Symfony Tasks: Getting the output of a module / action

Question

Is it possible to capture the output of an action in a task?

Ex:

FooAction
{
    executeIndexSuccess()
}

and in my Task:

FooAction->Index

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Yes. In your task's execute() method:

sfContext::createInstance($this->configuration);
$output = sfContext::getInstance()->getController()->getPresentationFor("module", "action");

The resultant output from the action and associated view will be stored in $output.

If your action needs variables setting into the session, you can also do things like:

sfContext::getInstance()->getUser()->setAttribute("mySessionVar", 123);
sfContext::getInstance()->getUser()->setFlash("myFlashVar", "foo");

before you call getPresentationFor(), so that the variables are present when the action is executed.