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+ $Id: NEWS,v 1.9 2008/08/18 08:37:54 ianmacd Exp $
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+ 0.4.1
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+ -----
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+
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+ The exception class Amazon::AWS::HTTPError was not actually defined, which
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+ caused an error when an attempt was made to raise it.
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+ If you're using Windows, %HOME% typically isn't defined. Therefore, the
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+ following sequence of paths is now searched for your .amazonrc configuration
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+ file:
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+ %HOME%
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+ %HOMEDRIVE% + %HOMEPATH%
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+ %USERPROFILE%
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+ Choose one of these at your convenience.
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+
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+ 0.4.0
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+ -----
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+
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+ The version of the Amazon AWS API requested when performing operations is now
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+ 2008-06-26. This is the latest at the time of writing.
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+ A new method, Amazon::AWS::ShoppingCart::Cart#cart_get, has been added, to
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+ allow the retrieval of an existing shopping-cart from AWS. This is necessary
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+ when the original Cart object no longer exists.
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+ A bug in Amazon::AWS::ShoppingCart::Cart#cart_modify has been fixed, which
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+ caused carts with no items in their active section to raise an exception.
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+ 0.3.3
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+ -----
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+ YAML.aws_load has been removed. Its functionality is available directly from
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+ Amazon::AWS::AWSObject.yaml_load and it wasn't logical or necessary to
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+ duplicate that in the YAML class itself. There was no corresponding
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+ Marshal.aws_load method, but if there had been, that, too, would have been
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+ removed.
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+ Ruby/AWS is finally available as a RubyGems package and can be found here:
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+ http://www.caliban.org/files/ruby/ruby-aws-0.3.3.gem
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+ The enclosed Rakefile can be used to build the gem from scratch. First make
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+ sure you have rake and rubygems installed, and then simply type 'rake' in the
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+ top level directory of the archive. The gem will be generated and placed in
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+ the ./pkg subdirectory, from where you can 'sudo gem install' it.
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+ This is my first gem, so bear with me. It appears to work properly, but I
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+ offer no guarantees. One thing that doesn't currently work is installing the
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+ package with gem's -t option to run the supplied unit tests.
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+ More information about RubyGems can be found here:
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+ http://www.rubygems.org/
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+ 0.3.2
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+ -----
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+
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+ Serialisation, e.g. with Marshal and YAML, has been a problem until now.
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+
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+ This is because subclasses of Amazon::AWS::AWSObject are created as needed
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+ when XML responses from AWS are parsed. Whilst there is no problem dumping
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+ objects instantiated from such classes, the difficulty arises when later
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+ loading and attempting to reinstantiate them in a new process, because the
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+ dynamic classes from which they were spawned no longer exist.
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+
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+ The solution to the problem comes in the form of the new methods
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+ Amazon::AWS::AWSObject.load and Amazon::AWS::AWSObject.yaml_load. Use these as
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+ alternatives to Marshal.load and YAML.load, respectively.
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+ 0.3.1
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+ -----
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+
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+ This release mostly features refinements to the support for remote
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+ shopping-carts.
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+
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+ The 'Save For Later' area of remote shopping-carts is now implemented.
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+ Cart#cart_modify now takes an extra parameter, save_for_later. If true, items
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+ are moved from the active to the Save For Later area of the cart. If false,
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+ they are moved in the opposite direction.
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+ In both cases, the quantity parameter is ignored, because attempting to pass
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+ it through to AWS results in an error, even though the AWS documentation
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+ claims this can be done to move partial quantities from one area of the cart
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+ to the other.
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+ Cart objects now have a @saved_for_later_items attribute, aliased to
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+ @saved_items and @saved. Take your pick.
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+
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+ @cart_items is now set to [] when Cart.new is called. Previously, it wasn't set
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+ until Cart#cart_create was used, at which time it was set to nil.
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+ @saved_for_later_items is also set to [] by Cart.new.
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+ Cart#include? now also returns true if the item being queried is in the Save
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+ For Later area of the cart. Previously, only the active area was inspected.
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+ New methods, Cart#active? and Cart#saved_for_later? (alias Cart#saved?),
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+ return whether or not an item is present in a particular area of the cart. If
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+ the item is present, its CartItemId is returned; otherwise 'false'.
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+ A bug that caused shopping-cart transactions to use the cache if one was
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+ requested has been fixed. Shopping-carts should never use the cache under any
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+ circumstances.
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+
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+ Request objects can now have their @cache attribute assigned to. A Cache
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+ object may be directly assigned to it, or you may assign the value 'true'. If
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+ @cache is set to 'true', a Cache object will automatically be assigned to it
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+ the next time @cache is referenced. This is most useful when one wishes to
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+ switch from using no cache to using one, or vice versa.
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+ Cache#flush_expired invariably threw an exception. This bug has been fixed.
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+ Geolocation of users by host and IP address now raises an
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+ Amazon::Locale::GeoError exception if the host or IP address is unresolvable.
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+ There's a new Ruby/AWS mailing-list for discussion of the development and
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+ usage of this library:
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+ http://www.caliban.org/mailman/listinfo/ruby-aws
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+ 0.3.0
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+ -----
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+
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+ The version of the Amazon AWS API requested when performing operations is now
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+ 2008-04-07. This is the latest at the time of writing.
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+
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+ Remote shopping-carts are now implemented. See the Amazon::AWS::ShoppingCart
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+ module and the Amazon::AWS::ShoppingCart::Cart class in
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+ ./amazon/aws/shoppingcart.rb for more details.
