[TYPO3-mvc] Extbase mapping and validation

[Eric S. Auchterberge]

Hi Joachim,

For 1) look at http://forge.typo3.org/issues/6893

Regards,
Eric



On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Joachim Mathes <mathes at punkt.de> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've got two questions concerning the mapping and validation concepts of
> Extbase:
>
> 1) Is it possible to validate an aggregate root recursively with respect
> to their domain validators?
> Think of a blog with one aggregated post (no ObjectStorage). With Fluid
> it's easy to display, submit and persist the respective properties
> eventually:
> {blog.title}
> {blog.post.title}
> {blog.post.text}
> ...
>
> But as far as I can see, Extbase only validates the "blog" domain
> object. It doesn't take into account the property validators of the
> aggregated "post". Can you confirm this behaviour?
> Anyway, it would be nice, if an aggregate root could be validated
> recursively.
>
> 2) Is it possible to submit and map the fields of an aggregated
> ObjectStorage?
> Think of a blog with n aggregated posts. The posts shall be displayed
> (editable) next to their blog in one template like this:
> {blog.title}
> <f:for each="{blog.posts}" as="post">
> {post.title}
> {post.text}
> </f:for>
> How can the modified posts be submitted and mapped to an ObjectStorage
> of type "Post" and the ObjectStorage be attached to its root "Blog"
> eventually? Does Extbase support this in any way?
> Jochen Rau shows a trick in the extension sjr_offers for the
> "AttendanceFee"s of an "Offer". In
> Resources/Private/Templates/Offer/edit.html he creates an array of
> attendance fees like this:
> attendanceFees[amount][]
> attendanceFees[comment][]
> This array has to be flipped after transferring it to the controller
> action:
> attendanceFees[0][amount]
> attendanceFees[0][comment]
> attendanceFees[1][amount]
> attendanceFees[1][comment]
> And furthermore all validation has to be done by hand. So this works
> quite well for simple domain objects. But it produces quite an overhead
> for more complex ones.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Joachim
>
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