I’m in the process of upgrading an API code base that has been in production since Laravel 5, and continues to evolve. The bulk of the update to version 8 went smoothly, but one breaking change that I couldn’t find documented anywhere held me up for some time this afternoon. A great many of the … [Read more…]
Recently I encountered a rather strange scenario, wherein I created two different findAll operations using the js-data-http adapter for a js-data query, only to see two identical network requests emitted. The root of the problem turned out to be that I was creating a single object to hold the query options and reusing it across requests, in … [Read more…]
While attempting to have Vue components react to changes in my js-data model instances and their relationships, I found a great post from Caleb Roseland with an accompanying code example. They detail how to make model properties reactive in Vue, without overriding js-data’s own reactivity. What they don’t discuss is how to make Vue react … [Read more…]
I sometimes find that it would be useful to use artisan tinker to play with the sorts of data that Faker will generate in a Laravel factory. Unfortunately I don’t do it often enough to always remember the correct way to do it, since the obvious new Faker\Generator doesn’t work. So for future reference, what you need is:
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>>> $faker = Faker\Factory::create(); |
TL;DR: Use the items validation keyword to specify the data type of the elements of arrays in your js-data schema to avoid unexpected results when serializing records, e.g. for saving. The setup I was using js-data v3 with a schema containing an array field recently, and came across some initially baffling behaviour. I had a fooSchema … [Read more…]
To allow users to clear the selection of an Ember Paper {{paper-select}} component, simply pass it the allowClear=true option:
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{{#paper-select placeholder="Select a thing..." required=false allowClear=true ... }} |
This option is passed along to the ember-power-select component that ember-paper uses under the hood, so the resulting clear button can be styled accordingly. For example,
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.ember-power-select-clear-btn { position: absolute; right: 25px; } |
Thanks to @miguelcobain for this tip on the community Slack channel.
Lumen-jwt is a great library that easily adds JavaScript Web Token (JWT) authentication to any Lumen application. I recently had the opportunity to submit my second pull request to the project, allowing user accounts to be uniquely identified via fields other than id, which was previously the only option. (As of this writing the PR has been … [Read more…]
The many-to-many example provided with the introduction of Mirage 0.3 lays out how to create many-to-many joins between specific instances of two models. It does this by hard coding the creation of a few books and a couple of authors, as well as the links between them, but stops short of using factories to generate such relationships … [Read more…]
I recently needed to add Access-Control-Allow-Origin headers to resources on an API developed with CakePHP. There’s a good description of how to accomplish this from ThinkingMedia in 2015, but it uses DispatcherFilters, which have since been deprecated in favour of Middleware. The $request and $response objects available to middleware have different interfaces than those retrieved from the event data in the … [Read more…]
I’m working on a CakePHP-based app that has multiple abstract base controller classes that inherit from AppController. The majority of the concrete controllers inherit from one of these abstract classes. I recently added the CakePHP/Acl plugin to the app, and was presented with the error
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Exception: Cannot instantiate abstract class App\Controller\MyAbstractController in [/apppath/vendor/cakephp/acl/src/AclExtras.php, line 433] |
when I tried to use the bin/cake acl_extras aco_sync command to generate ACOs … [Read more…]