[Flow] How to build a search/filter form above of a list

[Axel Wüstemann]

Am 01.11.2013 15:17, schrieb Bastian Waidelich:
> Compare the two once again. And then replace all "<input>" tags by
> "<f:form.textfield>" ;

Thank you Bastian - copy & paste is not programming ;=)

Ok, at the first step I will make it strait forward, without DTO.

> public function indexAction(array $filter = null) {

> This should work, but you should try to avoid array as a placeholder
> for objects. Instead you can create a simple filter "Data Transfer
> Object":

If not DTO, what type $filter should have if not an array?

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With DTO:

Where I can read more about them? I could not find anything in the Flow 
Reference Manual

Where to store DTOs in the package folder structure - they are not 
Domain Models nor Services?

As I mentioned - in the next step I need to save the filter related to 
the user, so that the filter will be kept, until the user changes it.

My App is a relaunch of an app, what I built about five years ago with 
Zend Framework 1.x. There I created a state object. The state data where 
helt within an array. The state object was able to store and restore 
those state data by using the session.

Within the controller's initialisation I restored the state and invoked 
it in the index action to filter the list.

Is there a way with DTOs to make this more elegant or more "Flow compliant"

Many thanks
Axel