[TYPO3-dev] FAL and TCA

[Bernhard Kraft]

Hi,

On 2015-03-11 19:42, Frans Saris wrote:

> Something like described here?
> http://wiki.typo3.org/File_Abstraction_Layer#TCA

This is how to set-up a FAL field using sys_file_references.


Lets first define I would not use the API for really getting a path to 
the file.

Then I would have to "follow" the configured TCA relations till I end up 
with a sys_file record. There it would get complex to retrieve the file 
without using the API.


But I just meant that it is some convention, that when you have a 
sys_file record you have to use the API to get a file ... correct?

Of course TCA at all is a kind of convention-monster. But usally quite a 
lot is also configured there. What I miss is some kind of 
configuration(!) for the sys_file TCA by which my code knows which API 
methods it has to fire up. Or at least which API methods are available.

In the current situation every such speciality: Calling an API for 
specific TCA situations would have to get implemented by hand. There is 
no mechanism ...


Background: I upgraded the "contentstage" Extension to 6.2 and had to 
handle FAL entries. Maybe my tought is not clear enough and just evolved 
by the fact I had to add special code for retrieving a path to the file. 
If sys_file:identifier would just have been a type=>group 
internal_type=>file_reference the question wouldn't have arised.


greetings,
Bernhard