Eve

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Released on 23 Feb, 2015.
Codename: 'Giulia'.

- Fix: hardening of database concurrency checks. See 561 (Olivier Carrère.)
- Fix: ``PATCH`` and ``PUT`` do not include Etag header (Marcus Cobden.)
- Fix: endpoint-level authentication crash when a callable is passed. Closes
558.
- Fix: serialization of ``keyschema`` fields with ``objetid`` values. Closes
525.
- Fix: typos in schema rules might lead to arbitrary payloads being validated
(Emmanuel Leblond.)
- Fix: ObjectId value in ID field of type string (Jaroslav Semančík.)
- Fix: User Restricted Resource Access does not work with HMAC Auth classes.
- Fix: Crash when ``embedded`` is used on subdocument with a missing field
(Emmanuel Leblond.)

- Docs: add ``MONGO_URI`` as an alternative to other MongoDB connection
options. Closes 551.

- Change: Werkzeug 0.10.1 is now required.
- Change: ``DataLayer`` API methods ``update()`` and ``replace()`` have a new
``original`` argument.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Released on 16 Jan, 2015.

- Fix: dependencies with value checking seem broken (547.)
- Fix: documentation typo (Marc Abramowitz.)
- Fix: pretty url for regex with a colon in the expression (Magdas Adrian.)

~~~~~~~~~~~

Released on 12 Jan, 2015.

- New: Operations Log (http://python-eve.org/features#operations-log.)
- New: GeoJSON (http://python-eve.org/features.html#geojson) (Juan Madurga.)
- New: Internal Resources (http://python-eve.org/features#internal-resources) (Magdas Adrian.)
- New: Support for multiple origins when using CORS (Josh Villbrandt, 532.)
- New: Regexes are stripped out of HATEOAS urls when present. You now get
``games/<game_id>/images`` where previously you would get
``games/<regex('[a-f0-9]{24}'):game_id>/images``). Closes 466.
- New: ``JSON_SORT_KEYS`` enables JSON key sorting (Matt Creenan).
- New: Add the current query string to the self link for responses with
multiple documents. Closes 464 (Jen Montes).
- New: When document versioning is on, add ``?version=<version_num>`` to
HATEOAS self links. Also adds pagination links for ``?version=all`` and
``?version=diffs`` requests when the number exceeds the max results.
Partially addresses 475 (Jen Montes).
- New: ``QUERY_WHERE`` allows to set the query parameter key for filters.
Defaults to ``where``.
- New: ``QUERY_SORT`` allows to set the query parameter key for sorting.
Defaults to ``sort``.
- New: ``QUERY_PAGE`` allows to set the query parameter key for pagination.
Defaults to ``page``.
- New: ``QUERY_PROJECTION`` allows to set the query parameter key for
projections. Defaults to ``projection``.
- New: ``QUERY_MAX_RESULTS`` allows to set the query parameter key for max
results. Defaults to ``max_results``.
- New: ``QUERY_EMBEDDED`` allows to set the query parameter key embedded
documents. Defaults to ``embedded``.
- New: Fire ``on_fetched`` events for ``version=all`` requests (Jen Montes).
- New: Support for CORS ``Access-Control-Expose-Headers`` (Christian Henke).
- New: ``post_internal()`` can be used for intenral post calls. This method is
not rate limited, authentication is not checked and pre-request events are
not raised (Magdas Adrian).
- New: ``put_internal()`` can be used for intenral PUT calls. This method is
not rate limited, authentication is not checked and pre-request events are
not raised (Kevin Funk).
- New: ``patch_internal()`` can be used for intenral PATCH calls. This method
is not rate limited, authentication is not checked and pre-request events are
not raised (Kevin Funk).
- New: ``delete_internal()`` can be used for intenral DELETE calls. This method
is not rate limited, authentication is not checked and pre-request events are
not raised (Kevin Funk).
