Do you have modelB belongsTo ModelA in your relations ?
cheers
Franck
On Nov 5, 12:03 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> well I thought the model instance was already loaded but I can't
> explain why the behaviour is not the same if I access the model A
> instance.
>
> I mean :
>
> in my action A : there seems to be a instance of model A
> in my action B (called in action A) : a different instance of model A
>
> that is what I deduce from testing with the following code :
>
> in model A construct method : $this->get_media_by_types = false.
>
> in controller :
>
> function test() {
>
> $this->autoRender = false;
> $this->Media->get_media_by_types = true;
> pr("controller : : " . $this->Media->get_media_by_types);//
> prints
> out 1 (true)
> pr('request action : ' .
> $this->requestAction('/media/test2'));//
> prints out nothing (false)
>
> }
>
> function test2() {
>
> $this->autoRender = false;
> return $this->Media->get_media_by_types;
>
> }
>
> I deduce that there are 2 instances of Media model created for each
> action call.
>
> this is not the case for the same test case using $this->Item->Media-
>
> >get_media_by_types for example.
>
> any clues ?
>
> thaks
>
> thomas
>
> On Nov 4, 12:13 pm, francky06l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > You request the action in an action, one instance of the modelB is
> > already loaded and used. I think that quite the way I expect it to
> > work, creating new instances would make some tasks very difficult to
> > achieve as well as performances poor (in my opinion).
> > However, you can still create explicitly a new instance of modelB in
> > your action, or set some method in modelB to "init" myVar.
>
> > On Nov 3, 6:26 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > Hello all,
>
> > > 2 models : model A - model B
> > > 1 controller : controller A
> > > 2 actions in controler A : action A - action B
>
> > > I set a variable to false in a model B construct method :
>
> > > $this->myVar = false;
>
> > > I then in controller A have a main model A to which is associated
> > > model B
> > > in an action A I set the $this->modelA->modelB->myVar = true;
>
> > > in this action I have a requestAction (for testing purposes) calling
> > > action B
> > > $this->requestAction('/controllerA/actionB');
>
> > > if I 'pr' the $this->modelA->modelB->myVar it returns true when I
> > > would expect it to return false since I would expect the instance of
> > > the model to be a new one (since a new action is called).
>
> > > The behaviour works as expected if I do the same on the main model.
>
> > > It is like the instance of the associated model is the same for both
> > > actions.
>
> > > I don't know if I'm being clear but can anyone help on this ?
>
> > > thanks in advance.
>
> > > thomas
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