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+
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+ Basically, the new methods are Cart.new, Cart#cart_create, Cart#cart_add,
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+ Cart#cart_modify and Cart#cart_clear. There's also Cart#each for iterating
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+ over the items in a cart.
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+ This adds the following AWS operations to the list of those supported:
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+ CartCreate
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+ CartAdd
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+ CartModify
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+ CartClear
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+ It's currently not possible to update a wishlist at purchase time by referring
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+ to the item's ListItemId when adding it to a cart.
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+ It's also currently not possible to add items to the 'Saved For Later' section
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+ of the cart.
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+ A new iterator method, AWSObject#each, yields each |property, value| of the
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+ AWSObject.
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+
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+ The AWSObject and AWSArray classes have received a few new helper methods that
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+ should make AWSObject and single element AWSArray objects behave more akin to
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+ strings when they are being compared with strings, matched against regexes,
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+ etc.
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+
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+ An otherwise undocumented method, AWSObject#kernel, provides unnested (i.e.
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+ top level) AWSObject objects with a shortcut reference to the data most likely
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+ of interest to the user.
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+ For example, if a top level AWSObject is formed as the result of an
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+ ItemSearch, one might normally refer to the items returned with something like
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+ this:
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+ AWSObject#kernel allows the same data to be referred to as follows:
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+ foo.kernel
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+ The path to the data is programatically determined, so this method only works
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+ for top level AWSObject objects created by a class of operation whose name can
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+ be used to derive the path. This is why this method is not documented.
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+ When searches are performed, greater efforts are now made to determine whether
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+ Amazon returned any errors. In particular, batch operations and
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+ MultipleOperations may return errors at different locations in the XML tree
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+ than normal operations.
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+ A bug that materialised only when using an HTTP proxy has been fixed.
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+ 0.2.0
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+ In previous versions, only 5 types of operation were supported:
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+ ItemSearch
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+ ListSearch
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+ This version supports all remaining non-shopping-cart operations:
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+ CustomerContentLookup
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+ Help
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+ ListLookup
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+ SellerLookup
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+ SimilarityLookup
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+ TagLookup
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+ TransactionLookup
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+ Examples of each of these can be found in ./examples/
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+ It is hoped that shopping-carts will make their debut in the next release of
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+ One can now use a Symbol for search indices and hash keys when instantiating
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+ operation objects and response group objects.
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+ For example:
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+ rg = ResponseGroup.new( 'Large' )
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+ is = ItemSearch.new( :Books, { :Title => 'Ruby' } )
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+ rg = ResponseGroup.new( :Large )
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+ It's up to you which form you use. The Symbol form saves one character. :-)
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+ AWSObject#to_s has been improved to provide something better looking. There's
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+ still room for improvement, though.
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+ AWSObject#to_i has been added. This allows, for example, AWSObjects to be used
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+ with the %d format specifier in formatted strings. It's up to you, though, to
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+ know when an AWSObject can be expected to contain a String that's usable as an
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+ Integer.
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+ Objects of a class whose name matches AWSObject::.*Image typically have a @url
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+ attribute that points to the URL of the image in question. Such objects now
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+ have a #get method, which can be used to retrieve the image in question. This
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+ method takes a single parameter, an integer precentage, which causes the
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+ retrieved image to be overlayed with a discount icon.
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+ Various compatibility fixes were made to allow Ruby/AWS to work under Ruby
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+ 1.9. The use of Ruby/AWS with this version is still not recommended, however.
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+ For one thing, Ruby 1.9 seems to use #inspect in places that Ruby 1.8 used
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+ Version 0.1.0 of Ruby/AWS has undergone fundamental changes from the previous,
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+ very crude versions, 0.0.1 and 0.0.2.
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+ For one thing, the AWS XML parser has been completely rewritten. In this new
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+ version, classes are dynamically generated as required, based on the elements
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+ Previous versions of Ruby/AWS (and also Ruby/Amazon), manually defined most
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+ of these classes, based on Amazon's developer documentation and examination of
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+ AWS XML reponses. This time-consuming, unwieldy and unnecessary approach was
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+ largely the result of my own lack of aptitude with the Ruby REXML library.
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+ While these manually defined classes accounted for much of the data returned
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+ by AWS, a smaller section of the data was, nevertheless, dynamically converted
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+ to Ruby data structures. This mix of manually and automatically treated
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+ objects led to inconsistencies in the Ruby representation of the hierarchical
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+ XML structure. This meant that it was not quite possible to look at an AWS XML
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+ response and reliably determine how the resulting Ruby data structure would
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+ look.
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+ That inconsistency has been ironed out in version 0.1.0. As of now,
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+ _everything_ is dynamically generated from the AWS XML response. All manual
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+ class definitions have been removed and all classes are now defined at the
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+ time they first need to be instantiated.
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+ This has the following advantages:
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+ - Changes in the structure of AWS XML responses will not break Ruby/AWS. They
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+ may break user code (if, for example, you depend on the presence of a piece
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+ of data that later disappears from AWS responses [and even this should not
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+ happen, because AWS v4 has a versioned API]), but they will not break the
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+ library. The library will always create whichever classes are needed to
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+ represent any given XML structure returned by AWS.
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+ - Changes in the structure of AWS XML that results in new data being
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+ included in responses will automatically cause said data to be made
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+ available via Ruby/AWS. If, for example, Amazon starts to return data about
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+ the duration of each CD in their catalogue, perhaps using a <Duration> tag,
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+ foo.duration would automatically start to return that property.
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+ - It should be faster, but I haven't verified this.
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+ Multiple operations are now supported.
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+ Geolocation of locale is now working.
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+ Documentation in this version has been radically improved, but is still
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+ lacking.