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JDEGUEST / Module-Generic-v0.17.3 / CHANGES 
Revision history for Perl module Module::Generic

v0.17.3 2021-11-22T11:14:35+0900
    - Minor correction in Module::Generic removing the INIT block

v0.17.2 2021-11-16T12:20:03+0900
    - Minor improvement to _parse_timestamp in Module::Generic

v0.17.1 2021-11-15T11:55:16+0900
    - Minor correction in Module::Generic in _parse_timestamp
    - Fine tuning of the module versions requirements

v0.17.0 2021-11-05T20:40:13+0900
    - Updated Module::Generic::Hash, adding alias method size() pointing to length()
    - Added class Module::Generic::HeaderValue
    - Added shortcut methods device, inode, mode, nlink, uid, gid, rdev, atime, mtime, ctime, block_size, blocks, last_accessed and last_modified in package Module::Generic::File
    - Added method utime in package Module::Generic::File
    - Added method line in package Module::Generic::Scalar::IO

v0.16.5 2021-10-24T12:10:52+0900
    - Corrected Module::Generic::SharedMem read() method to not decode if buffer is empty

v0.16.4 2021-10-22T15:51:20+0900
    - Correcting an oversight in Module::Generic (module Devel::Confess was required for debugging but not removed later)

v0.16.3 2021-10-21T12:17:58+0900
    - Improved mmap method in Module::Generic::File

v0.16.2 2021-10-15T16:10:14+0900
    - Improved mmap method in Module::Generic::File

v0.16.1 2021-10-12T22:46:58+0900
    - Added methods blocking, eof, fcntl, fdopen, flush, format_write, getc, getline, getlines, ioctl, printflush, sync, sysread, sysseek, syswrite, ungetc and content_objects in Module::Generic::File
    - Corrected test units for Module::Generif::File

v0.16.0 2021-10-11T13:51:57+0900
    - Tuned _set_get_datetime method to only set a default DateTime formatter when none were already set yet
    - Added support method _set_get_uuid to store universal unique identifier with data validation
    - Added method as_json in Module::Generic::Hash to return a json string representation of the hash object
    - Added method _can in Module::Generic to quickly check if a given object has support for a given method
    - Corrected an error check in Module::Generic::SharedMem for method lock()
    - Added methods get_null in Module::Generic::Array to get a Module::Generic::Null object when offset value is undef
    - Added methods second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth
    - Made a slight adjustment in Module::Generic::Null so that the parameter value for 'wants' can be specified in lowercase and updated the documentation
    - Added method _is_ip to check IPv4 and IPv6 syntax, including with CIDR notation in Module::Generic
    - Added method _set_get_ip and _is_uuid to check syntax of UUID
    - Improved Module::Generic::Dynamic
    - Added method as_hash in Module::Generic::Hash to get the hash object as a regular hash reference
    - Improved method _is_class_loaded to more simply check at the %INC rather than rely on external module
    - Improved method _load_class to allow for passing semantics to import and provided an hash reference of options such as package version and caller's package to import the module into.
    - Added missing TO_JSON method in Module::Generic::Exception and Module::Generic::Number
    - Updated _set_get_uri in Module::Generic to initiate a URI object if value is available and not yet an object.
    - Added method aliases lower and upper in Module::Generic::Scalar
    - Added methods pack and unpack in Module::Generic::Scalar
    - Added method pack in Module::Generic::Array
    - Modified Module::Generic::Array new method to accept also a list of elements.
    - Updated the method join in Module::Generic::Array to allow passing additional arguments on top of the current array object: $a->join( ',', $more_data );
    - Updated method replace in Module::Generic::Scalar to return a special Module::Generic::RegexpCapture object
    - Added method dump_hex() which uses Devel::Hexdump if it is installed
    - Updated the method new() in Module::Generic so that a possible error be propagated to its calling object when called from object like my $new = $old->new || die( $old->error );
    - Updated AUTOLOAD to pass $self as first argument if defined
    - Updated _set_get_object_array in Module::Generic to allow any non-blessed value to be passed for object instantiation, instead of hash reference previously.
    - Added the methods intersection, max, min in Module::Generic::Array
    - Added a destruction mechanism in the END block in Module::Generic::File for file or directory set to be auto removed
    - Updated method autoflush in Module::Generic::File to affect the underlying file handle with the value provided. Before, it was just storing the boolean value.
    - Added methods mmap and unmap in Module::Generic::File to use file-based variable that can be shared across processes

