[TYPO3-v4] Webservices for TYPO3

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Fernando Arconada wrote:
> IHMO there are 2 way to get this ready:
> - a realurl modification

Feel free to make an add-on to RealURL but do not touch the code inside
RealURL. It is too easy to break. This code is many years old and it is not
the brightest and easiest piece of software. Many people supply patches but
I usually have to fix those patches because they break something in
RealURL. See below why it happens.

> - a realurl replacement, i.e. a flow3 web router backport

Try it... But make sure you test performance. RealURL was optimized for
performance but still it is not fast. If you make link generation or
resolving slower, it would not be good.

You also need to understand that RealURL, CoolURI, SimulateStatic and all
such methods are not native to TYPO3. TYPO3 is not meant to work with
speaking URLs by design. So all those extensions are big hacks. I doubt it
is possible to make such router the right way with the current v4
architecture. I thought of that for a long time but it is simply not
possible without major rewrite of FE part (tsfe, cObj, t3lib_page).

For example, when you decode, you need to know a lot and that information
is not available, so you have to make guesses and fetch some data that
technically you shouldn't. Also when encoding you have to assume many
thing, which can be totally wrong (such as disabling ReaURL for the part of
the tree or different speaking URL settings for different parts of the
tree, or nested domains, or mount points, or skipping segments, or three
different methods to mark the start of the site, etc). It is quite
difficult to handle with the current architecture. If you feel ready, try it.

And remember performance...

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Dmitry Dulepov
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