Caches are now created from an accessor rather than building them in the new(). This allows us to remove the new() and lets people inherit from here however they want to. It also stops us from auto-vivifying a plain hash which causes unintentional object retention.

clear_cache() did not de-reference the hash before clearning which could have caused the same situation of creating an auto-vivified hash.

Regression test put in place to stop this from happening again.

Edge case support for hive which allows for non-scheme URIs. We now treat these as if they are DB URIs.

Adding support for SQLite since the URI scheme does not take into account the fact that SQLite is a path and the concept of table does not play well with this

DBNAME is no longer a required attribute as we now allow for direct DB connections. SQLHelper is now an attribute of a DBConnection. Methods added to avoid unintentional DB disconnections, working with the DBH safely and quote DB identifiers if required (useful to avoid SQL injection attacks with auto-generated code). Equals method also improved. Associated test cases written.

Removing URIParser sub-package. It was nice in theory but I'd rather support different schemes using extensions to the URI package

Removing URIParser sub-package. It was nice in theory but I'd rather support different schemes using extensions to the URI package

Bringing in assertions for strand as well as for boolean types. Extending the test cases accordingly

Adding a more generic URI parser to replace the numerous places where people parse URIs in API code (mostly to get DB params)