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Submitted by sugardev.net on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 10:14.

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Just spraying out some thoughts just after fixing a custom view with a custom action name is a default module..

The action that I have is FullTextSearch. This is camelcase, because it's Sugar's convention. Fine. But now, I want to create a custom view, which needs to be called ./custom/modules/views/view.fulltextsearch.php>, because of:

<?php
class ViewFactory{
    function loadView($type = 'default', $module, $bean = null, $view_object_map = array()){
        ----> $type = strtolower($type);
?>

Wait a minute. This is complicated, because in the old way, I needed to make an action file in ./custom/modules/ named exactly like the action I'm creating. Weird!

But now, I want to fill my new view.fulltextsearch.php. And it won't work. I'm looking at examples, and it won't work. Why? Because of this piece of code:

<?php
    /**
     * This is a private function which just helps the getView function generate the
     * proper view object
     *
     * @return a valid SugarView
     */
    function _buildFromFile($file, &$bean, $view_object_map, $type, $module){
        require_once($file);
        //try ModuleViewType first then try ViewType if that fails then use SugarView
        $class = ucfirst($module).'View'.ucfirst($type);
        if(!class_exists($class)){
            $class = 'View'.ucfirst($type);
            if(!class_exists($class)){
                return new SugarView($bean, $view_object_map);
            }
        }
        return ViewFactory::_buildClass($class, $bean, $view_object_map);
    }
?>

Well, this actually says I need to rename my class+constructor to DocumentsViewFulltextsearch.

So, my file needs to begin with "view.", while it's in /views/ already (and there are only view files in it), and my class needs to be named DocumentsViewFulltextsearch, because of the last code piece above.

This just adds complexity, and I wish someone would architect these kind of changes in the future.

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