[TYPO3-mvc] Single table inheritance (extbase)

[Franz Koch]

Hi,

> It's never enough ;-). Think about integration in TCEforms ...
>
> I don't intend to implement support for traits/mixins in this first step
> (e.g. a class extends multiple classes on the same hierarchical level).
> Those are really complicated to deal with and I am not sure if we should
> support traits/mixins at all.

I'm just wondering how it would work to extend a existing table with a 
new field. Let's say I need the field 'customerNumber' for fe_users. How 
would I tell extensions dealing with fe_users that this field is now 
available and how could I use it in my templates when there are no magic 
setters and getters? Extend the class by a custom class and remap the 
table fe_users to my model via TS?
What about having two extensions dealing with fe_users and each of it 
extend the fe_user table by a custom field that is needed to be 
displayed in both extensions? Will that ever work?

Thinking about this I think at least implementing magic setters and 
getters is a mustHave feature. I know that there is a reason for not 
using those (comments are used for validation configuration etc.) - but 
I fear loosing this possibility (which in worst case could be done by 
xclassing in v4) will sooner or later stop people from using extbase or 
flood TER even more with "enhanced_xyz_extensions".
Or if magic setters/getters are no option, provide a api to extend 
objects with new setters/getters (maybe via TS) using the reflection API 
from flow3 or something.

-- 
kind regards,
Franz Koch

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