plone.api 1.0.0-rc.3

plone.api
=========

.. topic:: Overview

The ``plone.api`` is an elegant and simple API, built for humans wishing
to develop with Plone.

It comes with *cookbook*-like documentation and step-by-step instructions
for doing common development tasks in Plone. Recipes try to assume the user
does not have extensive knowledge about Plone internals.

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<img src="http://travis-ci.org/plone/plone.api.png?&branch=master">
<img src="http://coveralls.io/repos/plone/plone.api/badge.png">

* `Documentation @ api.plone.org <http://api.plone.org>`_
* `Source code @ GitHub <http://github.com/plone/plone.api>`_
* `Issues @ GitHub <http://github.com/plone/plone.api/issues>`_
* `Continuous Integration @ Travis CI <http://travis-ci.org/plone/plone.api>`_
* `Code Coverage @ Coveralls.io <http://coveralls.io/r/plone/plone.api>`_

The intention of this package is to provide clear API methods for Plone
functionality which may be confusing or difficult to access. As the underlying
code improves some API methods may be deprecated and the documentation here
will be updated to show how to use the improved code (even if it means not
using ``plone.api``)

Some parts of the documentation do not use *plone.api* methods directly, but
simply provide guidance on achieving a task using Plone's internal API. For
example, using the portal catalog (see 'Find content objects').

The intention is to cover 20% of the tasks any Plone developer does 80% of the
time. By keeping everything in one place, the API stays introspectable and
discoverable, important aspects of being Pythonic.

.. note::

This package is stable and used in production, but from time to time
changes will be made to the API. Additional api methods may be introduced
in minor versions (1.1 -> 1.2). Backward-incompatible changes to the API
will be restricted to major versions (1.x -> 2.x).

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Changes
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1.0.0-rc.3 (2013-10-09)
-----------------------

- Packaging issues.
[zupo]


1.0.0-rc.2 (2013-10-09)
-----------------------

- Proof-read the docs, improved grammar and wording.
[cewing]

- Add plone.recipe.codeanalysis to our buildout.
[flohcim]

- Make all assertRaise() calls use the `with` keyword.
[winstonf88]

- Amend user.get method to accept a userid parameter, refs #112.
[cewing, xiru, winstonf88]

.. note::
this change fixes a bug in the earlier implementation that could cause
errors in some situations. This situation will only arise if the userid and
username for a user are not the same. If membrane is being used for content-
based user objects, or if email-as-login is enabled *and* a user has changed
their email address this will be the case. In the previous implementation
the username parameter was implicitly being treated as userid. The new
implementation does not do so. If consumer code is relying on this bug and
passing userid, and if that code uses the username parameter as a keyword
parameter, then lookup will fail. In all other cases, there should be no
difference.

- Add api.env.debug_mode() and api.env.test_mode(), refs #125.
[sdelcourt]

- Move most of text from docs/index.rst to README.rst so its also visible on
PyPI and GitHub.
[zupo]

- Deprecate plone.api on ReadTheDocs and redirect to api.plone.org, refs #130.
[wormj, zupo]

- Add a new `make coverage` command and add support for posting coverage to
Coveralls.io.
[zupo]

- Make api.content.create() also print out the underlying error, refs #118.
[winston88]

- Fix api.content copy/move/rename functions to return the object after they
change content, refs #115.
[rodfersou]

- Make Travis IRC notification message to be one-line instead of three-lines.
[zupo]

- More examples of good and bad code blocks in documentation, more information
on how to write good docstrings.
[zupo]

- Prefer single quotes over double quotes in code style.
[zupo]

- New bootstrap.py to stay in the land of zc.buildout 1.x.
[zupo]

- Package now includes a copy of the GPLv2 license as stated in the GNU
General Public License documentation.
[hvelarde]

- Fixed copying folderish objects.
[pingviini]

- Fixed moving folderish objects.
[pingviini]


1.0.0-rc.1 (2013-01-27)
-----------------------

- Increase test coverage.
[cillianderoiste, JessN, reinhardt, zupo]

- Implementation of ``api.env.adopt_roles()`` context manager for
temporarily switching roles inside a block.
[RichyB]

- Created ``api.env`` module for interacting with global environment.
[RichyB]

- Decorators for defining constraints on api methods. Depend on `decorator`
package.
[JessN]

- Resolved #61: Improve api.portal.get().
[cillianderoiste]

- Use plone.api methods in plone.api codebase.
[zupo]

- Switch to `flake8` instead of `pep8`+`pyflakes`.
[zupo]

- Get the portal path with absolute_url_path.
[cillianderoiste]

- Travis build speed-ups.
[zupo]

- Support for Python 2.6.
[RichyB, zupo]

- Support for Plone 4.0.
[adamcheasley]

- Support for Plone 4.3.
[cillianderoiste, zupo]

- Spelling fixes.
[adamtheturtle]

- Make get_view and get_tool tests not have hardcoded list of *all* expected
values.
[RichyB, cillianderoiste]

- Code Style Guide.
[iElectric, cillianderoiste, marciomazza, RichyB, thet, zupo]

- Depend on ``manuel`` in setup.py.
[zupo]

- Documentation how to get/set member properties.
[zupo]

- Improvements to ``get_registry_record``.
[zupo]


0.1b1 (2012-10-23)
------------------

- Contributors guide and style guide.
[zupo]

- Enforce PEP257 for docstrings.
[zupo]

- Fix ``get_navigation_root()`` to return object instead of path.
[pbauer]

- Implementation of ``get_permissions()``, ``get_roles()``,
``grant_roles()`` and ``revoke roles()`` for users and groups.
[rudaporto, xiru]

- Implementation of ``get_registry_record`` and ``set_registry_record``.
[pbauer]

- Use `Makefile` to build the project, run tests, generate documentation, etc.
[witsch]

- Moving all ReadTheDocs dependencies into ``rtd_requirements.txt``.
[zupo]


0.1a2 (2012-09-03)
------------------

- Updated release, adding new features, test coverage, cleanup & refactor.
[hvelarde, avelino, ericof, jpgimenez, xiru, macagua, zupo]


0.1a1 (2012-07-13)
------------------

- Initial release.
[davisagli, fulv, iElectric, jcerjak, jonstahl, kcleong, mauritsvanrees,
wamdam, witsch, zupo]


License
=======

Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Plone Foundation

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.