try this:

<?php

function parse()
{
        $this->autoRender = false;
    //using the url, get a controller's action data
        $data = $this->requestAction(array("controller" =>
$this->controller, "action" => $this->action), array('pass' =>
array($this->actionParams)));
    $this->set("data", $data);
        $this->render("/elements/api");
    return true;
 }

?>
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2011/3/27 mlecho <[email protected]>

> hi, i am building an api plugin for my webapp...i have almost
> everything working well except for the actual rendering. The plugin
> will authenticate and then essentially, from the url, do an action ,
> grab the data, and return it as xml or json. An exmaple url might be:
> http://webapp.local/api/?token=1234&params=4&method=users.view
>
> the plugin will validate a user by token, then call the Users
> controller view action, passing 4.
>
> In my plugin beforeFilter method, i've called
>
> $this->layout = "api";
> $this->autoRender = false;
>
> and the actual logic to get the data looks like:
>
> function parse()
>        {
>
>                //using the url, get a controller's action data
>                $data = $this->requestAction(
>
>  array("controller"=>$this->controller,"action"=>$this->action),
>                        array('pass' => array($this->actionParams))
>                );
>        $this->render("/elements/api");
>                $this->set("data",$data);
>        }
>
> if i debug $data, everything i expect is there. However, cake's
> warning is i am missing the view for my plugin controller...but it's
> there. Thoughts?
>
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