Merge pull request #35 from dereuromark/feature/helpers

Make AjaxView extend AppView

docs/View/Ajax.md

@@ -62,11 +62,10 @@ public function statesAjax() {
 ```
 
 ## Custom Plugin helpers
-If your view classes need plugin helpers, and you are not using the controller way anymore to load/define helpers, then you might need to extend the view class to project level and add them there:
+If your view classes needs additional plugin helpers, and you are not using the controller way anymore to load/define helpers, then you might need to extend the view class to project level and add them there:
 ```php
 namespace App\View;
 
-use Cake\View\View;
 use Ajax\View\AjaxView as PluginAjaxView;
 
 class AjaxView extends PluginAjaxView {
@@ -75,14 +74,15 @@ class AjaxView extends PluginAjaxView {
      * @return void
      */
     public function initialize() {
+        parent::initialize();
         $this->loadHelper('...);
         ...
     }
 
 }
 ```
 Then make sure you load the app `Ajax` view class instead of the `Ajax.Ajax` one.
-If you are using the component, you can set Configure key `'Ajax.viewClass'` to your `App\View\AjaxView` here.
+If you are using the component, you can set Configure key `'Ajax.viewClass'` to your `'Ajax'` here.
 
 ## Tips
 I found the following quite useful for your jQuery AJAX code as some browsers might not properly work without it (at least for me it used to).

src/View/AjaxView.php

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 <?php
 namespace Ajax\View;
 
+use App\View\AppView;
 use Cake\Event\EventManager;
 use Cake\Http\Response;
 use Cake\Http\ServerRequest;
 use Cake\Utility\Hash;
-use Cake\View\View;
 
 /**
  * A view to handle AJAX requests.
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
  * @author Mark Scherer
  * @license http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php MIT
  */
-class AjaxView extends View {
+class AjaxView extends AppView {
 
 	const JSON_OPTIONS = JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_HEX_QUOT | JSON_PARTIAL_OUTPUT_ON_ERROR;
 

tests/TestApp/src/View/AppView.php

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace TestApp\View;
+
+use Cake\View\View;
+
+class AppView extends View {
+}

tests/bootstrap.php

@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@
 
 Cake\Core\Plugin::load('Ajax', ['path' => ROOT . DS, 'bootstrap' => true]);
 
+class_alias(\TestApp\View\AppView::class, 'App\View\AppView');
+
 // Ensure default test connection is defined
 if (!getenv('db_class')) {
 	putenv('db_class=Cake\Database\Driver\Sqlite');