- New: Add an option to ``_internal`` methods to skip payload validation
(Olivier Poitrey).
- New: Comma delimited sort syntax in queries. The MongoDB data layer now also
supports queries like ``?sort=lastname,-age``. Addresses 443.
- New: Add extra 4xx response codes for proper handling. Only ``405`` Method
not allowed, ``406`` Not acceptable, ``409`` Conflict, and ``410`` Gone have
been added to the list (Kurt Doherty).
- New: Add serializers for integer and float types (Grisha K.)
- New: dev-requirements.txt added to the repo.
- New: Embedding of documents by references located in any subdocuments. For
example, query ``embedded={"user.friends":1}`` will return a document with
"user" and all his "friends" embedded, but only if ``user`` is a subdocument
and ``friends`` is a list of references (Dmitry Anoshin).
- New: Allow mongoengine to work properly with cursor counts (Johan Bloemberg)
- New: ``ALLOW_UNKNOWN`` allows unknown fields to be read, not only written as
before. Closes 397 and 250.
- New: ``VALIDATION_ERROR_STATUS`` allows setting of the HTTP status code to
use for validation errors. Defaults to ``422`` (Olivier Poitrey).
- New: Support for sub-document projections. Fixes 182 (Olivier Poitrey).
- New: Return ``409 Conflict`` on pymongo ``DuplicateKeyError`` for ``POST``
requests, as already happens with ``PUT`` requests (Matt Creenan, 537.)

- Change: ``DELETE`` returns ``204 NoContent`` on a successful delete.
- Change: SERVER_NAME removed as it is not needed anymore.
- Change: URL_PROTOCOL removed as it is not needed anymore.
- Change: HATEOAS links are now relative to the API root. Closes 398 401.
- Change: If-Modified-Since has been disabled on resource (collections)
endpoints. Same functionality is available with a ``?where={"_udpated":
{"$gt": "<RFC1123 date>"}}`` request. The OpLog also allows retrieving
detailed changes happened at any endpoint, deleted documents included.
Closes 334.
- Change: etags are now persisted with the documents. This ensures that etags
are consistent across queries, even when projection queries are issued.
Please note that etags will only be stored along with new documents created
and/or edited via API methods (POST/PUT/PATCH). Documents inserted by other
means and those stored with v0.4 and below will keep working as previously:
their etags will be computed on-the-fly and you will get still be getting
inconsistent etags when projection queries are issued. Closes 369.
- Change: XML item, meta and link nodes are now ordered. Closes 441.
- Change: ``put`` method signature for ``MediaStorage`` base class has been
updated. ``filemame`` is now optional. Closes 414.
- Change: CORS behavior to be compatible with browsers (Chrome). Eve is now
echoing back the contents of the Origin header if said content is whitelisted
in X_DOMAINS. This also safer as it avoids exposing internal server
configuration. Closes 408. This commit was carefully handcrafed on a flight
to EuroPython 2014.
- Change: Specify a range of dependant package versions. 379 (James Stewart).
- Change: Cerberus 0.8 is now required.
- Change: pymongo v2.7.2 is now required.
- Change: simplejson v3.6.5 is now required.
- Change: update ``dev-requirements.txt`` to most recent tools available.

- Fix: add ``README.rst`` to ``MANIFEST.in`` (Niall Donegan.)
- Fix: ``LICENSE`` variable in ``setup.py`` should be "shortstring". Closes
540 (Niall Donegan.)
- Fix: ``PATCH`` on fields with original value of ``None`` (Marcus Cobden,
534).
- Fix: Fix impossible version ranges in setup.py (Marcus Cobden, 531.)
- Fix: Bug with expanding lists of roles, compromising authorization (Mikael
Berg, 527)
- Fix: ``PATCH`` on subdocument fields does not overwrite the whole
subdocument anymore. Closes 519.
- Fix: Added support for validation on field attribute with type list (Jorge
Morales).
