    /**
     * @author Ed Spencer
     *
     * AjaxProxy is one of the most widely-used ways of getting data into your application. It uses AJAX requests to load
     * data from the server, usually to be placed into a {@link Ext.data.Store Store}. Let's take a look at a typical setup.
     * Here we're going to set up a Store that has an AjaxProxy. To prepare, we'll also set up a {@link Ext.data.Model
     * Model}:
     *
     *     Ext.define('User', {
     *         extend: 'Ext.data.Model',
     *         fields: ['id', 'name', 'email']
     *     });
     *
     *     //The Store contains the AjaxProxy as an inline configuration
     *     var store = Ext.create('Ext.data.Store', {
     *         model: 'User',
     *         proxy: {
     *             type: 'ajax',
     *             url : 'users.json'
     *         }
     *     });
     *
     *     store.load();
     *
     * Our example is going to load user data into a Store, so we start off by defining a {@link Ext.data.Model Model} with
     * the fields that we expect the server to return. Next we set up the Store itself, along with a
     * {@link Ext.data.Store#proxy proxy} configuration. This configuration was automatically turned into an
     * Ext.data.proxy.Ajax instance, with the url we specified being passed into AjaxProxy's constructor.
     * It's as if we'd done this:
     *
     *     new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({
     *         url: 'users.json',
     *         model: 'User',
     *         reader: 'json'
     *     });
     *
     * A couple of extra configurations appeared here - {@link #model} and {@link #reader}. These are set by default when we
     * create the proxy via the Store - the Store already knows about the Model, and Proxy's default {@link
     * Ext.data.reader.Reader Reader} is {@link Ext.data.reader.Json JsonReader}.
     *
     * Now when we call store.load(), the AjaxProxy springs into action, making a request to the url we configured
     * ('users.json' in this case). As we're performing a read, it sends a GET request to that url (see
     * {@link #actionMethods} to customize this - by default any kind of read will be sent as a GET request and any kind of write
     * will be sent as a POST request).
     *
     * # Limitations
     *
     * AjaxProxy cannot be used to retrieve data from other domains. If your application is running on http://domainA.com it
     * cannot load data from http://domainB.com because browsers have a built-in security policy that prohibits domains
     * talking to each other via AJAX.
     *
     * If you need to read data from another domain and can't set up a proxy server (some software that runs on your own
     * domain's web server and transparently forwards requests to http://domainB.com, making it look like they actually came
     * from http://domainA.com), you can use {@link Ext.data.proxy.JsonP} and a technique known as JSON-P (JSON with
     * Padding), which can help you get around the problem so long as the server on http://domainB.com is set up to support
     * JSON-P responses. See {@link Ext.data.proxy.JsonP JsonPProxy}'s introduction docs for more details.
     *
     * # Readers and Writers
     *
     * AjaxProxy can be configured to use any type of {@link Ext.data.reader.Reader Reader} to decode the server's response.
     * If no Reader is supplied, AjaxProxy will default to using a {@link Ext.data.reader.Json JsonReader}. Reader
     * configuration can be passed in as a simple object, which the Proxy automatically turns into a {@link
     * Ext.data.reader.Reader Reader} instance:
     *
     *     var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({
     *         model: 'User',
     *         reader: {
     *             type: 'xml',
     *             root: 'users'
     *         }
     *     });
     *
     *     proxy.getReader(); //returns an {@link Ext.data.reader.Xml XmlReader} instance based on the config we supplied
     *
     * # Url generation
     *
     * AjaxProxy automatically inserts any sorting, filtering, paging and grouping options into the url it generates for
     * each request. These are controlled with the following configuration options:
     *
     * - {@link #pageParam} - controls how the page number is sent to the server (see also {@link #startParam} and {@link #limitParam})
     * - {@link #sortParam} - controls how sort information is sent to the server
     * - {@link #groupParam} - controls how grouping information is sent to the server
     * - {@link #filterParam} - controls how filter information is sent to the server
     *
     * Each request sent by AjaxProxy is described by an {@link Ext.data.Operation Operation}. To see how we can customize
     * the generated urls, let's say we're loading the Proxy with the following Operation:
     *
     *     var operation = new Ext.data.Operation({
     *         action: 'read',
     *         page  : 2
     *     });
     *
     * Now we'll issue the request for this Operation by calling {@link #read}:
     *
     *     var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({
     *         url: '/users'
     *     });
     *
     *     proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?page=2
     *
     * Easy enough - the Proxy just copied the page property from the Operation. We can customize how this page data is sent
     * to the server:
     *
     *     var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({
     *         url: '/users',
     *         pageParam: 'pageNumber'
     *     });
     *
     *     proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?pageNumber=2
     *
     * Alternatively, our Operation could have been configured to send start and limit parameters instead of page:
     *
     *     var operation = new Ext.data.Operation({
     *         action: 'read',
     *         start : 50,
     *         limit : 25
     *     });
     *
     *     var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({
     *         url: '/users'
     *     });
     *
     *     proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?start=50&limit;=25
     *
     * Again we can customize this url:
     *
     *     var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({
     *         url: '/users',
     *         startParam: 'startIndex',
     *         limitParam: 'limitIndex'
     *     });
     *
     *     proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?startIndex=50&limitIndex;=25
     *
     * AjaxProxy will also send sort and filter information to the server. Let's take a look at how this looks with a more
     * expressive Operation object:
     *
     *     var operation = new Ext.data.Operation({
     *         action: 'read',
     *         sorters: [
     *             new Ext.util.Sorter({
     *                 property : 'name',
     *                 direction: 'ASC'
     *             }),
     *             new Ext.util.Sorter({
     *                 property : 'age',
     *                 direction: 'DESC'
     *             })
     *         ],
     *         filters: [
     *             new Ext.util.Filter({
     *                 property: 'eyeColor',
     *                 value   : 'brown'
     *             })
     *         ]
     *     });
     *
     * This is the type of object that is generated internally when loading a {@link Ext.data.Store Store} with sorters and
     * filters defined. By default the AjaxProxy will JSON encode the sorters and filters, resulting in something like this
     * (note that the url is escaped before sending the request, but is left unescaped here for clarity):
     *
     *     var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({
     *         url: '/users'
     *     });
     *
     *     proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?sort=[{"property":"name","direction":"ASC"},{"property":"age","direction":"DESC"}]&filter;=[{"property":"eyeColor","value":"brown"}]
     *
     * We can again customize how this is created by supplying a few configuration options. Let's say our server is set up
     * to receive sorting information is a format like "sortBy=name#ASC,age#DESC". We can configure AjaxProxy to provide
     * that format like this:
     *
     *      var proxy = new Ext.data.proxy.Ajax({
     *          url: '/users',
     *          sortParam: 'sortBy',
     *          filterParam: 'filterBy',
     *
     *          //our custom implementation of sorter encoding - turns our sorters into "name#ASC,age#DESC"
     *          encodeSorters: function(sorters) {
     *              var length   = sorters.length,
     *                  sortStrs = [],
     *                  sorter, i;
     *
     *              for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
     *                  sorter = sorters[i];
     *
     *                  sortStrs[i] = sorter.property + '#' + sorter.direction
     *              }
     *
     *              return sortStrs.join(",");
     *          }
     *      });
     *
     *      proxy.read(operation); //GET /users?sortBy=name#ASC,age#DESC&filterBy;=[{"property":"eyeColor","value":"brown"}]
     *
     * We can also provide a custom {@link #encodeFilters} function to encode our filters.
     *
     * @constructor
     * Note that if this HttpProxy is being used by a {@link Ext.data.Store Store}, then the Store's call to
     * {@link Ext.data.Store#method-load load} will override any specified callback and params options. In this case, use the
     * {@link Ext.data.Store Store}'s events to modify parameters, or react to loading events.
     *
     * @param {Object} config (optional) Config object.
     * If an options parameter is passed, the singleton {@link Ext.Ajax} object will be used to make the request.
     */
    Ext.define('Ext.data.proxy.Ajax', {
        requires: ['Ext.util.MixedCollection', 'Ext.Ajax'],
        extend: 'Ext.data.proxy.Server',
        alias: 'proxy.ajax',
        alternateClassName: ['Ext.data.HttpProxy', 'Ext.data.AjaxProxy'],

