Smisk 1.1.3 released

[Rasmus Andersson]

Smisk 1.1.3 has been released – a combined bug-fix release and feature
release.

This is the first version of Smisk to be available in MacPorts (http://
www.macports.org/). And as always this release is also available from
python-smisk.org, PyPi and the Hunch Debian repository.

* Support for Python 2.6

* Fixed a bug with parameter keys not being normalized to unicode.

* Reworked Elixir/SQLAlchemy handling of sessions during HTTP
transactions.

* Only a subset of the built-in serializers are loaded by default,
rather than all. There's a new module called smisk.serialization.all
which can be imported in order to load all built-in serializers.

* Serializers now need to excplicitly specify their read/write
capabilities using two boolean attributes: can_serialize and
can_unserialize. BaseSerializer defines both of these as False.

* plist serializer reworked to use plistlib, which has been modified
to support serialization of Elixir Entities (database objects).

* New generic XML serializer smisk.serialization.xmlgeneric (not
loaded by default).

* smisk.mvc.Request instances have a new attribute called cn_url. The
value is a smisk.core.URL instance which is guaranteed *not* to
include any filename extension. cn_url is a copy of Request.url if the
request was made without the canonical path (i.e. not including
filename extension. "/foo/bar" instead
of "/foo/bar.json"). Otherwise cn_url is a modified copy of url.
This is useful for building paths based on the request path wihout
having to know if there's a filename extension involved or not.

* Leaf filters can now be created as pythonic decorators using the
aiding decorator leaf_filter, found in smisk.mvc.decorators. See
http://python-smisk.org/docs/1.1.3/library/smisk.mvc.html#leaf-filters
for more information.

* The previously built-in crash reporter is no longer built by
default. Can be enabled by defining the macro
SMISK_ENABLE_CRASH_REPORTING 1 (more info in src/config.h).

* Major documentation update.

* Various minor fixes.


http://python-smisk.org/