Getting access to Zend_Controller_Action::$view from Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract::postDispatch()

Question

I'm looking at refactoring some code out of an Actions postDispatch into a plugin. The code currently is assigning a value to the view object and I can't find out how to get access to the view object from inside the plugin.

The old Zend_Controller_Action::postDispatch():

public function postDispatch() {
  ...
  $this->view->flashMessages = array_merge($flashMessenger->getCurrentMessages(), $flashMessenger->getMessages());
  ...
}

The new Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract::postDispatch():

public function postDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request) {
  ...
  // How to get access to Zend_Controller_Action::$view?
  // $this->view->flashMessages = array_merge($flashMessenger->getCurrentMessages(), $flashMessenger->getMessages());
  ...
}

Is there a straight forward way to do this?

Answer 1

Try this:

public function postDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
{
    $flashMessages = Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker::getStaticHelper('FlashMessenger')->getMessages();

    $view = Zend_Layout::getMvcInstance()->getView();
    $view->flashMessages = $flashMessages->getCurrentMessages();
}

Answer 2

$view = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getParam('bootstrap')->getResource('view');