Trait ModelAwareTrait

Provides functionality for loading table classes and other repositories onto properties of the host object.

Example users of this trait are Cake\Controller\Controller and Cake\Console\Shell.

Direct Users

Indirect Users

Namespace: Cake\Datasource
Location: Datasource/ModelAwareTrait.php

Properties summary

  • $_modelFactories protected
    array
    A list of overridden model factory functions.
  • $_modelType protected
    string
    The model type to use.
  • $modelClass public
    string

    This object's primary model class name. Should be a plural form. CakePHP will not inflect the name.

Method Summary

  • _setModelClass() protected
    Set the modelClass and modelKey properties based on conventions.
  • Get the model type to be used by this class
  • loadModel() public
    Loads and constructs repository objects required by this object
  • Override a existing callable to generate repositories of a given type.
  • modelType() public
    Set or get the model type to be used by this class
  • Set the model type to be used by this class

Method Detail

_setModelClass()source protected 

_setModelClass( string $name )

Set the modelClass and modelKey properties based on conventions.

If the properties are already set they will not be overwritten

Parameters

string $name
Class name.

getModelType()source public 

getModelType( )

Get the model type to be used by this class

Returns

string

loadModel()source public 

loadModel( string|null $modelClass null , string|null $modelType null )

Loads and constructs repository objects required by this object

Typically used to load ORM Table objects as required. Can also be used to load other types of repository objects your application uses.

If a repository provider does not return an object a MissingModelException will be thrown.

Parameters

string|null $modelClass optional null
Name of model class to load. Defaults to $this->modelClass
string|null $modelType optional null
The type of repository to load. Defaults to the modelType() value.

Returns

Cake\Datasource\RepositoryInterface
The model instance created.

Throws

Cake\Datasource\Exception\MissingModelException
If the model class cannot be found.
InvalidArgumentException
When using a type that has not been registered.
UnexpectedValueException
If no model type has been defined

modelFactory()source public 

modelFactory( string $type , callable $factory )

Override a existing callable to generate repositories of a given type.

Parameters

string $type
The name of the repository type the factory function is for.
callable $factory
The factory function used to create instances.

modelType()source public 

modelType( string|null $modelType null )

Set or get the model type to be used by this class

Deprecated

3.5.0 Use getModelType()/setModelType() instead.

Parameters

string|null $modelType optional null
The model type or null to retrieve the current

Returns

string|Cake\Datasource\ModelAwareTrait
$this

setModelType()source public 

setModelType( string $modelType )

Set the model type to be used by this class

Parameters

string $modelType
The model type

Returns


$this

Properties detail

$_modelFactoriessource

protected array

A list of overridden model factory functions.

[]

$_modelTypesource

protected string

The model type to use.

'Table'

$modelClasssource

public string

This object's primary model class name. Should be a plural form. CakePHP will not inflect the name.

Example: For an object named 'Comments', the modelClass would be 'Comments'. Plugin classes should use Plugin.Comments style names to correctly load models from the correct plugin.

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