I have the need to create an action called "changeOwner" that will
change a bunch of fields in several associated tables, then return to
the calling page. It does not have its own view, so it does not get
data to fill out a form and post it back, like the edit action would.
I would like to use the saveAssociated call instead of multiple saves,
because saveAssociated can be atomic, otherwise I would have to
implement this logic somewhere.
My question is - does it make sense for the controller action to build
out all data for the save? or should this be somewhere else?
This seems like a bad idea because I am putting some model specific data
in the controller. Is this ok? or is there a better way to do this?
example
in organizationsController.php
public function changeOwner($orgId, $newOwner) {
$mr = $this->Organization->MemberRelationship->find('first',
array('conditions' => array('MemberRelationship.id' => $newOwner)));
$ownerRole = $this->Organization->OrganizationRole->find('first',
array('conditions' => array('OrganizationRole.name' => 'owner',
'OrganizationRole.organization_id'
=> $orgId )));
$dataTbl['organization']['id'] = $orgId;
$dataTbl['organization']['owner_user_id'] = $mr['user_id'];
$dataTbl['MemberRelationship']['id'] = $newOwner;
$dataTbl['MemberRelationship']['organization_role_id'] =
$ownerRole['id'];
if ($this->Organization->saveAssociated($dataTbl)) {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('Owner Updated'));
} else {
$this->Session->setFlash(__('Error trying to change
owner. Please Try again.'));
}
$this->redirect($this->referer()));
}
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