[TYPO3-mvc] RFT (Request For Tests): support for TCA group fields (hurry to probably get it into 1.3.0)

[Kevin Ulrich Moschallski]

Hi Franz,

i just tested it with MM_opposite_field without luck. The parents table 
field is incremented by one, but no relation is written to the MM table 
and the child table field isn't incremented.

Here my TCA:

parent:


'items' => array(
			'exclude' => 0,
			'label'   => 'Items',
			'config'  => array(
                                'type' => 'group',
                                'internal_type' => 'db',
                                'allowed' => 'tx_myext_domain_model_item',
                                'foreign_table' => 
'tx_myext_domain_model_item',
                                'MM_opposite_field' => 'portals',
                                'MM' => 'tx_myext_portal_item_mm',
                                'size' => 5,
                                'maxitems' => 9999
			)
		),

child:


'portals' => array(
			'exclude' => 0,
			'label'   => 'Portals',
			'config'  => array(
				'type' => 'group',
				'internal_type' => 'db',
				'allowed' => 'tx_myext_domain_model_portal',
				'foreign_table' => 'tx_myext_domain_model_portal',
				'foreign_field' => 'items',
				'size' => 5,
				'maxitems' => 9999,
				'MM' => 'tx_myext_portal_item_mm',
			)
		),

There is also a problem with MM_opposite_field in the core where the 
value of the child table isn't incremented, you remeber? 
http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=16294.

I'll look at your patch and maybe we could fix these together.

Regards,
Kevin

On 2011-01-24 19:11:55 +0100, Kevin Ulrich Moschallski said:

> Hi Franz,
> 
> i'll try to test it this evening if my wife let me :)
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin
> 
> Am 24.01.2011 um 17:22 schrieb Franz Koch:
> 
>> Hey list,
>> 
>> I've been working on the support for TCA group fields and need some 
>> volunteers to test it. While my local tests (mostly only reading stuff 
>> from the DB) didn't show any problems so far, I'm for sure not able to 
>> test every scenario out there. So I'd like to ask you guys to test the 
>> patch in your setups.
>> 
>> Unfortunately the code in TYPO3 dealing with group fields and 
>> especially the "tablenames" column in MM relations is not that easy to 
>> read and understand, but I hope I got it right and it's working 
>> correctly for regular group fields and also MM_opposite_field 
>> relations. If there's anybody out there dealing with group field 
>> relation beeing actively manipulated (removing/adding relations) by 
>> extbase is encouraged to test and give feedback. The more feedback, the 
>> better are the chances to still get this into 1.3.0 (so Typo3 4.5).
>> 
>> So please test the patch and give feedback ASAP (of course only test it 
>> in your DEV setups, not on live website! - is still experimental).
>> 
>> Thanks a lot.
>> 
>> -- 
>> kind regards,
>> Franz Koch
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