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Versioning

Spyne respects the “Semantic Versioning” rules outlined in http://semver.org.

This means you can do better than just adding 'spyne' to your list of dependencies. Assuming the current version of spyne is 2.4.8, you can use the following as dependency string:

  • spyne if you feel adventurous or are willing to work on spyne itself.
  • spyne<2.99 if you only want backwards-compatible bug fixes and new features.
  • spyne<2.4.99 if you only want backwards-compatible bug fixes.
  • spyne=2.4.8 if you rather like that version.

We have a policy of pushing to pypi as soon as possible, so be sure to at least use the second option to prevent things from breaking unexpectedly. It’s recommended to use the third option in you production and only upgrade after you’ve tested new Spyne in your staging environment. While we make every effort to keep to our compatibility promise, Spyne is a fast moving open-source project that may break in ways that can’t be cought by our test suite between feature releases.

Spyne project uses -alpha -beta and -rc labels to denote unfinished code. We don’t prefer using separate integers for experimental labels. So for example, instead of having 2.0.0-alpha47, we’ll have 2.2.5-alpha.

  • -alpha means unstable code. You may not recognize the project next time you look at it.
  • -beta means stable(ish) api, unstable behavior, there are bugs everywhere! Don’t be upset if some quirks that you rely on disappear.
  • -rc means it’s been working in production sans issues for some time on beta-testers’ sites, but we’d still like it to have tested by a few more people.

These labels apply to the project as a whole. Thus, we won’t tag the whole project as beta because some new feature is not yet well-tested, but we will clearly denote experimental code in its documentation.

Changelog

spyne-2.11.0

  • Experimental Python 3 Support for all of the Xml-related (non-Html) components.

  • Add support for altering output protocol by setting ctx.out_protocol.

  • Add returning ctx.out_string support to null server (The ostr argument).

  • Add support for XmlData modifier. It lets mapping the data in the xml body to an object field via xsd:simpleContent.

  • Remove deprecated JsonObject identifier. Just do a gentle s/JsonObject/JsonDocument/g if you’re still using it.

  • SQLAlchemy: Implement storing arrays of simple types in a table.

  • SQLAlchemy: Make it work with multiple foreign keys from one table to another.

  • SQLAlchemy: Implement a hybrid file container that puts file metadata in a json column in database and and file data in file system. Fully supported by all protocols as a binary File.Value instance.

  • Implement an Xml Schema parser.

  • Import all model markers as well as the @rpc, @srpc, @mrpc, ServiceBase and Application to the root spyne package.

  • Implement JsonP protocol.

  • Implement SpyneJsonRpc 1.0 protocol – it supports request headers.

    Sample request: {"ver":1, "body": {"div": [4,2]}, "head": {"id": 1234}} Sample response: {"ver":1, "body": 2}

    Sample request: {"ver":1, "body": {"div": {"dividend":4,"divisor":0]}} Sample response: {"ver":1, "fault": {"faultcode": "Server", "faultstring": "Internal Error"}}}

  • Steal and integrate the experimental WebSocket tranport from Twisted.

  • Support Django natively using spyne.server.django.DjangoView and spyne.server.django.DjangoServer.

  • It’s now possible to override the JsonEncoder class JsonDocument uses.

  • Remove hard-coded utf-8 defaults from almost everywhere.

  • Remove hard-coded pytz.utc defaults from everywhere. Use spyne.LOCAL_TZ to configure the default time zone.

  • As a result of the above change, datetime objects deserialized by Spyne are forced to the above time zone during soft validation (nothing should have changed from the user code perspective).

  • Add default_factory to ModelBase customizer. It’s a callable that produces default values on demand. Suitable to be used with e.g. lambdas that return mutable defaults.

  • New spyne.util.AttrDict can be used for passing various dynamic configuration data.

  • child_attrs can now be passed to the ComplexModelBase customizer in order to make object-specific in-place customizations to child types.

  • Add mapper between Django models and spyne.util.django.DjangoComplexModel types.

  • Spyne now tracks subclasses and adds them to the interface if they are in the same namespace as their parent.

