[FLOW3-general] Some thoughts about settings & inherited classes

[Manuel Strausz]

Hello everyone,
I've been working on some framework addons lately, and I've hit a small 
roadblock that got me thinking.
In detail, I was trying to change the default behavior of the 
ActionController when selecting a view class. As it is now, the 
controller chooses the Fluid TemplateView class when it finds a matching 
template. I wanted to make the default view class configurable, since 
I'm doing some tests with a special CompositeView class that could be 
used for generic nested views.
To do this, I introduced a new setting for the MVC subpackage inside the 
FLOW3 configuration Settings.yaml, defaultTemplateView. But, of course, 
I couldn't access it... since the actual controller used is in a 
completely different package (and not even a Framework package).
The part where I am actually querying the setting is in the inherited 
part of the class, but there is no way to access the settings for the 
class I inherited from.

My question is, would it make sense to also inject settings from the 
class I inherited from (they could act as 'default settings' for all 
inherited classes)? Maybe I'm just a bit confused after pulling an 
all-nighter :)

Of course I can always inject the configuration manager and query the 
settings for the MVC packagge manually, but this just seems 'awkward' 
somehow.

Any suggestions/hints would be really appreciated.

regards,
Manuel