[DC-280] Add pre/postHydrateResultSet() events Created: 23/Nov/09 Updated: 08/Jun/10 |
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| Status: | Open |
| Project: | Doctrine 1 |
| Component/s: | Connection, Query, Record |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | New Feature | Priority: | Major |
| Reporter: | Adam Jensen | Assignee: | Jonathan H. Wage |
| Resolution: | Unresolved | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | None | ||
| Description |
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Over the last several weeks I've been working on streamlining the access control logic in the application I'm working on, and I realized that Doctrine's event listeners might be able to help. For more detailed background information take a look at http://groups.google.com:80/group/dallasphp/browse_thread/thread/91e3f107cd611adf ...but here's the problem in a nutshell: Since my application's access control logic is all implemented in PHP rather than in the database (i.e., I can't add access control to my queries as a simple WHERE clause), I'm looking for a way to hook into the query process just after the records have been hydrated and actually modify the result set that gets returned, such that only permissible records show up in the final result set. Unfortunately, although there are several listener methods that look promising for this, none of them seem to have access to the data being returned. For instance, if I run a custom query via Doctrine_Query::execute(), the postQuery() hook definitely runs ...but it doesn't give me access to anything but the query string itself. Since, in some instances (e.g., hydration listeners), the Doctrine_Event object is assigned arbitrary data that the listener can modify, I'm wondering if the same thing couldn't be done more universally? |
| Comments |
| Comment by Jonathan H. Wage [ 24/Nov/09 ] |
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In Doctrine 1.2 you can create custom hydrators. You can extend the core hydrators to remove the data you want? I think that would work. |
| Comment by Adam Jensen [ 24/Nov/09 ] |
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Sure enough, that does the trick! There are a couple of downsides, though, that might be worth considering in terms of future development: 1. It would be nice to be able to specify constructor arguments for the hydrator, so that collaborators can be injected. In my example, the hydrator needs access to the application's access control list object; currently it's simply retrieving it from a global registry, but it would be nice for testing's sake to be able to inject it instead. Ultimately, I'd still kind of like to see another listener method available ...say, preHydrateResultSet() and postHydrateResultSet()? I think that would be a more flexible approach, even though the custom hydrator solution works quite well. Thanks! |
| Comment by Jonathan H. Wage [ 24/Nov/09 ] |
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I like the idea. I'll move this to 1.3. I don't think we're gonna have a 1.3 version but if we do, it'll be there. |
| Comment by Jonathan H. Wage [ 15/Mar/10 ] |
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We can include this in a 1.2.x release if you would like to provide a patch and some tests. Thanks, Jon |