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• port schema parser from tapir pywrapper to biocase

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Version 2.5.0 [2008-04-29]

• replaced XSLT library, mx.DateTime & PyXML with 4suite & python native libraries (ElementTree, datetime). No external libraries are required anymore, just 4suite for xslt processing if you want to use the querytool (and you dont need to install the horrible libxml2 anymore)

• removed all metakit lib dependencies, thereby removing the concept finder window in the configtool. To select a new concept for mapping you can list all concepts of a schema or enter the xpath to one.

• Introduced a new cache directory where all temporary files go like user session data, pickled CMFs or temporary configtool files. To remove any cached files you can now simply empty this one folder!

• remove many old relicts that were never used like datasource metadata, system metadata, database autodiscovery, etc (all nice features to have for a future release, but they were never implemented so far)
• Use a new config singleton based on some simple ini text files. Incl a new parameter "prettyprint" to format the output nicely
• When creating a new datasource you can now select template datasources like Brahms6, a training db, ABCD2.06 metadata tables or NoDIT2

• Replaced the entire logging system with python file logging. Separate debug logs for each datasource plus global request & error logging

• new sesion based login that stays
• updated setup.py script
• changed the library test page
• and last but not least for developers: cleaned up quite some code

Version 2.4.2 [2006-11-16]

• configtool mapping pane. use anchors to go back to last editing position
• typeconverter: some dates were not correctly converted to xs:dateTime. Adding a "T00:00:00" solved it.
• ABCD2.06 CMF template updated to contain the allowed enumeration of ranks!

Version 2.4.1 [2006-06-26]

• Football Worldcup 2006 logos included
• minor bugfixes (dead links)
• admin password management fixed

Version 2.4.0 [2006-04-06]

• move most of the querytool_prefs to the new skin.xml preference file within a skin folder. Leave only list of concepts for form in old querytool_pref.xml. Modified querytool_prefs schema
• webapps log into rotating files instead of screen
• updated CMF parser service link
• configtool catches errors for unknown static aliases

• querytool XSLTs for abcd & abcdefg2.06

• remove wrapper_config.xml
• removed character encoding bug in CMF pickling.

Version 2.3.2 [2006-03-06]

• ABCDEFG extension 1.0 for Earth sciences included
• List available character encodings for python2.4 and 64bit systems

• QueryTool capable of querying DiGIR providers for details.

• new synthesys/biocase QT skin

Version 2.3.1 [2005-11-30]

• new 4th dimension dbmod!
• record filters inside CMFs fixed
• works with NoDIT v2 again
• GCP Passport 1.03 added

Version 2.3.0 [2005-11-03]

• compatible with Python 2.4 Using a new metakit compilation for windows.

• Graphviz's dot is being used to visualize the database structure. See example here

• ABCD 2.06 included instead of ABCD2.05

Version 2.2.4 [2005-10-13]

• include PonTaurus example db

• scans without a filter crashed with some dbmods. bug fixed.
• use select distinct in access for scans

• ConfigTool includes graphical view of the db structure graph through graphviz dot images

• CMF filters with scan filters crashed the wrapper. solved.
• typeconverter: fixed bug in transforming zero-length strings to integers.

Version 2.2.3 [2005-09-01]

• "upgrade" from abcd 2.05 to abcd 1.20 crashes the config tool no more
• abcd2.05 debugform templates included
• fixed scan problem with oracle8 module
• fixed connection problem with native firebird module
• Querytool allows to view raw xml
• Querytool can handle unicode queries now
• Concatenation with pure whitespace works now in wrapper output
• database module is logged again into the protocol header. was broken before
• if request filter evaluates to False (because concept is not mapped for example), dont query database with an SQL "... WHERE False ..." but return no results immediately.
• configtool removes now non mapped concepts after pressing "revert" or re-entering the mapping section

Version 2.2.2 [2005-07-22]

• Include a button to show all concepts in the mapping tools directly without the need to use the concept retrieval tool. Works wit all CMFs.
• Update MCPD CMF template to include w3c types.
• Include new page to create your own CMFs from custom XML schemas with the help of a BGBM TAPIR service.

