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Clearing an Ember Paper select component

2017-09-01 / Leave a Comment

To allow users to clear the selection of an Ember Paper {{paper-select}} component, simply pass it the allowClear=true option:

{{#paper-select
    placeholder="Select a thing..."
    required=false
    allowClear=true
    ...
}}

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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,

.ember-power-select-clear-btn {
  position: absolute;
  right: 25px;
}

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.ember-power-select-clear-btn {

position: absolute;

right: 25px;

}

Thanks to @miguelcobain for this tip on the community Slack channel.

Primary keys other than “id” in lumen-jwt

2017-06-20 / Leave a Comment

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…]

Many-to-many relationships in Ember CLI Mirage factories

2017-03-27 / 1 Comment

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…]

Responding to HTTP OPTIONS requests in CakePHP

2017-02-28 / Leave a Comment

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…]

Abstract app controllers and the CakePHP ACL plugin

2016-12-06 / Leave a Comment

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

Exception: Cannot instantiate abstract class App\Controller\MyAbstractController in [/apppath/vendor/cakephp/acl/src/AclExtras.php, line 433]

1	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…]

Adding many-to-many joins in CakePHP with newEntity

2016-11-26 / Leave a Comment

To allow CakePHP 3 to add entries to many-to-many join tables when creating or patching entities, the names of the associations must be added to the array of accessible concrete properties on the model. The documentation does mention this fact eventually, as a note in the “Patching HasMany and BelongsToMany” section, but not as part of … [Read more…]

Testing routes with Laravel-Localization

2016-03-16 / 7 Comments

I recently added the Laravel-Localization package (with Laravel 5.2) to a project I’m working on. Initial setup went smoothly, and I was impressed with how well things worked essentially out of the box. Then I tried to test my routes. I had previously made a test case that ran through all of my public routes and asserted … [Read more…]

Laravel 5.1 “intermediate quickstart” notes

2015-12-16 / Leave a Comment

I just ran through Laravel’s intermediate quickstart tutorial. On the whole it was rather well put together and worked with as little or as much copying and pasting as you felt like using. Here I’m just recording a few notes for future reference about non-obvious things I encountered. Error messages for simple typos One interesting … [Read more…]

Listing associated IDs during a Controller query in CakePHP 3

2015-04-28 / Leave a Comment

Yesterday I looked into adding a key-value pair such as "tag_ids": [1, 2, 3] to a JSON object returned by a serialized CakePHP view, for Bookmarks belonging to many Tags. My solution produces the desired result, but involves the execution of a new database query for every bookmark, on top of the one that retrieved the record in the first place. This is not … [Read more…]

Array of associated IDs in CakePHP 3.0 “belongsToMany” relationship

2015-04-27 / 1 Comment

Today I was struggling with how to get CakePHP to return a JSON representation of a model, including a simple array of the foreign-key ids from the join table that specifies a mutual belongsToMany relationship (formerly, hasAndBelongsToMany or HABTM). For a concrete example, I wanted to build on the Bookmarker tutorial by creating an API endpoint to … [Read more…]