We are trying to implement in page editing for our cake app. We would like to use create.js for the frontend and createphp to handle the connection between create.js and cakephp. I have been doing a lot of research on RDFa and I am generally baffled by how all this links together.
What I have:
Editable interface
Endpoints via actions in cakephp
What I need:
A way to convert the data sent by create.js to my database structure and a way to send data to create.js for rendering.
I have gotten to the point in createphp where you are supposed to create your own mapper. I don't know what the mapper should contain. It mentions that is has built-in mappers (Midgard\CreatePHP\Mapper ?) but I don't know how to load those either.
I have read the documentation but it doesn't give details on how to accomplish these tasks.
Thank you for your help on the two following questions.
1. How can I convert my data from create.js to cake and then back again for the views? (possible solution createPHP but doesn't have to be)
2. How do I create a mapper for createPHP or where could I find information to learn how to create a mapper for my instance?
Yeah, the documentation is unfortunately rather sparse. I will create an issue on createphp linking to this post, to give some hints how the documentation could be improved.
I try to explain how things work:
To convert the data from the REST call to your model, you indeed need a RdfMapper instance. See the setup section of the tutorial how you bootstrap that. the bundle comes with mappers for doctrine, which you can read for inspiration if you do not use doctrine. I recommend to extend AbstractRdfMapper in that case.
To render the rdfa, you need to configure what fields of your class should be what rdf type. You can either use the array mapper as in the tutorial, or use the xml mapping, or your own RdfDriver
The whole process is working fine in the symfony2 CreateBundle.
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I have a Sails.js app that needs to fetch from a Mongo database, then display that data in a graph. Alternately, it can take data from a JSON file located on the server.
I am struggling with that process immensely. What seems like it should be an easy task is anything but. I should mention that I am not terribly familiar with Sails.js, but this is what I was directed to use.
I am seeking either examples, documentation, advice, pointers, alternatives, basically anything that would point me in the right direction.
I realize that this is likely to generate a lot of opinion over the "best" and that's not what I am after. I am looking for direction towards resources or guidance on technique.
Thanks.
you can read this link to understand how integrate mongodb with sails.js
i will list logic steps to understand how you can get data
after install mongodb-sails driver in package.json to open
connection between sails and mongodb
you have to define model which map your mongodb documents to
Models
define model attributes
you can use waterline to get document , findbycolumnname and make
CRUD operations
So, I have a project where I get data from a dozen different sources, some are database objects, most often the data is in different JSON formats, or often XML formats. So, I need to take this disparate data and pull it into one single clean managed object that we control.
I have seen dozens of different posts on various tools to do object to object mapping. Orika being one of them, etc. But the problem is that Orika, like many of these still need solid classes defined to do the mapping. If there is a change to the mapping, then I have to change my class, re-commit it, then do a build and deploy new code ... BTW, testing would also have to be done like any code change. So, maybe some of these tools aren't a great solution for me.
Then I was looking to do some sort of database-driven mapping, where I have a source, a field, and then the new field or function I would like to take it to. So, with a database-driven tool, I could modify the fields in the database, and everything would keep working as it should. I could always create a front-end to modify this tool.
So, with that ... I am asking if there is any database-driven tool where I can map field to field, or fields to functions type of mapping? Drools was my first choice, but I don't know if it is my best choice? Maybe it is overkill for my needs? So, I was looking for advice on what might be the best tool to do my mapping.
Please let me know if you need any more information from me, and thanks for all the help!
Actually Orika can handle dynamic Data source like that, there is even an example on how to convert from XML Element (DOM API) or even JsonObject.
You can use an XML parser to convert your data into Element object, or Jackson to get JsonObject
Then define you class map between your "Canonical" Java Class and these dynamic "Classes"
http://orika-mapper.github.io/orika-docs/advanced-mappings.html Customizing the PropertyResolverStrategy
Here is an example of Orika mapping to MongoDB DBObject to Java Bean
https://gist.github.com/elaatifi/ade7321a1405c61ff8a9
However converting JSON is more straightforward than XML (the semantic of Attributes/Childs/Custom tags do not match with JavaBeans)
From what I've read so far, it seems like the only way for me to map custom data points from my own dataset is to host that data with MapQuest. Am I correct in that or have I just not read deep enough?
