First version or REST API to export data

app/Config/bootstrap.php

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 /**
  * This file is loaded automatically by the app/webroot/index.php file after core.php
  *
- * This file should load/create any application wide configuration settings, such as 
+ * This file should load/create any application wide configuration settings, such as
  * Caching, Logging, loading additional configuration files.
  *
  * You should also use this file to include any files that provide global functions/constants
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ Configure::write('CyDefSIG.footer', 'Powered by CyDefSIG © Belgian Defense
 //Configure::write('CyDefSIG.logo', '/img/logo_big.gif');
 
 
-Configure::write('CyDefSIG.showorg', 'false');           // show the name of the organisation that uploaded the data
+Configure::write('CyDefSIG.showorg', 'false');             // show the name of the organisation that uploaded the data
+Configure::write('CyDefSIG.serversync', 'true');           // enable features related to syncing with other CyDefSIG instances
 Configure::write('CyDefSIG.email', 'no-reply@sig.mil.be'); // email from for all the mails
 
 Configure::write('GnuPG.onlyencrypted', 'true');         // only allow encrypted email, do not allow plaintext mails

app/Config/routes.php

@@ -27,8 +27,13 @@
  */
 	Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'events', 'action' => 'index'));
 
+
+	// Activate REST
+	Router::mapResources(array('events', 'attributes'));
+	Router::parseExtensions('xml');
+
 /**
- * Load all plugin routes.  See the CakePlugin documentation on 
+ * Load all plugin routes.  See the CakePlugin documentation on
  * how to customize the loading of plugin routes.
  */
 	CakePlugin::routes();

app/Controller/EventsController.php

@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ class EventsController extends AppController {
      * @var array
      */
 
-    public $components = array('Security', 'Email');
+    public $components = array('Security', 'Email', 'RequestHandler');
     public $paginate = array(
             'limit' => 60,
+            'maxLimit' => 9999,  // LATER we will bump here on a problem once we have more than 9999 events
             'order' => array(
                     'Event.date' => 'DESC'
             )
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ class EventsController extends AppController {
 
         $relatedAttributes = array();
         $this->loadModel('Attribute');
-        $fields = array('Attribute.id', 'Attribute.event_id');
+        $fields = array('Attribute.id', 'Attribute.event_id', 'Attribute.uuid');
         foreach ($this->Event->data['Attribute'] as $attribute) {
             $relatedAttributes[$attribute['id']] = $this->Attribute->getRelatedAttributes($attribute, $fields);
         }
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ class EventsController extends AppController {
             $find_params = array(
                     'conditions' => array('OR' => array('Event.id' => $relatedEventsIds)), //array of conditions
                     'recursive' => 0, //int
-                    'fields' => array('Event.id', 'Event.date'), //array of field names
+                    'fields' => array('Event.id', 'Event.date', 'Event.uuid'), //array of field names
                     'order' => array('Event.date DESC'), //string or array defining order
             );
             $relatedEvents = $this->Event->find('all', $find_params);
@@ -549,7 +550,7 @@ class EventsController extends AppController {
             $conditions = array();
         }
         // do not expose all the data like user_id, ...
-        $fields = array('Event.id', 'Event.date', 'Event.risk', 'Event.info', 'Event.uuid', 'Event.published');
+        $fields = array('Event.id', 'Event.date', 'Event.risk', 'Event.info', 'Event.published', 'Event.uuid');
         if ('true' == Configure::read('CyDefSIG.showorg')) {
             $fields[] = 'Event.org';
         }

app/View/Events/xml/index.ctp

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?php
+$xmlArray = array();
+foreach ($events as $key => $event) {
+    // rearrange things to be compatible with the Xml::fromArray()
+    $events[$key] = $events[$key]['Event'];
+
+    // cleanup the array from things we do not want to expose
+    unset($events[$key]['User']);
+    unset($events[$key]['Event']);
+    unset($events[$key]['user_id']);
+    // hide the private field is we are not in serversync mode
+    if ('true' != Configure::read('CyDefSIG.serversync')) {
+        unset($events[$key]['private']);
+    }
+    // hide the org field is we are not in showorg mode
+    if ('true' != Configure::read('CyDefSIG.showorg') && !$isAdmin) {
+        unset($events[$key]['org']);
+    }
+
+}
+
+// display the XML to the user
+$xmlArray['CyDefSIG']['event'] = $events;
+$xmlObject = Xml::fromArray($xmlArray, array('format' => 'tags'));
+echo $xmlObject->asXML();
+?><!--
+Please note that this XML page is a representation of the /events/index page.
+Because the /events/index page is paginated you will have a limited number of results.
+
+You can for example ask: /events/index/limit:999.xml to get the 999 first records.
+(A maximum has been set to 9999)
+
+
+To export all the events at once, with their attributes, use the export functionality.
+ -->

app/View/Events/xml/view.ctp

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?php
+$xmlArray = array();
+// rearrange things to be compatible with the Xml::fromArray()
+$event['Event']['attribute'] = $event['Attribute'];
+unset($event['Attribute']);
+
+// cleanup the array from things we do not want to expose
+unset($event['Event']['user_id']);
+// hide the private fields is we are not in serversync mode
+if ('true' != Configure::read('CyDefSIG.serversync')) {
+    unset($event['Event']['private']);
+    foreach($event['Event']['attribute'] as $key => $value) {
+        unset($event['Event']['attribute'][$key]['private']);
+    }
+}
+// hide the org field is we are not in showorg mode
+if ('true' != Configure::read('CyDefSIG.showorg') && !$isAdmin) {
+    unset($event['Event']['org']);
+}
+
+// build up a list of the related events
+foreach ($relatedEvents as $relatedEvent) {
+    $event['Event']['relatedevent'][] = $relatedEvent['Event'];
+}
+
+// display the XML to the user
+$xmlArray['CyDefSIG']['event'][] = $event['Event'];
+$xmlObject = Xml::fromArray($xmlArray, array('format' => 'tags'));
+echo $xmlObject->asXML();