Changes for version 1.35 - 2012-11-08

  • Applied patches from Scott Hardin implementing lazy evaluation of conditions
  • Applied patch from Oliver Welter implementing support for multiple factories
    • https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18159
  • Added patch from Oliver Welter implementing the feature of creating custom workflow classes, in addition a patch to silence some warning emitted during test from Workflow::Validator
  • Added patch from Scott Hardin implementing nested conditions
  • Added patch from Steven van der Vegt RT #52841 implementing autorun for the INITIAL state
    • https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52841
  • Added patch from Steven van der Vegt RT #52862 improving the reporting on validation exceptions
    • https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52862
  • Eliminated README and migrated information into the main POD and introduced INSTALL file for the installation relevant information. README is now generated from the main POD by Build.PL

Modules

Simple, flexible system to implement workflows
Base class for Workflow actions
Metadata about information required by an Action
a stub for a SMTP capable action
Workflow action for the terminally lazy
Base class with constructor
Evaluate a condition depending on the workflow state and environment
Inline condition that evaluates perl code for truth
Condition to determine if a user is available
Evaluate nested workflow conditions
Parse configuration files for the workflow components
Parse workflow configurations as Perl data structures
Parse workflow configurations from XML content
Data blackboard for Workflows, Actions, Conditions and Validators
Base class for workflow exceptions
Generates new workflow and supporting objects
Recorded work on a workflow action or workflow itself
Base class for workflow persistence
Persist workflow and history to DBI database
Pull IDs from databases that autogenerate them
Fetch extra data with each workflow and put it into the context
Persister to fetch ID from a sequence
Persist workflow and history to the filesystem
Persister to generate random ID
Persist workflows using SPOPS
Persister to generate Universally Unique Identifiers
Information about an individual state in a workflow
Ensure data are valid
Validator to ensure certain data are in the context
Ensure a value is one of a declared set of values
Ensure a stringified date matches a given pattern