/** * @author Ed Spencer * * AjaxProxy is one of the most widely-used ways of getting data into your application. It uses AJAX requests to load * data from the server, usually to be placed into a {@link Ext.data.Store Store}. Let's take a look at a typical setup. * Here we're going to set up a Store that has an AjaxProxy. To prepare, we'll also set up a {@link Ext.data.Model * Model}: * * Ext.define('User', { * extend: 'Ext.data.Model', * fields: ['id', 'name', 'email'] * }); * * //The Store contains the AjaxProxy as an inline configuration * var store = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', { * model: 'User', * proxy: { * type: 'ajax', * url : 'users.json' * } * }); * * store.load(); * * Our example is going to load user data into a Store, so we start off by defining a {@link Ext.data.Model Model} with * the fields that we expect the server to return. Next we set up the Store itself, along with a * {@link Ext.data.Store#proxy proxy} configuration. This configuration was automatically turned into an * Ext.data.proxy.Ajax instance, with the url we specified being passed into AjaxProxy's constructor. * It's as if we'd done this: * * new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({ * url: 'users.json', * model: 'User', * reader: 'json' * }); * * A couple of extra configurations appeared here - {@link #model} and {@link #reader}. These are set by default when we * create the proxy via the Store - the Store already knows about the Model, and Proxy's default {@link * Ext.data.reader.Reader Reader} is {@link Ext.data.reader.Json JsonReader}. * * Now when we call store.load(), the AjaxProxy springs into action, making a request to the url we configured * ('users.json' in this case). As we're performing a read, it sends a GET request to that url (see * {@link #actionMethods} to customize this - by default any kind of read will be sent as a GET request and any kind of write * will be sent as a POST request). * * # Limitations * * AjaxProxy cannot be used to retrieve data from other domains. If your application is running on http://domainA.com it * cannot load data from http://domainB.com because browsers have a built-in security policy that prohibits domains * talking to each other via AJAX. * * If you need to read data from another domain and can't set up a proxy server (some software that runs on your own * domain's web server and transparently forwards requests to http://domainB.com, making it look like they actually came * from http://domainA.com), you can use {@link Ext.data.proxy.JsonP} and a technique known as JSON-P (JSON with * Padding), which can help you get around the problem so long as the server on http://domainB.com is set up to support * JSON-P responses. See {@link Ext.data.proxy.JsonP JsonPProxy}'s introduction docs for more details. * * # Readers and Writers * * AjaxProxy can be configured to use any type of {@link Ext.data.reader.Reader Reader} to decode the server's response. * If no Reader is supplied, AjaxProxy will default to using a {@link Ext.data.reader.Json JsonReader}. Reader * configuration can be passed in as a simple object, which the Proxy automatically turns into a {@link * Ext.data.reader.Reader Reader} instance: * * var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({ * model: 'User', * reader: { * type: 'xml', * root: 'users' * } * }); * * proxy.getReader(); //returns an {@link Ext.data.reader.Xml XmlReader} instance based on the config we supplied * * # Url generation * * AjaxProxy automatically inserts any sorting, filtering, paging and grouping options into the url it generates for * each request. These are controlled with the following configuration options: * * - {@link #pageParam} - controls how the page number is sent to the server (see also {@link #startParam} and {@link #limitParam}) * - {@link #sortParam} - controls how sort information is sent to the server * - {@link #groupParam} - controls how grouping information is sent to the server * - {@link #filterParam} - controls how filter information is sent to the server * * Each request sent by AjaxProxy is described by an {@link Ext.data.Operation Operation}. To see how we can customize * the generated urls, let's say we're loading the Proxy with the following Operation: * * var operation = new Ext.data.Operation({ * action: 'read', * page : 2 * }); * * Now we'll issue the request for this Operation by calling {@link #read}: * * var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({ * url: '/users' * }); * * proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?page=2 * * Easy enough - the Proxy just copied the page property from the Operation. We can customize how this page data is sent * to the server: * * var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({ * url: '/users', * pageParam: 'pageNumber' * }); * * proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?pageNumber=2 * * Alternatively, our Operation could have been configured to send start and limit parameters instead of page: * * var operation = new Ext.data.Operation({ * action: 'read', * start : 50, * limit : 25 * }); * * var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({ * url: '/users' * }); * * proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?start=50&limit;=25 * * Again we can