I came accross a post of Matthew Weier about exactly the same problem:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16674.html
What I wish to do is currently impossible due to a lack in the dispatch
process.
Maybe I'll move my code in an ActionHelper.
debussy007 wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> When throwing the exception it seems that the request will still be
> executed and then additionally the errorController will be executed.
>
> Is something like this
> throw new My_Exception_AccessDenied('Access Denied.');
> not sufficient from the preDispatch() ?
>
>
>
>
>
> Jurian Sluiman wrote:
>>
>> Op Monday 24 August 2009 01:13:36 schreef debussy007:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a plugin checking in the preDispatch() method if the user (role)
>>> may
>>> have access to the requested resource.
>>> If not, I will display an error message 'Access Denied'.
>>> I detect if the request was Ajax, in this case, I'll have to send the
>>> message through Json:
>>>
>>>
>>> if($this->_request->isXmlHttpRequest()) {
>>> echo Zend_Json::encode( array('success' => false, 'msg' => 'Access
>>> denied.') );
>>> die();
>>> }
>>>
>>> If I don't use die(), the request will continue its way and go to some
>>> method, probably displaying also Json. But the access should be denied
>>> and
>>> nothing should be printed afterwards.
>>>
>>> Is die() a good way of doing this or is there a more proper way ?
>>>
>>> Thank you !!
>>
>> If you throw an Zend_Controller_Action_Exception you get a 404: not
>> found. If
>> you throw some other exceptions, you get a 500: server error. I extended
>> the
>> error plugin by recognizing My_Acl_Exception. It will return a 403:
>> Forbidden
>> error.
>>
>> Your error controller might have a AJAX context switch for all AJAX calls
>> (and
>> such: might be able to return 404's and 500's as well).
>>
>> Regards, Jurian
>> --
>> Jurian Sluiman
>> Soflomo.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
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