- Fix: Fix a serialization bug with integer and float when value is
0 (Olivier Poitrey).
- Fix: Custom ID fields tutorial: if custom ID fields are being used, then
MongoDB/Eve won't be able to create them automatically as it does with the
`ObjectId` default type. Closes 511.
- Fix: Dependencies with default values were reported as missing if omitted.
Closes 353.
- Fix: Dependencies always fails on PATCH if dependent field isn't part of
the update. 363.
- Fix: client projections work when ``allow_unknown`` is active. Closes 497.
- Fix: datasource projections are active when ``allow_unknown`` is active.
closes 497.
- Fix: Properly serialize nullable floats and integers. Closes 469.
- Fix: ``_mongotize()`` turns non-ObjectId strings (but not unicode) into
ObjectIds. Closes 508 (Or Neeman).
- Fix: Fix validation of read-only fields inside dicts. Closes 474 (Arnau
Orriols).
- Fix: Parent and collection links follow the scheme described in 475 (Jen
Montes).
- Fix: Ignore read-only fields in ``PATCH`` requests when their values aren't
changed compared to the stored document. Closes 479.
- Fix: Allow ``EVE_SETTINGS`` envvar to be used exclusively. Previously,
a settings file in the working directory was always required. Closes 461.
- Fix: exception when trying to set nullable media field to null (Daniel
Lytkin)
- Fix: Add missing ``$options`` and ``$list`` MongoDB operators to the
allowed list (Jaroslav Semančík).
- Fix: Get document when it is missing embedded media. In case you try to
embedd a document which has media fields and that document has been deleted,
you would get an error (Petr Jašek).
- Fix: fix additional lookup regex in RESTful Account Management tutorial
(Ashley Roach).
- Fix: ``utils.weak_date`` always returns a RFC-1123 date (Petr Jašek).
- Fix: Can't embed a ressource with a custom _id (non ObjectId). Closes 427.
- Fix: Do not follow DATE_FORMAT for HTTP headers. Closes 429 (Olivier
Poitrey).
- Fix: Fix app initialization with resource level versioning 409 (Sebastián
Magrí).
- Fix: KeyError when trying to use embedding on a field that is missing from
document. It was fixed earlier in 319, but came back again after new
embedding mechanism (Daniel Lytkin).
- Fix: Support for list of strings as default value for fields (hansotronic).
- Fix: Media fields are now properly returned even in embedded documents.
Closes 305.
- Fix: auth in domain configuration can be either a callable or a class
instance (Gino Zhang).
- Fix: Schema definition: a default value of [] for a list causes IndexError.
Closes 417.
- Fix: Close file handles in setup.py (Harro van der Klauw)
- Fix: Querying a collection should always return pagination information (even
when no data is being returned). Closes 415.
- Fix: Recursively validate the whole query string.
- Fix: If the data layer supports a list of allowed query operators, take
them into consideration when validating a query string. Closes 388.
- Fix: Abort with 400 if unsupported query operators are used. Closes 387.
- Fix: Return the error if a blacklisted MongoDB operator is used in a query
(debug mode).
- Fix: Invalid sort syntax raises 500 instead of 400. Addresses 378.
- Fix: Fix serialization when `type` is missing in schema. 404 (Jaroslav
Semančík).
- Fix: When PUTting or PATCHing media fields, they would not be properly
replaced as needed (Stanislav Heller).
- Fix: ``test_get_sort_disabled`` occasional failure.
- Fix: A POST with an empty array leads to a server crash. Now returns a 400
error isntead and ensure the server won't crash in case of mongo invalid
operations (Olivier Poitrey).
- Fix: PATCH and PUT don't respect flask.abort() in a pre-update event. Closes
395 (Christopher Larsen).
- Fix: Validating keyschema rules would cause a TypeError since 0.4. Closes
pyeve/cerberus48.
- Fix: Crash if client projection is not a dict 390 (Olivier Poitrey).
