cakephp 3 - return object data from a function?

Question

I am just new to cakephp 3 and have the following issue: I am calling data from a soap source like this:

//connection to client...
$params = array('iban' => $iban);
$result = $this->client->validateIban($params);

So far so good. I can debug the result too:

debug($result->validateIban);

it returns either 'true' or 'false'.

Now I want to return the value like this:

return $result->validateIban;

But I get now the error:

Controller action can only return an instance of Response

I am now a bit lost as I don't know how to return the value? Can anyone help me out, please?

Within a crontroller. I am also doing a jquery.post() to get the data to manipulate the view. — user1555112
– user1555112, Commented Jan 12, 2016 at 12:40

user1555112 · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-13 09:28:24Z

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I think I found the right way: As I am sending with jquery a post to the controller I need to send the value back as json:

$this->response->body(json_encode(array('iban' => $result->validateIban)));
return $this->response;

answered Jan 13, 2016 at 9:28

user1555112

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