[Flashr] Flashr 0.5 release candidate

Wed Sep 6 16:39:32 EDT 2006

direct link here seems to work...

http://flashr.kelvinluck.com/assets/0.5/flashr0.5.zip

On 9/6/06, Mario Klingemann <mario at quasimondo.com> wrote:
>
> That's great news - I'm just working on something where the caching and
> queueing would be perfect if I don't have to take care for it myself
> anymore. But the download link does not work for me yet.
>
> Cheers
> Mario
>
>
> Kelvin Luck schrieb:
> > 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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