This is very early hacking, late night work with lots of help and insight from Russ and the Alloy Team. Doing this work to better familiarize myself with the platform and get stuff done quicker, faster and better for my clients.
simple stuff, login a user
// create a user
var aUser = Alloy.createModel('User');
// pass in username and password
aUser.login("testuserone", "password", {
success : function(_user) {
// user model is returned
Ti.API.info(' SUCCESS ' + JSON.stringify(_user));
Ti.API.info(' model username ' + _user.get("username"));
// access to session information
Ti.API.info(' stored session ' + _user.retrieveStoredSession());
},
error : function(_error) {
Ti.API.error(' ERROR ' + _error);
}
});
creating an object, works just like the books demo provided; here is using the ACS Place object
First lets look at the changes I made to the model JSON file, this is for the places object
{
"columns": {
"active": "boolean"
},
"defaults": {},
"adapter": {
"type": "acs",
},
"settings": {
"object_name": "places",
"object_method": "Places"
}
}
and this is for the user object
{
"columns": {
"active": "boolean"
},
"defaults": {},
"adapter": {
"type": "acs",
},
"settings": {
"object_name": "users",
"object_method": "Users"
}
}
if you notice, the main edit is setting the adapter to acs and then specifying the object name. I know there is a cleaner way to do this, ie derive it from the file name, but this is just me hacking!! I will get to that later
And finally this is how it works...
var params = {
"name" : "Appcelerator Cloud Services",
"created_at" : "2011-03-22T21:12:14+0000",
"updated_at" : "2011-03-22T21:12:14+0000",
"address" : "58 South Park Ave.",
"city" : "San Francisco",
"state" : "California",
"postal_code" : "94107-1807",
"country" : "United States",
"website" : "http://www.appcelerator.com",
"twitter" : "acs",
"lat" : 37.782227,
"lng" : -122.393159
}
function testPlaces() {
var aPlace, places;
// create a place object
aPlace = Alloy.createModel('Place', params);
// save the object
aPlace.save();
// create a collection
places = Alloy.createCollection('Place');
// set up a trigger to print out the results when complete
places.on("fetch", function() {
Ti.API.info(' places...' + JSON.stringify(places));
});
// fetch the data
places.fetch();
// can also fetch individual item
aPlace = Alloy.createModel('Place', {
id : "SPECIFY PLACE ID"
});
aPlace.fetch();
}
You are going to want to hop on over ro app/sync/acs.js to see the beginnings of the code for the adapter
The code for the user model is more interesting since I needed to extend the object to support all of the special case methods that the user object supports
function login(_login, _password, _opts) {
var self = this;
this.config.Cloud.Users.login({
login : _login,
password : _password
}, function(e) {
if (e.success) {
var user = e.users[0];
Ti.API.info('Logged in! You are now logged in as ' + user.id);
// return a newly created user object here!!
_opts.success && _opts.success(new model(user));
} else {
Ti.API.error(e);
// sorry.. error message
_opts.error && _opts.error((e.error && e.message) || e);
}
});
}
So we keep it pretty simple here and pass in the parameters as part of the options in data
as a hash
create the user collection like you normally do
var userCollection = Alloy.createCollection('User');
Now we do a fetch, but we pass in the query string in as a parameter; we are saying do a full text search on the
term UserTwo
userCollection.fetch({
data : {
q : "UserTwo"
},
success : function(collection, response) {
Ti.API.info('success ' + JSON.stringify(collection));
},
error : function(collection, response) {
Ti.API.error('error ' + JSON.stringify(collection));
}
});
We pass in a success
and error
callback that will give us the (collection, response)
as results
For
create the user collection like you normally do
var userCollection = Alloy.createCollection('User');
Now we do a fetch, but we pass in the query string in as a parameter; we are saying find all users with the last_name
field of UserTwo
userCollection.fetch({
data : {
where : JSON.stringify({
"last_name" : "UserOne"
})
},
success : function(collection, response) {
Ti.API.info('success ' + JSON.stringify(collection));
},
error : function(collection, response) {
Ti.API.error('error ' + JSON.stringify(collection));
}
});
We pass in a success
and error
callback that will give us the (collection, response)
as results which is the same as the previous example. Please note that the where
parameter is a JSON object that has been converted
to a string
The rest of the model follows the same path; check it out and tell me what you think