Dereferenced.com » RPC-XML http://www.dereferenced.com A preponderance of Perl, an excess of XML, and additional alliterations. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:18:51 +0000 en hourly 1 Perl Module Release: RPC-XML 0.76 http://www.dereferenced.com/2011/08/21/perl-module-release-rpc-xml-0-76/ http://www.dereferenced.com/2011/08/21/perl-module-release-rpc-xml-0-76/#comments Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:12:53 +0000 rjray http://www.dereferenced.com/?p=190 MetaCPAN.org: https://metacpan.org/release/RJRAY/RPC-XML-0.76
Version: 0.76

Released: Saturday August 20, 2011, 06:30:00 PM -0700

Changes:

  • etc/make_method
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm

RT #70258: Fixed typos in docs pointed out by Debian team.

  • lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm

Better version of the fix for infinite loops. This is the patch originally suggested by Eric Cholet, who found the bug.

  • t/00_load.t

RT #70280: This test was still testing RPC/XML/Method.pm. Rewrote to remove that but include the (forgotten) XMLLibXML.pm module. That test has to be conditional on the presence of XML::LibXML.

  • Makefile.PL
  • t/51_client_with_host_header.t

Clean up test suite to work with older Test::More. Also specify a minimum Test::More that supports subtest(). This is also a part of RT #70280.

  • t/11_base64_fh.t
  • t/20_xml_parser.t
  • t/21_xml_libxml.t
  • t/40_server.t

These tests had failures when run as root. Permissions-based negative tests were incorrectly passing.

  • t/10_data.t

Moved the 64-bit “TODO” tests to a SKIP block. Non-64-bit systems will skip, rather than fail, these tests.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm

RT #65616: Fix for slow methods killing servers. Applied and modified patch from person who opened the ticket.

  • MANIFEST
  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • t/10_data.t
  • t/14_datetime_iso8601.t (added)

RT #55628: Improve flexibility of date parsing. This adds the ability to pass any ISO 8601 string to the RPC::XML::datetime_iso8601 constructor.

]]> http://www.dereferenced.com/2011/08/21/perl-module-release-rpc-xml-0-76/feed/ 0 Chasing a Very Elusive Warning http://www.dereferenced.com/2011/08/16/chasing-a-very-elusive-warning/ http://www.dereferenced.com/2011/08/16/chasing-a-very-elusive-warning/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:59:46 +0000 rjray http://www.dereferenced.com/?p=184 I am getting a warning in one of my test suites for RPC-XML. I only get this warning when I run “make test“. I do not get the warning if I run the test directly with “perl -Mblib t/…“, or if I run it via prove. The test this occurs in is t/21_xml_libxml.t, which tests the XML::LibXML-based parser, and the warning I get is:

Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at .../site_perl/5.14.1/darwin-2level/XML/LibXML.pm line 843.

Because this is occurring within Perl itself, I cannot seem to get it to give me a stack-trace in place of the warning. My attempts to check for undefined values have not found any, yet I get the warning. Running in the debugger does not generate the warning.

Because my tests pass, I have confidence that this parser is fine, despite this only-in-test-harness warning. But the OCD side of me is going crazy over having this still show up when I run my tests locally (and yes, it shows up on all my platforms: Darwin, 64-bit Linux and 32-bit Linux). So, if anyone reading this can give me a helpful hint as to how I can get more/better diagnostic information on this, I would be truly grateful.

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Version: 0.75

Released: Saturday August 13, 2011, 05:30:00 PM -0700

Changes:

  • MANIFEST

Somehow, t/13_no_deep_recursion.t never got added to MANIFEST.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm

RT #65154: Fixed a cut/paste error in an error message.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm
  • t/51_client_with_host_header.t (added)

RT #68792: Merge pull request #2 from dragon3/master (https://github.com/dragon3). Allow setting of “Host” header, and test suite for it.

  • MANIFEST
  • t/51_client_with_host_header.t

Added new test suite to MANIFEST, fixed spelling. Also added “plan tests” line to the test suite.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm
  • t/20_xml_parser.t
  • t/21_xml_libxml.t
  • t/41_server_hang.t

Merge pull request #3 from yannk/master (https://github.com/yannk). Expat parser subclass is protected against ext ent attack, libxml isn’t.

  • t/41_server_hang.t

Undo a change to this suite from yannk’s pull.

  • etc/make_method
  • lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm
  • lib/Apache/RPC/Status.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Function.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Method.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLParser.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/ParserFactory.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm

More perlcritic-driven clean-up. This is mostly POD sections, but also includes heavy re-working of etc/make_method and parts of lib/RPC/XML.pm.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm
  • t/21_xml_libxml.t

Fixed external entity handling on MacOS. Also made small change to the test suite to be cleaner.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLParser.pm

Took out warnings on external entities blocking. Now it blocks silently. Also cleaned up some docs.