- Fix: Server crash in case of invalid "where" syntax 386 (Olivier Poitrey).

~~~~~~~~~~~

Released on 20 June, 2014.

- [new] You can now start the app without any resource defined and use
``app.register_resource`` later as needed (Petr Jašek).
- [new] Data layer is now usable outside request context, for example within
a Celery task where there's no request context (Petr Jašek).
- [new][change] Add pagination info to get results whatever the HATEOAS status.
Closes 355 (Olivier Poitrey).
- [new] Ensure all errors return a parseable body (JSON or XML). Closes 365
(Olivier Poitrey).
- [new] Apply sub-request route's params to the created document if matching
the schema, e.g. a POST on ``/people/1234…/invoices`` will set the
``contact_id`` field to 1234… so created invoice is automatically associated
with the parent resource (Olivier Poitrey).
- [new] Allow some more HTTP errors (403 and 404) to be thrown from db hooks
(Olivier Poitrey).
- [new] ``ALLOWED_READ_ROLES``. A list of allowed `roles` for resource
endpoints with GET and OPTIONS methods (Olivier Poitrey).
- [new] ``ALLOWED_WRITE_ROLES``. A list of allowed `roles` for resource
endpoints with POST, PUT and DELETE methods (Olivier Poitrey).
- [new] ``ALLOWED_ITEM_READ_ROLES``. A list of allowed `roles` for item
endpoints with GET and OPTIONS methods (Olivier Poitrey).
- [new] ``ALLOWED_ITEM_WRITE_ROLES``. A list of allowed `roles` for item
endpoints with PUT, PATCH and DELETE methods (Olivier Poitrey).
- [new] 'dependencies' validation rule.
- [new] 'keyschema' validation rule.
- [new] 'regex' validation rule.
- [new] 'set' as a core data type.
- [new] 'min' and 'max' now apply to floats and numbers too.
- [new] File Storage. ``EXTENDED_MEDIA_INFO`` allows a list of meta fields
(file properties) to forward from the file upload driver (Ben Demaree).
- [new] Python 3.4 is now supported.
- [new] Support for default values in documents with more than one level of
data (Javier Gonel).
- [new] Ability to send entire document in write responses. ``BANDWITH_SAVER``
aka Coherence Mode (Josh Villbrandt).
- [new] ``on_pre_<METHOD>`` events expose the `lookup` dictionary which allows
for setting up dynamic database lookups on both resource and item endpoints.
- [new] Return a 400 response on pymongo DuplicateKeyError, with exception
message if debug mode is on (boosh).
- [new] PyPy officially supported and tested (Javier Gonel).
- [new] tox support (Javier Gonel).
- [new] Post database events (Javier Gonel). Addresses 272.
- [new] Versioned Documents (Josh Villbrandt). Closes 224.
- [new] Python trove classifiers added to setup.py.
- [new] Client projections are also honored at item endpoints.
- [new] validate that ID_FIELD is not set as a resource ``auth_field``.
Addresses 266.
- [new] ``URL_PROTOCOL`` defines the HTTP protocol used when building HATEOAS
links. Defaults to ``''`` for relative paths (Junior Vidotti).
- [new] ``on_delete_item`` and ``on_deleted_item`` is raised on DELETE requests
sent to document endpoints. Addresses 232.
- [new] ``on_delete_resource`` and ``on_deleted_resource`` is raised on DELETE
requests sent to resource endpoints. Addresses 232.
- [new] ``on_update`` is raised on PATCH requests, when a document is about to
be updated on the database. Addresses 232.
- [new] ``on_replace`` is raised on PUT requests, when a document is about to
be replaced on the database. Addresses 232.
- [new] ``auth`` constructor argument accepts either a class instance or
a callable. Closes 248.

- [change] Cerberus 0.7.2 is now required.
- [change] Jinja2 2.7.3 is now required.
- [change] Werkzeug 0.9.6 is now required.
- [change] simplejson 3.5.2 is now required.
