[TYPO3-mvc] initializeObject() pointless?

[roberto blanko]

Hello,

I'd like to bring up a problem, which was mentioned by Martin Kutschker
earlier this year. Unfortunately he didn' get any answers. I've got the very
same problem right now. Here's the original text from his thread. Help would
be much appreciated.


Hi!
>
> If you construct a new object or unserialize an object this method is
> called by default. Unserializing also happens when the object is
> reconstructed from DB. Unfortunately this happens *before* the properties
> are thawed. This means that you can only do anything unrelated to the actual
> values of properties.
>
> But why would I need that? What I really need is a reconstituteObject()
> method called by after thawing.
>
> Why do I need this? Because the data mapper maps everything automatically
> and I cannot use objects as properties unless they are persisted domain
> objects. Which is in my case not true as I use custom value objects for TCA
> select items. That is I want to. But I cannot since ExtBase won't let me
> create the objects and won't create them for me :(
>
> Masi
>