  • t/15_serialize.t

Additions to increase code coverage in XML.pm.

  • lib/RPC/XML.pm

Turns out this wasn’t exporting RPC_I8.

  • lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm
  • lib/Apache/RPC/Status.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Function.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Method.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLParser.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/ParserFactory.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm
  • xt/02_pod_coverage.t

Made 5.8.8 the new minimum-required perl. Also dropped the utf8_downgrade hack, which affected an xt test.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm

Improved arguments-checking in send_request.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLParser.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm

Fixed error-cases in usage of File::Temp->new(). File::Temp::new croaks on errors, doesn’t return undef like I thought.

  • MANIFEST
  • lib/RPC/XML/Function.pm (deleted)
  • lib/RPC/XML/Method.pm (deleted)
  • lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm

Roll Method.pm and Function.pm into Procedure.pm. Remove Method.pm and Function.pm from distro.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm

Fixed regexp for methodName validation.

  • t/10_data.t
  • t/11_base64_fh.t
  • t/12_nil.t
  • t/15_serialize.t
  • t/20_xml_parser.t
  • t/21_xml_libxml.t
  • t/25_parser_negative.t (added)
  • t/29_parserfactory.t
  • t/30_method.t
  • t/40_server.t
  • t/40_server_xmllibxml.t
  • t/50_client.t
  • t/BadParserClass.pm (added)
  • t/meth_good_1.xpl
  • t/namespace3.xpl
  • t/svsm_text.b64 (added)
  • t/util.pl

First round of Devel::Cover-inspired improvements. These are the changes to the test suites to increase coverage of the code.

  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm

Fixes and such from Devel::Cover analysis.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm
  • t/30_method.t
  • t/meth_good_1.xpl
  • t/meth_good_2.xpl (added)
  • t/meth_good_3.xpl (added)

Fixes for file-based method loading/reloading. New tests in the suite, and re-working of the ugliest hacky part of this package.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm
  • t/30_method.t
  • t/meth_good_3.xpl

RPC::XML::Procedure test-coverage improvement. Also removed some unneeded code.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm
  • t/30_method.t
  • t/40_server.t

Last round of RPC::XML::Procedure test coverage. This is mostly in t/40_server.t, though some bugs were found and addressed in the modules and in t/30_method.t.

  • lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm
  • lib/Apache/RPC/Status.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLParser.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/ParserFactory.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm

Documentation clean-up and update.

  • lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm
  • lib/Apache/RPC/Status.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLParser.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm

Changes from new Perl::Critic::Bangs policies.

  • xt/01_pod.t
  • xt/02_pod_coverage.t
  • xt/03_meta.t
  • xt/04_minimumversion.t
  • xt/05_critic.t

Adjustments to reflect moving from t to xt. Also made changes to xt/02_pod_coverage.t to reflect changes to modules.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm

Removed some error checks that can never fail.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm
  • t/40_server.t

Code-coverage-driven changes and added tests.

  • etc/make_method

Fixes from new Perl::Critic::Bangs policies.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm

Removed usage of AutoLoader completely.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm
  • t/40_server.t
  • xt/02_pod_coverage.t

Removed some dead code and better did the aliases. This required a change in t/40_server.t for a private sub that no longer exists. Also updated xt/02_pod_coverage.t for private subs that have no pod.

  • lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm

RT #67694: Fix a potential infinite-loop condition.

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Version: 0.74

Released: Sunday January 23, 2011, 12:50:00 PM -0800

Changes:

  • t/90_rt54183_sigpipe.t

RT #56800: Make this suite skip all tests on Windows platforms.

  • lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm

Clean up some run-time “use of undefined value” messages.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLParser.pm
  • t/90_rt58323_push_parser.t (added)

RT #58323: Started as making the parser interfaces correctly report errors when passed null-length strings or “0″ values. Turned out that the error return interface from XMLLibXML.pm was not consistent with the rest of the system, so fixed that as well.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm
  • t/40_server.t

RT #58240: Applied a patch from Martijn van de Streek that adds access to the HTTP::Request object to called method code.

  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLParser.pm
  • t/90_rt58065_allow_nil.t (added)

RT #58065: Allow the parsing of <nil /> tags when they are encountered, even if $RPC::XML::ALLOW_NIL is not set. Only limit the generation of these tags.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm
  • t/41_server_hang.t

This test sporadically fails, so enhance the error message for more info. Also alter the test slightly, hoping it fixes the random failures.

