-- lightflowmark <1...@lightflowinterrupted.com> wrote
(on Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 05:44 AM -0700):
> I've been trying to assemble data suitable for building a Dojo tree widget.
> I've assembled my data as an associative array (actually an assoc. arr. of
> objects, but that's not relevant), which seems intuitive to me - in any
> event, there's no way around it that I can see for my use-case.
>
> The problem comes when I try to cast it to a Dojo_Data object. Passing an
> associative array to Zend_Dojo_Data gives the (somewhat misleading) error
> message 'Only arrays and objects may be attached'. I've worked around it by
> converting my assoc. array to a simple array, but it seems ugly & bizarre to
> me.
>
> So, my question is, (how) should Zend_Dojo_Data handle associative arrays?
> I'm happy to write some code for it, but am not clear exactly what the
> solution should be. Any input?
dojo.data expects a format like the following:
{
identifier: "name",
items: []
}
The "items" parameter needs to be an array of items. Each item in that
array should be an associative array. In your example below, $testArr is
a *single* item to send. You would then provide it to Zend_Dojo_Data as
this:
$data = new Zend_Dojo_Data('id', array($testArr), 'description');
(I'm assuming that 'description' would be the field displayed, and thus
it corresponds to the 'label' in a dojo.data payload.)
Typically you'll send more than a single item back, in which case you
should send an array of such items, or some iterable object of items.
>
> $testArr = array(
> 'id' => 1,
> 'description' => 'some description',
> 'children' => array(
> 'someName' => array(
> 'id' => 2,
> 'description' => 'some description2',
> 'children' => array(
> 'someDeepName' => array(
> 'id' => 3,
> 'description' => 'some deep description2',
> ),
> 'someOtherDeepName' => array(
> 'id' => 4,
> 'description' => 'some deep description4',
> ),
> ),
> ),
> ),
> );
>
> $data = new Zend_Dojo_Data('id', $testArr);
>
>
> Exception:
> Error: Only arrays and objects may be attached.
--
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
Project Lead | matt...@zend.com
Zend Framework | http://framework.zend.com/
