[TYPO3-mvc] extend FileCollection

[Frans Saris]

Hi,

did something simular in a extension I'm building. The problem with current
implementation of *FileCollection in core is that you can not easily extend
it so it uses your models. Also it isn't extbase.
I extended TCA of sys_file_collection and created a model that represents
almost all fields from sys_file_collection. Than I added a link between my
model and the original *FileCollection by injecting the filecollection
repository in my FileCollecion model and created some "proxy" functions to
get the items from collection.

I use this for a gallery extension I'm working on. I can give you a link to
my git repository but it's work in progress so not completely working. This
part is working... :)

gr. Frans


2013/6/25 Oliver Beck <obeck at biznet.ch>

> Hi all
>
> I'd like to use the Static- and Folder based filecollections in my Extbase
> extensions. Out of the box it works very well, I can access all the data of
> the filecollections. Now I need more fields (a text and a date field) for
> the collections. I tought this is easy: create two models, which extends
> both FileCollection Model (\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\**Collection\**StaticFileCollection
> and \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Resource\**Collection\**FolderBasedCollection),
> create a Repository which extends the corresponding Repository and map the
> table on the models with typoscript. At least I updated the
> sys_file_collection table / TCA with the two fields. I made a findAll-query
> on my new Repository and still get objects of the original model
> (\TYPO3\CMS\Core\Collection\**StaticFileCollection), logically without
> the two new properties.
>
> Did somebody else already extend the sys_file_collection?
> Kind Regards, Oliver
>
>
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