[TYPO3-mvc] extbase: implementing something simmilar to languageOverlay

[Franz Koch]

Hi (again),

sorry for spamming this list with tons of questions, but I'm really lost 
with my currently quite complex extension I try to create with extbase.

As mentioned in my other posts, I'm working on a extension that's 
displaying articles of catalogs (like in a webshop, but without basket 
and checkout). Those articles are derived from a generic article 
database, that should also be used for other output media, like a print 
cataloge, a paper ad, a flyer etc. Each article therefor can have a 
different description (and some more stuff) for each media type (e.g. a 
long description for the web, a shorter one for ads and flyer etc).

My question is now, how to realize that with extbase?

My plan was to completely move that data to a external table and fetch 
the relevant description with a JOIN LEFT, so that the data is part of 
the article itself. But does this work? What's the suggested way to do 
this, so that I can use methods like "$article->getDescription" and 
don't have to do something like "$article->getDataHolder()->getDescription".

Or would it be better to have those fields also natively in my article 
table and do something similar like it's done with "languageOverlay" in 
traditional Typo3? If so, how to do this? Simply inside my 
articleRepository, or is there something else I need to do to make 
extbase work correctly with this? For now I don't need objectPersistency 
as no feEditing is needed.

Thanks a lot for your help.
-- 
kind regards,
Franz Koch

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