MTShop/web/modules/contrib/votingapi/CHANGELOG.txt

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02/11/06
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First stab at Views integration with VotingAPI. Configuring it is a little
ugly -- mainly useful for custom modules that want to expose a vote-based
default_view without coding all the table/field/filter stuff for Views.
04/21/06
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Expose public votingapi_add_vote and votingapi_delete_vote functions to allow
modules to override normal behavior. This makes it possible to implement
anonymous voting, though future explicit support is coming.
04/22/06
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There is now a working infrastructure for modules to expose their own
'voting actions' without requiring user customization.
04/23/06
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Major enhancements to the actions subsystem, the addition of an experimental
widgets library, and the (beginnings) of major enhancements to Views
integration. Using the latest CVS version of the Views module, it's now possible
to display a particular vote result (say, the number of people who've voted)
without using esoteric combinations of filters.
04/29/06
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A new setting has been introduced -- vote result calculation can be deferred
until cron-time. This can be useful on heavy-load sites where MANY votes are
being cast and complex, db-intensive calculations are used to weight the results.
05/01/06
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The action loading and caching infrastructure has been made much more robust,
and CRUD functions are in place for reading and writing actions. The
voting_actions module has now been added to facilitate direct user manipulation
of action criteria, etc. It's the part that's still heavily under development.
In many installations, it'll be unnecessary. The votingapi_delete_vote()
function no longer automatically recalculates. Modules using it should call
recalculate manually after explicitly removing a vote. Those needing a
consistent, stable VotingAPI should probably still stick with the 4.7 branch.
This version will be branched as soon as the issues are ironed out.
06/07/06
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Foundation laid for a move to discrete hooks rather than a single _votingapi
function. Because each of the $ops for the function needed a wildly different
set of parameters, implementing a single function was an exercise in frustration
for module developers. Right now, each location that called *_votingapi() ALSO
calls hook_votingapi_*(). the raw *_votingapi() function will be deprecated, and
likely removed from a future version.
07/05/07
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First run at a Drupal 6 compatible version (after an ill-fated accidental
check-in on the D5 branch). Once this works, work will start on v2.0. The plan
is to add anonymous voting support and cleaner function signatures by passing in
full vote objects rather than long param lists. It's uncertain whether 1.x will
be released for Drupal 6 directly, or whether I'll just get the 2.0 version out
for it, since modules will already need to be updated.
04/09/08
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Several important bug fixes for the D6 version of VotingAPI. #223517, #232233,
#232236, and #235174 fixed thanks to patches posted by quicksketch and sammys.
Also checked in an initial stub file for Views 2 integration, removing the old
hook_init() code since Views2 handles pulling the .inc files in itself.
06/05/08
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Views integration rewritten from scratch - many old limitations and snafus are
now gone, thankfully. Several default Views will be included in the final
release.
Calculation of vote results no longer loads all votes into memory: modules that
implement custom result algorithms must do their own SQL. This saves tremendous
amounts of RAM on sites with large numbers of votes on a single content object.
06/24/08
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Views integration code seriously reworked (again) to use Views 2 'relationships'
rather than custom field handlers. Downside: for the VotingAPI fields, sorts,
and filters to appear, a relationship must first be added to it. Upside: using
hook_votingapi_views_content_types(), modules that cast votes on non-node
content can tell VotingAPI to add its relationship to other tables too (like
users, comments, etc). This should make it much, much easier to build displays
of vote-aware content that lives in non-node base tables.
09/19/08
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Updated for compatibility with Views RC2, added the ability to filter Views
relationships to votes cast by the current user, and added three default Views
to demonstrate the Views integration. Also added basic Simpletests, fixed a bug
that manifested when modules cast votes with minimal information (nothing but a
content id and a value, for example). Finally, added the ability to
auto-generate dummy votes for testing purposes. This feature is only visible if
Devel Generate module is installed and activated.
06/20/09
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Changed hook_votingapi_content_types() to hook_votingapi_relationships(), since
it only deals with Views relationships. Added extra documentation to API.txt and
fixed assorted ugly bugs. Moved a bunch of API docs to votingapi.api.php so
API.module can generate pretty docs for the hooks. Nodes and comments now have
pre-configured relationships available, any other entity types need a
hook_votingapi_relationships() implementation.
Added votingapi_metadata() to gather metadata about defined value_types, tags,
and aggregate functions. Modified the Views relationship handler to use that
function rather than querying the tables directly.
01/26/10
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Drupal 7 port approaches completion. Changed the content_type and content_id
indicators to entity_type and entity_id, to avoid confusion between VotingAPI
'content types' and Drupal 'node types'. Added Drush support for generating,
flushing, and recalculating voting data.