  • Simple dictionary protocol’s hier_delim default value is now ‘.’

  • Fixes support for XmlAttributes with max_occurs>1 referencing the same ‘attribute_of’ element in a ComplexModel subclass.

  • Renders spyne.model.File as twisted.web.static.File when using HttpRpc over TwistedWebResource. This lets twisted handle Http 1.1-specific functionality like range requests.

  • Many, many, many bugs fixed.

spyne-2.10.10

  • Fix wsdl rendering in TwistedWebResource.
  • Fix http response header propagation in TwistedWebResource.
  • Fix handling of fractions in microsecond values.
  • Fix spyne.util.get_validation_schema()

spyne-2.10.9

  • Fix total_seconds quirk for Python 2.6.
  • Turn off Xml features like entity resolution by default. This mitigates an information disclosure attack risk in services whose response contain some fragments or all of the request. Also prevents DoS attacks that make use of entity expansion. See https://bitbucket.org/tiran/defusedxml for more info.
  • Drop Python 2.5 support (It wasn’t working anyway).

spyne-2.10.8

  • Fix Unicode losing pattern on re-customization
  • Fix Duration serialization, add a ton of test cases.
  • Fix binary urlsafe_base64 encoding.
  • Fix arbitrary exception serialization.
  • Fix some doc errors.

spyne-2.10.7

  • Fix logic error in wsdl caching that prevented the url in Wsdl document from being customized.
  • Fix dictdoc not playing well with functions with empty return values.

spyne-2.10.6

  • Fix exception serialization regression in DictDocument family.
  • Fix xml utils (and its example).

spyne-2.10.5

  • Fix default value handling in HttpRpc.
  • Fix invalid document type raising InternalError in DictDocument family. It now raises ValidationError.
  • HttpRpc: Fix ByteArray deserialization.
  • HttpRpc: Fix many corner cases with Arrays.
  • Fix Csv serializer.
  • Fix Mandatory variants of Double and Float inheriting from decimal.

spyne-2.10.4

  • Fix handling of spyne.model.binary.File.Value with just path name.
  • Fix decimal restrictions (some more).
  • Make user code that doesn’t return anything work with twisted server transport.

spyne-2.10.3

  • Add validation tests for HierDictDocument and fix seen issues.
  • Add validation tests for FlatDictDocument and fix seen issues.
  • Clarify Json and Http behavior in relevant docstrings.
  • Fix Python2.6 generating max_occurs=”inf” instead of “unbounded” sometimes.

spyne-2.10.2

  • Fix ByteArray support accross all protocols.
  • Fix namespaces of customized simple types inside XmlAttribute not being imported.

spyne-2.10.1

  • Fix confusion in Decimal restriction assignment.
  • Fix classmethod calls to ProtocolBase.
  • Fix schema generation error in namespaced xml attribute case.

spyne-2.10.0

  • Returning twisted’s Deferred from user code is now supported.
  • You can now set Http response headers via ctx.out_header when out_protocol is HttpRpc. https://github.com/arskom/spyne/pull/201
  • lxml is not a hard requirement anymore.
  • XmlDocument and friends: cleanup_namespaces is now True by default.
  • XmlDocument and friends: Added encoding and pretty_print flags that are directly passed to lxml.etree.tostring().
  • XmlDocument and friends:’attribute_of’ added to ModelBase to add attribute support for primitives. This is currently ignored by (and mostly irrelevant to) other protocols.
  • XmlDocument and friends: Attribute serialization is working for arrays.
  • Add support for exposing existing whose source code via the _args argument to the srpc decorator. See the existing_api example for usage examples.
  • Add Streaming versions of Pyramid and Django bridge objects.
  • Remove destructor from MethodContext. Now transports need to call .close() explicitly to close object and fire relevant events.
  • Application event ‘method_context_constructed’ was renamed to 'method_context_created'.
  • Application event ‘method_context_destroyed’ was removed. The 'method_context_closed' event can be used instead.
  • SQLAlchemy integration now supports advanced features like specifying indexing methods.
  • The object composition graph can now be cyclic.
  • Integers were overhauled. Now boundary values of limited-size types are accessible via Attributes._{min,max}_bounds.
  • We now have six spatial types, Point, LineString and Polygon along with their Multi* variants.
  • The deprecated ProtocolBase.set_method_descriptor function was removed.
  • It’s now possible to override serialization in service implementations. You can set ctx.out_document to have the return value from user funtion ignored. You can also set ctx.out_string to have the ctx.out_document ignored as well.
  • Added as_time_zone support to DateTime. It calls .astimezone(as_time_zone).replace(tzinfo=None) on native values.
  • Added YAML support via PyYaml.
  • Split dict logic in DictDocument as HierDictDocument and FlatDictDocument.
  • Complete revamp of how DictDocument family work. skip_depth is replaced by richer functionalty that is enabled by two flags: ignore_wrappers and complex_as.
  • Added cookie parsing support to HttpRpc via Cookie.SimpleCookie.
  • Moved {to,from}_string logic from data models to ProtocolBase. This gives us the ability to have more complex fault messages with other fault subelements that are namespace-qualified without circular dependency problems - Stefan Andersson <norox81@gmail.com>
  • DictDocument and friends: ignore_wrappers and complex_as options added as a way to customize protocol output without hindering other parts of the interface.

