I am trying to create a system that will automatically log the content of any email notifications that my site sends to users, against their accounts.
I am doing this by listening for the NotificationSent event, which provides me with easy access to the Notifiable (the object that I want to store my log entry against) and the Notification (the object that defined the message that has been sent).
Using these I am able to get hold of the MailMessage object, but I can't work out how to render it. I was hoping it would have a render method but I can't find one. Presumably there is some other object that takes the MailMessage and does the rendering. Any clues?
Ideally I'd like the plain text version of the email (the markdown)
Thanks for any help
I've got a solution that is doing what I want. I cannibalised some code I wrote for something else, that got me a long way there. There are some steps that I don't completely understand so there may well be some unnecessary bloat in here:
class LogNotification
{
public function handle(NotificationSent $event)
{
//getting the MailMessage object
$mailMsg = $event->notification->toMail($event->notifiable);
//I think this is getting the additional variables from the
//MailMessage that are needed to render the view
$msgData = array_merge($mailMsg->toArray(),$mailMsg->viewData);
//I don't fully understand this. I get that the Markdown object is
//going to do the rendering, but I don't know why it needs to be
//instantiated with an empty View object
$markdown = new \Illuminate\Mail\Markdown(view(), config('mail.markdown'));
//Pass the renderText method the path to the markdown, and the message data
$msgContent = $markdown->renderText($mailMsg->markdown, $msgData);
}
}
Hopefully this is helpful to someone (and if anyone can offer a proper explanation of what is happening when the Markdown object is instantiated, I'd be grateful).
Related
I am new in creating Addins for Enterprise Architect and I have this problem:
I have a diagram with elements which have TaggedValues. I want to get notified when the value of a TaggedValue changes and see the new value.
I saw that there is this event EA_OnElementTagEdit available but I can't seem to get it triggered. I also saw that the tagged value has to be of type AddinBroadcast but I can't seem to make it work. What am I missing?
I will put below a sample of my code:
//creating tagged value
EA.TaggedValue ob3 = (EA.TaggedValue)NewElement.TaggedValues.AddNew("Responsible", "val");
ob3.Value = EEPROMBlocks.ElementAt(index).Responsible;
ob3.SetAttribute("Type", "AddinBroadcast");
ob3.Update();
//event method
public override void EA_OnElementTagEdit(EA.Repository Repository, long ObjectID, ref string TagName, ref string TagValue, ref string TagNotes)
You are not missing anything. This is simply not possible. The only way around is the OnContext... where you temporarily store the status of one element and look if a tag has changed when the context changes. I would not recommend that since it involved a lot of superfluous DB accesses.
Send a feature request (if you are an optimistic guy). Alternatively you should think of ways to get around this somehow else.
In my application, I have cross-entity validation logic that requires me to look at the entire change set and I'm doing this using the BeforeSaveEntities override.
I can construct the right logic by examining the saveMap parameter, but what am I supposed to do if I find something invalid?
If I throw an exception, like I would for single entity validation in the BeforeSaveEntity override, the whole save is aborted and the error is reported to the client. But some of the entities might be valid so I would want to save those and only abort the invalid parts.
Because BeforeSaveEntities returns a saveMap, I think I should be able to remove the invalid entities from the change set and continue to save the valid entities, but then how do I report the invalid parts to the client?
Is it possible to do a partial save of only the valid entities and at the same time, report a sensible error to the client to describe the parts of the save that failed?
Jay told you the way it is.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Breeze to change because I think yours is a rare scenario and it isn't one we would want to encourage anyway.
But I'm weird and I can't stop thinking what I'd do if were you and I absolutely HAD to do it. I might try something like this.
Warning: this is pseudo-code and I'm making this up. I do not recommend or warrant this
Create a custom MyCustomEFContextProvider that derives from EFContextProvider.
Give it an ErrorEntities property to hold the error object
Override (shadow) the SaveChanges method with another that delegates to the base
public new CustomSaveResult SaveChanges(JObject saveBundle,
TransactionSettings transactionSettings = null) {
var result = base.SaveChanges(saveBundle, transactionSettings);
// learn about CustomSaveResult below
return new CustomSaveResult(this.ErrorEntities, result);
}
Catch an invalid entity inside BeforeSaveEntities
Pass it with error message to your custom ErrorEntities property
You get to that property via the EntityInfo instance as in
((MyCustomEFContextProvider) info.ContextProvider).ErrorEntities.Add(new ErrorEntity(info, message));
Remove the invalid entity from the SaveMap so it won't be included in the actual save
Let the save continue
The second line of your override SaveChanges method creates a new instance of your CustomSaveResult from the standard one and returns that to the caller.
public class CustomSaveResult : SaveResult {
public List ErrorEntities;
public CustomSaveResult(List errorEntities, SaveResult result){
// copy over everything
this.Entities = result.Entities;
this.KeyMappings = result.KeyMappings;
this.Errors = this.Errors;
// and now your error stuff
this.ErrorEntities = errorEntities;
}
}
Let's assume the caller is your Web API controller's SaveChanges method. Well you don't have to change a thing but you might make it clear by explicitly returning your custom SaveResult:
readonly MyCustomEFContextProvider _contextProvider = new MyCustomEFContextProvider();
...
