David Pollak

Modified to allow for hooks into the code

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This pull request updates a lot of Gorilla REPL to allow for an external system to hook into Gorilla REPL. There are options for overriding fixed strings in the client...

Don't covert entities in certain cases

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When the "don't convert entity" flag is passed to the Html5 writer... don't convert entities: ``` case er: EntityRef if convertAmp => HtmlEntities.entMap.get(er.entityName) match { case Some(chr) if chr.toInt >=...

Add an editable_? property to MappedField

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Add an editable_? property to MappedField and have the MappedField "do the right thing" with the value.

Add per-thread allocation stats to Lift

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See http://blog.jruby.org/2011/12/monitoring-memory_allocation-per-thread/

RequestVar restore is less than optimal in Ajax calls

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Right now, request var restoration during Ajax calls is a whole lot less than optimal. Ajax calls should have state restored without any explicit state restoration calls.

Add helpers to URL rewriting so it's more DSLy

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Some code that can help us create a better DSL: import net.liftweb.http._ import net.liftweb.http.LiftRules import com.gu.sport.microapp.Endpoints import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormat import net.liftweb.util.Helpers._ import com.gu.management.{Manifest, Management} import net.liftweb.util.NamedPF import net.liftweb.common.Empty import com.gu.sport.microapp.snippet.Scoped import...

Enhance LiftActors to support finite length mailboxes

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Lift Actors need more documentation, perhaps a !!? futures method not to mention finite length mailboxes, stuff like that.

LiftSession.notices is a race condition waiting to happen

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Spelunking in the notices code, I see that there's a wacky var in LiftSession that is a temporary keeper of notices. That's going to break massively if you've got more...

Lift4: Support for Env Vars in configuration

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Lift's properties/configuration mechanism is based on named files. However, this means storing secrets (e.g., DB credentials, etc.) in files and potentially checking those files into source control systems. Yikes!! The...

Add support for JSON columns (bidirectional serialization/deserialization of a particular type) in Mapper.