[TYPO3-mvc] Building a Basket case within an extbase/fluid Extension

[Franz Koch]

Hey Frank.

> I'm now in the stage of implementing a basket case a user can put items in.
> I built a session manager and a second repository,
>
> Which represents the items stored in the session while the user is logged
> in.

Just to get you right. By having two repositories, you also have two 
different models, right? Something like Tx_ExtKey_Domain_Model_Product 
and Tx_ExtKey_Domain_Model_BasketItem?

> The next step is to handle the "submit basketcase" action. The "simple" task
> is that  the items should be marked in the original Item list as "requested". Therefore the items should update the original
> items stored in the database (the "default" repository),

So when a item get's added to your basket it should already be marked as 
"requested" by setting a flag/property in the DB/product? What does this 
"requested" flag stand for? Should it be a indication for the visitor 
that this item is already in his basket? If that's the case you must not 
change/modify your product, but rather check your basket items if it 
contains a certain product - otherwise you would affect the display of 
all users.

> So its about updating one repository from another. Does extbase recognize,
> which data set should be updated automatically or do I have to add a unique ID to my repository objects manually ? Any elegant
> way to handle it ?

not sure what you mean by that. If you alter a object it doesn't matter 
which repository delivered it - it'll be updated in the DB in any case.

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kind regards,
Franz Koch