Re: Should we release 2.10?

Adam Prime <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:44:12 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.apache.apreq
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Bojan Smojver wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 09:10 -0500, Adam Prime wrote:
>   
>> I was reminded of a documentation omission by an email on the mod_perl 
>> list this morning.  Can something be added into the porting warnings here:
>>
>> http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/docs/libapreq2/group__apreq__xs__request.html
>>
>> mentioning that my @params = $r->param() no long returns a unique list 
>> of the params.  IE that ?a=b&a=c will return (a, a), not (a), which is 
>> how it worked in libapreq1.
>>     
>
> Sure. Do you have a patch?
>
>   

Does the attached patch work?

Adam

param.patch (text/plain, 611 B)

Index: glue/perl/lib/Apache2/Request.pm
===================================================================
--- glue/perl/lib/Apache2/Request.pm	(revision 721076)
+++ glue/perl/lib/Apache2/Request.pm	(working copy)
@@ -417,6 +417,10 @@
 =item * C<param> includes the functionality of C<parms()> and C<params()>, so
         they are now deprecated and may be removed from a future 2.X release.
 
+=item * C<param> called in a list context no longer returns a unique list of
+        paramaters.  The returned list contains multiple instances of the 
+        parameter name for multivalued fields.
+
 =back