[TYPO3-mvc] Can't find floating objects

[Christoph Koehler]

Hello,

Scenario: Fetch an object from the db using findBy*, if none exists, 
create one. Repeat this several times.

Expected: The object isn't found the first iteration, is created and 
used. The next iteration will find the object that was created 
previously and use it instead of creating a new one.

Actual: The object isn't found the first iteration, is created and used. 
The next iteration does _NOT_ find the previously created object and 
create another new one with the same attributes as the first one. This 
will be done for each iteration until everything is saved to the db. The 
result is many objects that share attributes.

Fix: Either enable the find* methods to search objects that have not yet 
been committed to the db, or save objects more often to the db.

Workaround?: Is there a way to manually save all floating objects into 
the db? If so, how?

Thanks!

Christoph