views_service: Adding Better Support for Views Output [#300850]

Currently, views.getView will take the list of nodes returned by the specified view and will return the plain nodes corresponding to that list.

This patch adds a new views service method which allows for the retrieval of the ACTUAL fields/data returned by the view.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#5	brendoncrawford-views_service.module.2.patch	3.13 KB	brendoncrawford
#5
#3	brendoncrawford-views_service.module.1.patch	2.41 KB	brendoncrawford
#3
	views_service.module.1.patch	2.21 KB	brendoncrawford

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Comment #1

brendoncrawford CreditAttribution: brendoncrawford commented 29 August 2008 at 18:31

Status:

Fixed

» Needs review

Please disregard the previous patch. I am posting a new patch which allows for complete and stable views integration.

I have also removed the field called "fields". It is no longer necessary since the view defines which fields should be outputted.

NOTE: I am deleting this patch for the more stable one in comment #3.

Comment #2

brmassa CreditAttribution: brmassa commented 29 August 2008 at 11:12

Title:	views_service: Adding Support for Actual View Output	» views_service: Adding Better Support for Views Output
Category:	feature	» bug
Status:	Needs review	» Fixed

Brendon,

patch commited on CVS (for D6). Soon on the next release.

regards,

massa

Comment #3

brendoncrawford CreditAttribution: brendoncrawford commented 29 August 2008 at 18:31

File	Size
brendoncrawford-views_service.module.1.patch	2.41 KB

massa,

Please disregard the last patch. Here is a much better, more stable patch that addresses some CCK issues with the views integration. Please use this patch instead.

Comment #4

brendoncrawford CreditAttribution: brendoncrawford commented 29 August 2008 at 19:02

Comment #5

brendoncrawford CreditAttribution: brendoncrawford commented 2 September 2008 at 05:01

File	Size
brendoncrawford-views_service.module.2.patch	3.13 KB

And here is yet another patch which adds improved taxonomy fields support for views. Disreagdr the last patch and use this instead. I am making these diffs from the committed version, not from the last patch. if you need them diffed from my last patch, let me know.

Comment #6

brmassa CreditAttribution: brmassa commented 2 September 2008 at 05:36

Status:

Needs review

» Fixed

Brendon,

i added your patch before, then i realized (and asked the opinion of Earl (merlinofchaos)) that the new Views dont generate only Nodes, but it might be users, taxonomies, comments... so i had to remove it.

But dont worry, the same results can be obtained using Views: just create a new "display", in which you select to for loading the entire node. Its much more elegant and generic.

but thanks.

regards,

massa

Comment #7

brendoncrawford CreditAttribution: brendoncrawford commented 3 September 2008 at 17:35

Status:

Fixed

» Active

Massa,

The new views_service release only outputs $view->result. This is simply the raw data, but it does not returned the actual rendered data. The most recent patch I posted shows an example of rendered data being outputted instead of just raw data.

It would only take about 10 minutes to make my most recent patch work for non-node views as well. I will make those changes and re-post it later today. Hopefully you could reconsider.

Comment #8

brmassa CreditAttribution: brmassa commented 3 September 2008 at 21:17

Brendon,

you are right about $view->result being the raw data. However, instead of hardcode a node_load, user_load, taxonomy_load... which will impossible because any other module can create a new base, we need to create a new views' "display". It should basically "print" the actual data, which will be controlled by Views itself.

Can you try to do this? It should not be hard. I suggest studying some default Views' displays: "page", "feed", "attachment" and "block".

Sorry for placing it as fixed.

best regards,

,assa