Version 2.2.1

• Alternative root tables for SPICE wrappers work now correctly.
• Hierarchy requests in SPICE parse correct ID parameters now.
• corrected SPICE1.3 CMF template
• full Berlin Model SPICE CMF example

Version 2.2.0 [2005-07-18]

• System section of configtool can modify .configuration (domain, baseURL, admin password) file and gives overview about DSA passwords.
• setup script included to handle basic configuration, system adaptation and an upgrade facility for existing BPS2 installations.
• SPICE 1.3 supported with a single CMF now! Search is being done on seperate genus, species and infraspecies fields now. Spice queryforms and IOPI/Berlin model example mapping updated.
• ABCD 2.05 included (template,upgrade,example), the candidate for the final TDWG ABCD standard.
• Bugfixes in configtool, mapping section:
  • Internet Explorer compatability fixed (no tablealias names were saved)
  • CMF filter display fixed. Colored green now

  • Allow special mappings (TotalMatchedRecords) to be displayed and saved correctly

  • Fixed minor display problems with attributes
• fixed a serious new bug of the configtool that does not allow to add new tables to the db structure
• Allow case insensitive like searches in oracle if wanted.
• The performance debug logging works again

Version 2.1.0

• CMF/schema version upgrade facility integrated into the configtool. By using Altovas mapforce to graphically map 2 schemas or versions of the same schema (e.g. ABCD 1.20 to ABCD 2.0, or ABCD1.20 to DarwinCOre and vice versa), it is now possible to upgrade your datasource configuration to support similar schemas. Thanks to Synthesys!
• SPICE search: bug removed with genus search including the wildcard
• SPICE: empty root element returned if no result was found. Debugging as html comments output was broken - fixed!
• optional XML attributes bug removed. optional attributes were sometimes treated as mandatory ones. relevant for SPICE
• cfgtool attr display: sort order in configtool now shows attributes always below its element and displays the attributes name only with @ instead of the entire element name

• oracle dbmod improved. Paging has to use subqueries to guarantee that ordering takes place BEFORE the rownum limit. See Oracle FAQ http://www.orafaq.com/faqsql.htm#ROWXtoY

• attribute mapping synching repaired. It is possible now to sync the mappings of an element with several attribute mappings
• bug in local conditional mapping removed.
• logging fixed (error and request)
• only use "text" instead of "string" and "unicode" everywhere now in the code.

• ConfigTool: deletion of primary keys, foreign keys and tables works again [Ben Richardson].

Version 2.0.3

• SPICE search: Modify search string for genera only by adding " *" and normalize whitespace.

Version 2.0.2

• Limit for Oracle via ROWNUM implemented for ora8,9&10

• Include a Linux, Windows & MacOSX binary build of metakit. Solaris users still have to build it themselves.

• SQLLite module added

Version 2.0.1

• ABCD 2.0 CMF included
• Bug fixing
  • Configtool
    • Lot of little bugs solved.
    • Make possible to map attributes
    • Be able to delete mappings
    • Alert user when several CMFs with the same namespace exist for a datasource
    • Allow full xpaths to be entered directly into the add path form
    • allow datasource admin to delete all serialized objects

  • QueryTool

    • More inteligent XSLT for processing

  • PyWrapper

    • Solved error with wrapper not presenting attributes
    • Empty elements are now excluded in the output.

Version 2.0.0

• SPICE protocol supported for Species2000 CDM 1.20
• completely rewritten config tool including a concept retrieval interface to search for concepts
• completely rewritten an adaptable query tool with skin support

Version 1 history

Version 1.6b

• needs at least version 1.4b of the pywrapper
• added pywrapper skeleton for new species2000 protocol
• cleaned the querytool sourcecode (thanks to Doreen Pahlke)
• added little script "cmfupdater.py" to biocase/cgi that updates all existing CMFs of the installation to the latest CMF version.

Version 1.56

• Removed authorization bug when entering non ascii characters as the password.
• added more database modules for (upcoming) new pywrapper version:
  • Sybase, Firebird, PostgreSQL via psycopg

Version 1.55

• NoDIT v2 metaprofile templates and preconfigured database corrected
• added a GBIF registration method in the configtool

Version 1.54

• added a query engine prototype for CMF concepts to the configtool

• more database modules supported (Oracle8, FoxPro)

Version 1.52

• added URL encoding service in cgi-test.

• added AltText to images.

• removed bugs in config-tool when editing dbType for foreign key attributes and added FoxPro dbmod to menu.

• Updating the cgi-test script to fully support Unix systems.

Version 1.5

• Includes the fully working version 1.0 of the config-tool to edit WCF, PSF and CMF files.
  • Structural CMF editing is not yet supported as well as guidance for ABCD.
• template subdirectories renamed. Subdir "wrapper-skeleton" now contains the skeleton
  • for new database directories, which comes without any CMF template. CMF templates are now hosted in the config-files subdirectory.
• private config directory used now for wrapper_config.xml, providerlist.xml
  • and all other future configuration files that should be private.

Version 1.41

• first release including the query-tool