Can you use getResources to deliver a page that has its own getResources call?

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johnnyp Reply #1, 11 years, 1 month ago

Re posting with a better title.

I cannot seem to use getResources to get a page that has its own getResources call.

The first call is dynamic, ie it calls a page based upon a changing alias.

The target page has an explicit call via getresources to include the content of a shared resource, ie parents=-1 resource=7.

When I try to do this, it just hangs. Is this normal behaviour or is something wrong?

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sottwell Reply #2, 11 years, 1 month ago

It's possible that it's calling itself, thus creating an infinite loop.

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johnnyp Reply #3, 11 years, 1 month ago

Hey sottwell,

Do you mean the target page may be the same, or the snippet is calling itself again?

The target pages should never be the same, because they are in unrelated parts of the site with different parents.

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sottwell Reply #4, 11 years, 1 month ago

Show me the first getResources snippet.

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johnnyp Reply #5, 11 years, 1 month ago

[[!getResources:default=`<div class="col-12"><p class="tpl-noresults">Your Client Page has not been generated yet.</p></div>`?
    &where=`{"alias:=":"[[+cid]]"}`
    &parents=`48`
    &depth=`0`
    &limit=`1`
    &includeContent=`1`
    &includeTVs=`0`
    &includeTVList=``
    &prepareTVs=`0`
    &processTVs=`0`
    &tvPrefix=`tv.`
    &hideContainers=`0`
    &showHidden=`1`
    &showUnpublished=`0`
    &resources=``
    &Xsortby=`{"menuindex":"ASC"}`
    &tpl=`@INLINE [[+content]]`
    &Xdebug=`1`
]]

The second call on the client pages called a small portion of code that stated various things; which I'd rather have as an editable resource rather than a chunk.

As I said, this works fine if I remove the getResources calls from the resulting content.

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johnnyp Reply #6, 11 years, 1 month ago

Could anyone verify that the above can work? Still haven't tracked down the issue.

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sottwell Reply #7, 11 years, 1 month ago

Where is the [[+cid]] placeholder coming from?

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johnnyp Reply #8, 11 years, 1 month ago

From a snippet. As I said above, this getresources call works fine; it gets the page, but if the page it finds has another getresources call the whole thing hangs.

I can't get it to work at all, but everything I'm reading online suggests that you can nest getresources all day long with no issues. It's incredibly confusing.

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sottwell Reply #9, 11 years, 1 month ago

Ok, what does the getResources call in the [[+content]] look like?

That [[+cid]] is the alias, or the ID of the resource? Never mind, looking things over I can see that it would be the alias, which is most likely the current user's username? [ed. note: sottwell last edited this post 11 years, 1 month ago.]

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johnnyp Reply #10, 11 years, 1 month ago

Hey, CID is a client ID which can be shared by many user logins, CID is basically just a reference to a client's main client page and its also on all documents relating to their projects. I just started using this method; using classextender from Bobray.

The idea was that I reference a main client page, which then has many other getresources calls within it, to get lists of stuff like invoices, project specs, etc. Each request has a security layer that checks the CID of a resource against the logged in users CID. All of the security seems to work, but getresources is not.

Two example getresources calls I'm using so you can check for issues:

[[-!getResources:default=`<div class="col-12"><p class="tpl">You have no invoices.</p></div>`?
    &parents=`49`
    &depth=`0`
    &limit=`100`
    &includeContent=`1`
    &includeTVs=`0`
    &includeTVList=``
    &prepareTVs=`0`
    &processTVs=`0`
    &tvPrefix=`tv.`
    &hideContainers=`0`
    &showHidden=`1`
    &showUnpublished=`0`
    &resources=``
    &sortby=`{"menuindex":"ASC"}`
    &tpl=`@INLINE [[+content]]`
]]

[[!getResources?
    &parents=`-1`
    &depth=`0`
    &limit=`1`
    &includeContent=`1`
    &includeTVs=`0`
    &includeTVList=``
    &prepareTVs=`0`
    &processTVs=`0`
    &tvPrefix=`tv.`
    &hideContainers=`0`
    &showHidden=`1`
    &showUnpublished=`0`
    &resources=`1`
    &sortby=`{"menuindex":"ASC"}`
    &tpl=`@INLINE [[+content]]`
]]

I have time to run more tests tonight, so I may update this post later with more confirmation or details; but any help or insight would be much appreciated.

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