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Feb 17th 2020, 17:01 |
 chris301 |
we inherited this codebase, along with its problems, and have worked to make it a useable base - we are also behind on versions, due to other complications we’ve had along the way. it’s in the long term plan to update, but that hasn’t happened yet |
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Feb 17th 2020, 17:00 |
chris301 |
what we’re trying to do is separate out the concerns fully. as for replicating laravel with cake, theres things we’ve got in place to make our jobs easier but we know replicating laravel is nigh on impossible in cake |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:58 |
chris301 |
so we have many of those already in place |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:58 |
neon1024 |
`$this->Posts->find('newest')->find('byAuthor', ['author' => 'Dave'])->find('published');` |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:58 |
admad |
stop trying to replicate laravel with cake :) just state your problem and ask how to deal with it in cake |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:58 |
flashios09 |
```$this->Proposals->find('yourCustomFinderNameHere', ['id' => $proposalId]);``` |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:58 |
neon1024 |
..and they’re composable too which makes them very powerful |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:57 |
chris301 |
oooh - literally finders on the ORM |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:57 |
neon1024 |
https://book.cakephp.org/3/en/orm/retrieving-data-and-resultsets.html#custom-finder-methods |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:57 |
chris301 |
intrigued to know more… custom finder? |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:56 |
flashios09 |
> just copied and pasted all over the place, so we’re just trying to centralise it create a custom finder |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:56 |
admad |
@chris301 @dan874 Use custom finders |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:55 |
chris301 |
i don’t think it was me lol |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:54 |
chris301 |
:,) |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:54 |
neon1024 |
I used to work with a guy called Chris Miller |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:54 |
chris301 |
to give some idea (i work with @dan874) i’m looking at a line now that is using a 6 deep nested association |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:53 |
dan874 |
just copied and pasted all over the place, so we're just trying to centralise it |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:53 |
dan874 |
yeah so this codebase we've inherited has a lot of them with lots of associations |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:52 |
neon1024 |
Perhaps a custom finder could help somewhat if you have a find with associations you use frequently |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:52 |
admad |
> but what if you use that line in 30 different places? Use friendsofcake/crud :) |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:52 |
neon1024 |
It feels like doing more work than what you’re saving |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:52 |
neon1024 |
:thumbsdown: from me, sorry |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:51 |
dan874 |
so is the general consensus something like this not a good idea? |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:51 |
neon1024 |
That’s a PHP issue, not a Cake issue imho |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:51 |
neon1024 |
Set it’s result to a class property |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:51 |
dan874 |
but what if you use that line in 30 different places? |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:49 |
admad |
So much trouble to save 1 line of code: `$this->Foo->get($id)` |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:48 |
dan874 |
as it seems to kill the session in some way |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:48 |
neon1024 |
It also means if you need a bespoke entity, you’d have wasted that loading |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:48 |
dan874 |
i think the large entity is killing it |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:48 |
dan874 |
by that i mean the middleware |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:48 |
dan874 |
@neon1024 thats actually what we've done and i think thats whats causing the issue |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:48 |
neon1024 |
You could always abstract away the loading of the data into a table method if that was what the issue was |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:48 |
neon1024 |
I don’t really see any benefits to the approach either |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:47 |
neon1024 |
You could use a middleware perhaps, but you’d have to set the entity into the request, and with associated data I would worry about setting a large entity and associated data into the request, as the request is passed to so many places |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:46 |
neon1024 |
..but it wouldn’t allow it to be passed into the method |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:46 |
neon1024 |
You could use `beforeFilter()` for this, and set the found entity to a class property in the controller |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:46 |
flashios09 |
for some magic, i’m not sure but i think that you need to extend the controller and play with the invokeAction and the Reflection class |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:43 |
dan874 |
so instead of `int $proposal` the method could be `Proposal $proposal` |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:43 |
dan874 |
some magic to get the entity |
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Feb 17th 2020, 16:42 |
flashios09 |
here you want to add typehint or have some magic to get the proposal entity ? |