Revision history for Perl extension Net::Amazon: 0.30 (09/10/2004) (ms) Lance Cleveland provided a patch to fix a typo which caused N::A::Request::Similar to fail. Added more documentation on request classes and test cases for all constructors. 0.29 (08/12/2004) (ms) Brian contributed code for querying sellers. Added docs and test cases. Added a new hierarchy N::A::Result/* to deal with responses containing results which aren't Amazon items. (ms) fixed bug in _convert_option: Override target option only if it doesn't exist already. 0.28 (08/04/2004) (ms) ASIN search can now process several asin numbers with one request. Dan Kreft cleaned up the implementation of Request.pm, ASIN.pm and a bunch of other files. (ms) Tatsuhiko Miyagawa provided a patch for load errors on search(blended => ...), a fix for a bug with single/multiple ProductLine(s), and a suggestion for using ForceArray which XML::Simple. Added test cases for this patch. (ms) Added xml_parse() method to Net::Amazon::Response which Net::Amazon now calls to parse the returned XML. This enables the response class (which can override it) to creatively interpret the response XML to form the response data structure. (ms) Added strict warnings to each and every module (ms) Added dump_responses() for easier response canning. 0.27 (07/27/2004) (ms) Richard Giliam added the isbn() method to the Book.pm property. (ms) Andy Grundman provided a patch to enforce Amazon's no-more-than-1-request-per-second rule. A new parameter 'strict' has been added to the Net::Amazon constructor, which will limit the number of requests if set to 1. Defaults to 1. 0.26 (07/07/2004) (ms) Added ProductDescription to Properties.pm (ms) Applied patch by Robert Rothenberg for Media and NumMedia properties. 0.25 (06/19/2004) (ms) Applied patch by Robert Rothenberg to Properties.pm that returns the browse_nodes (categories) for a result. (ms) Dave Holland suggested to provide access to the user agent's proxy settings. Now, proxy settings via environment variables are supported (env_proxy()) as well as passing Net::Amazon->new(); a prepped LWP::UserAgent instance via the 'ua' parameter (see docs). (ms) Accessors are no longer created in the constructors, but on the package level. Thanks to tony@tmtm.com who reported this to the CPAN bug tracker. 0.24 (06/10/2004) (ms) Fixed test bug in 007Manufacturer.t (ms) Applied patch by Steve Rushe for book->binding() 0.23 (06/06/2004) (ms) Evaldas Imbrasas suggested to add SalesRank to Properties.pm -- added field and test case. (ms) Added eg/dejazz, a sample program to retrieve the 10 best-selling jazz CDs in Germany, as presented by an article in iX magazine. 0.22 (05/09/2004) (ms) fixed warnings during make test (backwards-compatible without tracks()) (ms) Batara Kesuma sent in a patch to access TotalPages (now available as $resp->total_pages()). 0.21 (03/21/2004) (ms) Tatsuhiko Miyagawa provided a patch to adapt N:A for Amazon's change of "locale=jp" requests, which should be sent to xml.amazon.co.jp, instead of xml.amazon.com: http://forums.prospero.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=am-assocdevxml&msg=4629.1&ctx=4096 (ms) added tracks() to N:A::Properties::Music to list track titles of CDs 0.20 (03/08/2004) (ms) rayg added textstream search and support for sorting results. (ms) added directors(), director() and starring() to DVD.pm 0.19 (02/13/2004) (ms) Michael Coulter noticed that eg/review had the wrong path to Review.pm. (ms) Sam Smith noticed that the dependency on LWP::UserAgent was missing from the documentation. (ms) Bill Fitzpatrick provided a patch implementing and testing Manufacturer searches. 0.18 (12/22/2003) (ms) Brian Hirt provided a patch for multiple error messages returned by some requests to AMZN. There's two accessors now, Response->messages() returning a ref to an array of error messages, and Response->message() returning them stringed together for backwards compatibility. (ms) Padraic Renaghan provided a patch for access to upc/media/nummedia fields in Music.pm (ms) Fixed test suite warnings with perl 5.8.2 in N::A::Property::Book. 0.17 (11/18/2003) (ms) Robert Graff provided a patch for 'blended' searches. 