Class RequestHandlerComponent

Request object for handling alternative HTTP requests

Alternative HTTP requests can come from wireless units like mobile phones, palmtop computers, and the like. These units have no use for AJAX requests, and this Component can tell how Cake should respond to the different needs of a handheld computer and a desktop machine.

Namespace: Cake\Controller\Component

Properties summary

$_componentMap protected

array

A component lookup table used to lazy load component objects.
$_config protected

array

Runtime config
$_configInitialized protected

bool

Whether the config property has already been configured with defaults
$_defaultConfig protected

array

Default config
$_registry protected

\Cake\Controller\ComponentRegistry

Component registry class used to lazy load components.
$_renderType protected

string|null

The template type to use when rendering the given content type.
$ajaxLayout public

string

Set the layout to be used when rendering the AuthComponent's ajaxLogin element.
$components public

array

Other Components this component uses.
$enabled public

bool
$ext public

string|null

Contains the file extension parsed out by the Router
$request public

\Cake\Http\ServerRequest

Request object
$response public

\Cake\Http\Response

Response object

Method Summary

__construct() public

Constructor. Parses the accepted content types accepted by the client using HTTP_ACCEPT
__debugInfo() public

Returns an array that can be used to describe the internal state of this object.
__get() public

Magic method for lazy loading $components.
_configDelete() protected

Deletes a single config key.
_configRead() protected

Reads a config key.
_configWrite() protected

Writes a config key.
_setExtension() protected

Set the extension based on the accept headers.
accepts() public

Determines which content types the client accepts. Acceptance is based on the file extension parsed by the Router (if present), and by the HTTP_ACCEPT header. Unlike Cake\Http\ServerRequest::accepts() this method deals entirely with mapped content types.
addInputType() public

Add a new mapped input type. Mapped input types are automatically converted by RequestHandlerComponent during the startup() callback.
beforeRedirect() public

Handles (fakes) redirects for AJAX requests using requestAction()
beforeRender() public

Checks if the response can be considered different according to the request headers, and the caching response headers. If it was not modified, then the render process is skipped. And the client will get a blank response with a "304 Not Modified" header.
config() public

Gets/Sets the config.
configShallow() public

Merge provided config with existing config. Unlike config() which does a recursive merge for nested keys, this method does a simple merge.
convertXml() public

Helper method to parse xml input data, due to lack of anonymous functions this lives here.
getConfig() public

Returns the config.
getConfigOrFail() public

Returns the config for this specific key.
getController() public

Get the controller this component is bound to.
implementedEvents() public

Events supported by this component.
initialize() public
isAtom() public

Returns true if the current call accepts an Atom response, false otherwise
isMobile() public

Returns true if user agent string matches a mobile web browser, or if the client accepts WAP content.
isRss() public

Returns true if the current call accepts an RSS response, false otherwise
isWap() public

Returns true if the client accepts WAP content
isXml() public

Returns true if the current call accepts an XML response, false otherwise
log() public

Convenience method to write a message to Log. See Log::write() for more information on writing to logs.
mapAlias() public

Maps a content type alias back to its mime-type(s)
prefers() public

Determines which content-types the client prefers. If no parameters are given, the single content-type that the client most likely prefers is returned. If $type is an array, the first item in the array that the client accepts is returned.
renderAs() public

Sets either the view class if one exists or the layout and template path of the view.
requestedWith() public

Determines the content type of the data the client has sent (i.e. in a POST request)
respondAs() public

Sets the response header based on type map index name. This wraps several methods available on Cake\Http\Response. It also allows you to use Content-Type aliases.
responseType() public

Returns the current response type (Content-type header), or null if not alias exists
setConfig() public

Sets the config.
startup() public

The startup method of the RequestHandler enables several automatic behaviors related to the detection of certain properties of the HTTP request, including:
viewClassMap() public

Getter/setter for viewClassMap

Method Detail

__construct() public

__construct(\Cake\Controller\ComponentRegistry $registry, array $config)

Constructor. Parses the accepted content types accepted by the client using HTTP_ACCEPT

Parameters

\Cake\Controller\ComponentRegistry $registry: ComponentRegistry object.
array $config optional: Array of config.

__debugInfo() public

__debugInfo()

Returns an array that can be used to describe the internal state of this object.

Returns

array

__get() public

__get(mixed $name)

Magic method for lazy loading $components.

