cliquet 2.4.2

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Cliquet

Cliquet is a toolkit to ease the implementation of HTTP microservices, such as data-driven REST APIs.

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Changelog

This document describes changes between each past release.

2.4.2 (2015-08-26)

Internal changes

• Remove the symlink to cliquet_docs and put the documentation inside cliquet_docs directly (#426)

2.4.1 (2015-08-25)

Internal changes

• Make documentation available from outside by using cliquet_docs (#413)

2.4.0 (2015-08-14)

Protocol

• Userid is now provided when requesting the hello endpoint with an Authorization header (#319)

• UUID validation now accepts any kind of UUID, not just v4 (fixes #387)

• Querystring parameter _to was renamed to _before (the former is now deprecated) (#391)

New features

• Cliquet Service class now has the default error handler attached (#388)

• Allow to configure info link in error responses with cliquet.error_info_link setting (#395)

• Storage backend now has a purge_deleted() to get rid of tombstones (#400)

Bug fixes

• Fix missing Backoff header for 304 responses (fixes #416)

• Fix Python3 encoding errors (#328)

• data is not mandatory in request body if the resource does not define any schema or if no field is mandatory (fixes mozilla-services/kinto#63)

• Fix no validation error on PATCH with unknown attribute (fixes #374)

• Fix permissions not validated on PATCH (fixes #375)

• Fix CORS header missing in 404 responses for unknown URLs (fixes #414)

Internal changes

• Renamed main documentation sections to HTTP Protocol and Internals (#394)

• Remove mentions of storage in documentation to avoid confusions with the Kinto project.

• Add details in timestamp documentation.

• Mention talk at Python Meetup Barcelona in README

• Fix documentation about postgres-contrib dependancy (#409)

• Add cliquet.utils to Internals documentation (#407)

• Default id generator now accepts dashes and underscores (#411)

2.3.1 (2015-07-15)

Bug fixes

• Fix crash on hello view when application is not deployed from Git repository (fixes #382)

• Expose Content-Length header to Kinto.js (#390)

2.3 (2015-07-13)

New features

• Provide details about existing record in 412 error responses (fixes mozilla-services/kinto#122)

• Add ETag on record PUT/PATCH responses (fixes #352)

• Add StatsD counters for the permission backend

Bug fixes

• Fix crashes in permission backends when permission set is empty (fixes #368, #371)

• Fix value of ETag on record: provide collection timestamp on collection endpoints only (fixes #356)

• Default resources do accept permissions attribute in payload anymore

• Default resources do not require a root factory (fixes #348)

• Default resources do not hit the permission backend anymore

• Default viewset was split and does not handle permissions anymore (fixes #322)

• Permissions on views is now set only on resources

• Fix missing last_modified field in PATCH response when no field was changed (fixes #371)

• Fix lost querystring during version redirection (fixes #364)

Internal changes

• Document the list of public settings in hello view (mozilla-services/kinto#133)

2.2.1 (2015-07-06)

Bug fixes

• Fix permissions handling on PATCH /resource (#358)

2.2.0 (2015-07-02)

New features

• Add public settings in hello view (#318)

Bug fixes

• Fix version redirection behaviour for unsupported versions (#341)

• PostgreSQL dependencies are now fully optional in code (#340)

• Prevent overriding final settings from default_settings parameter in cliquet.initialize() (#343)

Internal changes

• Fix installation documentation regarding PostgreSQL 9.4 (#338, thanks @elemoine!)

• Add detail about UTC and UTF-8 for PostgreSQL (#347, thanks @elemoine!)

• Remove UserWarning exception when running tests (#339, thanks @elemoine!)

• Move build_request and build_response to cliquet.utils (#344)

• Pypy is now tested on Travis CI (#337)

2.1.0 (2015-06-26)

New features

• Cliquet does not require authentication policies to prefix user ids anymore (fixes #299).