- [change] itsdangerous 0.24 is now required. Addresses 378.
- [change] Events 0.2.1 is now required.
- [change] MarkupSafe 0.23 is now required.
- [change] For bulk and non-bulk inserts, response status now always either 201
when everything was ok or 400 when something went wrong. For bulk inserts, if
at least one document doesn't validate, the whole request is rejected, and
none of the documents are inserted into the database. Additionnaly, this
commit adopts the same response format as collections: responses are always
a dict with a ``_status`` field at its root and an eventual ``_error`` object
if ``_status`` is ``ERR`` to comply with 366. Documents status are stored in
the ``_items`` field (Olivier Poitrey).
- [change] Callbacks get whole json response on ``on_fetched``. This allows for
callbacks functions to alter the whole payload, even when HATEOAS is enabled
and ``_items`` and ``_links`` metafields are present.
- [change] ``on_insert`` is not raised anymore on PUT requests (replaced by
above mentioned ``on_replace``).
- [change] ``auth.request_auth_value`` is no more. Yay. See below.
- [change] ``auth.set_request_auth_value()`` allows to set the ``auth_field``
value for the current request.
- [change] ``auth.get_request_auth_value()`` allows to retrieve the
``auth_field`` value for the current request.
- [change] ``on_update(ed)`` and ``on_replace(ed)`` callbacks now receive both
the original document and the updates (Jaroslav Semančík).
- [change] Review event names (Javier Gonel).

- [fix] return 500 instead of 404 if CORS is enabled. Closes 381.
- [fix] Crash on GET requests on resource endpoints when ID_FIELD is missing on
one or more documents. Closes 351.
- [fix] Cannot change a nullable objectid type field to contain null. Closes
341.
- [fix] HATEOAS links as business unit values even when regexes are configured
for the endpoint.
- [fix] Documentation improvements (Jen Montes).
- [fix] KeyError exception was raised when field specified in schema as
embeddable was missing in a particular document (Jaroslav Semančík).
- [fix] Tests on HEAD requests would very occasionally fail. See 316.
- [change] PyMongo 2.7.1 is now required.
- [fix] Automatic fields such as ``DATE_CREATD`` and ``DATE_CREATED`` are
correctly handled in client projections (Josh Villbrandt). Closes 282.
- [fix] Make codebase compliant with latest PEP8/flake8 release (Javier Gonel).
- [fix] If you had a media field, and set datasource projection to 0 for that
field, the media would not be deleted. Closes 284.
- [fix] tests cleanup (Javier Gonel).
- [fix] tests now run on any system without needing to set ``ulimit`` to
a higher value (Javier Gonel).
- [fix] media files: don't try to delete a field that does not exist (Taylor
Brown).
- [fix] Occasional KeyError while building ``_media`` helper dict. See 271
(Alexander Hendorf).
- [fix] ``If-Modified-Since`` misbehaviour when a datasource filter is set.
Closes 258.
- [fix] Trouble serializing list of dicts. Closes 265 and 244.
- [fix] ``HATEOAS`` item links are now coherent actual endpoint URL even when
natural immutable keys are used in URLs (Junior Vidotti). Closes 256.
- [fix] Replaced ``ID_FIELD`` by ``item_lookup_field`` on self link.
item_lookup_field will default to ``ID_FIELD`` if blank.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Released on 14 February, 2014.

- [fix] Serialization of sub-documents (Hannes Tiede). Closes 244.
- [new] ``X_MAX_AGE`` allows to configure CORS Access-Control-Max-Age (David
Buchmann).
- [fix] ``GET`` with ``If-Modified-Since`` on list endpoint returns incorrect
304 if resource is empty. Closes 243.
- [change] ``POST`` will return ``201 Created`` if at least one document was
accepted for insertion; ``200 OK`` otherwise (meaning the request was
accepted and processed). It is still client's responsability to parse the
response payload to check if any document did not pass validation. Addresses
201 202 215.