        /**
         * @property {Object} actionMethods
         * Mapping of action name to HTTP request method. In the basic AjaxProxy these are set to 'GET' for 'read' actions
         * and 'POST' for 'create', 'update' and 'destroy' actions. The {@link Ext.data.proxy.Rest} maps these to the
         * correct RESTful methods.
         */
        actionMethods: {
            create : 'POST',
            read   : 'GET',
            update : 'POST',
            destroy: 'POST'
        },

        /**
         * @cfg {Boolean} binary
         * True to request binary data from the server.  This feature requires
         * the use of a binary reader such as {@link Ext.data.amf.Reader AMF Reader}
         */
        binary: false,

        /**
         * @cfg {Object} headers
         * Any headers to add to the Ajax request. Defaults to undefined.
         */

        doRequest: function(operation, callback, scope) {
            var writer  = this.getWriter(),
                request = this.buildRequest(operation);

            if (operation.allowWrite()) {
                request = writer.write(request);
            }

            Ext.apply(request, {
                binary        : this.binary,
                headers       : this.headers,
                timeout       : this.timeout,
                scope         : this,
                callback      : this.createRequestCallback(request, operation, callback, scope),
                method        : this.getMethod(request),
                disableCaching: false // explicitly set it to false, ServerProxy handles caching
            });

            Ext.Ajax.request(request);

            return request;
        },

        /**
         * Returns the HTTP method name for a given request. By default this returns based on a lookup on
         * {@link #actionMethods}.
         * @param {Ext.data.Request} request The request object
         * @return {String} The HTTP method to use (should be one of 'GET', 'POST', 'PUT' or 'DELETE')
         */
        getMethod: function(request) {
            return this.actionMethods[request.action];
        },

        /**
         * @private
         * TODO: This is currently identical to the JsonPProxy version except for the return function's signature. There is a lot
         * of code duplication inside the returned function so we need to find a way to DRY this up.
         * @param {Ext.data.Request} request The Request object
         * @param {Ext.data.Operation} operation The Operation being executed
         * @param {Function} callback The callback function to be called when the request completes. This is usually the callback
         * passed to doRequest
         * @param {Object} scope The scope in which to execute the callback function
         * @return {Function} The callback function
         */
        createRequestCallback: function(request, operation, callback, scope) {
            var me = this;

            return function(options, success, response) {
                me.processResponse(success, operation, request, response, callback, scope);
            };
        }
    }, function() {
        //backwards compatibility, remove in Ext JS 5.0
        Ext.data.HttpProxy = this;
    });