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

[Bastian Waidelich]

Karsten Dambekalns wrote:

>> or am I missing something?

> Yes: What object is the second "matching" called on?

doh ;)
I was thinking about function pointers... which don't exist in PHP.


> There are no write queries. [...]
> 2. When you add a Blog object to that Repository it will be persisted 
> transparently, along with the data it holds (Aggregate).

Ok, that makes sence. I only wonder: If I want to update one property of
multiple objects, do I have to load the objects with all their
properties into memory to be able to modify them?


>> Did you have a look at the Query language of Doctrine: 

> Been there, done that. That language is close to SQL, which has a lot of 
> shortcomings

In my opinion the biggest drawback to SQL is, that its queries are 
strings and thus not testable and error-prone. But the syntax itself is 
a really intuitive and powerful way to query and modify relational data.
That's one reason why Microsoft started their popular LINQ project - to
diminish the gap between relational and in-memory data.


> the most severe one being that people will think it is SQL

So what? One day FQL (FLOW3 query language) could be as powerful and far 
beyond ;)~


> And I would like to avoid writing a parser (or using one from some other project).

true.

keep up
Bastian

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