[FLOW3-general] Finding inherited objects in a repository

[Peter Beernink]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for your quick response.

On Sun, 2011-02-06 at 20:53 +0100, Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer wrote:
> Not sure about FLOW3, but in the backport for TYPO3 - Extbase - you
> can of course use a "MediaRepository" to fetch _all_ types of media
> objects; the repository would then return a _mixed_ set of objects.

Are you sure about that?
I haven't tried it yet in Extbase, but there it would mean that the
repository should lookup models in different tables all at once.
For as far as I have seen, that does not happen in Extbase.

Just to make it a bit more clear. My model looks a bit like this
(warning, ASCII art ahead):

    +----------------+
    | Media          |
    +----------------+
    |title           |
    |publicationYear |
    +----------------+
     ________^_______          
    |                | 
+----------+   +---------+
| Movie    |   | Book    |
+----------+   +---------+
|runtime   |   | pages   |
|actors    |   | author  |
+----------+   +---------+