Roadmap

• Milestone: 3.0.0

  Due in 3 months (10/01/09)

  52%

  Closed tickets:

  86

  Active tickets:

  79

  / Total tickets:

  165

  A next generation ColdBox. This release will move ahead and deprecate obsolete parts of the framework and integrate a more robust architecture. Look below at a full summary of tickets for all the changes in this milestone.

  
  

  Milestone Tickets Summary

  #117

  Bean Factory, Form Validators?

  #124

  New Verbose Mode for Cache

  #294

  Cache Serialization option

  #311

  Event Caching to hard files

  #333

  Complete the Internal Service Factory

  #349

  New Plugin: mailservice (For sending emails and much more)

  #352

  spammers attack prevention

  #383

  Rename methods name

  #391

  two dimensional array

  #407

  Deprecation of <DevEnvironments> since environmentcontrol interceptor overrides it.

  #408

  Deprecate - webservices DevURL attribute. No longer needed

  #411

  controller.getService() will be deprecated by this version

  #422

  Cache - Email on low jvm memory alert

  #451

  Cleanup & Refactoring of XML Parser into logical units.

  #456

  Ability to override Interceptor properties via the environment interceptor

  #464

  Enable multi threading for Railo

  #469

  Deprecation of createArray() createStruct() in Utilities plugin

  #472

  Renaming of MyPluginsLocation setting to PluginsExternalLocation

  #484

  Ability to store locale in cookie

  #486

  Refactoring of xmlparser

  #488

  SES enhance for invalidURL

  #489

  lightwire autowire enhancement

  #490

  Feed Generator - Support additional xml format like iTunes/Atom etc

  #498

  Update CF Facade methods to new names or conventions: dump,abort,throw

  #505

  beanFactory: populateFromQuery enhancement to return Array-of-Objects from query

  #510

  Refactor includes folder into more meaningful packages

  #512

  SQL Injection Protect

  #514

  queryHelper: Query To XML

  #515

  New Validation Plugin

  #520

  Cache Disk Storage, Flush mechanisms and Server Restart integrations

  #522

  Create More Cache load tests and concurrency tests and long-running tests

  #524

  CFLock Timeout

  #530

  framework reload with password

  #531

  Deployment under J2EE Instance

  #534

  New Internal Service: MailService() used to send mails for ALL ColdBox Apps configured by the mail settings and using a new Mail bean

  #537

  Event Caching, new metadata param cacheToDisk=boolean this can tell the cache engine to cache to disk the event or not

  #538

  New Cache Option: CacheDiskLocation where serializations and disk caching can occur

  #541

  Deprecation of DefaultView in preference to implicit view declarations

  #542

  Default Action Override per Event Handler

  #544

  Your Settings new elements: <Node> & <Include>

  #546

  New Cache Option: EventDiskCaching[boolean] a default of where event caching will be stored.

  #547

  New Cache Option: ViewDiskCaching[boolean] a default of where view caching will be stored.

  #548

  Updates to setView() and renderView() for accepting more cache properties: cacheToFile[boolean],cachePrefix[string] and cacheStruct that can contain all the cache values

  #550

  SES Routing Mechanism Updates

  #551

  Ability to throw 404 via method + page location: show404(page)

  #560

  Create some ColdBox MXUnit Assertions for relocations

  #561

  JavaLoader new setting in configuration file: javaloader_loadLocation, this can be an array of locations to javaload

  #572

  asynchronous GET or POST (New Plugin)

  #580

  New method: lookupMulti() to lookup multiple keys in the cache.

  #582

  Global setting or configuration to disable Coldbox cfthread usage in your application

  #584

  New methods for coldbox factory: getRequestContext() and getRequestCollection() for easy access to the request

  #589

  compatibility renaming of arguments in the setnextevnet and route for varStruct arguments should be persistStruct

  #590

  rename baseTest to baseCFCUnitTest for compatibility

  #591

  updates of the xmlparser as a standalone service

  #597

  IOC Updates:2

  #607

  Ability to determine if a request is coming from a bot

  #609

  New cache setting to use thread yielding when running reaps: <ReapYielding>

  #612

  Reserved Functions Name

  #630

  Change environments.xml to an actual cfm template: environments.cfm, so programmatic approach will be done.

