The memento pattern is an established pattern in ColdBox apps. A memento in this case is a simple representation of your entity using arrays, structs, and simple values.
For instance, the following example shows a User entity and its corresponding memento:
component extends="quick.models.BaseEntity" {
property name="id";
property name="username";
property name="email";
property name="password";
property name="createdDate";
property name="modifiedDate";
}{
"id" = 1,
"username" = "JaneDoe",
"email" = "[email protected]",
"password" = "$2a$04$2nVI5rPOfl6.hrflkhBWOObO5Z7lXGJpi1vlosY74NrL/CKdpWqZS"
"createdDate" = "{ts '2018-03-12 16:14:10'}",
"modifiedDate" = "{ts '2018-03-12 16:14:10'}"
}You can modify the memento by overriding the getMemento function on your entity.
component extends="quick.models.BaseEntity" {
property name="id";
property name="username";
property name="email";
property name="password";
property name="createdDate";
property name="modifiedDate";
function getMemento() {
return {
id = getId(),
username = getUsername(),
email = getEmail(),
createdDate = dateFormat( getCreatedDate(), "MM/DD/YYYY" ),
// can also use getAttribute if you want to bypass a custom getter
modifiedDate = dateFormat( retrieveAttribute( "modifiedDate" ), "MM/DD/YYYY" )
};
}
}{
"id" = 1,
"username" = "JaneDoe",
"email" = "[email protected]",
"createdDate" = "03/12/2018",
"modifiedDate" = "03/12/2018"
}The $renderData method is a special method for ColdBox. When returning a model from a handler, this method will be called and the value returned will be used as the serialized response. This let's you simply return an entity from a handler for your API. By default this will call getMemento().
component {
// /users/:id
function show( event, rc, prc ) {
return getInstance( "User" ).findOrFail( rc.id );
}
}{
"id" = 1,
"username" = "JaneDoe",
"email" = "[email protected]",
"createdDate" = "03/12/2018",
"modifiedDate" = "03/12/2018"
}QuickCollection also defines a $renderData method, which will delegate the call to each entity in the collection and return the array of serialized entities.
component {
function index( event, rc, prc ) {
return getInstance( "User" ).all();
}
}[
{
"id" = 1,
"username" = "JaneDoe",
"email" = "[email protected]",
"createdDate" = "03/12/2018",
"modifiedDate" = "03/12/2018"
},
{
"id" = 2,
"username" = "JohnDoe",
"email" = "[email protected]",
"createdDate" = "03/14/2018",
"modifiedDate" = "03/15/2018"
}
]