[TYPO3-dev] alwaysActivePIDlist

[Steffen Kamper]

"JoH asenau" <info at cybercraft.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1161683427.32581.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
>>> says who? - And for which reason?
>>
>> Say many people...
>>
>> One of the reasons is that there are too many properties and exact
>> order is not clear (docs do not provide order for all properties).
>> Often it is required to look to the code to understand how it really
>> works.
>>
>> stdWrap is very powerful but it looks chaotic.
>
> "powerful and chaotic" doesn't sound like "broken" to me.
> So the question remains: How can we improve it instead of getting rid of 
> it?
>
> "Too many properties" can be "fixed" in two ways:
> You can remove redundant properties (breaking backwards compatibility)
> People can simply ignore what they think to be redundant.
>
> To reduce the overhead you should simply replace the way the properties 
> are
> applied.
> Currently it's a huge list of "if this then that".
> For my extension I replaced this list with direct function calls. So 
> there's
> just a loop over the items that are in the array of properties and each of
> them is executed as a real function (with the nice side effect that it's
> easier to extend the functionality, since you got lots of different
> functions instead of just one big monster)
> One conceptual bug is, that this way of executing the functions means, 
> they
> are executed in the order they have been inserted in the TS-setup, while 
> the
> original version only uses the order that is determined by the "if-list" 
> and
> ignores the order inside the TS-setup.
> So again backwards compatibility is broken.
> On the other hand this enables people to simply use stdWrap.whatever for
> each and every TS property.
>
> So maybe we can improve this concept by fixing the bugs and removing some 
> of
> the redundant functions to really get a "fully blown stdWrap" ...
>
> Anybody interested?
>
> Joey

yes, i'm intersted - i hope to grab some time to do so, i think you are on 
the right way, and we all know that you had expierince with every little 
option in stdWrap :) May be i can help testing, suggesting etc.

vg  Steffen