  #635

  Coldspring style <imports> for configuration file

  #674

  Update the API used for flash variables instead of persistVariables() method.

  #678

  cookiestorage plugin enhancements

  #695

  Security interceptor does not allow for ssl redirection or more control on how the secured event is redirected

  #696

  Have the ability to declare a controller decorator, with the same premise as the request context decorator

  #697

  Pass in the current executing action (method) as an argument to the handler interceptors (pre/post handler actions)

  #698

  populateFromQuery does not reflect all arguments to the inner populateFromStruct call.

  #699

  mod_rewrite for J2EE

  #700

  Ability to control the subjet area of the email bug reports

  #701

  add encryption encoding

  #702

  security interceptor deprecate the "useRoutes" setting as it can be autodetected now

  #703

  update invocation paths with custom conventions by replacing / with (.)

  #704

  Handlers service cleanup on handler registration on multi-nested conventions and windows OS

  #705

  buildLink addition of a rcList and appendMap for adding name-value pairs to the link that is built

  #706

  check if routes do not comply if started with a "/" ex: /people/:id

  #707

  Plugin Convenience methods to get an event object reference and the collection: getRequestContext(), getREquestCollection()

  #708

  Rework messagebox to handle multiple message types and convenience methods

  #709

  ioc plugin support for <import> tags

  #710

  preEvent and postEvent interceptors should not fire on prePost run event exemptions and they are now.

  #711

  handlerRegistrtation is out of sequence in the setup calls. runEvents() within interceptors pre-app load will fail

  #712

  update setnextevent to fire off postprocess interception points. Also create a flag to bypass it

  #713

  testing classes are not respecting the persistence over requests

  #714

  expose the lock timeouts and app hashes from the coldbox.cfc dispatcher

  #716

  new interception point: preLayout() ocurring before the rendering takes place

  #718

  Make every field after settings dynamic using ${} replacement

  #720

  REquest context error on throw call instead of throwit

  #721

  cookie storage sets var with 1 day expiry to session

  #722

  Core Extensions Folder

  #723

  Deprecation of cfcUnit support

  #724

  ApplicationStorage getVar not returning default variable

  #725

  Plugin has new properties: pluginAuthor, pluginAuthorURL

  #726

  Cluster Scope Plugin added to Core

  #727

  new metadata when dealing with model integration: singleton=true/false

  #728

  Query string support to setNextRoute

  #729

  buildLink should support query strings just like setnextevent

  #730

  new interception point: afterModelCreation this can be used by ORM plugins and the sort

  #731

  readonly locks optimized for coldbox dispatcher

  #732

  Ability to override the default named keys of the coldbox controller and bootstrapper in application scope

  #733

  Application generators modify to create flex enabled applications and monitors

  #734

  Coldbox Mocking Factory introduced

  #735

  rename addCourse to addRoute as now this is coldbox ses

  #737

  samples gallery internationalization has bugs

  #738

  new sample applications: feedGenerator, feedReader to showcase the new feed plugins

  #739

  security interceptor preEvent security was firing without being explicitly set.

  #740

  MI - constructor arguments not backing default autowires of Model or IOC. Needs the default checks

  #741

  ssl support for the ses interceptor

  #742

  SES View Dispatcher - No events needed

  #743

  event context new method: getHTTPMethod() tells you the cgi method used

  #744

  new eventhandler property: allowedMethods which is a struct of http allowed methods for actions

  #745

  ses optimization, do regex translation at the time of adding a route

  #746

  new unit testing directive: this.loadColdbox = boolean

  #747

  autowire interceptor setterinjection defaults to false

  #748

  SES - You can now set the ses into debug mode and trace the routings: setDebugMode()

  #749

  SES ability to turn off/on convention name value pairs on a per route basis: valuePairTranslation argument

  #750

  logger tracer messages are invalidly trying to duplicate extrainfo arguments

  #751

  coldboxproxy process,announceinterception methods had access of remote instead of private

  #753

  bug on sample login application on railo

  #754

  debugger service, provide static tracers just like profilers instead of using flash ram

  #755

  includeUDF and HandlerCaching

  #756

  ColdBox Proxy Builder - New Interceptor

  #757

  Encapsulate some feed plug-in methods into other objects

  #758

  new MI setting: ModelsDefinitionFile which points to ModelMappings.cfm

  #759

  cfc generator bug

  #760

  Ability to have a list of external locations for ModelsExternalLocation

  #761

  new context method: event.bypassExecution() will bypass the main event execution

  #762

  Alter interceptor response buffer to return the content via the processState calls.