[HttpPost]
public CustomSaveResult SaveChanges(JObject saveBundle) {
return _contextProvider.SaveChanges(saveBundle);
}
JSON.Net will happily serialize the usual material + your custom ErrorEntities property (be sure to make it serializable!) and send it to the Breeze client.
On the Breeze client you write your own variation on the stock Breeze Web API data service adapter. Yours does almost exactly the same thing as the Breeze version. But, when processing the save payload from the server, it also extracts this extra "error entities" material in the response and does whatever you want to do with it.
I don't know what that will be but now you have it.
See how easy that was? LOL.
Breeze does not currently support a save mechanism that both saves and returns an error at the same time. While possible this seems a bit baroque.
As you pointed out, you can
1) Throw an exception inside of the BeforeSaveEntities and fail the save. You can even specify which specific entity or entities caused the failure and why. In this case the entire save is aborted.
or
2) Remove 'bad' items from the saveMap within the BeforeSaveEntities and save only a subset of what was passed in. In this case you are performing a partial save.
But we don't support a hybrid of these two. Please add this to the Breeze User Voice if you feel strongly and we can see if other members of the community feel that this would be useful.
I wonder if is possible to assign an id when an item is created with parse:
ParseObject parseWord = new ParseObject(DataBaseHelper.TABLE_WORD);
parseWord.setObjectId(idRow);
parseWord.put(Word.NAME, word.getName());
parseWord.put(Word.TYPE, word.getType());
parseWord.put(Word.TRANSLATE, word.getTranslate());
parseWord.put(Word.EXAMPLE, word.getExample());
parseWord.put(Word.NOTE, word.getNote());
parseWord.put(Word.SYNC_AT, today);
parseWord.saveInBackground();
This code is not working, it doesnt save the item in the server. If I delete the setObjectId(idRow); it works. What am I doing wrong?.
Is there anyway to know when the saveInBackground is done?
Thanks
According to the ParseObject.setObjectID() API doc:
Setter for the object id. In general you do not need to use this.
However, in some cases this can be convenient. For example, if you are
serializing a ParseObject yourself and wish to recreate it, you can
use this to recreate the ParseObject exactly.
Also from the API doc:
An object id is assigned as soon as an object is saved to the server.
A reason, as the quote suggests, you might need to set the object ID is if you, wish to do something like save the fields of a parse object to a file. If you wanted to take the fields from your file and recreate a parse object, THEN you'd need to set it, as that's not done for you if you're not saving it to the server and just using an instance of the object for purposes internal to your application.
Problem
When I try to add a block into my transactional email template in the following manner:
{{block type='core/template' area='frontend' template='invent/baskettimer/email_items.phtml' record=$record}}
I get the following error, and nothing is rendered.
CRIT (2): Not valid template file:frontend/base/default/template/invent/baskettimer/email_items.phtml
Troubleshooting
Normally this warning points to a typo which is breaking the inheritance but I have quadruple checked and this should work.
I then copied the file into the base and did a test, it rendered correctly.
Create a custom block and set the template, same error is displayed.
Theory
To me it seems template inheritance is broken / not implemented for emails, so it is always looking in base, I cannot put my templates there so I am not sure how to call them.
Possible workarounds
Render the block to html then send it to as a variable to render, problem with this is I am sending the emails from Model level and am having a hard time pre rendering the block, even with a helper.
Render the data using a method, don't really want to do this as it is message / against MVC.
Any help is much appreciated.
Bounty update
So I have traced down the problem, it is probably an easy solution now.
The problem is that I am calling it from a cronjob does not have the correct store view, it is fairly easy to replicate similar situation by using a shell script, then changing the _appCode to null.
<?php
require_once 'abstract.php';
class Mage_Shell_Shell extends Mage_Shell_Abstract
{
protected $_appCode = ''; // works - remove to not work
/**
* Run script
*
*/
public function run()
{
Mage::getModel('invent_baskettimer/email')->sendJob();
}
}
$shell = new Mage_Shell_Shell();
$shell->run();
So basically the question has become:
How do I call a block->toHtml() regardless of store view?
