Dragonfly 0.50 Released!

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I figure we should have a new thread for each major version. :-)

Get it here:

http://dragonfly-newlisp.googlecode.com ... p_v050.zip

Documentation at:

http://www.rundragonfly.com

Many thanks to Marc (hilti) for letting me contribute to it!

Now go play with it! :-)

[Kirill]

Hello and congratulations on the new release! I fetched it from the repo and set up on my server to play a bit first. Looks promising!

I have a couple of questions.

1. How do I pass extra query parameters to a page? Say I want to add "?foo=bar" to the debug page. Going to gives me an error.
2. What happens if there are to parameters with the same name? E.g. "foo=q1&foo=q55". Would the latter "foo" overwrite the first one? It could be easy to verify if I was able to pass these to the debug, ref. my first point.
3. I see that QUERY_STRING is used to find out what page/resouce users wanted to go to ("index.cgi?page"). Normally it's better to say "index.cgi/page", in such case the value "/page" will be put in PATH_INFO variable. Any additiional query paramaters can be easily added: "index.cgi/page?param=1&param=2&param=3". Here's an example:



Note how "/foo/bar/baz" is put in PATH_INFO. And also note how query parameters are being split.

Regards,
Kirill

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[hilti]

Hi Kirill

there's a long explanation about nested resources in our user guide.


The topic is "What about nested resources?" and our conclusions are

1. Nested resources are often unnecessary
2. Can lead to poor design and confusion

BUT at the end on this page we wrote:

Because of these considerations, as well as the complexities of supporting nested resources in a generic fashion, Dragonfly does not encourage this sort of design pattern by supporting it out-of-the-box. However, if you need such behavior, you've got everything you need to

And we'll show a way to create Your needed queries.

Look over here:

And we think that our way will help againt Http parameter pollution shown in this slideshow.


What Do You think?

Cheers
Hilti

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Done!

All of the issues with GET should be gone (except for the multi-param stuff, that's coming next). All of the URLs now no longer use the ? when running the built-in server.

Full change-set:

If you want this functionality you can get it now by grabbing it from mercurial. Otherwise these changes will be in 0.51, along with the multi-param stuff.

[Kirill]

I can wait. :) Those comments where just something I noticed when giving DF a first try. Thanks for fixing it right away.

Also note that not all systems have /bin/bash (none of mine have in fact). /bin/sh is a safe choice.

-- Kirill

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[Lutz]

Oh, I see, so the env variable only shows up if not empty, could be easily extracted/set then using a htpp-conf.lsp.

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[hilti]

Dragonfly 0.51 is released!

All the updates are available now in a ZIP archive on Google Code.

Cheers!
Hilti

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