An Architect's View

The latest stable release of Framework One is now available for download from github! The previous stable release is still available on that page.

This release features a large number of enhancements suggested by the community including:

• A skeleton application
• The list of keys in populate() can contain spaces for improved readability
• The delimiter for subsystems can be configured (the default is still : )
• You can override the behavior when a view is missing by defining your own onMissingView() handler
• The name of the application is automatically generated allowing you to omit this.name assignment in Application.cfc
• Controller calls can be queued up in setupApplication(), setupSession() and setupRequest() via the controller() API - doController() is officially deprecated
• populate() now works with CFCs that use generated setters or onMissingMethod() via the new trustKeys argument - and onPopulateError() to trap any errors that arise
• Sample applications now work on installations with a non-empty context root (except for a couple clearly marked as such)
• Skinning is possible via a new override point: customizeViewOrLayoutPath()
• When you queue up service() calls, you can now provide a struct of additional arguments so you add arguments that are not in the request context
• The list of extensions and file paths that are ignored by FW/1 is now configurable (so you can easily allow certain parts of your application to operate outside the framework)
• A new API getConfig() returns a readonly copy of the framework's configuration structure which may be useful in controllers
• You can now override the view conventions easily in a controller via the new setView() API
• The action arguments is now consistently optional in all of the getters for subsystem / section / item combinations
• An example of security / access control with FW/1 has been added as a variant of the user manager
• buildURL() and redirect() can generate SES URLs via new FW/1 configuration settings: generateSES and SESOmitIndex
• buildURL() and redirect() now all embedded query strings to make URL generation easier, as well as allowing control over which name/value pairs are folded into SES URLs vs regular query string format