Engine methods

attendCliRequest

Attends the request received from the CLI interface.

attendWebRequest

Attends the request received from a web server by calling Actions::run with the requested URI string

callMethodOnAllModules( methodName )

Calls the specified static method on all the available Core and App modules where it's implemented, and then loads those modules.

• methodName The method name to call

end

Ends the application by calling the end methods of all the loaded modules.

getStatus

Returns information about the engine and its current status, including the loaded modules, the mapped actions and some benchmarks.

Note that some information on the return array will be missing if the isDevel option has not been activated when initializing the engine. This also applies to the getStatusHumanReadable and getStatusHtml methods.

Returns: A hash array with the information

getStatusHumanReadable

Returns a human-readable version of the status information provided by the getStatus method.

Returns: A hash array with the status information in a human readable format

getStatusHtml

Returns an HTML version of the status in a human readable format.

Returns: The HTML code

init( appNamespace, setup )

Initializes the Cherrycake engine.

• appNamespace The app namespace

• setup Optional hash array

  • appName The app name

  • isDevel Set it to true if the app is running in a development environment

  • isUnderMaintenance Whether the App is under maintenance or not

  • isCli Whether the engine is running as a cli or not. When not specified, it will autodetect.

  • configDir The directory where configuration files are stored

  • appModulesDir The directory where app modules are stored

  • appClassesDir The directory where app classes are stored

  • timezoneName The system's timezone. All modules, including Database for date/time retrievals/saves will be made taking this timezone into account. The server is expected to run on this timezone. Default: Etc/UTC

  • timezoneId The system's timezone. The same as timezoneName, but the matching id on the Cherrycake timezones database table. Default: 532 (532 is the id for the Etc/UTC time zone)

  • baseCoreModules An ordered array of the base Core module names that has to be always loaded on application start. Defaults to ["Actions"]. This list should include the Actions module to provide some kind of functionality to the app, since otherwise it wouldn't be answering any requests and will be completely unusable, except if you're experimenting with different ways of using the Cherrycake engine. See Working with Actions.

  • baseAppModules An ordered array of the base App module names that has to be always loaded on application start.

  • additionalAppConfigFiles An ordered array of any additional App config file names to load from the App config directory.

Returns: Boolean indicating whether all the modules have been loaded ok or not.

loadAppModule( moduleName, requiredByModuleName )

Loads an App module.

• moduleName The name of the module.

• requiredByModuleName Optional name of the module that required to load the module.

loadCoreModule( moduleName, requiredByModuleName )

Loads a Core module.

• moduleName The name of the module.

• requiredByModuleName Optional name of the module that required to load the module.