  • etc/make_method

Applied perlcritic to the make_method tool.

  • lib/XML/RPC.pm
  • t/10_data.t
  • t/20_xml_parser.t
  • t/21_xml_libxml.t

RT #62916: Previous adjustments to the dateTime.iso8601 stringification caused it to no longer fit the XML-RPC spec. Fixed.

  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLParser.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/ParserFactory.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm

Used warnings::unused to find unused variables not found by Perl::Critic.

  • t/10_data.t

Realized I had no boundary-tests for ints in smart_encode(). This revealed some problems with i8 values on my 32-bit system. Don’t want to introduce dependency on BigInt right now, so marked those tests “TODO”.

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Version: 0.73

Released: Tuesday March 16, 2010, 10:45:00 PM -0700

Changes:

  • MANIFEST
  • t/28_parser_bugs_50013.t (deleted)
  • t/90_rt50013_parser_bugs.t (added)

Rename of t/28_parser_bugs_50013.t to fit more universal scheme for
test suites that directly address specific RT bugs.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm
  • t/90_rt54183_sigpipe.t (added)

RT #54183: Provide handling of SIGPIPE when sending the response to the client,
in case they’ve terminated the connection.

  • MANIFEST

Forgot to add the new test suite to MANIFEST.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm

Forgot to update the module version number.

  • lib/RPC/XML.pm

Fix typo in reftype() call.

  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • t/90_rt54494_blessed_refs.t (added)

RT #54494: Fix handling of blessed references in smart_encode().

  • lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm
  • lib/Apache/RPC/Status.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Client.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Function.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Method.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLParser.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/ParserFactory.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Server.pm

Large-scale code clean-up driven by Perl::Critic. All critic flags
down to severity 1 now removed.

  • MANIFEST

Forgot to add t/90_rt54494_blessed_refs.t when it was created.

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Version: 0.72 Released: Sunday December 13, 2009, 09:45:00 PM -0700

Changes:

  • Makefile.PL
  • t/40_server_xmllibxml.t

RT #52662: Fix requirement specification for XML::LibXML.

  • lib/RPC/XML.pm

Some more clean-up of the docs, removing a redundant section.

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Version: 0.71 Released: Monday December 7, 2009, 08:00:00 PM -0700

Changes:

  • MANIFEST
  • t/01_pod.t (deleted)
  • t/02_pod_coverage.t (deleted)
  • t/03_meta.t (deleted)
  • t/04_minimumversion.t (deleted)
  • t/05_critic.t (deleted)
  • xt/01_pod.t (added)
  • xt/02_pod_coverage.t (added)
  • xt/03_meta.t (added)
  • xt/04_minimumversion.t (added)
  • xt/05_critic.t (added)

Moved author-only tests to xt/, updated MANIFEST.
  • MANIFEST

Add test suite 28_parser_bugs_50013.t, which was omitted from last release.
  • xt/01_pod.t
  • xt/02_pod_coverage.t
  • xt/03_meta.t
  • xt/04_minimumversion.t
  • xt/05_critic.t

Re-engineered the author-only/release tests, since they're no longer in the t/ directory and thus should not interfere.

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Version: 0.70 Released: Sunday December 6, 2009, 10:00:00 PM -0700

Changes:

  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • t/10_data.t

RT #49406: Make Base64 data-type allow zero-length data.

  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • t/10_data.t

Hand-applied a patch (most likely from Bill Moseley) to extend the construction of dateTime.iso8601 data-types.
  • t/40_server.t

Fixed another corner-case for the url() test.
  • lib/RPC/XML.pm

Fixed a case from previous work that caused "undef" warnings.
  • lib/RPC/XML.pm
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser.pm
  • t/28_parser_bugs_50013.t

RT #50013: Restore backwards-compatibility for projects that use RPC::XML::Parser directly.

  • lib/RPC/XML/Procedure.pm

RT #50143: Incorrectly called server_fault() as if it were a coderef.

  • lib/Apache/RPC/Server.pm

Applied patch from Frank Wiegand to fix a POD problem.
  • lib/RPC/XML.pm

Some additional regexp issues on dateTime.iso8601, to handle backwards-compatibility.
  • lib/RPC/XML/ParserFactory.pm

Fixed some minor doc errors.
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLParser.pm

Moved the 'require' of some libraries to the point where they are first needed, to delay loading until/unless necessary.
  • lib/RPC/XML/Parser/XMLLibXML.pm (added)
  • t/21_xml_libxml.t (added)
  • t/29_parserfactory.t
  • t/40_server_xmllibxml.t (added)

Implement support for XML::LibXML in the parser-factory.

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