[TYPO3-team-core-v5] RFC: fluent interface to query persistence

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi Sebastian.

Sebastian KurfŸürst wrote:
> I would really like it the following way:
> $query = $this->queryFactory->create('F3_Blog_Domain_Blog');
> $blogs = $query->matching(
>         eq('name', $name),
>         or(
>             like('title', '%FLOW3%'),
>             like('content', '%FLOW3%')
>         )
>      )->execute();
> 
> Problem: there would need to be function "eq", and "or", "like", ... 
> which sucks.

But there aren't. And which is why the mock objects in PHPUnit are 
somewhat hard to use:
$mock->expects($this->once())->method('...')->will($this->returnValue(NULL));
All the extra $this's make this hard to read, but I doubt there is a way 
around this in PHP. You cannot even define a method named and() 
currently in a class (or for any other PHP keyword).

> We could as well parse the whole query tree as a string, but that is 
> ugly too...

Argh. :)

Regards,
Karsten