0.16 (10/10/2003) (ms) Replaced 'legacy call' onca/xml2 by onca/xml3, according to the AWS newsletter. (ms) Martin Streicher enhanced the "power" search script (in /eg) to limit searches to page ranges if so requested. 0.15 (08/24/2003) (ms) Martin Streicher provided support for Amazon's "Power Search". Added documentation and test case. (ms) Jackie Hamilton provided a patch plus documentation for Browse Nodes. Added test case. 0.14 (08/12/2003) (ms) Mike Evron suggested to implement caching for responses. Added a Cache::File-based implementation. 0.13 (08/07/2003) (ms) Added customer reviews for all properties. Changed default request mode to 'heavy' for that. Now all properties have a review_set() method returning a Net::Amazon::Attribute::ReviewSet object, which in turn offers a reviews() method delivering a list of Net::Amazon::Attribute::Review objects. Check the man pages for details. eg/review shows an example. 0.12 (07/24/2003) (ms) Mike Evron noticed that the SYNOPSIS code on the main documentation page had the wrong "search" syntax -- thanks, Mike! (ms) Changed all tests to process canned data, live tests turned out to be too unreliable, due to Amazon's "best effort" responses. If you want the test suite to process live data, you need to set the environment variable NET_AMAZON_LIVE_TESTS. 0.11 (07/14/2003) (ms) Added 'Similar Searches' API (ms) Adapted for new amazon.de and amazon.co.uk searches 0.10 (06/28/2003) (ms) Adapted wishlist test case for change in AMZN's catalog (ms) Added docs for new Net::Amazon homepage at net-amazon.sourceforge.net and mailing list (ms) Helper in place to assist XML::Simple in choosing the right parser, to avoid install problems due to XML::SAX::RTF. 0.09 (06/24/2003) (ms) Tony Bowden suggested to have a $ua->search method, abstracting the usage of the different request objects. Implemented that. (ms) Resolved warnings and strict errors in test cases 0.08 (06/22/2003) (ms) Changed dependencies to 5.006, XML::Simple and LWP::UserAgent 0.07 (06/10/2003) (ms) fixed bug with single-item-wishlists (ms) Lists printed as strings now have numbered bullets (ms) Tests are using new wishlist 1XL5DWOUFMFVJ (Net::Amazon) (ms) Added tests with canned reponses 0.06 (06/07/2003) (ms) applied workaround for AMZN's wishlist bug: If a wishlist is longer than 10 items, AMZN returns the first 10 items with no indication if there's any followup pages. The workaround just tries to fetch another batch in case there's exactly 10 and hides eventually encountered errors. Dan Sully provided a patch to suppress a warning in case a music item isn't returning a 'year' field Barnaby Claydon reported a couple of problems with wishlists, they're fixed by the following patches: (ms) Added new property Net::Amazon::Property::DVD (ms) Changed as_string() of default Net::Amazon::Property (used if we come across a 'Toy' or 'Video Game' category) to return a more human-readable format. (ms) Implemented retry strategy on Amazon's temporary errors, if we encounter one, we'll sleep for 1 sec and then retry at most twice. (ms) Accessors have been changed to return an empty string if a value hasn't been specified in XML. Products without price and other anomalies won't cause perl warnings anymore. 0.05 (05/31/2003) Martha Greenberg provided bug reports and patches for * 'music' parameter for UPC searches (fixed in doc) * Net::Amazon::Property::Music now deals correctly with CDs by multiple artists. * missing documentation of 'locale' parameter (ms) Net::Amazon now takes the 'locale' parameter also in the main Net::Amazon object's constructor. 0.04 (05/29/2003) Dan Sully provided a patch to check if a response indeed contains the {Details} hash. 0.03 (05/06/2003) (ms) properties returns empty list on failure now Martha Greenberg provided patch for * the now mandatory associates-id in the query * two documentation bugs Konstantin Gredeskoul also provided an almost identical patch to the problem :). 0.02 (ms) documentation updated 0.01 (ms) where it all started