Request & Response

You may have encountered many times the $request and $response parameter in action of Application, Page, Dashboard or Widget. So this article helps you understand these two objects.

Request #

Methods #

Name	description
`$request->route()`	Return the route that request is targeted to reach
`$request->action()`	Return the action name needs to be run
`$request->params()`	Return all parameters of request in form of associate array
`$request->params(string $name)`	Return specific value of a parameter inside list of parameters
`$request->user()`	Return current user
`$request->app()`	Return the application

Response #

updatePanel() #

$response->updatePanel(string $name, string $content[, string $effect]);

Update the content of given name panel. $effect is optional and can be set to "none", "fade".

Example:

class MyTable extends Table
{
    protected function actionCrazy($request, $response)
    {
        $response->updatePanel($this->name(),"Show crazy text","none");
    }
}

runScript() #

$response->runScript(string $script);

Run a javascript at client-side

Example:

class MyTable extends Table
{
    protected function actionCrazy($request, $response)
    {
        $response->runScript("alert('crazy')");
    }
}

clear() #

$response->clear()

Clear all previous response

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