[TYPO3-50-general] Helping Functions

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi Sebastian,

>> Is there currently a way so I don't need to write all this set/get
>> functions?
> Currently (IMHO) we require you to write all getters / setters by hand. 
> In the middle-long term, there will be scaffolding for that - but you 
> should do that because the domain layer should not contain any "magic". 
> When Eclipse supports namespace syntax, it'll be much nicer to work with 
> if you have explicit getters/setters.
> If you, however, require a way to access getters/setters 
> programmatically, we've created helpers in Reflection/ObjectAccess.php. 
> This is a kind of Java Beans implementation for PHP.

I'm using the method shown on [1] for my current 4.x development. It 
works very well and the interesting part is that it is similar than 
public property:

$myobject->someProperty = "hello world!";
echo $myobject->someProperty;

instead of

$myobject->setSomeProperty("hello world!");
echo $myobject->getSomeProperty();

which I find better and similar to C#.

The overhead of the method shown in term of definition of private and 
public fields that are then overriden at instantiation time is a bit 
high though. But I would love to have such feature (enhanced of course) 
in FLOW3.

[1] http://latrine.dgx.cz/property-setters-and-getters-final-solution

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en/tutorials/typo3.html