[TYPO3-mvc] @dontpersist

[Felix Oertel]

Hey ho,

Am 15.07.10 12:41, schrieb Bastian Waidelich:
>> what do you guys think about an "@dontpersist" annotation on domain
>> models to prevent them being persisted automatically
> I wouldn't put that information in the model. If at all, that should
> rather be an annotation in the controller / action.

I don't think the controller should care wether the model object gets 
persisted or not.

>> In the very most of my extensions I don't have user input in the FE at
>> all and thus don't need auto-persistence.
> But objects are only persisted if they were changed anyways.. Why do you
> need this feature? Performance?

Performance is the one big thing. If I - in my hole plugin - don't want 
to persist things, I could save time by ommitting the persistAll() 
procedure.
The other is usability of the model objects. Sometimes I want to do some 
stuff (like changing the tstamp before outputting or remove some 
children objects from a property's objectStorage). At the moment I have 
to clone the model objects for that to prevent the changes to be 
persisted. This costs additional memory and time as well.

regards, foertel