CHANGELOG.md

0.8.0 (November 22, 2011)

Major Release

• Add Batman.StateHistory for pushState navigation support
• View source html can be prefetched via View.viewSourceCache.prefetch
• Major refactoring of view bindings into class based hierarchy
• Add data-defineview to allow view sources to be declared inline
• Add Association support to Model via Model.hasOne, Model.hasMany, Model.belongsTo
• Add smart AssociationProxy objects which support reloading
• Add support for loading associations with inline JSON
• Add support for ? and ! in property names and keypaths
• Store the current params on the Batman.currentApp for introspection.
• Add ParamsReplacer and ParamsPusher as smart objects which when set, update the global params, pushState or replaceState, and redirect.
• Add Hash::update, Hash::replace, and Set::update
• Add Set::indexedByUnique
• Add Batman.contains for membership testing and accompanying has filter
• Add support for JSONP requests in batman.solo
• Add final property support to optimize observing properties which will never change
• Add Batman.version
• Add support for customizable render targets in Controller::render

Bugfixes:

• Hash::clear now fires observers for cleared keys
• Properties are no longer retained if they aren't being observed to reduce memory usage
• IteratorBinding can have its sibling node changed without erroring
• Filter arguments can be keypaths which start on or descend through POJOs
• data-context now correctly only takes effect for its child nodes
• data-event-* has a catchall to attach event listeners for any event
• Made Batman.data work in IE7
• Made Batman.Model properly inherit storage adapters
• Made data-bind-style bindings camelize keys
• Fixed major memory leaks around Bindings never being garbage collected via Batman.data
• Made Renderer::stop work if called before the renderer started
• Stop mixing Observable into window to error earlier when accidental sets and gets are done on window
• Fix memory leaks around View instances never being garbage collected
• Fix memory leaks around IteratorBinding instances growing with time
• Fix memory leaks around SetIndex observing all items forever
• Fix sets on POJOs from keypaths
• Fix batman.solo to properly encode GET params
• Fix Model::toJSON and Model::fromJSON to deal with falsey values like any other
• Remove ability for View instances to have either context or contexts, and unify on context.
• Fix error thrown if the main yield didn't exist
• Made the extras files requirable in node
• Fix an invalid data bug when receiving large responses using batman.node
• Fix JSON de-serialization when receiving collection responses using batman.node
• Fix support for non numeric model IDs
• Fix data-partial and data-yield to stop introducing superfluous divs.

0.7.5 (October 25, 2011)

Major Maintenance Release

• pagination through Batman.Paginator and Batman.ModelPaginator
• nested resources routes
• unknown params passed to urlFor will be appended to the query string
• App.layout accepts a class name which will automatically instantiate that class upon load
• Controller::render accepts an into option, which lets you render into a yield other than main
• yield/contentFor/replace are now animatable through show/hide
• interpolate filter
• pleasant reminders if you seem to have forgotten some encoders
• removing nodes will destroy all their bindings
• Batman.setImmediate for fast stack popping

Bugfixes:

• App.ready is now a oneShot event
• App.controller/model/view are now only available in development
• data-foreach (through Iterator) is now entirely deferred
• better support for input type='file'
• sets within gets don't register sources
• fixes several memory leaks
• better view html caching

0.7.0 (October 12, 2011)

Major Maintenance Release

• added extras folder
• start of i18n features
• overhauled event system, which properties are now clients of (requires code changes)
• Property::isolate and Property::expose will prevent a property from firing dependent observers
• data-contentFor will now append its content to its data-yield
• data-replace will replace the content of its data-yield
• descending SetSorts
• Batman.App fires a loaded event when all dependencies are loaded
• Batman.App.currentRoute property for observing
• allow controller#action syntax in data-route

Bugfixes:

• use persistent tree structure for RenderContext
• keep track of bindings and listeners with Batman.data
• correctly free bindings and listeners
• coerce string IDs into integers when possible in models
• accessors are memoized
• suppress developer warnings in tests
• don't match non data-* attributes
• fix data-bind-style

0.6.1 (September 27, 2011)

