[TYPO3-dev] A standard AJAX interface to TCA tables

[Peter Niederlag]

Hi there,

Sounds very interesting as we all start getting to like extjs now. ;)
Currently we are still working with some special handcrafted AJAX calls
here. To get this into a general approach definitly is a very nice goal!

Greets,
Peter

Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm playing around with ExtJS and needed some JSON/XML stores for my
> grids. After a while I thought it might be nice to have a standardized
> AJAX interface for data retrieving and manipluation in the BE.
> 
> Here's what I came up in a lonely brain storming :)
> 
> typo3/ajax.php?ajaxID=<command>
>  &format=<format>
> 
> Format may be json (default) or xml.
> 
> GET A SINGLE RECORD
> 
> typo3/ajax.php?ajaxID=tcaget
>  &table=<table>
>  &uid=<uid>
> 
> Possible modifications could be whether to apply or not to apply
> versions/translations or to fetch also deleted records.
> 
> GET A LIST OF RECORDS
> 
> typo3/ajax.php?ajaxID=tcalist
>  &table=<table>
>  &uids=<uid>[,<uid>]
> OR
> typo3/ajax.php?ajaxID=tcalist
>  &table=<table>
>  &pids=<pid>[,pid>]
> 
> For the latter syntax "pids" may be omitted for admins.
> 
> Possible modifications could be whether to apply or not to apply
> versions/translations.
> 
> Additonally there must be some parameters to allow for paging (start,
> end or length) and filtering (a full blown where clause?)
> 
> CALL TCEmain directly
> 
> typo3/ajax.php?ajaxID=tcemain
>  &data=<data>
>  &cmd=<cmd>
> 
> At least one of "data" and "cmd" must be passed.
> Maybe some TCEmain init variables could be set also via parameters.
> 
> UPDATE a single record
> 
> typo3/ajax.php?ajaxID=tcaupdate
>  &table=<table>
>  &uid=<uid>
>  &record=<record>
> 
> INSERT a single record
> 
> typo3/ajax.php?ajaxID=tcainsert
>  &table=<table>
>  &pid=<uid>
>  &record=<record>
> 
> DELETE a single record
> 
> typo3/ajax.php?ajaxID=tcadelete
>  &table=<table>
>  &uid=<uid>
>  &record=<record>
> 
> 
> Masi


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