spyne-2.9.5

  • Fix restriction bases of simple types not being imported.
  • Fix for customized subclasses forgetting about their empty base classes.
  • Fix Attributes.nullable not surviving customization.

spyne-2.9.4

  • Fix for Python 2.6 quirk where any decimal.Decimal() is always less than any float(). Where did that come from?!
  • Fix missing ‘/’ in WsgiMounter.
  • Fix confusion in spyne.model.primitive.Decimal‘s parameter order.
  • Add forgotten HttpBase parameters to WsgiApplication.

spyne-2.9.3

  • Fix WsgiApplication choking on empty string return value.
  • Fix TwistedWebResource choking on generators as return values.
  • Fix Csv serializer.

spyne-2.9.2

  • Fix Array serialization for Html Microformats
  • Fix deserialization of Fault objects for Soap11
  • Fix Uuid not playing well with soft validation.
  • Fix Uuid not playing well with Xml Schema document.

spyne-2.9.0

  • Spyne is now stable!
  • Fix document_built events by adding a doc attribute to the ServerBase class. You can now do some_server.doc.wsdl11.event_manager.add_listener to add events to interface documents.
  • Add wsdl_document_built and xml_document_built events to relevant classes.
  • Behavioral change for TableModel’s relationship handling: It’s now an array by default. The TableModel is deprecated, long live __metadata__ on ComplexModel!
  • First-class integration with Pyramid.
  • First geospatial types: Point and Polygon.
  • Initial revision of the http request pattern matching support via werkzeug.routing.
  • XmlObject -> XmlDocument, JsonObject -> JsonDocument, MessagePackObject -> MessagePackDocument, DictObject -> DictDocument.

spyne-2.8.2-rc

  • travis-ci.org integration! See for yourself: http://travis-ci.org/arskom/spyne
  • Python 2.4 compatibility claim was dropped, because this particular Python version is nowhere to be found.
  • Many issues with Python 2.5 compatibility are fixed.

spyne-2.8.1-rc

  • Misc fixes regarding the spyne.model.binary.File api.

rpclib-2.8.0-rc -> spyne-2.8.0-rc

  • Rpclib is dead. Long live Spyne!

  • Add support for JsonObject protocol. This initial version is expremental.

  • Add support for MessagePackObject and MessagePackRpc protocols. These initial versions are expremental.

  • Make DateTime string format customizable.

  • Implement TwistedWebResource that exposes an Application instance as a twisted.web.resource.Resource child.

  • Remove Deprecated XMLAttribute and XMLAttributeRef. Use XmlAttribute and XmlAttributeRef instead.

  • Xml Schema: Add support for the <any> tag.

  • Add a chapter about Validation to the manual. Thanks Alex!

  • Interface documents are no longer subclasses of InterfaceBase. It’s up to the transport to expose the application using a given interface document standard now. The interface argument to the Application constructor is now ignored.

