Notes on sdboyers comments about partial response handling

Partial response handling notes

        // controller arguments
        $arguments = $this->resolver->getArguments($request, $controller);

        // call controller
        // i.e. from menu_execute_active_handler
        // 
        $response = call_user_func_array($controller, $arguments);


        // if controller wasn't smart enough to return a complete response...



        // controllers should return a partial response with content -- basically a
        // string that page.tpl would produce in D7, plus add'l meta including assets and meta tags, etc.

        // don't use the full symfony response because we wanna do this extra processing.

        // there is a subscriber which is called from 

        // view
        if (!$response instanceof Response) {

from Symfony HttpKernel.php

related: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8238539/request-handling-steps.png