- [new] ``number`` data type. Allows both integers and floats as field values.
- [fix] Using primary keys other than _id. Closes 237.
- [fix] Add tests for ``PUT`` when User Restricted Resource Access is active.
- [fix] Auth field not set if resource level authentication is set. Fixes 231.
- [fix] RateLimit check was occasionally failing and returning a 429 (John
Deng).
- [change] Jinja2 2.7.2 is now required.
- [new] media files (images, pdf, etc.) can be uploaded as ``media`` document
fields. When a document is requested, eventual media files will be returned
as Base64 strings. Upload is done via ``POST``, ``PUT`` and ``PATCH`` using
the ``multipart/form-data`` content-type. For optmized performance, by
default files are stored in GridFS, however custom ``MediaStorage`` classes
can be provided to support alternative storage systems. Clients and API
maintainers can exploit the projections feature to include/exclude media
fields from requests. For example, a request like
``/url/<id>?projection={"image": 0}`` will return the document without the
image field. Also, while setting a resource ``datasource`` it is possible to
explicitly exclude media fields from standard responses (clients will need to
explicitly add them to the payload with ``?projection={"image": 1}``).
- [new] ``media`` type for schema fields.
- [new] ``media`` application argument. Allows to specify a media storage class
to be used to store media files. Defaults to ``GridFSMediaStorage``.
- [new] ``GridFSMediaStorage`` class. Stores files into GridFS.
- [new] ``MediaStorage`` class provides a standardized API for storing files,
along with a set of default behaviors that all other storage systems can
inherit or override as necessary.
- [new] ``file`` data type support and validation for resource schema.
- [new] ``multipart/form-data`` content-type is now supported for requests.
- [fix] Field exclusion (``?projection={"fieldname": 0}``) now supported in
client projections. Remember, mixing field inclusion and exclusion is still
not supported by MongoDB.
- [fix] ``URL_PREFIX`` and ``API_VERSION`` are correctly reported in HATOEAS
links.
- [fix] ``DELETE`` on sub-resources should only delete documents referenced by
the parent. Closes 212.
- [fix] ``DELETE`` on a resource endpoint honors User-Restricted Resource
Access. Closes 213.
- [new] ``JSON`` allows to enable/disable JSON responses. Defaults to ``True``
(JSON enabled).
- [new] ``XML`` allows to enable/disable XML responses. Defaults to ``True``
(XML enabled).
- [fix] XML properly honors ``_LINKS`` and ``_ITEMS`` settings.
- [fix] return all document fields when resource schema is empty.
- [new] pytest.ini for pytest support.
- [fix] All tests should now run with nose and pytest. Closes 209.
- [new] ``query_objectid_as_string`` resource setting. Defaults to ``False``.
Addresses 207.
- [new] ``ETAG`` allows to customize the etag field. Defaults to ``_etag``.
- [change] ``etag`` is now ``_etag`` in all default response payloads (see
above).
- [change] ``STATUS`` defaults to '_status'.
- [change] ``ISSUES`` defaults to '_issues'.
- [change] ``DATE_CREATED`` defaults to '_created'. Upgrade existing
collections by running ``db.<collection>.update({}, { $rename: { "created":
"_created" } }, { multi: true })`` in the mongo shell. If an index exists on
the field, drop it and create a new one using the new field name.
- [change] ``LAST_UPDATED`` defaults to '_updated'. Upgrade existing
collections by running ``db.<collection>.update({}, { $rename: { "updated":
"_updated" } }, { multi: true })`` in the mongo shell. If an index exists on
the field, drop it and create a new one usung the new field name.
- [change] Exclude ``etag`` from both response payload and headers if
concurrency control is disabled (``IF_MATCH`` = ``False``). Closes 205.
- [fix] Custom ``ID_FIELD`` would fail on update/insert methods. Fixes 203
(Jaroslav Semančík).
