CrudView should be supported

[Marlinc]

It should be possible to use CrudView with the Webservice plugin. For this quite a few things have to happen.

Some of the things that need to change:

• FoC/Search should use the general repository interface: \Cake\Datasource\RepositoryInterface Make search manager use RepositoryInterface instance instead of Table. FriendsOfCake/search#79
• \Search\Model\Behavior\SearchBehavior needs to be somehow compatible with \Muffin\Webservice\Model\Endpoint classes. Possibly by using traits. Interesting PR: Could we implement addBehavior()? cakephp/elastic-search#83.
• Search Filter classes need to be less dependent on query expressions (at least simple cases like \Search\Model\Filter\Value). Currently the only way to use Search is to use the \Search\Model\Filter\Callback filter.
• CrudView should use the general entity interface: \Cake\Datasource\EntityInterface (for example in the CrudViewHelper)
• \Muffin\Webservice\Query needs to have the contain method
• \Muffin\Webservice\Endpoint requires some notion of defining associations.

It might be necessary to change the CakePHP core to add more methods to specific interfaces. Some of the things that need to be made:

• \Cake\Datasource\AssociationInterface to describe a general association between two RepositoryInterface implementations. [RFC] [3.3] Add support for associations in custom datasource cakephp/cakephp#9002.

[ADmad]

FoC/Search should use the general repository interface: RepositoryInterface

You should open an issue (or PR) in it's own repo.

[Marlinc]

Yea, I'm just trying to summarize what needs to happen. That's more than than that needs to happen.

[jadb]

👍

I would love this and could help on it as well.

Let me know what you need @Marlinc

[Marlinc]

That's great @jadb! In general I'm trying to sum up all the things that are needed for this.

In general it would help individual people could work on the separate things that need to change.

[Phillaf]

This is such a good idea! 👍

[jadb]

@Marlinc refer to the classes by FQDN so it's clear to the rest of us which Query for example you are talking about 😉

[Marlinc]

@jadb there you go ;)

[Marlinc]

I actually put a lot of work into this. I have a working setup with associations and CrudView working quite good. I'll try to get this work into the plugin in a month or so when I have time.