[TYPO3-mvc] extend FileCollection

[Dirk Wenzel]

Hi Frans,
I'm working at extending FileCollection too and got stuck.
Would you please provide the link to your repository that you mentioned?

Cheers
Dirk

Am 26.06.13 09:21, schrieb 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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