v0.15.8 2021-08-21T14:13:52+0900
    - Corrected an overlooked warning in Module::Generic::Array->split

v0.15.7 2021-08-20T18:14:07+0900
    - Added support method _get_stack_trace in Module::Generic
    - Updated method init to not issue any warning when a package method returns undef when passing undef value to those methods in Module::Generic. Normally a method returning undef is a sign of an error having occurred.
    - Updated the test units for Module::Generic::SharedMem
    - Improved documentation for Module::Generic::Array

v0.15.6 2021-08-18T09:44:08+0900
    - Updated documentation for Module::Generic::Scalar (lc, lcfirst, uc, ucfirst)
    - Updated the test unit for shared memory to better handle platform not supporting IPC SysV

v0.15.5 2021-07-26T12:54:23+0900
    - Corrected mistake with module name Module::Generic::DateTime
    - Added alias makpath() to mkpath() in Module::Generic::File
    - Added alias absolute() to abs() in Module::Generic::File

v0.15.4 2021-06-29T18:34:17+0900
    - Added methods join and split in Module::Generic::File
    - Changed method extension which can now take a new value and then return a new file object
    - Added method fragments to Module::Generic::File
    - Added helper method _is_number in Module::Generic

v0.15.3 2021-06-26T14:31:27+0900
    - Improvement for Module::Generic::File for method load
    - Switched Module::Generic::SharedMem to use json xs module by default as data packing mechanism, but with the choice left to the user between JSON and Storable
    - Corrected a bug in Module::Generic::File in method tmpfile that, due to errors in parameters, inadvertently, was creating also temporary directories
    - Corrected a bug in rmtree whereby the directory itself was not removed. Added the option "keep_root" to decide whether to keep it or not.

v0.15.2 2021-06-26T06:06:16+0900
    - Added missing documentation for Module::Generic::File
    - Improved documentation for Module::Generic

v0.15.1 2021-06-20T10:19:58+0900
    - Resubmission due to bundling error

v0.15.0 2021-04-18T12:05:35+0900
    - Corrected a minor bug in Module::Generic::Dynamic, ignoring now fields that do not contain any valid chracter to become a method
    - Added method as_array(), offset() and merge() in Module::Generic::Array
    - Added method empty() in Module::Generic::Array as an alias to reset()
    - Added methods as_array(), as_number(), join() and prepend() in Module::Generic::Scalar
    - Added method as_array(), as_scalar() in Module::Generic::Number
    - Added method as_array() and as_scalar() in Module::Generic::Boolean
    - Added support for changing the offset position in a for loop in Module::Generic::Array by returning a scalar reference of an integer
    - Added the return method in Module::Generic::Array to end embedded loops.
    - Added methods even, odd, remove and unique (based on List::Util::uniq) in Module::Generic::Array
    - Added TO_JSON to Module::Generic::Array, Module::Generic::Hash and Module::Generic::Scalar to allow its object to be encoded with JSON. You still need to set the convert_blessed JSON property to true though: my $j = JSON->new->convert_blessed;
    - In Module::Generic::Array, the following methods have been changed to return a Module::Generic::Scalar object in object context and if the value retrieved from the array is not a reference of any sort: first, get, index, last, pop, shift. The splice method has been modified to return a new Module::Generic::Array object in object context when only an offset and length, or just an offset was provided.
    - Added support method _is_class_loadable in Module::Generic to check if a module can be loaded without loading it
    - Added support method _get_args_as_array in Module::Generic
    - Corrected an obscure bug in clone() when using Want.
    - Added method new_null in Module::Generic
    - Added modules Module::Generic::File and Module::Generic::Finfo to deal with files
    - Added inline class Module::Generic::Scalar::IO that inherits from IO::Scalar and enables to print to scalar
    - Added module Module::Generic::SharedMem for easy-to-use shared memory interface

v0.14.2 2021-04-03T17:22:00+0900
    - Corrected a bug in _set_get_scalar_as_object to accept overloaded objects that implement stringification
    - Corrected a bug in _set_get_hash

v0.14.1 2021-03-31T14:50:43+0900
    - Correcting a test unit in datetime and upgrading version numbers for sub modules

v0.14.0 2021-03-20T21:43:18+0900
    - Added Module::Generic::Datetime and split inline modules to their own files
    - Added method _get_args_as_hash to get methods parameters as hash reference whether they were provided initially as such or not

v0.13.6 2021-02-14T13:01:16+0900
    - Improved test unit for cygwin not supporting crypt

v0.13.5 2021-02-06T11:46:18+0900
    - Corrected a mising require for DateTime::Format::Strptime
    - Improved the _warnings_is_enabled helper method

v0.13.4 2021-01-25T18:47:55+0900
    - Moved the requirement on Apache module to the BEGIN block as it should.

