Re: Little trick to return json

You could cut down your code by almost have and drop every second line when following the documentation regarding JsonView:

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/views/json-and-xml-views.html

No need to fight the framework and manually set response type and alike

Also, I highly recommend using /users.json as request url. 
This way you also trigger a lot of Cake magic as well. And you are down to none of your code above, as CakePHP would do all that for you right away.

See www.dereuromark.de/2014/01/09/ajax-and-cakephp

Am Dienstag, 21. Januar 2014 16:59:11 UTC+1 schrieb Rubensvsx:

Sorry for the poor english. 

I created a piece of code that solved my problem in returning a JSON object and helped me not to re-write all views. I await your feedback pros and cons.

 

class AppController extends Controller {
    public $components = array('RequestHandler');

 

    function beforeRender() {
        if ($this->RequestHandler->isAjax()) {
            $this->layout = 'ajax';
            $this->RequestHandler->setContent('json', 'application/json');
            $this->viewVars = json_encode($this->viewVars);
            return false;
        }
    }
}

If an Ajax request is performed automatically be returns a JSON object with the query result.

$.ajax({
url: "http://localhost/aplication/users",
type: "POST",
dataType: "json"
});

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