[FLOW3-general] Transient properties and property mapping

[Alexander Berl]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently in the process of creating a user registration process for a web page and therefore have a user model with properties name, email, password with validators and an authentication account.
Since I only need the password for user creation and for password change (and because it's bad storing plaintext passwords) I want this property to be transient to the persistence and only be stored inside the account object, which I achieved with the @FLOW3\Transient annotation.
However, on the create action I receive a property mapping Exception:

#1297759968: Exception while property mapping at property path "": Property "password" was not found in target object of type "Foo\Bar\Domain\Model\User"

The problem here is, that the property is skipped in reflection due to the Transient annotation (see ReflectionService->addPropertiesToClassSchema) and therefore also cannot be property mapped.

So how would I go about setting a transient property with a form for validation? Any workarounds or would it make sense to change the reflection to distinguish between persistence reflection (as needed for Doctrine afaik) and general reflection.

Cheers,
Alexander