v0.13.3 2020-12-08T11:12:15+0900
    - Removed method message_switch
    - Added method _set_get_object_without_init for object that cannot just simply be initiated without specific parameters, such as Apache2::RequestRec.

v0.13.2 2020-11-20T22:14:54+0900
    - Corrected method _set_get_class_array when testing if data received are an array
    - Added parameter alias 'package' to parameter 'class' in _set_get_class
    - Added data type alias in _set_get_class for convenience.
    - Corrected pass_error to create an error object when it is passed a string rather than an error object.
    - Expanded method _parse_timestamp to include keyword 'now', relative timestamp and unix timestamp.

v0.13.1 2020-09-20T08:12:16+0900
    - Updated the error method to accept and use an Exception object as parameter
    - Updated the method throw in Module::Generic::Exception to either take a string and instantiate a new exception object or use the current one.
    - Improved the error() method to better report from the start of the call stack, excluding internal package and better handling exception object
    - Added "prefix" option in method Module::Generic::message to specify something else than "##" when displaying debugging message.
    - Updated clear_error to return $self instead of just 1 and allow chaining
    - Improved message_switch to avoid replacing existing message method
    - Modified __create_class that was missing the handling of object_array_object type of method.
    - Modified as_hash so that DateTime object are converted to string

v0.13.0 2020-07-10T10:30:10+0900
    - Added alias method _set_get_number_as_object for convenience and pointing to _set_get_number
    - Added the method append in Module::Generic::Scalar
    - Added an iterator class with Module::Generic::Iterator and Module::Generic::Iterator::Element
    - Added methods index, iterator and pos in Module::Generic::Array
    - Improved documentation for Module::Generic::Array
    - Corrected 2 typos in pod for Module::Generic::Scalar
    - Added method _set_get_lvalue to make it easy to implement object oriented lvalue methods
    - Changed the _set_get_number so that now it can also be accesed as lvalue
    - Added method is_even and is_odd to Module::Generic::Number
    - Added helper method _to_array_object to make it easy to create array object out of any parameters
    - Added method "has" as an alias to method "exists" to Module::Generic::Array and Module::Generic::Hash
    - dump now() uses Data::Dump instead of Data::Printer that offers a cleaner output
    - Added method map() map_array and map_hash in Module::Generic::Hash
    - Modified method as_hash in Module::Generic::Array to take an optional hash reference of options
    - Module::Generic::Hash object can now be instantiated with no hash provided. Before it required an hash reference to be provided to instantiate the object.
    - corrected methods map_array() and map_hash() in Module::Generic::Hash
    - Updated _set_get_url to better capture all kinds of url

v0.12.16 2020-06-17T15:03:17+0900
    - Added the helper method _is_a to simplify the check for object class
    - Added method get() and list() in Module::Generic::Array
    - Added method tr in Module::Generic::Scalar
    - Corrected error in exiting a for/foreach loop in Module::Generic::Array
    - Switched clone() method to using XS module Clone::clone()
    - Added methods new_array, new_hash, new_number and new_scalar in Module::Generic to make it more convenient to create object from those classes
    - Added some missing documentation to Module::Generic::Scalar

v0.12.15 2020-06-16T12:22:19+0900
    - Fixed some test units

v0.12.14 2020-05-28T05:46:04+0900
    - Tweaked Module::Generic::Number::_set_get_prop in my last desperate attempt to correct this tedious bug. Should fix RT #132714

v0.12.13 2020-05-27T13:58:324+0900
    - Corrected (hopefully) an issue whereby some undefined hash keys would not be undefined affecting test unit

