Legacy THNapi:Release Notes

Release Notes

Here are the release ntoes for the THN API and Item DB. Since the THN API accesses the Item DB for it's data, it's possible the Item DB may get a release, but not the THN API.

THN API 1.0.0 - Item DB 1.4.2(Feb 9 2008)

• This is the first release of the THN API.

THN API 1.0.0 - Item DB 1.4.2a (Feb 9 2008)

• The JQuery Javascript core library was moved to be part of the whole THN website, and removed from the Item DB's own core Javascript files.

THN API 1.0.1 - Item DB 1.4.2a (March 10 2008)

• This release fixes an issue where wiki content within THN API tags was not rendered.

THN API 1.0.2 - Item DB 1.4.3 (April 20 2008)

This release features a lot of enhancements to the THN API and also resolves some issues picked up with the 1.0.1/1.4.2 release.

Item DB Changes

• Browser and formating fixes
• IE7 and Firefox users - updated CSS style sheet, so that all PNG images have a black background colour.
• IE6 users - If the image is a PNG image, it is converted to a GIF image.
• Improved dateadded/updated date information on detailed item displays.
• Updated all Jquery files to the latest and greatest versions in most cases, and also all .pak.js files have been changed to .min.js files.
• Rewrote the Joomla mambot THN API parser, so you can now use the same style of commands from the wiki in Joomla pages.
• New section added - THN API - See the THN API menu at the bottom of the http://www.techhaven.org/db/ page
• Added option to toggle the showing and hiding of Item ID's in item listings
• Link added to THN API documentation
• List of item groups added

THN API Chnages

General changes

• Changed API communication layer to use CURL
• Added fix/workaround for IE6 PNG issues
• Improved parameter checking to provide more meaningful error messages
• Format attribute added to nearly all commands, this is reserved for future use, and could be dropped from certain commands. In other words, don't use this attribute yet!

New commands

• itemdb:icon - See THNapi:Icon
• itemdb:link_icon - See THNapi:Link_Icon
• wiki:link - See THNapi:Wiki link
• wiki:redirect - See THNapi:Wiki Redirect

Command changes

• Added position attribute to item_db:link command
• Order changes. All items ID's listed in the items attribute are now displayed in the order listed by default.
• New order parameter addded - See THNapi:Order_sorting_options
• The order changes and the order parameter applies to the following commands.
  • itemdb:link
  • itemdb:link_icon
  • itemdb:show_block
  • itemdb:show_block_right
  • itemdb:show_hoz
  • itemdb:show_ver
  • itemdb:show_ver_right
  • itemdb:show_full_details

• Item ID ordering - the following faction commands show items in TL and then item name order.
  • itemdb:show_faction_block
  • itemdb:show_faction_block_right
  • itemdb:show_faction_hoz
  • itemdb:show_faction_ver
  • itemdb:show_faction_ver_right

• Item ID ordering - the following faction commands show items in Item group and TL order.
  • itemdb:show_group_list
  • itemdb:show_view
  • itemdb:show_list

• itemdb:show_view command now has a viewoption command to specify an optional parameter (Needed for the FSM and FDB views)

THN API 1.0.3 - Item DB 1.4.4 (May 8 2008)

This is a minor feature update release to add Plural and qty support to for the following commands. THNapi:Link_Icon and THNapi:Link. Please note plural support is very basic, it doesn't take into account all of the rules of English Plurals [1]

THN API 1.0.4-Beta - Item DB 1.4.4 (May 12 2008)

This is a minor release to improve compatibility with the NC-Wiki extension when loading Javascript libraries. More changes will be coming for the final version of 1.0.4

THN API 1.0.5 - Item DB 1.4.5 (Unreleased - in development)

Item DB Changes

• Bug fix: Show modifiers data for Drugs
• Enhancement: Hide modifer and requirements columns if there is is no data for all items

THN API Changes

...coming soon!