5.1.1-Release: QA, XSL callbacks and doclets

at 2007-01-07 in Releases, Announcements by friebe (0 comments)

Since the previous release we have spent lots of time on quality assurance - mostly, that means refactoring code to make use of new language features (no more need for try/catch/rethrow, dereferencing). This includes updating apidoc examples.

There are also some new features, most notably the XSL processor callback API (as described in RFC #0104) and the migration of the text.doclet API to be able to parse the new language syntax.

XP5 5.1.1
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ChangeLog (5.1.1)

Make arbitrary request headers available in CGI sapi (kiesel)
Implement more stream wrapper functions in XpXarLoader, providing a more complete stream wrapper support (file_exists now works) (kiesel)
Fix addRecipient() method in peer.mail.Message (kiesel)
Make xml.DomXSLProcessor::setBase() work again (kiesel)
Show class' apidoc comment in xpcli --help|-? (friebe)
Added lang.XPClass::getComment() (friebe)
Added lang.reflect.Field::getModifiers() (friebe)
Added lang.reflect.Modifiers utility class (friebe)
Made CLI sapi print uncaught exceptions to STDERR (friebe)
Made Doclet API parse XP5 syntax (friebe)
Exclude replication tables from SybaseDBAdapter::getTables() (friebe)
Implemented RFC #0104: Add XSLCallback class and provide support for calling PHP functions from within XSL (kiesel)

Dereferencing refactoring
Wherever possible, sourcecode and apidoc examples have been changed to make use of dereferencing:

<?php 
  // Source like this:
  $l= &Logger::getInstance();
  $cat= &$l->getCategory();
 
  // ...was changed to:
  $cat= Logger::getInstance()->getCategory();
?>

Rethrow removals
Methods containing try/catch/rethrow were stripped of this superfluous statements:

<?php 
  // Source like this:
  function &forName($name, &$classloader) {
    try(); {
      $class= &$classloader->loadClass($name);
    } if (catch('Exception', $e)) {
      throw($e);
    }
    return $class;
  }
 
  // ...was changed to:
  public static function forName($name, $classloader) {
    return $classloader->loadClass($name);
  }
?>

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