[TYPO3-mvc] Manually setting an UID

[Sebastian Fischer]

On 30.03.2011 22:14, Georg Grossberger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently working on a domain model, that is polulated with data
> from a REST API. Every data row comes with an ID, now I would like to
> use the Uid property to store that ID, because that Id is, when using
> TYPO3 terms, the UID of that record. How to do this?
>
> Simply setting the UID field won't work because in that case the isNew
> method would return true on a new model.
>
> One idea of mine was to overload the add method of the repository, to
> insert a blank record when a new object is created.
>
> Any suggestions would be appriciated.
>
> Greets,
> Georg

Hi Georg,

i know you would like to, but what benefit do you expect from setting 
the remove id in the uid attribute?

I would surgest to add an attribute for the remove_id so the record 
could be identified with the remote data and leave the uid as it was 
intended internaly.

Greetings
Sebastian