Release notes

Current release of CGI Framework is 0.2 alpha.

Release contents

After downloading and unpacking the release file, you will have the following structure of directories and files:

Included features

In that release we have:

Four visual components:

TPageBuilder, TTagInterpreter, TPBTagInterpreter and TDBIbxTagInterpreter.

TPBTagInterpreter understands the following tags:

pb:include, pb:includeindirect, pb:encapsule, pb:encapsuleindirect, pb:var, pb:clearVar, pb:pageTitle, pb:capsuleContent, pb:if, pb:then and pb:else

TDBTagInterpreter (and TDBIbxTagInterpreter) understands the following tags:

db:dataset, db:browse, db:list and db:fieldvalue

Missing features

The main missed feature is a web dispatcher. A dispatcher interprets the http request, call the appropriate action event handler, assembles the response and return it to the calling http server.

While a web dispatcher is not available we must use the one included on CLX library. It means we will have to use one non-free version of Delphi or Kylix.

I need to devise a good, clean and elegant way to have access to http request fields as variables in the TPBTagInterpreter. The main problem is request fields are web dispatcher data and web dispatcher is completely disconnected from TPageBuilder.

I also need good, clean and elegant way to have access to dataset properties like "Eof", "Bof", "RecordCount", "RecNo" and field properties like "FieldName" and "FieldType".

Bugs and know issues