[TYPO3-mvc] [FYI] Common Extbase critics

[François Suter]

Hi Bastian,

> Please take some minutes, read our statements and let us know if you
>  don't agree or we missed something important.

Thanks for this very interesting summary. I have taken my first Extbase 
steps recently and I can relate to some of the issues mentioned there 
;-) But I also relate to the strong points :-)

As I'm totally stressed out I didn't have time to look at patches or 
contribute anything (except for the misshapen DateTime patch), but I 
wanted to react on the following:

> Extbase is using its own Templating Engine instead of relying on a
> 3rd party solution
> [snip]
> In any case: You're free to replace the View in your Extbase
> extension and use what ever Templating Engine you like.

Has anyone really attempted this? I wonder if it's possible at all, 
because - while digging into the source to try and debug some of the 
problems I had - I came across some wrong inheritance and some things 
which are not as abstracted as they are supposed to be.

I don't have any particular example to quote off the top of my head, but 
I was wondering if any of the Extbase "core" people are using PhpStorm 
as an IDE. I do and I was surprised at the number of undeclared method 
PhpStorm complained about. I checked a few and it's no PhpStorm bug: 
there are really inheritance/interface errors throughout Extbase. They 
are really easy to spot with a clever IDE. Maybe they are not so easy to 
fix ;-) I just wanted to point out that it would be worth checking the 
Extbase code with a good code analyzer.

There are also a number of wrong @param/@return phpDoc declarations.

Cheers

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Francois Suter
Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch