1 package SL::Controller::Base;
5 use parent qw(Rose::Object);
9 use List::Util qw(first);
11 use SL::Request qw(flatten);
12 use SL::MoreCommon qw(uri_encode);
15 use Rose::Object::MakeMethods::Generic
17 scalar => [ qw(action_name) ],
18 'scalar --get_set_init' => [ qw(js) ],
22 # public/helper functions
28 return $_[0] if (scalar(@_) == 1) && !ref($_[0]);
30 my %params = ref($_[0]) eq 'HASH' ? %{ $_[0] } : @_;
31 my $controller = delete($params{controller}) || $self->controller_name;
32 my $action = $params{action} || 'dispatch';
33 my $fragment = delete $params{fragment};
36 if ($controller =~ m/\.pl$/) {
37 # Old-style controller
38 $script = $controller;
40 $params{action} = "${controller}/${action}";
41 $script = "controller.pl";
44 my $query = join '&', map { uri_encode($_->[0]) . '=' . uri_encode($_->[1]) } @{ flatten(\%params) };
46 return "${script}?${query}" . (defined $fragment ? "#$fragment" : '');
51 my $url = $self->url_for(@_);
53 if ($self->delay_flash_on_redirect) {
54 require SL::Helper::Flash;
55 SL::Helper::Flash::delay_flash();
58 return $self->render(SL::ClientJS->new->redirect_to($url)) if $::request->is_ajax;
60 print $::request->{cgi}->redirect($url);
66 my ($options, %locals) = (@_ && ref($_[0])) ? @_ : ({ }, @_);
68 # Special handling/shortcut for an instance of SL::ClientJS:
69 return $self->render(\$template->to_json, { type => 'json' }) if ref($template) eq 'SL::ClientJS';
71 # Set defaults for all available options.
79 $options->{$_} //= $defaults{$_} for keys %defaults;
80 $options->{type} = lc $options->{type};
82 # Check supplied options for validity.
83 foreach (keys %{ $options }) {
84 croak "Unsupported option: $_" unless $defaults{$_};
87 # Only certain types are supported.
88 croak "Unsupported type: " . $options->{type} unless $options->{type} =~ m/^(?:html|js|json|text)$/;
90 # The "template" argument must be a string or a reference to one.
91 $template = ${ $template } if ((ref($template) || '') eq 'REF') && (ref(${ $template }) eq 'SL::Presenter::EscapedText');
92 croak "Unsupported 'template' reference type: " . ref($template) if ref($template) && (ref($template) !~ m/^(?:SCALAR|SL::Presenter::EscapedText)$/);
94 # If all output is turned off then don't output the header either.
95 if (!$options->{output}) {
96 $options->{header} = 0;
97 $options->{layout} = 0;
100 # Layout only makes sense if we're outputting HTML.
101 $options->{layout} = 0 if $options->{type} ne 'html';
104 # Let the presenter do the rest of the work.
107 local $::form->{title} = $locals{title} if $locals{title};
108 $output = $self->presenter->render(
110 { type => $options->{type}, process => $options->{process} },
116 if ($options->{header}) {
117 # Output the HTTP response and the layout in case of HTML output.
119 if ($options->{layout}) {
120 $::form->{title} = $locals{title} if $locals{title};
124 # No layout: just the standard HTTP response. Also notify
125 # $::form that the header has already been output so that
126 # $::form->header() won't output it again.
127 $::form->{header} = 1;
128 my $content_type = $options->{type} eq 'html' ? 'text/html'
129 : $options->{type} eq 'js' ? 'text/javascript'
130 : $options->{type} eq 'text' ? 'text/plain'
131 : 'application/json';
133 print $::form->create_http_response(content_type => $content_type,
138 # Print the output if wanted.
139 print $output if $options->{output};
145 my ($self, $file_name_or_content, %params) = @_;
149 if (!ref $file_name_or_content) {
150 $file = IO::File->new($file_name_or_content, 'r') || croak("Cannot open file '${file_name_or_content}'");
151 $size = -s $file_name_or_content;
153 $size = length $$file_name_or_content;
156 my $content_type = $params{type} || 'application/octet_stream';
157 my $attachment_name = $params{name} || (!ref($file_name_or_content) ? $file_name_or_content : '');
158 $attachment_name =~ s:.*//::g;
160 if ($::request->is_ajax || $params{ajax}) {
161 my $octets = ref $file_name_or_content ? $file_name_or_content : \ do { local $/ = undef; <$file> };
162 $self->js->save_file(MIME::Base64::encode_base64($$octets), $content_type, $size, $attachment_name);
163 $self->js->render unless $params{js_no_render};
165 print $::form->create_http_response(content_type => $content_type,
166 content_disposition => 'attachment; filename="' . $attachment_name . '"',
167 content_length => $size);
169 if (!ref $file_name_or_content) {
170 $::locale->with_raw_io(\*STDOUT, sub { print while <$file> });
172 unlink $file_name_or_content if $params{unlink};
174 $::locale->with_raw_io(\*STDOUT, sub { print $$file_name_or_content });
182 return SL::Presenter->get;
185 sub controller_name {
186 my $class = ref($_[0]) || $_[0];
187 $class =~ s/^SL::Controller:://;
192 SL::ClientJS->new(controller => $_[0])
196 # Before/after run hooks
200 _add_hook('before', @_);
204 _add_hook('after', @_);
210 my ($when, $class, $sub, %params) = @_;
212 foreach my $key (qw(only except)) {
213 $params{$key} = { map { ( $_ => 1 ) } @{ $params{$key} } } if $params{$key};
216 my $idx = "${when}/${class}";
217 $hooks{$idx} ||= [ ];
218 push @{ $hooks{$idx} }, { %params, code => $sub };
222 my ($self, $when, $action) = @_;
224 my $idx = "${when}/" . ref($self);
226 foreach my $hook (@{ $hooks{$idx} || [] }) {
227 next if ($hook->{only } && !$hook->{only }->{$action})
228 || ($hook->{except} && $hook->{except}->{$action});
230 if (ref($hook->{code}) eq 'CODE') {
231 $hook->{code}->($self, $action);
233 my $sub = $hook->{code};
234 $self->$sub($action);
240 # behaviour. override these
243 sub delay_flash_on_redirect {
248 # Ignore the 'action' parameter.
252 sub keep_auth_vars_in_form {
257 # private functions -- for use in Base only
263 my $sub = "action_${action}";
265 return $self->_dispatch(@_) if $action eq 'dispatch';
267 $::form->error("Invalid action '${action}' for controller " . ref($self)) if !$self->can($sub);
269 $self->action_name($action);
270 $self->_run_hooks('before', $action);
272 $self->_run_hooks('after', $action);
279 my @actions = map { s/^action_//; $_ } grep { m/^action_/ } keys %{ ref($self) . "::" };
280 my $action = first { $::form->{"action_${_}"} } @actions;
281 my $sub = "action_${action}";
283 if ($self->can($sub)) {
284 $self->action_name($action);
285 $self->_run_hooks('before', $action);
287 $self->_run_hooks('after', $action);
289 $::form->error($::locale->text('Oops. No valid action found to dispatch. Please report this case to the kivitendo team.'));
299 SL::Controller::Base - base class for all action controllers
305 This is a base class for all action controllers. Action controllers
306 provide subs that are callable by special URLs.
308 For each request made to the web server an instance of the controller
309 will be created. After the request has been served that instance will
310 handed over to garbage collection.
312 This base class is derived from L<Rose::Object>.
316 The URLs have the following properties:
322 The script part of the URL must be C<controller.pl>.
326 There must be a GET or POST parameter named C<action> containing the
327 name of the controller and the sub to call separated by C</>,
328 e.g. C<Message/list>.
332 The controller name is the package's name without the
333 C<SL::Controller::> prefix. At the moment only packages in the
334 C<SL::Controller> namespace are valid; sub-namespaces are not
335 allowed. The package name must start with an upper-case letter.
339 The sub part of the C<action> parameter is the name of the sub to
340 call. However, the sub's name is automatically prefixed with
341 C<action_>. Therefore for the example C<Message/list> the sub
342 C<SL::DB::Message::action_list> would be called. This in turn means
343 that subs whose name does not start with C<action_> cannot be invoked
344 directly via the URL.
348 =head2 INDIRECT DISPATCHING
350 In the case that there are several submit buttons on a page it is
351 often impractical to have a single C<action> parameter match up
352 properly. For such a case a special dispatcher method is available. In
353 that case the C<action> parameter of the URL must be
354 C<Controller/dispatch>.
356 The C<SL::Controller::Base::_dispatch> method will iterate over all
357 subs in the controller package whose names start with C<action_>. The
358 first one for which there's a GET or POST parameter with the same name
359 and that's trueish is called.
361 Usage from a template usually looks like this:
363 <form method="POST" action="controller.pl">
365 <input type="hidden" name="action" value="Message/dispatch">
366 <input type="submit" name="action_mark_as_read" value="Mark messages as read">
367 <input type="submit" name="action_delete" value="Delete messages">
370 The dispatching is handled by the function L</_dispatch>.
374 Hooks are functions that are called before or after the controller's
375 action is called. The controller package defines the hooks, and those
376 hooks themselves are run as instance methods.
378 Hooks are run in the order they're added.
380 The hooks receive a single parameter: the name of the action that is
381 about to be called (for C<before> hooks) / was called (for C<after>
384 The return value of the hooks is discarded.
386 Hooks can be defined to run for all actions, for only specific actions
387 or for all actions except a list of actions. Each entry is the action
388 name, not the sub's name. Therefore in order to run a hook before one
389 of the subs C<action_edit> or C<action_save> is called the following
392 __PACKAGE__->run_before('things_to_do_before_edit_and_save', only => [ 'edit', 'save' ]);
396 =head2 PUBLIC HELPER FUNCTIONS
398 These functions are supposed to be called by sub-classed controllers.
402 =item C<render $template, [ $options, ] %locals>
404 Renders the template C<$template>. Provides other variables than
405 C<Form::parse_html_template> does.
407 C<$options>, if present, must be a hash reference. All remaining
408 parameters are slurped into C<%locals>.
410 What is rendered and how C<$template> is interpreted is determined
411 both by C<$template>'s reference type and by the supplied options. The
412 actual rendering is handled by L<SL::Presenter/render>.
414 If C<$template> is a normal scalar (not a reference) then it is meant
415 to be a template file name relative to the C<templates/webpages>
416 directory. The file name to use is determined by the C<type> option.
418 If C<$template> is a reference to a scalar then the referenced
419 scalar's content is used as the content to process. The C<type> option
420 is not considered in this case.
422 C<$template> can also be an instance of L<SL::Presenter::EscapedText>
423 or a reference to such an instance. Both of these cases are handled
424 the same way as if C<$template> were a reference to a scalar: its
425 content is processed, and C<type> is not considered.
427 Other reference types, unknown options and unknown arguments to the
428 C<type> option cause the function to L<croak>.
430 The following options are available (defaults: C<type> = 'html',
431 C<process> = 1, C<output> = 1, C<header> = 1, C<layout> = 1):
437 The template type. Can be C<html> (the default), C<js> for JavaScript,
438 C<json> for JSON and C<text> for plain text content. Affects the
439 extension that's added to the file name given with a non-reference
440 C<$template> argument, the content type HTTP header that is output and
441 whether or not the layout will be output as well (see description of
446 If trueish (which is also the default) it causes the template/content
447 to be processed by the Template toolkit. Otherwise the
448 template/content is output as-is.
452 If trueish (the default) then the generated output will be sent to the
453 browser in addition to being returned. If falsish then the options
454 C<header> and C<layout> are set to 0 as well.
458 Determines whether or not to output the HTTP response
459 headers. Defaults to the same value that C<output> is set to. If set
460 to falsish then the layout is not output either.
464 Determines whether or not the basic HTML layout structure should be
465 output (HTML header, common JavaScript and stylesheet inclusions, menu
466 etc.). Defaults to 0 if C<type> is not C<html> and to the same value
467 C<header> is set to otherwise.
471 The template itself has access to several variables. These are listed
472 in the documentation to L<SL::Presenter/render>.
474 The function will always return the output.
476 Example: Render a HTML template with a certain title and a few locals
478 $self->render('todo/list',
479 title => 'List TODO items',
480 TODO_ITEMS => SL::DB::Manager::Todo->get_all_sorted);
482 Example: Render a string and return its content for further processing
483 by the calling function. No header is generated due to C<output>.
485 my $content = $self->render(\'[% USE JavaScript %][% JavaScript.replace_with("#someid", "js/something") %]',
488 Example: Render a JavaScript template
489 "templates/webpages/todo/single_item.js" and send it to the
490 browser. Typical use for actions called via AJAX:
492 $self->render('todo/single_item', { type => 'js' },
493 item => $employee->most_important_todo_item);
495 =item C<send_file $file_name_or_content, [%params]>
497 Sends the file C<$file_name_or_content> to the browser including
498 appropriate HTTP headers for a download. If C<$file_name_or_content>
499 is a scalar then it is interpreted as a file name which is opened and
500 whose content is sent. Otherwise (C<$file_name_or_content> being a
501 reference) the referenced scalar's data itself is sent.
