It’s been quite a while since the last big update, and after today’s one, I decided to release 0.9.6 version (0.9.5 did not have symfony 1.4 support advertised in package.xml, so I created a new one for this).
Little sum up of new features:
- Symfony cache is now used in debug mode too, but it checks assets modification timestamps to know if a recompilation is needed. This timestamp check is not done in non-debug mode, to avoid overhead.
- An asset filter chain, fully configurable, extensible and backward compatible is now there. The process is pretty simple: you can write subclasses of sfDynamicsBaseAssetFilter to implement your last great idea about assets filtering. Then, just register it in your app.yml under the section sfDynamicsPlugin/concatenated_javascript_filter_chain (or the same with stylesheet). A full working example is available on the new application configuration page, that describe all app.yml configuration directives. By the way, the default asset filtair chain is exactly the same as before.
- To demonstrate this new feature, a sfDynamicsExperimentalClosureAPIJavascriptFilter class has been added. It is an asset filter that calls the Google Closure Compiler API, via an HTTP POST request. Of course, it is not a good idea to do so on a «real» website, but this class is here for demonstration purpose.
- Along with the new documentation page, a set of configuration values that were guessed depending on if you are in debug mode, or not, are now configurable via the app.yml of each applications. Of course, the default value is fully backward compatible.
- Last feature, which is more polishing than a feature, is that your project won’t show up if the sfDynamics module is disabled but required for some assets. Instead, an exception will explain what’s missing.
All those features are tested since a few weeks, and a simple cache:clear after upgrading the plugin should keep your project in a nice state. Or at least, I hope so…
The global goal of this release is to tend towards 1.0, by making all existing features configurable and extensible, so that 1.0 branch will be able to remain stable and 100% backward compatible for a long time.
See you space symfonists!
