[TYPO3-dam] DAM RC1 - Multilanguage Editing - TestReport

[René Fritz]

Hi Georg

I'm going through the issues currently and will coment later.

Just a quick note on this topic

> PPS: I'm still wondering why so many functions rely on the file-name
> instead on the dam-record and it's optionaly given overlays in regards
> to language and versioning? This IMHO neglects the availability of the
> DAM-Ownership upon the file which should be held by tx_dam ONLY; am I
> missing something here?

Storing a file path is not the way to go when using dam functionality, you're 
right.

But using a file path which is just computed is an unique identifier as the 
tx_dam.uid is. And while TYPO3 internally does only work with file paths, 
those will be used very often in code which glue DAM and TYPO3.
I agree that some code could be cleaned up, but you will always need to 
convert uid<>file path.

Very often there's the problem TYPO3 does not offer the needed API. Some of 
the languages issues you described can be easily fixed. For other I have to 
build huge workarounds to pass the needed data to the DAM code. Most of the 
time I just reimplement the things which is easier instead of trying to use 
the TYPO3 API which is just not flexible.

Regards
René

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