Is the Front Controller pattern + ACL too heavy for what you want to do? -Matt
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:24 AM, J DeBord <jasdeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > We're in the design stage of an application that is going to use Adobe Flex > / Actionscript for the front end and use AMF to communicate with the server. > > We need to control access and record information regarding each request > made to the server. > > I am thinking about coding a class that recieves all AMF traffic. Basically > all requests coming from the app will call the same remote method (Service). > The argment for each request will be a "request" object that will have some > basic required attributes such as the name of the user making the request, > etc. > > It will also contain the name of a class and method (controller and action) > that is required to carry out whatever action the client is requesting. Any > data or variables can be included as other objects in the "request" object > and then used by the class method ultimately called on the server. > > One scenario: A user wishes to upload a file. The client handles all the > user interface, creates a request object, creates a Value object for the > file information, creates a bytearray of the file, inserts the file value > object and the bytearray of the file into the request object and calls the > remote service on the server. The request object is sent to the server via > AMF, where it is recreated as the corresponding PHP object. > > Then the class (controller) is created since the request object contains > the name of the controller needed, the method (action) needed to save the > file is called and the file value object and the bytearray of the file are > used as arguments, much like post data would be used. > > I'll use pieces of the Zend_Framework of course as required. > > Are there any similar design patterns I should be looking at? Any > roadblocks you guys see? Am I thinking wrong about anything here? Anyone > doing work with Flex or Flash clients like this? > > Appreciate your time, > > Jason >
