> Thanks Jamie for your interesting thoughts.
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Jamie <jamie....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > And since extending controllers beyond the AppController
> > relationship isn't really in the docs and not the "official" way to do
> > things, there probably hasn't been much impetus to change the
> > behavior.
>
> The beauty of modern languages and design patterns is the fact that
> many things work "automagically" (when I love something of CakePHP,
> then this word!). And beneath the fact that in the official docs
> nothing is documented that lies a bit above the very basic
> functionalities, I want to point out at least my own situation that
> has lead me into wishing an inheritance chain for controllers would be
> supported by CakePHP:
>
> I have two kinds of controllers. The first one are the well known
> CRUD-controllers that come with a certain model. I need certain
> components and helpers for those controllers loaded, and I could be
> attempted to place them in the AppController. So for an example, one
> of these components "XYZ" takes some action whenever the index()
> action is called.
> The second kind of controllers are all the other controllers that
> deliver non-CRUD-functionality, e.g. PagesController, SearchController
> or something like that. Now these controllers don't need the
> components of the CRUD-controllers, but when having them placed in
> AppController they automatically do! So this is unnecessary overhead,
> and also the XYZ component tries to do some action on every
> non-CRUD-controller's index() action that could cause problems.
> So this leads me to the situation where I have to either load all the
> CRUD-components not in the AppController but in every single
> CRUD-controller itself, or I have to check within the component
> whether the action should be executed or not. Both workarounds aren't
> very pretty and lead to duplicated and/or unclean code.
>
> So again: am I the only person who has ever faced this problem? Or is
> it another of those situations I pointed to some posts before...?
I think you're the first person to notice it and not think "oh, 2 secs
of editing and I can work on the next part of my problem".
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