v0.12.12 2020-05-25T13:55:00+09:00
    - Corrected issues with Number::Format whereby it would revert to some default, so made all of the Number::Format argument explicit, even setting them to '' to avoid Number::Format from using its inadequate default
    - Implemented a workaround to Number::Format on Windows whereby some of the POSIX::localconv values are -1. When there is no value, such as when the locale is C or when it is on Windows (value being -1), then numeric values default to 0
    - Improved test units for when running on Windows Strawberry

v0.12.11 2020-05-25T14:56:154+0900

v0.12.10 2020-05-24T13:00:034+0900
    - Corrected bug in test unit for Module::Generic::Number. Fix bug RT #132671
    - Updated Module::Generic::Scalar to return undef when creating an object with an undefined value. Fix bug RT #132681 (https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132681)

v0.12.9 2020-05-23T15:00:574+0900
    - Corrected bug in test unit for Module::Generic::Number

v0.12.8 2020-05-22T16:15:004+0900
    - Change POSIX requirement to version 1.53_01 and perl minimum version to v5.26.1

v0.12.7 2020-05-22T16:15:004+0900
    - Corrected RT bug #132664 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=132664 in Module::Number::init

v0.12.6 2020-05-21T14:52:004+0900
    - Corrected a small bug in creating a Number::Format object.

v0.12.5 2020-05-20T23:22:004+0900
    - Change from TryCatch to Nice::Try because TryCatch got broken with release of Devel::Declare version 0.006020

v0.12.4 2020-05-16T17:22:004+0900
    - Specified more clearly version 0.006019 for Devel::Declare, because upper version break TryCatch

v0.12.3 2020-05-16
    - Corrected minor issues at line at lines 5428 and 5430 where a typo existed

v0.12.2 2020-05-05
    - Added Module::Generic::Number, its test units and pod documentations
    - _set_get_number now sets and gets a Module::Generic::Number instead of Text::Number
    - Added Module::Generic::Hash providing an object oriented approach to hash while stil enabling direct access as usual
    - Added missing test units

v0.12.1 2020-05-03
    - Corrected issue when @_ contains an undef value in __instantiate_object

v0.12.0 2020-05-01
    - Added colour_closest, colour_format, colour_parse and message_colour
    - Added missing pod documentation

v0.11.9 2020-04-27
    - Removed some ambiguity in the use of shift

v0.11.8 2020-04-25
    - Changed init when an object preset value looks like a package name, this now also requires that the package be loaded to consider it as a package requirement. Example: $self->{url} = 'URI'; requires an object URI for the object property 'url'
    - error() method now respect the 'no warnings' pragma
    - If 'no warnings' is set, an error wil still be set, but no warning will be printed out on STDERR

v0.11.7 2020-03-30

v0.11.6 2020-03-27

v0.11.5 2020-03-27

v0.11.4 2020-03-27

v0.11.3 2020-03-26

v0.11.2 2020-03-06

v0.11.1 2020-02-04

v0.11.0 2020-02-04

v0.10.2 2020-01-11

v0.10.1 2020-01-10

v0.10.0 2020-01-07

v0.9.0 2020-01-04

v0.8.0 2020-01-01

v0.7.2 2019-12-28

v0.7.1 2019-12-27

v0.7.0 2019-12-25

v0.6.11 2019-12-13

v0.6.10 2019-11-28

v0.6.9 2019-11-27

v0.6.8 2019-11-14

v0.6.7 2019-11-08

v0.6.6 2019-11-03
    - Adjusted the functionning of _set_get_hash_as_object so that it always returns an object even when there was no data. This is to avoid the perl error of "Can't call method "this_property" on an undefined value" when doing something like my_dynamic_hash->this_property

v0.6.5 2019-11-02
    - Added an inline package Module::Generic::Boolean to handle boolean value and the _set_get_boolean method
    - Added the use of Class::Load for loading dynamically packages as used in _instantiate_object
    - Added the methods true, false under Module::Generic to be used in _set_get_boolean and _is_class_loaded and _load_class which are wrappers for Class::Load::is_class_loaded and Class::Load::load_class

v0.6.4 2019-10-31
    - Added handling of undef passed as a parameter to some of the _set_get_* methods

v0.6.3 2019-10-23
    - Add _set_get_hash_as_object with recursive processing

v0.6.1 2019-10-19

v0.5.5 2919-10-13

v0.2.0 2019-08-28
    - Switched from Class::Struct to inner package for management of exceptions for better granularity

v0.1.0 2019-08-26
    - Initial version from pre-existing work done