use CakePHP-Enum-Behavior to add support for ENUMs to the Monitor model. This should fix #48

.gitmodules

@@ -2,3 +2,6 @@
 	path = web/api/app/Plugin/Crud
 	url = https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/crud.git
 	branch = 3.0
+[submodule "web/api/app/Plugin/CakePHP-Enum-Behavior"]
+	path = web/api/app/Plugin/CakePHP-Enum-Behavior
+	url = https://github.com/asper/CakePHP-Enum-Behavior.git

web/api/app/Config/bootstrap.php.in

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Cache::config('default', array('engine' => 'Apc'));
  *
  */
 CakePlugin::load('Crud');
+CakePlugin::load('CakePHP-Enum-Behavior');
 
 /**
  * You can attach event listeners to the request lifecycle as Dispatcher Filter. By default CakePHP bundles two filters:

web/api/app/Controller/MonitorsController.php

@@ -15,10 +15,13 @@ class MonitorsController extends AppController {
  */
   public $components = array('Paginator', 'RequestHandler');
 
+  public function beforeRender() {
+    $this->set($this->Monitor->enumValues());
+  }
   public function beforeFilter() {
     parent::beforeFilter();
     $canView = $this->Session->Read('monitorPermission');
-    if ($canView =='None') {
+    if ($canView == 'None') {
       throw new UnauthorizedException(__('Insufficient Privileges'));
       return;
     }
@@ -109,10 +112,9 @@ class MonitorsController extends AppController {
  * @return void
  */
   public function add() {
-    if ($this->request->is('post')) {
+    if ( $this->request->is('post') ) {
 
-      if ($this->Session->Read('systemPermission') != 'Edit')
-      {
+      if ( $this->Session->Read('systemPermission') != 'Edit' ) {
          throw new UnauthorizedException(__('Insufficient privileges'));
         return;
       }
@@ -120,8 +122,15 @@ class MonitorsController extends AppController {
       $this->Monitor->create();
       if ($this->Monitor->save($this->request->data)) {
         $this->daemonControl($this->Monitor->id, 'start');
-        return $this->flash(__('The monitor has been saved.'), array('action' => 'index'));
+        //return $this->flash(__('The monitor has been saved.'), array('action' => 'index'));
+        $message = 'Saved';
+      } else {
+        $message = 'Error';
       }
+      $this->set(array(
+        'message' => $message,
+        '_serialize' => array('message')
+      ));
     }
   }
 
@@ -138,8 +147,7 @@ class MonitorsController extends AppController {
     if (!$this->Monitor->exists($id)) {
       throw new NotFoundException(__('Invalid monitor'));
     }
-    if ($this->Session->Read('monitorPermission') != 'Edit')
-    {
+    if ($this->Session->Read('monitorPermission') != 'Edit') {
        throw new UnauthorizedException(__('Insufficient privileges'));
       return;
     }

web/api/app/Model/Monitor.php

@@ -86,10 +86,10 @@ class Monitor extends AppModel {
 	);
 
   /**
-    *  * hasMany associations
-    *   *
-    *    * @var array
-    *     */
+    * hasMany associations
+    *
+    * @var array
+    */
   public $hasAndBelongsToMany = array(
     'Group' => array(
       'className' => 'Group',
@@ -108,5 +108,16 @@ class Monitor extends AppModel {
       'counterQuery' => ''
     ),
   );
+  public $actsAs = array(
+    'CakePHP-Enum-Behavior.Enum' => array(
+      'Type'        =>  array('Local','Remote','File','Ffmpeg','Libvlc','cURL'),
+      'Function'    =>  array('None','Monitor','Modect','Record','Mocord','Nodect'),
+      'Orientation' => array('0','90','180','270','hori','vert'),
+      'OutputCodec' =>  array('h264','mjpeg','mpeg1','mpeg2'),
+      'OutputContainer' =>  array('auto','mp4','mkv'),
+      'DefaultView'   =>  array('Events','Control'),
+      'Status'      =>  array('Unknown','NotRunning','Running','NoSignal','Signal'),
+    )
+  );
 
 }

web/api/app/Plugin/CakePHP-Enum-Behavior

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 7108489f218c54d36d235d3af91d6da2f8311237

web/api/app/View/Monitors/json/add.ctp

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+echo json_encode($message);
+echo json_encode($monitor);

web/api/app/View/Monitors/xml/add.ctp

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+$xml = Xml::fromArray(array('response' => $message));
+echo $xml->asXML();