[TYPO3-mvc] Open Job: Create a helper method for using legacy TypoScript in Fluid templates

["Christian Müller (Kitsunet)"]

Sebastian KurfŸürst wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> You already tried Extbase/Fluid and got hooked by the ideas? You want to 
> help out, but don't know if you can? Be assured, you can! We'll post 
> some jobs which you can take, and this is the second one.
> 
> Category: Not much stuff to do, but solves a major show stopper.
> 
> Problem:
> All TypoScript settings are made available under $this->settings inside 
> the Controller, and as well as {settings} inside the template. To be 
> more close to FLOW3 and because the "." (dot) is the separator in Object 
> Accessors, we needed to strip the trailing "." in TypoScript 
> configuration away.
> Thus, when one writes the TypoScript:
> 10 = TEXT
> 10.value = Hello
> then, in classical TYPO3 v4, this gets converted to the following array:
> array(
>     '10' => 'TEXT'
>     '10.' => array(
>         'value' => 'Hallo'
>     )
> )
> However, Extbase converts it to the following (because of the above 
> reasons)
> array(
>     '10' => array(
>         'value' => 'Hallo',
>         '_typoscriptNodeValue' => 'TEXT'
> )
> So, what happens is that the value of the actual TypoScript node is 
> pushed down into its substructure.
> This works really well, and solves most cases, but imagine the following 
> case:
> Inside your ViewHelper, you expect a configuration for a cObject which 
> you'll render using the classical tslib_cObj. Thus, you'll need the 
> "classical" TYPO3 v4 syntax (with trailing dot), but Extbase only 
> provides you the 2nd syntax with _typoscriptNodeValue.
> 
> Bugtracker reference: http://forge.typo3.org/issues/show/3293
> 
> Job description:
> Write a helper method you can call inside your custom ViewHelper which 
> converts the "Extbase" TypoScript to "classical" TypoScript by 
> re-introducing the "." where needed and remove the _typoscriptNodeValue.
> Test it with unit tests.
> I propose that the class should be called Tx_Extbase_Utility_TypoScript.
> 
> Reward:
> We'll review your code and give you constructive feedback, and this 
> feature is an essential building block on the integration of 
> Extbase/Fluid in TYPO3 v4.
> 
> I'd also be very happy if somebody was interested to take over this job 
> :-) That really helps a lot.
> 
> Greets from Dresden,
> Sebastian

Great, I would like to take this job.

greets
Christian