• Pypy support (thanks Balthazar Rouberol #325)

• Allow to override parent id of resources (#333)

Bug fixes

• Fix crash in authorization on OPTIONS requests (#331)

• Fix crash when If-Match is provided without If-None-Match (#335)

Internal changes

• Fix docstrings and documentation (#329)

2.0.0 (2015-06-16)

New features

• Authentication and authorization policies, as well as group finder function can now be specified via configuration (fixes #40, #265)

• Resources can now be protected by fine-grained permissions (#288 via #291, #302)

Minor

• Preserve provided id field of records using POST on collection (#293 via #294)

• Logging value for authentication type is now available for any kind of authentication policy.

• Any resource endpoint can now be disabled from settings (#46 via #268)

Bug fixes

• Do not limit cache values to string (#279)

• When PUT creates the record, the HTTP status code is now 201 (#298, #300)

• Add safety check in utils.current_service() (#316)

Breaking changes

• cliquet.storage.postgresql now requires PostgreSQL version 9.4, since it now relies on JSONB. Data will be migrated automatically using the migrate command.

• the @crud decorator was replaced by @register() (fixes #12, #268)

• Firefox Accounts code was removed and published as external package cliquet-fxa

• The Cloud storage storage backend was removed out of Cliquet and should be revamped in Kinto repository (mozilla-services/kinto#45)

API

• Resource endpoints now expect payloads to have a data attribute (#254, #287)

• Resource endpoints switched from If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since to Etags (fixes #251 via #275), thanks @michielbdejong!

Minor

• existing attribute of conflict errors responses was moved inside a generic details attribute that is also used to list validation errors.

• Setting cliquet.basic_auth_enabled is now deprecated. Use pyramid_multiauth configuration instead to specify authentication policies.

• Logging value for authentication type is now authn_type (with FxAOAuth or BasicAuth as default values).

Internal changes

• Cliquet resource code was split into Collection and Resource (fixes #243, #282)

• Cleaner separation of concern between Resource and the new notion of ViewSet (#268)

• Quickstart documentation improvement (#271, #312) thanks @N1k0 and @brouberol!

• API versioning documentation improvements (#313)

• Contribution documentation improvement (#306)

1.8.0 (2015-05-13)

Breaking changes

• Switch PostgreSQL storage to JSONB: requires 9.4+ (#104)

• Resource name is not a Python property anymore (ref #243)

• Return existing record instead of raising 409 on POST (fixes #75)

• cliquet.storage.postgresql now requires version PostgreSQL 9.4, since it now relies on JSONB. Data will be migrated automatically using the migrate command.

• Conflict errors responses existing attribute was moved inside a generic details attribute that is also used to list validation errors.

• In heartbeat end-point response, database attribute was renamed to storage

New features

• Storage records ids are now managed in python (fixes #71, #208)

• Add setting to disable version redirection (#107, thanks @hiromipaw)

• Add response behaviour headers for PATCH on record (#234)

• Provide details in error responses (#233)

• Expose new function cliquet.load_default_settings() to ease reading of settings from defaults and environment (#264)

• Heartbeat callback functions can now be registered during startup (#261)

Bug fixes

• Fix migration behaviour when metadata table is flushed (#221)

• Fix backoff header presence if disabled in settings (#238)

Internal changes

• Require 100% of coverage for tests to pass

• Add original error message to storage backend error

• A lots of improvements in documentation (#212, #225, #228, #229, #237, #246, #247, #248, #256, #266, thanks Michiel De Jong)

• Migrate Kinto storage schema on startup (#218)

• Fields id and last_modified are not part of resource schema anymore (#217, mozilla-services/readinlist#170)

• Got rid of redundant indices in storage schema (#208, ref #138)

• Disable Cornice schema request binding (#172)

• Do not hide FxA errors (fixes mozilla-services/readinglist#70)

• Move initialization functions to dedicated module (ref #137)

• Got rid of request custom attributes for storage and cache (#245)

1.7.0 (2015-04-10)

Breaking changes

• A command must be ran during deployment for database schema migration:

  $ cliquet –ini production.ini migrate

• Sentry custom code was removed. Sentry logging is now managed through the logging configuration, as explained in docs.

