[Flashr] Flashr 0.5 release candidate

[Doug Marttila]

Wow - that's quite a list of changes Kelvin. Great work.

Thanks

Doug

On 9/6/06, Kelvin Luck <kelvin at kelvinluck.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am pleased to announce that Flashr 0.5 is very nearly ready! It's been
> a long time coming but the wait is worth it and there is loads of new
> functionality... The full changelog is at the bottom of this email but
> here are some highlights:
>
> * All requests are now queued so you can call as many as you like and
> they will all be executed sequentially. It is a priority queue so you
> can make some requests happen before others.
> * Most requests (those where it makes sense) can (optionally) be cached.
> So if you call the same request twice you get the cached response and
> don't have to wait for a http request to flickr. You can turn this
> caching on and off and clear all or part of it at any time.
> * Added support for the new mapping methods from flickr.
> * Added support for comments on photos and photosets.
>
> ...and loads more!
>
> I am currently putting together a new microsite for Flashr which will
> include tutorials and stuff but I thought the people on this list would
> like to take a quick look at the release now...
>
> You can download it and view the docs here:
> http://flashr.kelvinluck.com/assets/0.5/
>
> Please have a look and test it out. I'd especially appreciate it if
> people who have built something with Flashr 0.5 already can try
> compiling it with the new version and let me know if they run into any
> problems.
>
> Thanks for any feedback,
>
> Kelvin :)
>
> Full changelog:
>
> See
>
> https://mirror1.cvsdude.com/trac/osflash/flashr/timeline?from=09%2F06%2F06&daysback=236&changeset=on
>
> * Moved everything into flashr.core ready for the 0.5 release. [r19]
> * Removed the photos array where it was unnecessarily being passed along
> with a ResultsSet. [r20]
> * Added FlashrRequest and made all methods use queueRequest to call
> flickr.com. [r21]
> * Implemented FlashrRequestQueue? and made it so that requests to
> flickr.com can be queued and will be executed sequentially. [r22]
> * Changed internals to ue a FlashrResponseEvent? rather than an
> anonymous object. [r23]
> * Implemented caching when Flashr.cacheQueries is set to true. [r24]
> * Fixed Flashr.as to reflect the earlier change of a method name in
> FlashrCache. [r25]
> * Implemented priority for the FlashrRequestQueue. [r26]
> * Added query throttling so that no more than one query per second is
> sent to the API (rate configurable by changing
> Flashr.queryMaxFrequency). [r27]
> * Added FlashrRequest.clone method. [r28]
> * Added support for FlashrRequest.completed to indicate when a request
> has been responded to. [r28]
> * Changed Person.getFavorites to return an Array rather than an Object.
> [r30]
> * Added FlashrResponseHistory? to store a history of completed Flashr
> requests when Flashr.saveHistory is set to true. [r31]
> * Changed id's from Numbers to Strings where appropriate (as flickr
> changed the format to deal with the massive amount of photos etc). [r32]
> * Refactored some common code out from all the Photo URL methods into a
> new Photo._urlStart method. [r35]
> * Added support for flickr.photos.comments.getList and so for comments
> in general. [r36]
> * Change so that the params passed to photosSearch are cloned. This
> prevents problems when triggering lots of searches in a loop and
> altering the passed params object. [r38]
> * Added Photo.getLargestAvailableSize - a utility method that can be
> called after photosGetSizes to get the largest sized image available
> (optionally within a certain max size limit). [r39]
> * Removed the undocumented (and thanks to caching unnecessary)
> Photo.getInfoCalled. [r39]
> * Cleaned up the way photosGetLargestSize works and made it return a
> PhotoSize? object. [r40]
> * Added Flashr.cancelCurrentRequest. [r41]
> * Added Flashr.SUBVERSION_ID [r42][r43]
> * Added Tag.getRelatedTags and Tag.getRelatedTagStrings [r44]
> * Fixed a log statement that wasn't updated in the move to the
> com.kelvinluck.flashr package [r45]
> * Fix so that Photo.getLargestAvailableSize will compile under MTASC.
> [r46]
> * Added Flashr.executeAtPriority. [r47]
> * Added Person.buddyIcon to easily get the URL to someone's buddy icon.
> [r48]
> * Fixed an obscure bug caused by the fact that Flash is sometimes
> multithreaded (apparently!). [r49]
> * Added a Person.isFavorite function which can be used to easily check
> if a given Photo is a favorite of a given Person. [r50]
> * Added a return type to Person.isFavorite. [r51]
> * Changed FlashrResponse.onError to receive a FlashrRequest object
> rather than a method string. [r52]
> * Added FlashrCache.setCachable to give you fine grained control over
> which flickr methods are cached. [r53]
> * Changes to API endpoint in response to the change at flickr.com. [r54]
> * Update to photosSearch documentation to reflect the change to enable
> searches for multiple licenses at flickr.com. [r54]
> * Added support for flickr.photos.recentlyUpdated. [r55]
> * Fix to handle it gracefully when flickr returns XML with empty photo
> nodes. [r57]
> * Bugfix - queue was locked when logging in, added code to allow queue
> to continue executing. [r58]
> * Added support for new flickr.photos.comments.* methods. [r59]
> * Major re factoring to avoid Flash's "32K bytecode per class" limit -
> moved the XML parsing functionality into the new FlashrApiResponse
> class. [r60]
> * Added in support for new privacy_filter argument. [r61]
> * Added a way to get the 100px on the longest side image from
> flickr.com. [r62]
> * Added support for flickr.photos.getWithGeoData and
> flickr.photos.getWithoutGeoData. [r63]
> * Added support for last_update parameter to be passed to "extras". [r65]
> * Added support for the "geo" argument which is passed via the "extras"
> parameter. [r66]
> * Fix so that all extras returned in a call to
> flickr.photosets.getPhotos are correctly captured. [r67]
> * Added support for the location information returned in a call to
> flickr.photos.getInfo [r68]
> * Added support for flickr.photos.geo.getLocation,
> flickr.photos.geo.removeLocation and flickr.photos.geo.setLocation. [r69]
> * Added support for flickr.photos.geo.getPerms and
> flickr.photos.geo.setPerms [r70]
> * Updated the default cached methods to reflect all newly added methods.
> [r71]
> * Massive changes to make the documentation accurate and consistent. [r72]
> * Added support for flickr.photos.delete. [r73]
> * Added support for flickr.photos.licenses.* methods. [r74]
> * Added support for the totally pointless flickr.test.null. [r75]
> * Added the LuminicBox log classes to the distribution. [r76]
> * Added support for flickr.photos.notes.* methods. [r77]
> * Added support for flickr.photosets.comments.* methods. [r78]
> * Refactoring to make it clear which methods are internal ones used by
> Flashr itself and which methods should be used by people building apps
> with Flashr. [r79]
> * Added support for passing "tags" to the "extras" parameter (currently
> undocumented on flickr but works!). [r80]
> * Added support for the owner information now returned on a call to
> flickr.photosets.getPhotos. [r81]
>
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