Parameters

string $name: Name of component to get.

Returns

\Cake\Controller\Component|null

A Component object or null.

_configDelete() protected

_configDelete(mixed $key)

Deletes a single config key.

Parameters

string $key: Key to delete.

Throws

Cake\Core\Exception\Exception
if attempting to clobber existing config

_configRead() protected

_configRead(mixed $key)

Reads a config key.

Parameters

string|null $key: Key to read.

Returns

mixed

_configWrite() protected

_configWrite(mixed $key, mixed $value, mixed $merge)

Writes a config key.

Parameters

string|array $key: Key to write to.
mixed $value: Value to write.
bool|string $merge optional: True to merge recursively, 'shallow' for simple merge, false to overwrite, defaults to false.

Throws

Cake\Core\Exception\Exception
if attempting to clobber existing config

_setExtension() protected

_setExtension(mixed $request, mixed $response)

Set the extension based on the accept headers.

Compares the accepted types and configured extensions. If there is one common type, that is assigned as the ext/content type for the response. The type with the highest weight will be set. If the highest weight has more than one type matching the extensions, the order in which extensions are specified determines which type will be set.

If html is one of the preferred types, no content type will be set, this is to avoid issues with browsers that prefer HTML and several other content types.

Parameters

\Cake\Http\ServerRequest $request: The request instance.
\Cake\Http\Response $response: The response instance.

accepts() public

accepts(mixed $type)

Determines which content types the client accepts. Acceptance is based on the file extension parsed by the Router (if present), and by the HTTP_ACCEPT header. Unlike Cake\Http\ServerRequest::accepts() this method deals entirely with mapped content types.

Usage:

$this->RequestHandler->accepts(['xml', 'html', 'json']);

Returns true if the client accepts any of the supplied types.

$this->RequestHandler->accepts('xml');

Returns true if the client accepts xml.

Parameters

string|array|null $type optional: Can be null (or no parameter), a string type name, or an array of types

Returns

mixed

If null or no parameter is passed, returns an array of content types the client accepts. If a string is passed, returns true if the client accepts it. If an array is passed, returns true if the client accepts one or more elements in the array.

addInputType() public

addInputType(mixed $type, mixed $handler)

Add a new mapped input type. Mapped input types are automatically converted by RequestHandlerComponent during the startup() callback.

Parameters

string $type: The type alias being converted, ie. json
array $handler: The handler array for the type. The first index should be the handling callback, all other arguments should be additional parameters for the handler.

Throws

Cake\Core\Exception\Exception

beforeRedirect() public

beforeRedirect(\Cake\Event\Event $event, mixed $url, \Cake\Http\Response $response)

Handles (fakes) redirects for AJAX requests using requestAction()

Parameters

\Cake\Event\Event $event: The Controller.beforeRedirect event.
string|array $url: A string or array containing the redirect location
\Cake\Http\Response $response: The response object.

Returns

\Cake\Http\Response|null

The response object if the redirect is caught.

beforeRender() public

beforeRender(\Cake\Event\Event $event)

Checks if the response can be considered different according to the request headers, and the caching response headers. If it was not modified, then the render process is skipped. And the client will get a blank response with a "304 Not Modified" header.

If Router::extensions() is enabled, the layout and template type are switched based on the parsed extension or Accept header. For example, if controller/action.xml is requested, the view path becomes app/View/Controller/xml/action.ctp. Also if controller/action is requested with Accept: application/xml in the headers the view path will become app/View/Controller/xml/action.ctp. Layout and template types will only switch to mime-types recognized by Cake\Http\Response. If you need to declare additional mime-types, you can do so using Cake\Http\Response::type() in your controller's beforeFilter() method.
If a helper with the same name as the extension exists, it is added to the controller.
If the extension is of a type that RequestHandler understands, it will set that Content-type in the response header.

Parameters

\Cake\Event\Event $event: The Controller.beforeRender event.

Returns

bool

false if the render process should be aborted

Throws

Cake\Http\Exception\NotFoundException
If invoked extension is not configured.

config() public

config(mixed $key, mixed $value, mixed $merge)

Gets/Sets the config.