  • Html: Added a very simple lxml-based templating scheme: HtmlPage.

  • Html: Added row-based tables: They show fields in rows. It’s good for showing one object per table.

  • Html: Added ImageUri support. They render as <img> tags in Html output.

  • Html: Added support for locales. You can now render field names as human- readable strings.

  • Add support for async methods, which execute after the primary user code returns. Currently, the only async execution method is via threads.

  • Xml & friends: Start tags are now in the same namespace as the definitions themselves. Intermediate tags are in the parent’s namespace, just as before.

  • Xml & friends: Make the ‘bare’ mode work.

  • spyne.util.xml: get_object_as_xml can also get class suggestion.

  • spyne.util.xml: get_xml_as_object has argument order swapped: cls, elt -> elt, cls. See ab91a3e2ad4756b71d1a2752e5b0d2af8551e061.

  • There’s a final argument order change in Application ctor:

    in_protocol, out_protocol, interface, name

    becomes:

    name, in_protocol, out_protocol, interface

  • Relevant pull requests with new features and notable changes:

rpclib-2.7.0-beta

rpclib-2.6.1-beta

  • Fix (for real this time) the race condition in wsgi server’s wsdl handler.

rpclib-2.6.0-beta

  • HttpRpc now parses POST/PUT/PATCH bodies, can accept file uploads. Uses werkzeug to do that, which is now a soft dependency.
  • ByteArray now child of SimpleModel. It’s now possible to customize it simply by calling it.
  • Fix race condition in wsgi server wsdl request.
  • Full change log: https://github.com/arskom/spyne/pull/122

rpclib-2.5.2-beta

rpclib-2.5.1-beta

rpclib-2.5.0-beta

  • Implemented fanout support for transports and protocols that can handle that.
  • Implemented a helper module that generates a Soap/Wsdl 1.1 application in rpclib.util.simple
  • Some work towards supporting Python3 using 2to3. See issue #113.
  • ctx.descriptor.reset_function implemented. It’s now safe to fiddle with that value in event handlers.
  • Added a cleaned-up version of the Django wrapper: https://gist.github.com/1316025
  • Fix most of the tests that fail due to api changes.
  • Fix Http soap client.
  • Full change log: https://github.com/arskom/spyne/pull/115

rpclib-2.4.7-beta

  • Made color in logs optional
  • Fixed ByteArray serializer

rpclib-2.4.5-beta

rpclib-2.4.3-beta

  • Many issues with ‘soft’ validation was fixed.
  • MethodDescriptor.udp added. Short for “User-Defined Properties”, you can use it to store arbitrary metadata about the decorated method.
  • Fix HttpRpc response serialization.
  • Documentation updates.

rpclib-2.4.1-beta

  • Fixed import errors in Python<=2.5.
  • A problem with rpclib’s String and unicode objects was fixed.

rpclib-2.4.0-beta

  • Fixed Fault publishing in Wsdl.
  • Implemented ‘soft’ validation.
  • Documentation improvements. It’s mostly ready!
  • A bug with min/max_occurs logic was fixed. This causes rpclib not to send null values for elements with min_occurs=0 (the default value).
  • Native value for rpclib.model.primitive.String was changed to unicode. To exchange raw data, you should use rpclib.model.binary.ByteArray.
  • Full change log: https://github.com/arskom/spyne/pull/90

rpclib-2.3.3-beta

  • Added MAX_CONTENT_LENGTH = 2 * 1024 * 1024 and BLOCK_LENGTH = 8 * 1024 constants to rpclib.server.wsgi module.
  • rpclib.model.binary.Attachment is deprecated, and is replaced by ByteArray. The native format of ByteArray is an iterable of strings.
  • Exception handling was formalized. HTTP return codes can be set by exception classes from rpclib.error or custom exceptions.
  • Full change log: https://github.com/arskom/spyne/pull/88

rpclib-2.3.2-beta

  • Limited support for sqlalchemy.orm.relationship (no string arguments)
  • Added missing event firings.
  • Documented event api and fundamental data structures (rpclib._base)
  • Full change log: https://github.com/arskom/spyne/pull/87

rpclib-2.3.1-beta

rpclib-2.3.0-beta

  • Documentation improvements.
  • rpclib.protocol.xml.XmlObject is now working as out_protocol.
  • Many fixes.

