[TYPO3-mvc] Is some sort of single table inheritance or a similar solution available?

[Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer]

Very cool, any chance to get this into the SVN repository soon?
I'd really like to use this to enhance my extension.

Thanks a lot,
Thomas


Am 09.04.2010 10:40, schrieb Jochen Rau:
> Hi Thomas.
>
> On 09.04.10 01:26, Thomas "Thasmo" Deinhamer wrote:
>> I'd like to extend my extbase extension with several types
>> of products, which can be selected by a type field in the backend.
>>
>> Extbase then should load the according model class.
>>
>> For example the product types could be books, furniture,
>> CDs, food etc. and I want to use a specific model object
>> in the frontend/controllers etc.
>>
>> Exists there a proposed solution for this or any idea
>> how to implement this? Should this have been discussed
>> at the T3BOARD10?
>
> We discussed this feature on T3BOARD10.
>
> http://forge.typo3.org/issues/show/5883
>
> The implementation is nearly finished but not yet committed to the svn
> repository (only local git). Extbase 1.1.0 took precedence.
>
> The basic idea is the following: If a table holda data of different
> types it has to have an extra field. By default, extbase assumes this
> field to be named "tx_extbase_type". This can be overwritten by the
> "type" in the ctrl section of the TCA (in case of tt_content this is
> "CType"). By default the value of this field is the class name of the
> target type. In case of "CType" there must be a mapping defined for each
> type, like:
>
> config.tx_extbase {
> persistence{
> classes {
> Tx_Voila_Domain_Model_Content_Text {
> mapping {
> tableName = tt_content
> recordType = text
> }
> }
> Tx_Voila_Domain_Model_Content_BulletList {
> mapping {
> tableName = tt_content
> recordType = bullets
> }
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
> A call to $textRepository->findAll() will return only Objects of class
> Tx_Voila_Domain_Model_Content_Text. The problem is now: How to query for
> all content elements? There is no $contentRepository->findAll().
>
> Regards
> Jochen