ExtJS ext.data.jsonwriter and cakephp

Sun, 03/14/2010 - 21:23 — sham

Just spent quite abit of time getting an EditorGrid properly creating and updating rows automagically using Ext Writer. Except it wasn't so magical.
Notes:
- Create requires success: true and then the created record (including the id).
Use this snippet:

echo '{"success":'.$success.', results:'.$javascript->Object($record).'}';

in the above results should be whatever your roots property is in your store reader config. For example:

                reader: new Ext.data.JsonReader({
                        totalProperty: 'total',
                        successProperty: 'success',
                        root: 'results',
                        idProperty: 'id', etc

Example of working create json string:

{"success":true, results:{"id":"47","jobId":"47","jobType":"7",
"partName":"0101012","partDescription":"3.0 Metre Crossover Network Cable",
"quantity":"1","price":"3.5"}}

Example of working update json string:

{success:true, id:11}

After an update you can use $this->MODELNAME->id to get the id for the json.
Destroy just needs

{success:true}

Read example (all records for grid):

{"total":2, "results":[{"id":"46","jobId":"47","jobType":"7",
"partName":"0101104","partDescription":"Dual Back Box","quantity":"1","price":"4.26"},{"id":"47","jobId":"47","jobType":"7",
"partName":"0101012","partDescription":"3.0 Metre Crossover Network Cable","quantity":"1","price":"3.5"}]}