Re: get output controller from another controller

I don't know if this is all you need but these might help:

$this->response->type('xml');
$this->viewPath = 'events';
$this->view = 'view'; // assuming app/views/events/view.ctp

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Christophe Vandeplas
<christophe@vandeplas.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> ( using CakePHP 2.1 )
> I'm building an application that synchronizes data between different
> instances of my application. (download and upload)
>
> My application is REST enabled and thus I can call controller actions
> from external applications and get the result in clean xml. However it
> is not only a REST server, but also a REST client.
>
> Downloading data from the other instance is easy. I do a $xml =
> Xml::build($xmlurl); and process the $xml variable to import
> everything into my database. Perfect.
>
> However I am stuck in the other direction: Uploading data.
> I could simply do a $xmldata = Xml::fromArray($event)->asXML() however
> there is some cleaning to be done. This cleaning is what I do in my
> REST view as my REST clients should see the same xml as what I'm
> uploading to the other instance.
> So if I already do all the work in my rest view, why recoding exactly
> the same filtering?
>
> The url /events/view/5.xml  calls  EventsController->view(5) with XML
> layout and outputs everything in XML, exactly as I want it.
>
> I have a ServersController->push() function.
> This function needs to do get the same output as /events/view/5.xml ,
> and upload it using a REST POST request to the other instance.
>
> You could say I could simply call the /events/view/5.xml page using an
> HTTP request from the application.
> However it seems absurd as i) it seems absurd (and inefficient/slow)
> to do HTTP requests to yourself to extract data and ii) I have
> authentication on my REST calls which makes it a lot more difficult.
>
> I tried with :
> $eventsController = new EventsController();
> $eventsController->set('event', $event);
> $view = new View($eventsController);
> $viewdata = $view->render('view');
>
> But this only outputs the data in HTML, and not XML.
> I tried to play with the CakeResponse object in that newly created
> $eventsController, but that doesn't work. (there are no request or
> response instances created, and creating them myself doesn't work)
>
>
> So my question is:
> What is the best way to get the output of /events/view/5.xml
> (EventsController->view(5) ) inside another controller ?
>
>
> Thanks for your expertise.
> Christophe
>
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