thanks for the tips man, I appreciate it. I will never have to do cascades or anything like that. I am simply creating a JSON string to be sent to our API. The API will take care all the Database stuff. In reality the model and datasource are pass throughs that do some formatting for the API.
On Nov 16, 9:49 am, AD7six <andydawso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 16 November 2011 15:24:14 UTC+1, RhythmicDevil wrote: > > > I am writing a custom datasource. I was implementing the delete action > > in the datasource and ran into a problem. I expected that when I call > > Model::delete($id, false); it would execute the Datasource::delete() > > method. But that does not happen. First a method called calculate() is > > executed and then Datasource::read() is executed. I dont know why. > > 1. So why does the calculate() method get called and how do I prevent > > that as it makes no sense my implementation. > > calculate is called to determine the syntax for a count. > > > > > 2. Why does the read() method get called before delete() and how do I > > prevent that? > > That's executing the count > > > > > 3. Is there a document somewhere that lists the methods called in > > order of execution for CRUD operations? > > There's no better source of info than the code > itself:https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/blob/master/lib/Cake/Model/Model.p... > > the short answer to your question is the model does if (!this->exists()) { > return false } before performing the delete, exists() simply performs a > find count and you're focussing on the queries that generates. > > If you want to skip that, you could rig exists (in the datasource) to > always return true - may cause you other problems that way though. Of use > deleteAll with no cascade and no callbacks. > > I guess it would be handy if the model allowed for skipping the exists > checks - but it doesn't. > > AD -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
