v1.1.1

Welcome to the 19 October 2022 release of Marys! This is a patch release in response to the replacement of Sharples Dining Hall by the new Dining Center.

Highlights

• Marys no longer returns a "closed" Submenu under sharples indicating its 24/7 closure.
  • Marys now returns an empty SubmenuContainer for Sharples to maintain backwards compatibility and avoid cluttering generation of the root Menu's output. In other words, the result of something like marys.Menu().ssml() will no longer indicate that Sharples is closed.
  • To access the Dining Center's menu, use dining_center in place of sharples (for instance, marys.Menu()["dining_center"]).
• To make speech output easier to listen to, The following frequently occurring allergen codes are excluded from SSML output. These codes are still present in textual output (such as card and __str__):
  • ::egg::
  • ::milk::
  • ::shellfish::
  • ::soy::
  • ::tree nut::
  • ::wheat::

v1.1.0

Welcome to the 14 February 2022 release of Marys! This release is focused on reliability and reaction to website and API updates.

Highlights

• Generated SSML is now fully valid, improving stability of voice assistant/TTS consumers of this library.
• Added now as a key in Menu objects, which returns only meals currently available (i.e. if Sharples is currently open for lunch, now will return only the lunch menu, whereas current would return lunch and dinner).
  • If no dining venue in an object is open, now will fall back to current (i.e. return meals "up next").
  • The current key is still available, and its behaviour is unchanged.
• Post-pandemic, Essie Mae's, Kohlberg, and Science Center have been using "Essie Mae's open", "Kohlberg Open", etc. as menu titles. To make speech more efficient, generated SSML no longer contains fragments like "at Essie Mae's, Essie's open".
• Dietary preferences (::vegan::, ::halal::, etc.) are now rendered in round brackets in menu cards and string representations.
• HTTP errors are propagated upward to ease debugging.
  • In a few instances this semester, the JSON endpoint went down, returning 5xx errors for a few hours. The web team think it might be due to a security appliance in front of the webserver. I've asked them to whitelist the Mary's user-agent, but in the meantime any HTTP errors will be raised as exceptions so issues are easier to trace for end users.
• <html-blob>...</html-blob> tags from the API are filtered out of HTML cards.