Usage

Reading the whole config:

$this->config();

Reading a specific value:

$this->config('key');

Reading a nested value:

$this->config('some.nested.key');

Setting a specific value:

$this->config('key', $value);

Setting a nested value:

$this->config('some.nested.key', $value);

Updating multiple config settings at the same time:

$this->config(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);

Parameters

string|array|null $key optional: The key to get/set, or a complete array of configs.
mixed|null $value optional: The value to set.
bool $merge optional: Whether to recursively merge or overwrite existing config, defaults to true.

Returns

mixed

Config value being read, or the object itself on write operations.

Throws

Cake\Core\Exception\Exception
When trying to set a key that is invalid.

configShallow() public

configShallow(mixed $key, mixed $value)

Merge provided config with existing config. Unlike config() which does a recursive merge for nested keys, this method does a simple merge.

Setting a specific value:

$this->configShallow('key', $value);

Setting a nested value:

$this->configShallow('some.nested.key', $value);

Updating multiple config settings at the same time:

$this->configShallow(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);

Parameters

string|array $key: The key to set, or a complete array of configs.
mixed|null $value optional: The value to set.

Returns

$this

convertXml() public

convertXml(mixed $xml)

Helper method to parse xml input data, due to lack of anonymous functions this lives here.

Parameters

string $xml: XML string.

Returns

array

Xml array data

getConfig() public

getConfig(mixed $key, mixed $default)

Returns the config.

Usage

Reading the whole config:

$this->getConfig();

Reading a specific value:

$this->getConfig('key');

Reading a nested value:

$this->getConfig('some.nested.key');

Reading with default value:

$this->getConfig('some-key', 'default-value');

Parameters

string|null $key optional: The key to get or null for the whole config.
mixed|null $default optional: The return value when the key does not exist.

Returns

mixed|null

Configuration data at the named key or null if the key does not exist.

getConfigOrFail() public

getConfigOrFail(mixed $key)

Returns the config for this specific key.

The config value for this key must exist, it can never be null.

Parameters

string|null $key: The key to get.

Returns

mixed

Configuration data at the named key

Throws

InvalidArgumentException

getController() public

getController()

Get the controller this component is bound to.

Returns

\Cake\Controller\Controller

The bound controller.

implementedEvents() public

implementedEvents()

Events supported by this component.

Returns

array

initialize() public

initialize(array $config)

Parameters

array $config: The config data.

isAtom() public

isAtom()

Returns true if the current call accepts an Atom response, false otherwise

Returns

bool

True if client accepts an Atom response

isMobile() public

isMobile()

Returns true if user agent string matches a mobile web browser, or if the client accepts WAP content.

Returns

bool

True if user agent is a mobile web browser

isRss() public

isRss()

Returns true if the current call accepts an RSS response, false otherwise

Returns

bool

True if client accepts an RSS response

isWap() public

isWap()

Returns true if the client accepts WAP content

Returns

bool

isXml() public

isXml()

Returns true if the current call accepts an XML response, false otherwise

Returns

bool

True if client accepts an XML response

log() public

log(mixed $message, mixed $level, mixed $context)

Convenience method to write a message to Log. See Log::write() for more information on writing to logs.

Parameters

mixed $message: Log message.
int|string $level optional: Error level.
string|array $context optional: Additional log data relevant to this message.

Returns

bool

Success of log write.

mapAlias() public

mapAlias(mixed $alias)

Maps a content type alias back to its mime-type(s)

Parameters

string|array $alias: String alias to convert back into a content type. Or an array of aliases to map.

Returns

string|array|null

Null on an undefined alias. String value of the mapped alias type. If an alias maps to more than one content type, the first one will be returned. If an array is provided for $alias, an array of mapped types will be returned.

prefers() public

prefers(mixed $type)

Determines which content-types the client prefers. If no parameters are given, the single content-type that the client most likely prefers is returned. If $type is an array, the first item in the array that the client accepts is returned.

Preference is determined primarily by the file extension parsed by the Router if provided, and secondarily by the list of content-types provided in HTTP_ACCEPT.

Parameters

string|array|null $type optional: An optional array of 'friendly' content-type names, i.e. 'html', 'xml', 'js', etc.

Returns

mixed

If $type is null or not provided, the first content-type in the list, based on preference, is returned. If a single type is provided a boolean will be returned if that type is preferred. If an array of types are provided then the first preferred type is returned. If no type is provided the first preferred type is returned.

renderAs() public

renderAs(\Cake\Controller\Controller $controller, mixed $type, array $options)

Sets either the view class if one exists or the layout and template path of the view.

The names of these are derived from the $type input parameter.