rpclib-2.2.3-beta

  • Documentation improvements.
  • rpclib.client.http.Client -> rpclib.client.http.HttpClient
  • rpclib.client.zeromq.Client -> rpclib.client.zeromq.ZeroMQClient
  • rpclib.server.zeromq.Server -> rpclib.server.zeromq.ZeroMQServer
  • rpclib.model.table.TableSerializer -> rpclib.model.table.TableModel

rpclib-2.2.2-beta

  • Fixed call to rpclib.application.Application.call_wrapper
  • Fixed HttpRpc server transport instantiation.
  • Documentation improvements.

rpclib-2.2.1-beta

  • rpclib.application.Application.call_wrapper introduced
  • Documentation improvements.

rpclib-2.2.0-beta

  • The serialization / deserialization logic was redesigned. Now most of the serialization-related logic is under the responsibility of the ProtocolBase children.
  • Interface generation logic was redesigned. The WSDL logic is separated to XmlSchema and Wsdl11 classes. ‘add_to_schema’ calls were renamed to just ‘add’ and were moved inside rpclib.interface.xml_schema package.
  • Interface and Protocol assignment of an rpclib application is now more explicit. Both are also configurable during instantion. This doesn’t mean there’s much to configure :)
  • WS-I Conformance is back!. See https://github.com/arskom/spyne/blob/master/src/rpclib/test/interop/wsi-report-rpclib.xml for the latest conformance report.
  • Numeric types now support range restrictions. e.g. Integer(ge=0) will only accept positive integers.
  • Any -> AnyXml, AnyAsDict -> AnyDict. AnyAsDict is not the child of the AnyXml anymore.
  • rpclib.model.exception -> rpclib.model.fault.

rpclib-2.1.0-alpha

  • The method dispatch logic was rewritten: It’s now possible for the protocols to override how method request strings are matched to methods definitions.
  • Unsigned integer primitives were added.
  • ZeroMQ client was fixed.
  • Header confusion in native http soap client was fixed.
  • Grouped transport-specific context information under ctx.transport attribute.
  • Added a self reference mechanism.

rpclib-2.0.10-alpha

  • The inclusion of base xml schemas were made optional.
  • WSDL: Fix out header being the same as in header.
  • Added type checking to outgoing Integer types. it’s not handled as nicely as it should be.
  • Fixed the case where changing the _in_message tag name of the method prevented it from being called.
  • SOAP/WSDL: Added support for multiple {in,out}_header objects.
  • Fix some XMLAttribute bugs.

rpclib-2.0.9-alpha

  • Added inheritance support to rpclib.model.table.TableSerializer.

rpclib-2.0.8-alpha

  • The NullServer now also returns context with the return object to have it survive past user-defined method return.

rpclib-2.0.7-alpha

  • More tests are migrated to the new api.
  • Function identifier strings are no more created directly from the function object itself. Function’s key in the class definition is used as default instead.
  • Base xml schemas are no longer imported.

rpclib-2.0.6-alpha

  • Added rpclib.server.null.NullServer, which is a server class with a client interface that attempts to do no (de)serialization at all. It’s intended to be used in tests.

rpclib-2.0.5-alpha

  • Add late mapping support to sqlalchemy table serializer.

rpclib-2.0.4-alpha

  • Add preliminary support for a sqlalchemy-0.7-compatible serializer.

rpclib-2.0.3-alpha

  • Migrate the HttpRpc serializer to the new internal api.

rpclib-2.0.2-alpha

  • SimpleType -> SimpleModel
  • Small bugfixes.

rpclib-2.0.1-alpha

  • EventManager now uses ordered sets instead of normal sets to store event handlers.
  • Implemented sort_wsdl, a small hack to sort wsdl output in order to ease debugging.

rpclib-2.0.0-alpha

  • Implemented EventManager and replaced hook calls with events.

  • The rpc decorator now produces static methods. The methods still get an implicit first argument that holds the service contexts. It’s an instance of the MethodContext class, and not the ServiceBase (formerly DefinitionBase) class.