  #763

  base test case - new method: mockModel() so you can now mock models by convention

  #764

  Query Simulator now on Base Test Case: querySim() so you can easily create queries in your unit tests

  #765

  renderData not setting the correct content type when using type = plain or a non-existent type

  #766

  getDecimalSymbols on i18n plugin has an error on getPlusSign method.

  #767

  errors on default values when displaying debug info in debug.cfm

  #768

  security interceptor, default querychecks to false so it is more forgiving.

  #769

  Coldbox core should be tested with "Strict" scopes

  #770

  Reactor Loader interceptor

  #771

  security interceptor - allow declaration of extra/custom elements on rule elements in the xml file

  #772

  Model integration- new directive on resource file to register all model objects found with the default alias

  #773

  If translation does not exist in current resource bundle, it will now look in the default resource bundle for the translation

  #774

  add singleton support to handlers and plugins just like model integration

  #775

  better exception handling on handler and plugin creation

  #776

  new supertype helper method: addAsset(), which can load a css or js file to the head section only if it has not been loaded already in a request

  #777

  cache manager object keys need consistent trims

  #778

  new Method getModelPath

  #779

  Simplification of plugins/handlers constructors. No need to accept a controller or call super. This is done now via decoration.

  #780

  Event handler methods no longer need the event argument. This will be done via an event proxy object available in the variables scope. (cf8 only)

  #781

  Mockbox not recognizing argument's signature for mocked methods.

  #782

  ses bug on urls containing extra ? or encoded ? as %3F

  #783

  Mail service enhancement

  #784

  Decorator folder

  #785

  ReSTful web services

  #786

  Flash Ram Object

  #787

  BlenderBox AOP Step1

  #788

  AOP AddAdvice

  #790

  Controller Decoration

  #791

  Coldbox Web Flow

  #792

  New interceptor attribute: @alias, so you can use this alias to retrieve them via getInterceptor()

  #793

  renderdata marshalling

  #794

  Update AntiSamy Plugin

  #795

  constraints addRoute() argument that is a json structure of regex overrides of placeholders

  #796

  Ability to disable sidebar via event values: _cbSidebar (boolean)

  #797

  Ability to have another argument

  #798

  New Validator plugin for multiple kinds of validations of data

  #799

  Request Context new method: isSSL(), which tells you if you are in ssl mode or not

  #800

  renderdata now includes encoding types

  #801

  New Setting for Layouts: LayoutsExternalsLocation in order to bring in external layouts by convention

  #803

  renderlayout now can take in an optional layout argument. If passed, it will render that specific layout instead of the one by convention

  #804

  Add try/catch to autowire interceptor to allow for more debugging information when autowire fails on targets

• Milestone: 3.1.0

  No date set

  27%

  Closed tickets:

  3

  Active tickets:

  8

  / Total tickets:

  11

  Work on getting mind control to work, plus the rest of the tickets here. Hopefully, we can integrate more of the new CFML engine features and solidify our 3.1.0 features.

  Look below at a full summary of tickets for all the changes in this milestone.

  
  

  Milestone Tickets Summary

  #287

  Resource bundles must use cache now to load and unload from the coldbox cache.

  #354

  fwreinit from allowed IPs

  #473

  Deprecation of MyPluginsLocation setting from the XSD, in favor of PluginsExternalLocation

  #539

  resource bundle getResource with substitutions, pass in a array or simple value or struct.

  #593

  OpenID Plugin

  #596

  IOC Updates:1

  #598

  IOC Updates:3

  #599

  IOC Updates: 4

  #633

  StatusCode for setNextEvent, setNextRoute, Relocate

  #736

  deprecate addCourse() in favor of addRoute()

  #752

  New Method getWebResources()