Usage:

Render the response as an 'ajax' response.

$this->RequestHandler->renderAs($this, 'ajax');

Render the response as an xml file and force the result as a file download.

$this->RequestHandler->renderAs($this, 'xml', ['attachment' => 'myfile.xml'];

Parameters

\Cake\Controller\Controller $controller: A reference to a controller object
string $type: Type of response to send (e.g: 'ajax')
array $options optional: Array of options to use

requestedWith() public

requestedWith(mixed $type)

Determines the content type of the data the client has sent (i.e. in a POST request)

Parameters

string|array|null $type optional: Can be null (or no parameter), a string type name, or an array of types

Returns

mixed

If a single type is supplied a boolean will be returned. If no type is provided The mapped value of CONTENT_TYPE will be returned. If an array is supplied the first type in the request content type will be returned.

respondAs() public

respondAs(mixed $type, array $options)

Sets the response header based on type map index name. This wraps several methods available on Cake\Http\Response. It also allows you to use Content-Type aliases.

Parameters

string|array $type: Friendly type name, i.e. 'html' or 'xml', or a full content-type, like 'application/x-shockwave'.
array $options optional: If $type is a friendly type name that is associated with more than one type of content, $index is used to select which content-type to use.

Returns

bool

Returns false if the friendly type name given in $type does not exist in the type map, or if the Content-type header has already been set by this method.

responseType() public

responseType()

Returns the current response type (Content-type header), or null if not alias exists

Returns

mixed

A string content type alias, or raw content type if no alias map exists, otherwise null

setConfig() public

setConfig(mixed $key, mixed $value, mixed $merge)

Sets the config.

Usage

Setting a specific value:

$this->setConfig('key', $value);

Setting a nested value:

$this->setConfig('some.nested.key', $value);

Updating multiple config settings at the same time:

$this->setConfig(['one' => 'value', 'another' => 'value']);

Parameters

string|array $key: The key to set, or a complete array of configs.
mixed|null $value optional: The value to set.
bool $merge optional: Whether to recursively merge or overwrite existing config, defaults to true.

Returns

$this

Throws

Cake\Core\Exception\Exception
When trying to set a key that is invalid.

startup() public

startup(\Cake\Event\Event $event)

The startup method of the RequestHandler enables several automatic behaviors related to the detection of certain properties of the HTTP request, including:

If the XML data is POSTed, the data is parsed into an XML object, which is assigned to the $data property of the controller, which can then be saved to a model object.

Parameters

\Cake\Event\Event $event: The startup event that was fired.

viewClassMap() public

viewClassMap(mixed $type, mixed $viewClass)

Getter/setter for viewClassMap

Parameters

array|string|null $type optional: The type string or array with format ['type' => 'viewClass'] to map one or more
array|null $viewClass optional: The viewClass to be used for the type without View appended

Returns

array|string

Returns viewClass when only string $type is set, else array with viewClassMap

Property Detail

`$_componentMap` protected

A component lookup table used to lazy load component objects.

Type

array

`$_config` protected

Runtime config

Type

array

`$_configInitialized` protected

Whether the config property has already been configured with defaults

Type

bool

`$_defaultConfig` protected

Default config

These are merged with user-provided config when the component is used.

checkHttpCache - Whether to check for HTTP cache.
viewClassMap - Mapping between type and view classes. If undefined json, xml, and ajax will be mapped. Defining any types will omit the defaults.
inputTypeMap - A mapping between types and deserializers for request bodies. If undefined json & xml will be mapped. Defining any types will omit the defaults.
enableBeforeRedirect - Set to false to disable the beforeRedirect callback. The beforeRedirect functionality has been deprecated.

Type

array

`$_registry` protected

Component registry class used to lazy load components.

Type

\Cake\Controller\ComponentRegistry

`$_renderType` protected

The template type to use when rendering the given content type.

Type

string|null

`$ajaxLayout` public

Set the layout to be used when rendering the AuthComponent's ajaxLogin element.

Type

string

`$components` public

Other Components this component uses.

Type

array

`$enabled` public

Type

bool

`$ext` public

Contains the file extension parsed out by the Router

Deprecated as of 3.7.0. This property will be made protected in 4.0.0.

Type

string|null

`$request` public

Request object

Type

\Cake\Http\ServerRequest

`$response` public

Response object

Type

\Cake\Http\Response

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