customize this url: * * var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({ * url: '/users', * startParam: 'startIndex', * limitParam: 'limitIndex' * }); * * proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?startIndex=50&limitIndex;=25 * * AjaxProxy will also send sort and filter information to the server. Let's take a look at how this looks with a more * expressive Operation object: * * var operation = new Ext.data.Operation({ * action: 'read', * sorters: [ * new Ext.util.Sorter({ * property : 'name', * direction: 'ASC' * }), * new Ext.util.Sorter({ * property : 'age', * direction: 'DESC' * }) * ], * filters: [ * new Ext.util.Filter({ * property: 'eyeColor', * value : 'brown' * }) * ] * }); * * This is the type of object that is generated internally when loading a {@link Ext.data.Store Store} with sorters and * filters defined. By default the AjaxProxy will JSON encode the sorters and filters, resulting in something like this * (note that the url is escaped before sending the request, but is left unescaped here for clarity): * * var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({ * url: '/users' * }); * * proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?sort=[{"property":"name","direction":"ASC"},{"property":"age","direction":"DESC"}]&filter;=[{"property":"eyeColor","value":"brown"}] * * We can again customize how this is created by supplying a few configuration options. Let's say our server is set up * to receive sorting information is a format like "sortBy=name#ASC,age#DESC". We can configure AjaxProxy to provide * that format like this: * * var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({ * url: '/users', * sortParam: 'sortBy', * filterParam: 'filterBy', * * //our custom implementation of sorter encoding - turns our sorters into "name#ASC,age#DESC" * encodeSorters: function(sorters) { * var length = sorters.length, * sortStrs = [], * sorter, i; * * for (i = 0; i < length; i++) { * sorter = sorters[i]; * * sortStrs[i] = sorter.property + '#' + sorter.direction * } * * return sortStrs.join(","); * } * }); * * proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?sortBy=name#ASC,age#DESC&filterBy;=[{"property":"eyeColor","value":"brown"}] * * We can also provide a custom {@link #encodeFilters} function to encode our filters. * * @constructor * Note that if this HttpProxy is being used by a {@link Ext.data.Store Store}, then the Store's call to * {@link Ext.data.Store#method-load load} will override any specified callback and params options. In this case, use the * {@link Ext.data.Store Store}'s events to modify parameters, or react to loading events. * * @param {Object} config (optional) Config object. * If an options parameter is passed, the singleton {@link Ext.Ajax} object will be used to make the request. */ Ext.define('Ext.data.proxy.Ajax', { requires: ['Ext.util.MixedCollection', 'Ext.Ajax'], extend: 'Ext.data.proxy.Server', alias: 'proxy.ajax', alternateClassName: ['Ext.data.HttpProxy', 'Ext.data.AjaxProxy'], /** * @property {Object} actionMethods * Mapping of action name to HTTP request method. In the basic AjaxProxy these are set to 'GET' for 'read' actions * and 'POST' for 'create', 'update' and 'destroy' actions. The {@link Ext.data.proxy.Rest} maps these to the * correct RESTful methods. */ actionMethods: { create : 'POST', read : 'GET', update : 'POST', destroy: 'POST' }, /** * @cfg {Object} headers * Any headers to add to the Ajax request. Defaults to undefined. */ doRequest: function(operation, callback, scope) { var writer = this.getWriter(), request = this.buildRequest(operation, callback, scope); if (operation.allowWrite()) { request = writer.write(request); } Ext.apply(request, { headers : this.headers, timeout : this.timeout, scope : this, callback : this.createRequestCallback(request, operation, callback, scope), method : this.getMethod(request), disableCaching: false // explicitly set it to false, ServerProxy handles caching }); Ext.Ajax.request(request); return request; }, /** * Returns the HTTP method name for a given request. By default this returns based on a lookup on * {@link #actionMethods}. * @param {Ext.data.Request} request The request object * @return {String} The HTTP method to use (should be one of 'GET', 'POST', 'PUT' or 'DELETE') */ getMethod: function(request) { return this.actionMethods[request.action]; }, /** * @private * TODO: This is currently identical to the JsonPProxy version except for the return function's signature. There is a lot * of code duplication inside the returned function so we need to find a way to DRY this up. * @param {Ext.data.Request} request The Request object * @param {Ext.data.Operation} operation The Operation being executed * @param {Function} callback The callback function to be called when the request completes. This is usually the callback * passed to doRequest * @param {Object} scope The scope in which to execute the callback function * @return {Function} The callback function */ createRequestCallback: function(request, operation, callback, scope) { var me = this; return function(options, success, response) { me.processResponse(success, operation, request, response, callback, scope); }; } }, function() { //backwards compatibility, remove in Ext JS 5.0 Ext.data.HttpProxy = this; });