[TYPO3-mvc] RealURL with extBase

[Franz Koch]

Hi,

> But is writing a custom realurl hook no overkill?

not necessarily. I also did this for a different project once where I 
needed special URL handling capabilities and it's actually no big deal 
at all.

> Why are parameters in the url even necessary if they only contain the default
> value?

well yes, exbase knows about the default controller/action pair of each 
plugin instance, but as soon as you create a link to some other 
functionality, extbase doesn't know which method is the default one to 
use or for the given parameter combination - so you need to tell by 
adding the according controller/action parameters.
And as this all depends on your own code, only you know about the inner 
workings of your extension and can manipulate the URLs in the way you 
like too.

Of course extbase could itself hook into realUrl and provide some 
routing configuration options that will ease things up for you - but 
AFAIK this is not yet available, so you need to do that by your own (or 
provide a patch). And even if extbase is providing some config options 
for routing, the URLs will never look as good as doing it by hand for 
your very special usecase.

-- 
kind regards,
Franz Koch