- [change] GET: when If-Modified-Since header is present, either no documents
(304) or all documents (200) are sent per the HTTP spec. Original behavior
can be achieved with:
``/resource?where={"updated":{"$gt":"if-modified-since-date"}}`` (Josh
Villbrandt).
- [change] Validation errors are now reported as a dictionary with offending
fields as keys and issues descriptions as values.
- [change] Cerberus v0.6 is now required.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Released on 30 November, 2013.

- [new] Sub-Resources. It is now possible to configure endpoints such as:
``/companies/<company_id>/invoices``. Also, the corresponding item endpoints,
such as ``/companies/<company_id>/invoices/<invoice_id>``, are available. All
CRUD operations on these endpoints are allowed. Closes 156.
- [new] ``resource_title`` allows to customize the endpoint title (HATEOAS).
- [new][dev] ``extra`` cursor property, when present, will be added to ``GET``
responses (with same key). This feature can be used by Eve extensions to
inject proprietary data into the response stream (Petr Jašek).
- [new] ``IF_MATCH`` allows to disable checks for ETag matches on edit, replace
and delete requests. If disabled, requests without an If-Match header will be
honored without returning a 403 error. Defaults to True (enabled by default).
- [new] ``LINKS`` allows to customize the links field. Default to '_links'.
- [new] ``ITEMS`` allows to customize the items field. Default to '_items'.
- [new] ``STATUS`` allows to customize the status field. Default to 'status'.
- [new] ``ISSUES`` allows to customize the issues field. Default to 'issues'.
- [new] Handling custom ID fields tutorial.
- [new] A new ``json_encoder`` initialization argument is available. It allows
to pass custom JSONEncoder or eve.io.BaseJSONEncoder to the Eve instance.
- [new] A new ``url_converters`` initialization argument is available. It
allows to pass custom Flask url converters to the Eve constructor.
- [new] ID_FIELD fields can now be of arbitrary types, not only ObjectIds.
Thanks to Kelvin Hammond for contributing to this one. Closes 136.
- [new] ``pre_<method>`` and ``pre_<method>_<resource>`` event hooks are now
available. They are raised when a request is received and before processing
it. The resource involved and the Flask request object are returned to the
callback function (dccrazyboy).
- [new] ``embedded_fields`` activates default Embedded Resource Serialization
on a list of selected document fields. Eventual embedding requests by clients
will be processed along with default embedding. In order for default
embedding to work, the field must be defined as embeddable, and embedding
must be active for the resource (with help from Christoph Witzany).
- [new] ``default_sort`` option added to the ``datasource`` resource setting.
It allows to set default sorting for the endpoint. Default sorting will be
overriden by a client request that happens to include a ``?sort`` argument
within the query string (with help from Christoph Witzany).
- [new] You can now choose to provide custom settings as a Python dictionary.
- [new] New method ``Eve.register_resource()`` for registering new resource
after initialization of Eve object. This is needed for simpler initialization
API of all ORM/ODM extensions (Stanislav Heller).
- [change] Rely on Flask endpoints to map urls to resources.
- [change] For better consistency with new ``pre_<method>`` hooks,
``on_<method>`` event hooks have been renamed to ``on_post_<method>``.
- [change] Custom authentication classes can now be set at endpoint level. When
set, an endpoint-level auth class will override the eventual global level
auth class. Authentication docs have been updated (and greatly revised)
accordingly. Closes 89.
- [change] JSON encoding is now handled at the DataLayer level allowing for
specialized, granular, data-aware encoding. Also, since the JSON encoder is
now a class attribute, extensions can replace the pre-defined data layer
encoder with their own implementation. Closes 102.
- [fix] HMAC example and docs updated to align with new hmac in Python 2.7.3,
which is only accepting bytes string. Closes 199.
- [fix] Properly escape leaf values in XML responses (Florian Rathgeber).
- [fix] A read-only field with a default value would trigger a validation error
on POST and PUT methods.