Most Important API Changes
Those are mentioned here as are not backward compatible. I want the API to be stable and consistent in the next release and later, so I do all the big changes now (I would have to do them at some time anyway).
2006-08-31
Interface API for better externalisation of various components. First introduced to the Client classes -- one may create different classes to handle different stanza types and namespaces, annotate them with interfaces implemented (IFeaturesProvider, IPresenceHandlersProvider, IMessageHandlersProvider or IIqHandlersProvider) and list their instances in a Client object's interface_providers attribute.
See the echocomponent.py example to see how to use that.
2006-08-26
Exception handling improvements, part one.
All PyXMPP-specific exceptions moved to pyxmpp.exceptions module. Some exceptions have been removed (those which were used where some standard exception, like ValueError, would be a better choice), the most important omission is StanzaError exception.
ProtocolError exception with some derivatives added -- these are raised when an error is detected in a stanza (received) processed. These exceptions will be handled internally by PyXMPP some day (automatically <bad-request/> or similar XMPP error will be raised).
2006-08-26
CachedPropertyObject class removed and its usage in pyxmpp.jabber.disco Now all the DiscoItem/DiscoInfo/DiscoItems attributes are regular properties calling set_*, get_* funtions on every access. The old cached properties were giving no speed gain and only complicated things.
2005-10-14
Usage of non-unicode strings in PyXMPP API is deprecated. No no implicit conversion is made where utf-8 string would previously be accepted (e.g. JID constructor). Sometimes deprecation warning will be raised when string is used instead of unicode.
2005-03-20
"common_doc", "common_root", and "common_ns" can no longer be imported from the "stanza" module. They were moved to the "xmlextra" module.
2005-01-20
Minor change: now "disco_info" and "disco_items" attributes of pyxmpp.jabber.client and pyxmpp.jabberd.component are initialized in the constructors of those classes. Those __init__() methods now accept "disco_name", "disco_category" and "disco_type" arguments to set up the entity identity. Also register_feature() and unregister_feature() methods were added for managing the feature list in .disco_info.
2005-01-09
Continuation of the big API unification.
All attribute and parameter names "node", relating to XML node have been renamed to "xmlnode". The most important change is Stanza.node renamed to Stanza.xmlnode.
Roster.items(), Roster.groups(), Roster.items_by_name(), Roster.items_by_group(), Roser.items_by_jid() renamed to: Roster.get_items(), Roster.get_groups(), Roster.get_items_by_name(), Roster.get_items_by_group(), Roster.get_item_by_jid()
Keys of Roster.items_dict are now JIDs, not unicode.
More .as_xml() methods unified. To reuse most of the code needed two new virtual classes were added: pyxmpp.objects.StanzaPayloadObject and pyxmpp.objects.StanzaPayloadWrapperObject. Objects providing .as_xml() methods may be used directly as argument to Stanza.set_content() and Stanza.add_content() methods.
2005-01-06
Big API unification started.
jabber.vcard.VCard and jabber.delay.Delay classes' method as_xml accepts now "parent" and "doc" arguments in that order. Argument interpretation is also unified. All other similar objects will have the add_xml() with the same signature soon.
Classes in jabber.disco module were modified heavily, so all the getter are named get_*, all the setters set_* and all the interesting properties may be accessed as attributes which also adds some caching. Other classes, if they don't use that get_*/set_* naming, will be modified in similar way soon.
2004-12-31
There was a design flaw in PyXMPP from the very beginning, which caused that many unnecessary modules from PyXMPP package (and subpackages, when they were used) were imported even when only one simple module was used. That was because pyxmpp imported all the useful names from submodules. That was a problem (unnecessarily long startup time sometimes), but it was also quite convenient.
To resolve the problem those imports were removed from __init__ modules, so importing a package doesn't cause any other imports now. To improve backward compatibility and keep the convenience of the old behavior "all" modules were added to "pyxmpp", "pyxmpp.jabber" and "pyxmpp.jabber" packages.
If your application was broken by that change just import "pyxmpp.all" (and/or "pyxmpp.jabber.all", "pyxmpp.jabberd.all" if you use them) there -- you need to do it once per application (no need to change every module). After that everything should work as before.
If you use only small part of the API and don't want to import unused modules import names like "JID" or "Stanza" directly from modules that define them (e.g.: 'import JID from pyxmpp.jid').
2004-12-18
dnspython (http://www.dnspython.org) is now used for resolving DNS names. Please note, that because of a conflict between dnspython and old PyXMPP DNS implementation you must clean up after old PyXMPP installation and do 'make clean' before building PyXMPP.
2004-09-16
Stanza, Message, Iq and Presence constructors arguments have been changed again. "typ" and "sid" were really stupid and ugly. Now Stanza (derived classes) constructor keyword parameters are: from_jid, to_jid, stanza_type, stanza_id
I hope this will never change again, at least not after the next official release. You may update your application code using "migrate-0_5-0_6.py" script.
2004-09-13
Stanza, Message, Iq and Presence constructors arguments have been changed so build-ins "type" and "id" are not redefined. So the "type" argument has been changed to "typ" and the "id" argument to "sid" (stanza id).
2004-09-03
Stream.data_in and Stream.data_out callbacks removed. Data sent and received is now logged via 'logging' module to 'pyxmpp.Stream.out' and 'pyxmpp.Stream.in' loggers. The raw data is available for logging handlers as the first element of 'args' attribute of the log record (record.args[0]).
2004-08-29
All debug messages are passed to the standard python 'logging' module. There is no debug() methods in PyXMPP classes any more.
2005-06-02
Python 2.2 support is gone. Compliant XMPP implementation requires stringprep and IDN support. Python 2.3 provides both, Python 2.2 none. Maintaining separete stringprep and IDN implementations for use with Python 2.2 is IMHO not worth the effort needed.
2005-05-28
Roster and RosterItems classes rewritten. Now they are not wrapper around roster XML node any more. Old code was complicated, slow, and not standard compliant (ingored stringprep profiles).
Most important changes:
- no node attribute in Roster and RosterItem
- RosterItem constructor doesn't take roster argument any more
- jid, ask, subscription, name and groups are now attributes, not methods, of RosterItem
- add_group, rm_group, etc. methods of RosterItem are gone. Use list operations on groups attribute now.
- inline documentation included
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