auto-setup triggered a PHP notice
  
• RSS10Serializer (1st version) (thx to Toby Inkster)
  

2009-10-21

• SPARQLPlusParser (tweak): Anticipating possible notation for SPARQL 1.1 aggregates and GROUP BY
  
• RemoteStore (add): getDomains method
  
• StoreEndpoint (add): TSV result format for SELECT queries
  
• SelectQueryHandler (fix): better UNION support (Thanks to Periklis Stavrou and Toby Inkster)
  
• TurtleParser (fix): <> was no longer working after tweak in rev 2009-10-05
  
• LoadQueryHandler (fix): getOComp created PHP warnings
  

2009-10-16

• Resource (add): setIndex() method
  
• getFormat (fix): improved n-triples detection (Thanks to Stéphane Corlosquet)
  
• RemoteStore (tweak): improved error check for empty results
  

2009-10-05

• TurtleParser (tweak): more relaxed xIRI_REF method allows WS now
  
• RemoteStore: minor tweaks/fixes
  
• Store_LoadQueryHandler (tweak): improved support for multibyte characters in the comparison column
  

2009-09-28

• StoreEndpoint (fix): don't set empty parameters in p() method (Thanks to Periklis Stavrou)
  

2009-09-23

• Class (add): max_errors config option
  
• StoreLoadQueryHandler (fix): more UTF8-friendly getOComp method (Thanks to Masahide Kanzaki & Fumihiro Kato)
  
• StoreLoadQueryHandler (tweak): getOComp tries to convert datetime values to UTC now
  

2009-09-08

• Class: (tweak) getResource method
  
• Reader: (add) basic support for Digest Auth
  
• Resource: (add) a store can be used as data source
  
• Resource: (add) getPropValues method
  
• Store: (add) config option store_engine_type (default: MyISAM)
  
• Store: (fix) parameter mismatch related to the LoadQueryHandler (Thanks to Will Daniels)
  

2009-08-21

• new component: Resource
  
• new method: completeQuery (PREFIX-injection)
  
• Reader: new method: getResponseHeaders
  
• RDFa: fixes, +3 test case PASSes (thx to Toby Inkster & Masahide Kanzaki)
  
• Class: auto-populate POST (php5 bug)
  
• Class: refactored *PName methods
  
• new methods: toIndex, toTriples, checkRegex
  
• Parsers: unsetting reader object to fix garbage collection
  
• SelectQueryHandler: improved LIKE-check for REGEX-rewriting
  
• Class: used prefixes were not logged, leading to serialization gaps
  
• Class: fixed root calculation bug in calcURI
  
• Class: new methods: toDataURI/fromDataURI
  
• ARC2_SPARQLScriptProcessor: improved automatic PREFIX injection
  
• ARC2_RemoteStore: added automatic PREFIX injection and getResourceLabel method
  
• ARC2_StoreSelectQueryHandler: fixed missing brackets in getExpressionSQL.
  
• Reader: Improved timeout handling
  
• Reader: support for port in http header (thx to Roan O'Sullivan)
  
• Slowly starting to switch to inline PHPDoc documentation
  
• Atom_Parser: Addition: support for link types
  
• DeleteQueryHandler: Addition: cleanValueTables method (auto-called every 500 DELETE queries)
  
• Class: new method: resetErrors
  
• Class: switch from getScriptURI to getRequestURI in init()
  

2009-03-05

• Tweak in ARC2_TurtleParser: xIRI_REF is less strict now, the SPARQLParser got its own check
  
• Addition in ARC2_SPARQLParser: dedicated xIRI_REF method
  

2009-03-04

Note: The store's MySQL table structures changed. This version might not be fully compatible with previous revisions!

• Removal: ARC2_StoreInferencer
  
• Tweak in ARC2_StoreTableManager: removed cid column
  
• Addition in ARC2_StoreTableManager: store_indexes config option
  
• Addition in ARC2_StoreTableManager: extendColumns() method, changes mediumint to int
  
• Tweak in ARC2_Store: removed Inferencer calls
  
• Tweak in ARC2_StoreQueryHandler: removed cid parameter in getTermID() method
  
• Tweak in ARC2_StoreSelectQueryHandler: removed "cid" references
  
• Tweak in ARC2_StoreLoadQueryHandler: removed "cid" references
  
• Addition in ARC2_StoreLoadQueryHandler: column checks
  
• Addition in ARC2_StoreLoadQueryHandler: store_write_buffer config option
  
• Tweak in ARC2_TurtleSerializer: support for "raw" parameter to skip getHead method
  
• Tweak in ARC2_Class: support for "raw" parameter in toTurtle and toRDFXML methods
  
• Tweak in ARC2_Reader: Improved error message on empty file:// base
  
• Tweak in ARC2_TurtleParser: "{" and "}" are now allowed in xIRI_REF
  

2009-02-12

• Fix in ARC2_RDFXMLSerializer: Scheme-detection: scheme must have at least 2 chars, thanks to Eric Schoonover)
  
• Fix in ARC2_TurtleParser: improved xString() method (Thanks to Paul A. Houle)
  
• Tweak in ARC2_JSONParser: "null" is now supported by extractValue() method
  

2009-02-09

• Fix: replacing \xA0 and \xC2 was too greedy in method x(), moved to TurtleParser (Thanks to Fumihiro Kato)
  
• Tweak in ARC2_TurtleParser: leading \xA0 and \xC2 are removed in x() method (Thanks to Fumihiro Kato)
  
• Tweak: toUTF8 is now config-bound via "adjust_utf8" option (default: no)
  
• Addition in ARC2_Store: getCollation() method
  
• Tweak in ARC2_Store: DB connection uses UTF-8 only with conforming table collations
  
• Tweak in ARC2_RdfaExtractor: getRootNode returns 1st node if html tag is not found
  
• Tweak in ARC2_ErdfExtractor: getRootNode returns 1st node if html tag is not found
  
• Addition in ARC2_SemHTMLParser: Support for RDFa detection via typeof/property/about
  
• Tweak in ARC2_TurtleSerializer: only predicates and type values are turned into pnames
  
• Tweak in ARC2_RDFXMLSerializer: pretty-printed RDF containers are now mozilla-happy (Thanks to Peter Dixon-Moses)