  • The new srpc decorator doesn’t force the methods to have an implicit first argument.

  • Fixed fault namespace resolution.

  • Moved xml constants to rpclib.const.xml_ns

  • The following changes to soaplib were ported to rpclib’s SOAP/WSDL parts:
    • duration object is now compatible with Python’s native timedelta.
    • WSDL: Support for multiple <service> tags in the wsdl (one for each class in the application)
    • WSDL: Support for multiple <portType> tags and multiple ports.
    • WSDL: Support for enumerating exceptions a method can throw was added.
    • SOAP: Exceptions got some love to be more standards-compliant.
    • SOAP: Xml attribute support
  • Moved all modules with packagename.base to packagename._base.

  • Renamed classes to have module name as a prefix:
    • rpclib.client._base.Base -> rpclib.client._base.ClientBase
    • rpclib.model._base.Base -> rpclib.model._base.ModelBase
    • rpclib.protocol._base.Base -> rpclib.protocol._base.ProtocolBase
    • rpclib.server._base.Base -> rpclib.server._base.ServerBase
    • rpclib.service.DefinitionBase -> rpclib.service.ServiceBase
    • rpclib.server.wsgi.Application -> rpclib.server.wsgi.WsgiApplication
  • Moved some classes and modules around:
    • rpclib.model.clazz -> rpclib.model.complex
    • rpclib.model.complex.ClassSerializer -> rpclib.model.complex.ComplexModel
    • rpclib.Application -> rpclib.application.Application
    • rpclib.service.rpc, srpc -> rpclib.decorator.rpc, srpc

soaplib-3.x -> rpclib-1.1.1-alpha

  • Soaplib is now also protocol agnostic. As it now supports protocols other than soap (like Rest-minus-the-verbs HttpRpc), it’s renamed to rpclib. This also means soaplib can now support multiple versions of soap and wsdl standards.
  • Mention of xml and soap removed from public api where it’s not directly related to soap or xml. (e.g. a hook rename: on_method_exception_xml -> on_method_exception_doc)
  • Protocol serializers now return iterables instead of complete messages. This is a first step towards eliminating the need to have the whole message in memory during processing.

soaplib-2.x

  • This release transformed soaplib from a soap server that exclusively supported http to a soap serialization/deserialization library that is architecture and transport agnostic.
  • Hard dependency on WSGI removed.
  • Sphinx docs with working examples: http://arskom.github.com/soaplib/
  • Serializers renamed to Models.
  • Standalone xsd generation for ClassSerializer objects has been added. This allows soaplib to be used to define generic XML schemas, without SOAP artifacts.
  • Annotation Tags for primitive Models has been added.
  • The soaplib client has been re-written after having been dropped from recent releases. It follows the suds API but is based on lxml for better performance. WARNING: the soaplib client is not well-tested and future support is tentative and dependent on community response.
  • 0mq support added.
  • Twisted supported via WSGI wrappers.
  • Increased test coverage for soaplib and supported servers

soaplib-1.0

  • Standards-compliant Soap Faults
  • Allow multiple return values and return types

soaplib-0.9.4

  • pritimitive.Array -> clazz.Array
  • Support for SimpleType restrictions (pattern, length, etc.)

soaplib-0.9.3

  • Soap header support
  • Tried the WS-I Test first time. Many bug fixes.

soaplib-0.9.2

  • Support for inheritance.

soaplib-0.9.1

  • Support for publishing multiple service classes.

soaplib-0.9

  • Soap server logic almost completely rewritten.
  • Soap client removed in favor of suds.
  • Object definition api no longer needs a class types: under class definition.
  • XML Schema validation is supported.
  • Support for publishing multiple namespaces. (multiple <schema> tags in the wsdl)
  • Support for enumerations.
  • Application and Service Definition are separated. Application is instantiated on server start, and Service Definition is instantiated for each new request.
  • @soapmethod -> @rpc

soaplib-0.8.1

  • Switched to lxml for proper xml namespace support.

soaplib-0.8.0

  • First public stable release.