There is not way of setting a cronjob to be like that. Lucky magento lets you emulate your store views, see the following to emulate the default store.
public function cronjob()
{
$iDefaultStoreId = Mage::app()
->getWebsite()
->getDefaultGroup()
->getDefaultStoreId();
$appEmulation = Mage::getSingleton('core/app_emulation');
$initialEnvironmentInfo = $appEmulation->startEnvironmentEmulation($iDefaultStoreId);
.. do your stuff here ..
$appEmulation->stopEnvironmentEmulation($initialEnvironmentInfo);
}
For more info see: http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/magento/emulate-store-in-magento/
In the last three days I've struggled trying to find a way to accomplish what I though was supposed to be a simple thing. Doing this on my own or searching for a solution in the web, didn't help. Maybe because I'm not even sure what to look for, when I do my researches.
I'll try to explain as much as I can here: maybe someone will be able to help me.
I won't say how I'm doing it, because I've tried to do it in many ways and none of them worked for different reasons: I prefer to see a fresh advice from you.
In most of the pages of web application, I have two links (but they could be more) like that:
Option A
Option B
This is partial view, retured by a controller action.
User can select or both (all) values, but they can't never select none of them: meaning that at least one must be always selected.
These links must che accessible in almost all pages and they are not supposed to redirect to a different page, but only to store this information somewhere, to be reused when action needs to filter returned contents: a place always accessible, regarding the current controller, action or user (including non authenticated users) (session? cookie?).
This information is used to filter displayed contents in the whole web application.
So, the problem is not how to create the business logi of that, but how (and where) to store this information:
without messing with the querystring (means: keeps the querystring as empty/clean as possible)
without redirecting to other pages (user must get the current page, just with different contents)
allow this information to persists between all views, until user click again to change the option(s)
My aim is to have this information stored in a model that will contains all options and their selection status (on/off), so the appropriates PartialView will know how to display them.
Also, I could send this model to the "thing" that will handle option changes.
Thanks.
UPDATE
Following Paul's advice, I've took the Session way:
private List<OptionSelectionModel> _userOptionPreferences;
protected List<OptionSelectionModel> UserOptionPreferences
{
get
{
if (Session["UserOptionPreferences"] == null)
{
_userOptionPreferences= Lib.Options.GetOptionSelectionModelList();
}
else
{
_userOptionPreferences= Session["UserOptionPreferences"].ToString().Deserialize<List<OptionSelectionModel>>();
}
if (_userOptionPreferences.Where(g => g.Selected).Count() == 0)
{
foreach (var userOptionPreferencesin _userOptionPreferences)
{
userOptionPreferences.Selected = true;
}
}
UserOptionPreferences= _userOptionPreferences;
return _userOptionPreferences;
}
private set
{
_userOptionPreferences= value;
Session["UserOptionPreferences"] = _userOptionPreferences.SerializeObject();
}
}
Following this, I've overridden (not sure is the right conjugation of "to override" :) OnActionExecuting():
protected override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
GetOptionSelections();
base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
}
GetOptionSelections()...
private void GetOptionSelections()
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(Request["optionCode"])) return;
var newOptionCode = Request["optionCode "];
foreach (var userOptionPreferencesin UserOptionPreferences)
{
if (userOptionPreferences.OptionCode == newOptionCode )
userOptionPreferences.Selected = !userOptionPreferences.Selected;
}
}
This code I think can be better, but right now I just want to make it work and it doesn't.
Maybe there are also other issues there (quite sure, actually), but I believe the main issue is that OnActionExecuting is called by each action in a controller that inherit from BaseController, therefore it keeps toggling userOptionPreferences.Selected on/off, but I don't know how to make GetOptionSelections() being called only once in each View: something like the old Page_Load, but for MVC.
Last update AKA solution
Ok, using the session way, I've managed to store this information.
The other issue wasn't really on topic with this question and I've managed to solve it creating a new action that take cares of handling the option's change, then redirects to the caller URL (using the usual returnUrl parameter, but as action parameter).
This way, the option change is done only once per call.
The only thing I don't really like is that I can't simply work with the UserOptionPreferences property, as it doesn't change the session value, but only the value in memory, so I have to set the property with the new object's status each time: not a big deal, but not nice either.
This is a place to use session.
The session will keep your setting between requests while keeping it out of the url querystring. It seems that you have probably tried this already, but try it again and if you have problems ask again. I think it will be the best way for you to solve this problem.