New features

• Add PostgreSQL schema migration system (#139)

• Add cache and oauth in heartbeat view (#184)

• Add monitoring features using NewRelic (#189)

• Add profiling features using Werkzeug (#196)

• Add ability to override default settings in initialization (#136)

• Add more statsd counter for views and authentication (#200)

• Add in-memory cache class (#127)

Bug fixes

• Fix crash in DELETE on collection with PostgreSQL backend

• Fix Heka logging format of objects (#199)

• Fix performance of record insertion using ordered index (#138)

• Fix 405 errors not JSON formatted (#88)

• Fix basic auth prompt when disabled (#182)

Internal changes

• Improve development setup documentation (thanks @hiromipaw)

• Deprecated cliquet.initialize_cliquet, renamed to cliquet.initialize.

• Code coverage of tests is now 100%

• Skip unstable tests on TravisCI, caused by fsync = off in their PostgreSQL.

• Perform random creation and deletion in heartbeat view (#202)

1.6.0 (2015-03-30)

New features

• Split schema initialization from application startup, using a command-line tool.

cliquet --ini production.ini init

Bug fixes

• Fix connection pool no being shared between cache and storage (#176)

• Default connection pool size to 10 (instead of 50) (#176)

• Warn if PostgreSQL session has not UTC timezone (#177)

Internal changes

• Deprecated cliquet.storage_pool_maxconn and cliquet.cache_pool_maxconn settings (renamed to cliquet.storage_pool_size and cliquet.cache_pool_size)

1.5.0 (2015-03-27)

New features

• Mesure calls on the authentication policy (#167)

Breaking changes

• Prefix statsd metrics with the value of cliquet.statsd_prefix or cliquet.project_name (#162)

• http_scheme setting has been replaced by cliquet.http_scheme and cliquet.http_host was introduced ((#151, #166)

• URL in the hello view now has version prefix (#165)

Bug fixes

• Fix Next-Page url if service has key in url (#158)

• Fix some PostgreSQL connection bottlenecks (#170)

Internal changes

• Update of PyFxA to get it working with gevent monkey patching (#168)

• Reload kinto on changes (#158)

1.4.1 (2015-03-25)

Bug fixes

• Rely on Pyramid API to build pagination Next-Url (#147)

1.4.0 (2015-03-24)

Breaking changes

• Make monitoring dependencies optional (#121)

Bug fixes

• Force PostgreSQl session timezone to UTC (#122)

• Fix basic auth ofuscation and prefix (#128)

• Make sure the paginate_by setting overrides the passed limit argument (#129)

• Fix limit comparison under Python3 (#143)

• Do not serialize using JSON if not necessary (#131)

• Fix crash of classic logger with unicode (#142)

• Fix crash of CloudStorage backend when remote returns 500 (#142)

• Fix behaviour of CloudStorage with backslashes in querystring (#142)

• Fix python3.4 segmentation fault (#142)

• Add missing port in Next-Page header (#147)

Internal changes

• Use ujson again, it was removed in the 1.3.2 release (#132)

• Add index for as_epoch(last_modified) (#130). Please add the following statements to SQL for the migration:

  ALTER FUNCTION as_epoch(TIMESTAMP) IMMUTABLE;
  CREATE INDEX idx_records_last_modified_epoch ON records(as_epoch(last_modified));
  CREATE INDEX idx_deleted_last_modified_epoch ON deleted(as_epoch(last_modified));

• Prevent fetching to many records for one user collection (#130)

• Use UPSERT for the heartbeat (#141)

• Add missing OpenSSL in installation docs (#146)

• Improve tests of basic auth (#128)

1.3.2 (2015-03-20)

• Revert ujson usage (#132)

1.3.1 (2015-03-20)

Bug fixes

• Fix packaging (#118)

1.3.0 (2015-03-20)

New features

• Add PostgreSQL connection pooling, with new settings cliquet.storage_pool_maxconn and cliquet.cache_pool_maxconn (Default: 50) (#112)

