[TYPO3-mvc] groupBy

[Franz Koch]

Hey,

>> what do you think about adding "group by" to the query-object? Would especially make sense to use
>> with count().
>
> I think we had this request already on the list. The answer IIRC was "yes".
>
> What I don't remember is if there is a clear distinction between queries that return models and
> queries that return plain data.

well, there has to be, doesn't it? I currently don't see a use case 
where it would make sense to use/allow a groupBy if you like to get 
"clean" and persistable domain models. Of course you still might want 
the grouped results to be mapped on objects, but those have to be out of 
the scope of the persistence layer. For that I'm not sure if extbase 
should automatically try to map the results to objects, or if it should 
force "getRawResult" in this case and leave it the developers hands to 
do the object mapping (using API functions) if needed.

-- 
kind regards,
Franz Koch