[TYPO3-mvc] FYI: The extbase dilemma

[Martin Kutschker]

Am 19.05.2011 12:55, schrieb Peter Niederlag:
> Hello,
> 
> Am 19.05.2011 11:55, schrieb Martin Kutschker:
>> Am 19.05.2011 10:54, schrieb Fernando Arconada:
>>> +10 for Doctrine inside extbase, It is already implemented in FLOW3
>>
>> Then why use v4 at all? Perhaps it's interesting to have an *additional* persistence layer at hand,
>> but I don't think that Extbase should drop support for TCA-based data storage.
> 
> IMO $TCA is pretty historic and not a really nice up-to-date concept for Object<->Storage Mapping
> and also has some limititations.

Sure $TCA is old and boring, but it's the heart of v4. If Extbase won't cope with TCA it doesn't
fulfil its bridging job.
> 
> While I assume it should be possible to get a $TCA -> doctrine mapping definition done I'd still
> favor to give the developer the choice to define the mapping himself. After all for example
> doctrine's mapping definitions are IMO way more intuitive and clear than $TCA.

I don't mind if the TCA-mapping within Extbase makes internally use of Doctrine or not, provided
it's reasonable fast.

Masi