• Add StatsD support, enabled with cliquet.statsd_url = udp://server:port (#114)

• Add Sentry support, enabled with cliquet.sentry_url = http://user:pass@server/1 (#110)

Bug fixes

• Fix FxA verification cache not being used (#103)

• Fix heartbeat database check (#109)

• Fix PATCH endpoint crash if request has no body (#115)

Internal changes

• Switch to ujson for JSON de/serialization optimizations (#108)

1.2.1 (2015-03-18)

• Fix tests about unicode characters in BATCH querystring patch

• Remove CREATE CAST for the postgresql backend

• Fix environment variable override

1.2 (2015-03-18)

Breaking changes

• cliquet.storage.postgresql now uses UUID as record primary key (#70)

• Settings cliquet.session_backend and cliquet.session_url were renamed cliquet.cache_backend and cliquet.cache_url respectively.

• FxA user ids are not hashed anymore (#82)

• Setting cliquet.retry_after was renamed cliquet.retry_after_seconds

• OAuth2 redirect url now requires to be listed in fxa-oauth.webapp.authorized_domains (e.g. *.mozilla.com)

• Batch are now limited to 25 requests by default (#90)

New features

• Every setting can be specified via an environment variable (e.g. cliquet.storage_url with CLIQUET_STORAGE_URL)

• Logging now relies on structlog (#78)

• Logging output can be configured to stream JSON (#78)

• New cache backend for PostgreSQL (#44)

• Documentation was improved on various aspects (#64, #86)

• Handle every backend errors and return 503 errors (#21)

• State verification for OAuth2 dance now expires after 1 hour (#83)

Bug fixes

• FxA OAuth views errors are now JSON formatted (#67)

• Prevent error when pagination token has bad format (#72)

• List of CORS exposed headers were fixed in POST on collection (#54)

Internal changes

• Added a method in cliquet.resource.Resource to override known fields (required by Kinto)

• Every setting has a default value

• Every end-point requires authentication by default

• Session backend was renamed to cache (#96)

1.1.4 (2015-03-03)

• Update deleted_field support for postgres (#62)

1.1.3 (2015-03-03)

• Fix include_deleted code for the redis backend (#60)

• Improve the update_record API (#61)

1.1.2 (2015-03-03)

• Fix packaging to include .sql files.

1.1.1 (2015-03-03)

• Fix packaging to include .sql files.

1.1 (2015-03-03)

New features

• Support filter on deleted using since (#51)

Internal changes

• Remove python 2.6 support (#50)

• Renamed Resource.deleted_mark to Resource.deleted_field (#51)

• Improve native_value (#56)

• Fixed Schema options inheritance (#55)

• Re-build the virtualenv when setup.py changes

• Renamed storage.url to cliquet.storage_url (#49)

• Refactored the tests/support.py file (#38)

1.0 (2015-03-02)

• Initial version, extracted from Mozilla Services Reading List project (#1)

New features

• Expose CORS headers so that client behind CORS policy can access them (#5)

• Postgresql Backend (#8)

• Use RedisSession as a cache backend for PyFxA (#10)

• Delete multiple records via DELETE on the collection_path (#13)

• Batch default prefix for endpoints (#14 / #16)

• Use the app version in the / endpoint (#22)

• Promote Basic Auth as a proper authentication backend (#37)

Internal changes

• Backends documentation (#15)

• Namedtuple for filters and sort (#17)

• Multiple DELETE in Postgresql (#18)

• Improve Resource API (#29)

• Refactoring of error management (#41)

• Default Options for Schema (#47)

Contributors

• Alexis Metaireau <[e-mail]>

• Andy McKay <[e-mail]>

• Balthazar Rouberol <[e-mail]>

• Éric Lemoine <[e-mail]>

• Hiromipaw <[e-mail]>

• Mathieu Leplatre <[e-mail]>

• Michiel de Jong <[e-mail]>

• Nicolas Perriault <[e-mail]>

• Rémy Hubscher <[e-mail]>

• Tarek Ziade <[e-mail]>