Maintenance Release

• added Batman.Enumerable
• added support for multi-select boxes
• added batman.rails.coffee, a new adapter for use within Rails
• added developer namespace for easy debugging (it gets stripped out in building)
• one way bindings have been changed to data-source and data-target to avoid ambiguity
• added data-bind support for input type='file'
• added data-event-doubleclick
• added length filter
• added trim helper
• Controller.resources creates a new route instead of destroy
• Model.find will always return the shared record instance. you can then bind to this and when the data comes in from the storage adapter, your instance will be updated
• added Model::findOrCreate
• added Model::updateAttributes
• allow storage adapters to specific their namespace with storageKey
• storage adapter filter callbacks take errors
• added App.ready event that fires once the layout is ready in the DOM
• normalize status/statusCode in Batman.Request
• hashes now have meta objects to non-obtrusively bind metadata like length
• the property keyword is no longer reserved

Bugfixes:

• Controller.afterFilter was missing
• hash history uses Batman.DOM.addEventListener
• routes such as data-route="Model/new" will route correctly
• fix Batman.DOM.removeEventListener so it doesn't depend on document
• fire rendered event after all children have been rendered
• model methods can be used as event handlers
• animation methods called with node as context
• data-event works within the binding system
• simpler model identity mapper
• SortableSet::clear invalidates sort indices
• IE: doesn't have Function.prototype.name (move things into $functionName)
• IE: doesn't support isSameNode
• IE: doesn't support removeEventListener (use detachEvent instead)
• IE: fix $typeOf for undefined objects
• IE: event dispatching fixes
• IE: include json2.js in the tests

0.6.0 (September 13, 2011)

Major Maintenance Release

• added Batman.Accessible, a simple object wrapper around an accessor
• added Batman.SetSort for getting a sorted version of a set which automatically watches the source set and propagates changes
• added Batman.SetIndex for getting a filtered version of a set which automatically watches the source set and propagates changes
• added after filters to Batman.Controller
• moved Batman.Model attributes into an attributes hash to avoid namespace collisions with model state.
• added Batman.data for safely attaching JS objects to DOM nodes
• added support for many [] style gets in filters
• added asymmetric bindings (data-read and data-write)
• ensured Batman objects are instantiated using new (#65)
• added support for radio button value bindings (#81)
• added Batman.Encoders to store built in encoders, and added Batman.Encoders.RailsDate
• added status to Batman.Request, normalizing XHR object's status/statusCode
• added proper parameter serialization to the batman.solo platform adapter

Bugfixes:

• fixed batman server options (batman -b server works as expected)

• fixed binding to submit events on forms (#6)

• fixed Renderer's ready events to fire when all child renderers have returned (#13)

• fixed textarea value bindings to work as expected (#20)

• made bindings to undefined populate their nodes with an empty string instead of "undefined" (#21)

• made data-foreach, data-formfor, data-context, and data-mixin all work as expected when the collection/object being bound changes (#22)

• fixed LocalStorage's primaryKey generation (#27)

• made Request send the proper content type (#35)

• made the current application always appear on the context stack (#46, #48)

• made @render false prevent render on a controller action (#50)

• made data-foreach work with cleared sets and many additions/removals (#52, #56, #67)

• made empty bindings work (#54)

• made Sets not leak attributes when given items to add in the constructor (#66)

• prevented @redirect from entering a redirect loop when using hashchange events (#70)

• made showif and hideif bindings play nice with inline elements (#71)

• made jQuery record serialization work with RestStorage (#80)

• made Model.get('all') implicitly load (#85)

• fixed binding to state on models (#95)

• made Hash accept keys containing "." (#98)

0.5.1 (August 25, 2011)

Maintenance Release

• batman server is now batman serve (or still batman s)
• Configure the hostname for the server with -h
• CI support with Travis

Bugfixes:

• RestStorage uses correct HTTP methods and contentType
• Some improvements for batman new, more coming in 0.5.2
• DOM manipulation performance improvement

Known issues:

• Apps generated with batman new are somewhat broken
• Generators allow too many non-alphanumeric characters

0.5.0 (August 23, 2011)

Initial Release

Known issues:

• Inflector support is naive
• Code is too big
• Performance hasn't been investigated
• Filters don't support async results
• Model error handling is callback based

Missing features:

• Model assosciations
• Model scopes
• Model pagination
• Push server
• Documentation