And if it's possible, does anyone have a link to more information about how to go about it? Their API documentation is subpar.
Thanks :)
Disclaimer: I work at MapQuest
While the MapQuest Data Manager makes it easy to store custom data with MapQuest so that you can query it through the Search API, you don't have to store data with us in order to show custom points on a map.
Are you trying to do something along the lines of storing data in MySQL or PostgreSQL and then use something like PHP to query your own database, loop through the results, and then show the results on a MapQuest map using the JavaScript API? Unfortunately I don't have any easy/quick examples that show how to do that, but it is possible.
The forums on the Developer Network are also good place to look to see if others have had issues similar to the one that you are facing.
Also, let me know exactly which MapQuest APIs/tools you are using and I will do my best to provide more information depending on what you need.
I'm currently looking at building a lightweight integration between PivotalTracker and Salesforce.com. Reviewing this bit of PT documentation, it looks like I can do an update of Salesforce data based on PT activity. Awesome! I can't figure out how to access the XML data that is being posted however.
I can't see anything in ApexPages.CurrentPage() that looks like it will let me get to the XML. Has anyone done anything like this, without the use of an intermediate server?
I think we chatted about this over Twitter last week.
AFAIK there is (somewhat annoyingly) no way to access raw (i.e. not form posted key/values) POST data via SFDC. The Apex REST service support would be the closest thing, but requires authentication and still may not do exactly what you want.
Fairly certain you'll need some sort of middle-man proxy that simply takes the XML data and posts it to VF as a form-encoded key/value pair. That is a fairly trivial thing to do, but it's an unnecessary additional moving part and will require some sort of server resource.
I would probably first investigate if PT supports any other ping mechanism, or a way to write a custom extension to convert the raw POST into a form POST.
I am developing a basic yet highly customized CRM for a small training centre which has the ability to store student records and also send emails to them. I'm using SwiftMailer following this excellent tutorial in CakePHP to accomplish the sending part.
Of course, students are sometimes going to reply to emails and I'd like to retrieve them within my CRM and store them along with the student record.
However, I cannot find a single reference to doing this. I've tried the following Google searches: "receiving email cakephp" , "retrieving email cakephp" and even "email client cakephp" but all of these queries give results relating to sending mail rather than receiving it -- very frustrating!
Finally, I broadened my search to non-cake solutions and found someone recommending a library called ezComponents. It doesn't seem to have had any active development for about a year, but it includes an email receiving class which is exactly what I want. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to add this to CakePHP and the only post I've been able to find on the entire web on the matter doesn't exactly go into much detail. It's certainly not a step-by-step tutorial on using ezComponents on CakePHP like the SwiftMailer tutorial I mentioned above.
I also found a class on Google Code called php-imap which looks like it would do the job but, again, I haven't the slightest clue how to get it working happily in Cake like SwiftMailer is.
I realize that I may have to learn how to package classes for use in Cake by myself but I'm asking this question first on the off-chance that there is already a Cake-friendly solution to this problem that I just haven't realized :-)
Joseph
Thanks to everyone for your answers, but I've been doing some more searching and it looks like the solution is actually incredibly simple.
Basically, with the help of a plugin, I can set up the mail server in databases.php as a datasource and then write a Model and Controller to interact with it.
Here's the example I found: https://github.com/kvz/cakephp-emails-plugin
Edit: the repo has been deprecated and is now available at https://github.com/kvz/deprecated/tree/cakephp-emails-plugin
You will want to pipe your email to PHP and use stdin:// to read the contents of the email and add the e-mail to your database.
I've done this with cake and the simplest way is to make a Cake console application to handle the parsing. Also using cpanel's account level filtering to generate the pipe is really simple.
http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/piping-mail-php-scripts-howto-checklist-50985.html
http://www.evolt.org/incoming_mail_and_php
Sounds like you want to include SwiftMailer as a Cake plugin, amirite?
http://book.cakephp.org/view/1111/Plugins
-- if you want to package it yourself. Otherwise, a cursory search of the Bakery yielded this result:
http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/sky_l3ppard/2009/11/07/updated-swiftmailer-4-xx-component-with-attachments-and-plugins
Hopefully it will at least get you pointed in the right direction. HTH. :)