I'm trying to solve the same exact problem, so far unsuccessfully...
Any suggestions out there?
On Apr 20, 5:44 am, mixersoft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a "parent" component that I want to use to implement an
> "interface" (java style) and multple "child" components that extend
> the "interface". I want my controllers to instantiate a specific
> "child" component, but in the code I want to reference all methods
> through the "parent" class or "inteface"
>
> class ParentComponent extends Object {}
>
> class TypeAComponent extends InterfaceComponent {
> function someMethod() { return "a";}
>
> }
>
> class TypeBComponent extends InterfaceComponent {
> function someMethod() { return 'b';}
>
> }
>
> class MyController extends AppController {
> var $components('TypeAComponent');
>
> function example() {
> $result = $this->Parent->someMethod();
> }
>
> }
>
> The example above works fine. But I cannot figure out how to load
> 'TypeAComponent' or 'TypeBComponent' dynamically. How can I set
> MyConfroller->components BEFORE the controller loads the components?
> Or how do I load additional components afterwards?
>
> I tried this in ParentComponent, but while the subclassed components
> constructors were called properly, the components were not "loaded"
> the same way (i.e. the child component's var $component array were not
> loaded, i.e. Session.)
>
> class ParentComponent extends Object {
> static function create($type) {
> switch ($type) {
> case 'TypeA':
>
> include_once(dirname(__FILE__).DS.'typeA.php');
> return new TypeAComponent();
> break;
> case 'TypeB':
>
> include_once(dirname(__FILE__).DS.'typeB.php');
> return new TypeBComponent();
> break;
> }
> }
>
> }
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