2008/9/8 Christoph Dorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I just re-read your message and saw that you were referring to
> Zend_View_Helper_Json which does not exit and should work.
>
> Did you mean to say Zend_Controller_Action_Helper_Json?
Yes, that is it, running the following as my BaseController::init()
function works across all my inheriting controllers:
public function init()
{
$this->_helper->getHelper('Json')->suppressExit = TRUE;
}
- jake
>
> Christoph
>
>
>
> Jake McGraw wrote:
>
> $this->getHelper('Json')->suppressExit = true;
>
> Chris, you saved me at least day from having to rewrite all those
> Controllers and testing, thank you so very much.
>
> - jake
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jaka Jančar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Ahh, yes, this is the beauty of some ZF helpers, stuff just exit()'s =) It's
> the same in Redirector action helper... never mind if I still have stuff to
> do, it just terminates the script.
>
> I wouldn't put logging into the Json helper, that's ugly. I would however
> rewrite it, so it doesn't exit.
>
> I replaced the Redirector helper with my own Goto helper, which does
> something like:
> --
> $this->getResponse()->setRedirect($url, $this->getCode());
> Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('ViewRenderer')->setNoRender();
> Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('Layout')->disableLayout();
> --
> You can probably do something similar. Just modify the response and disable
> viewrenderer and layout.
>
> I would do the actual logging in a controller plugin (not helper!). That way
> it's more pluggable.
>
> Regards,
> Jaka Jancar
>
>
> On 8. Sep 2008, at 20:15, Jake McGraw wrote:
>
>
>
> Hello all, bit of a problem, not sure how to resolve it.
>
> We've developed a RESTful JSON API using Zend Framework MVC. The API
> makes heavy use of the Zend_View_Helper_Json object, each controller,
> which represents a separate resource does the following when its done
> processing:
>
> $this->_helper->json( $data );
>
> All of this was fine and dandy, until it was decided that we need
> logging to record every request/response to the API. I setup a
> BaseController which logs the request during preDispatch. Now, my
> problem is that directly calling $this->_helper->json( $data ) sends
> the response and exits, so, postDispatch never occurs. I've tried to
> resolve this by extending Zend_View_Helper_Json as follows:
>
> class BaseHelperJson extends Zend_View_Helper_Json
> {
> public function json( $data, $keepLayouts = false )
> {
> // ... Do some logging ...
> parent::json( $data, $keepLayouts );
> }
> }
>
> Then during init() I tried replacing the Zend Json Helper with my own...
>
> public function init()
> {
> // Do some init...
>
> $this->_helper->removeHelper('json');
> $this->_helper->addHelper(new BaseHelperJson());
>
> // Whoops, how do I reference BaseHelperJson??
> }
>
> This causes an error because addHelper() expects
> Zend_View_Helper_Abstract... regardless, I wouldn't know how to
> reference my custom helper as $this->_helper->json anyway. So my
> question: is there any way to resolve this using OOP or Zend MVC magic
> or will I have to go through each controller and replace
> $this->_helper->json with something that plays nice with the
> dispatcher?
>
> - jake
>
>
>
>
> --
> Christoph Dorn
> http://www.ChristophDorn.com/