503 C<%params> can include the following:
507 =item * C<type> -- the file's content type; defaults to
508 'application/octet_stream'
510 =item * C<name> -- the name presented to the browser; defaults to
511 C<$file_name>; mandatory if C<$file_name_or_content> is a reference
513 =item * C<unlink> -- if trueish and C<$file_name_or_content> refers to
514 a file name then unlink the file after it has been sent to the browser
515 (e.g. for temporary files)
519 =item C<url_for $url>
521 =item C<url_for $params>
523 =item C<url_for %params>
525 Creates an URL for the given parameters suitable for calling an action
526 controller. If there's only one scalar parameter then it is returned
529 Otherwise the parameters are given either as a single hash ref
530 parameter or as a normal hash.
532 The controller to call is given by C<$params{controller}>. It defaults
533 to the current controller as returned by
536 The action to call is given by C<$params{action}>. It defaults to
539 If C<$params{fragment}> is present, it's used as the fragment of the resulting
542 All other key/value pairs in C<%params> are appended as GET parameters
545 Usage from a template might look like this:
547 <a href="[% SELF.url_for(controller => 'Message', action => 'new', recipient_id => 42) %]">create new message</a>
549 =item C<redirect_to %url_params>
551 Redirects the browser to a new URL. The URL is generated by calling
552 L</url_for> with C<%url_params>.
554 This function implements the redirection depending on whether or not
555 the current request is an AJAX request as determined by
556 L<SL::Request/is_ajax>. If it is a normal request then it outputs a
557 standard HTTP redirect header (HTTP code 302). If it is an AJAX
558 request then it outputs an AJAX response suitable for the
559 C<kivi.eval_json_result> function from the L<SL::ClientJS> module.
561 =item C<run_before $sub, %params>
563 =item C<run_after $sub, %params>
565 Adds a hook to run before or after certain actions are run for the
566 current package. The code to run is C<$sub> which is either the name
567 of an instance method or a code reference. If it's the latter then the
568 first parameter will be C<$self>.
570 C<%params> can contain two possible values that restrict the code to
571 be run only for certain actions:
575 =item C<< only => \@list >>
577 Only run the code for actions given in C<@list>. The entries are the
578 action names, not the names of the sub (so it's C<list> instead of
581 =item C<< except => \@list >>
583 Run the code for all actions but for those given in C<@list>. The
584 entries are the action names, not the names of the sub (so it's
585 C<list> instead of C<action_list>).
589 If neither restriction is used then the code will be run for any
592 The hook's return values are discarded.
594 =item C<delay_flash_on_redirect>
596 May be overridden by a controller. If this method returns true, redirect_to
597 will delay all flash messages for the current request. Defaults to false for
598 compatibility reasons.
600 =item C<get_auth_level $action>
602 May be overridden by a controller. Determines what kind of
603 authentication is required for a particular action. Must return either
604 C<admin> (which means that authentication as an admin is required),
605 C<user> (authentication as a normal user suffices) with a possible
606 future value C<none> (which would require no authentication but is not
609 =item C<keep_auth_vars_in_form %params>
611 May be overridden by a controller. If falsish (the default) all form
612 variables whose name starts with C<{AUTH}> are removed before the
613 request is routed. Only controllers that handle login requests
614 themselves should return trueish for this function.
616 C<$params{action}> contains the action name that the request will be
619 =item C<controller_name>
621 Returns the name of the curernt controller package without the
622 C<SL::Controller::> prefix. This method can be called both as a class
623 method and an instance method.
627 Returns the name of the currently executing action. If the dispatcher
628 mechanism was used then this is not C<dispatch> but the actual method
629 name the dispatching resolved to.
633 Returns the global presenter object by calling
634 L<SL::Presenter/get>.
638 Returns an L<SL::ClientJS> instance for this controller.
642 =head2 PRIVATE FUNCTIONS
644 These functions are supposed to be used from this base class only.
650 Implements the method lookup for indirect dispatching mentioned in the
651 section L</INDIRECT DISPATCHING>.
653 =item C<_run_action $action>
655 Executes a sub based on the value of C<$action>. C<$action> is the sub
656 name part of the C<action> GET or POST parameter as described in
659 If C<$action> equals C<dispatch> then the sub L</_dispatch> in this
660 base class is called for L</INDIRECT DISPATCHING>. Otherwise
661 C<$action> is prefixed with C<action_>, and that sub is called on the
662 current controller instance.
668 Moritz Bunkus E<lt>m.bunkus@linet-services.deE<gt>