[TYPO3-team-templavoila] Static Data Structure Wishlist

[Jeff Segars]

On 1/20/10 4:50 PM, Jeff Segars wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I've finally been able to dive into Static Data Structures and have a
> couple small enhancements that might be worth discussing. I'm happy to
> write the code for them, but would like a little feedback before I get
> too far along.
>
> As a little background, I'm working on building some automation and
> backend UI for Ron Hall's TV Framework. The goal is to get most of Ron's
> work into static files within an extension so that updates can more
> easily be managed and templates can be easily distributed as extensions.
> Static Data Structures are of course a big part of this :)
>
> The current implementation of Static Data Structures in TemplaVoila has
> specific DS paths for pages and FCEs. When a TO assigns a static DS, the
> entire path (relative to the TYPO3 root) is saved in the database. I'm
> wondering if it would be better to only save the filename so that a
> change to the overall DS path doesn't require saving each record again.
>
> As part of the work for Ron's TV Framework, we'd like to include all of
> the Data Structures inside an extension.  With the current code, I can
> set TV to look for data structures inside the extension directory and
> everything works as expected. The only downside to this is an end user
> can no longer create their own static data structures because our
> extension has hijacked the path.  It seems like an easy solution to this
> would be to allow extensions to notify TemplaVoila of files (or
> directories) where static data structures can be found in addition to
> the existing path that TemplaVoila already reads from.
>
> The two requests together would leave us saving the following strings in
> the DB and the ability to share data structures as extensions while
> still using custom data structures on a per-site basis.
>
> STATIC:My Custom Data Structure.xml
> EXT:templavoila_framework/datastructures/F1A.xml
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff

Argh, wrong newsgroup...sorry about that.  Posting back to 
typo3.projects.templavoila.