[TYPO3-mvc] Extending an existing model and adding fields

[Franz Koch]

Hey Zoran,

>> you can only do this by extending the FrontentUser class and add the
>> new fields in your own class and use this class throughout your
>> extension. Mixins (which would be needed to merge additional fields in
>> existing classes) are not supported yet.
>>
> This is exactly what i plan to do.  I'm not sure what to store in my
> model's table though.

What do you mean? I suppose your model belongs to a fe_user and you're 
not sure how to set up everything to use your fe_user model instead of 
the default one?

I see two options here:

a) use single table inheritance by adding a new option to the 
tx_extbase_type field of the fe_users and make it default for all of 
your users. This only works as long as you don't have to extend the 
fe_users from a second extension also.

b) directly assign and use your extended fe_user model throughout your 
extension. To get this working all you have to do is to also create your 
own repository to fetch the user objects (probably extending the fe_user 
repository) and provide a mapping information via TS:

config.tx_extbase.persistence.classes {
	// name of your own fe_user class name
	Tx_YourExt_Domain_Model_User {
		mapping {
			tableName = fe_users
			columns {
				lockToDomain.mapOnProperty = lockToDomain
			}
		}
	}
}


-- 
kind regards,
Franz Koch