Render Output Module

[sandio]

Core module for rendering output consisting of:

• Adapters
  • [x] Smarty
  • [ ] JSON
• [x] Caching support

[pnikolov]

@kmotsov can you elaborate on the way such JSON adapter should render? Can you illustrate with a code a sample usage of the Adapter?

[ghost]

According to me for now it should be a pretty simple adapter.

Some general behaviour as I see it:

• If output is set explicitly the adapter should not make any changes to it.

• Otherwise the adapter should work exactly as a smarty adapter

  • Render the corresponding view with json.tpl extension
  • All assigned variables in the action should be available in the view
  • A smarty helper function will be created, that should be able to support the following usages:

  {if $params.orders eq true}
      {json from = $customers, fields = ['id', 'name'], item = customer}
          {if $item->has_orders}
              {json $item->orders, ['id', 'price']}
          {/if}
      {/json}
  {else}
       {json from = $customers, fields = ['id', 'name']}{/json}
  {/if}

• Not sure if this is possible in the current structure, but ideally the adapter should set a response header Content-Type to the value of an instance variable (called for example content_type) of the adapter that should default to application\json and should be changeable in the controller's action.

[pnikolov]

Latest version includes rendering module. The JSON adapter can be dispatched to another issue.