[TYPO3-core] Reminder: RFC #16580: Feature: Implement render-postProcess Hook

[Morton Jonuschat]

Just a little reminder, progress on this RFC seems to have halted. Is 
there anything I can do help this RFC make some progress and maybe 
still get into 4.5?

Kind regards,
Morton Jonuschat

> On 2010-12-08 08:24:34 +0100, Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] said:
> 
>> Jeff Segars schrieb am 07.12.2010 19:44:
>>> On 12/2/10 3:24 AM, Morton Jonuschat wrote:
>>>> This is an SVN patch request.
>>>> 
>>>> Type: Feature
>>>> 
>>>> Bugtracker references:
>>>> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=16580
>>>> 
>>>> Branches:
>>>> TYPO3_4-4 & trunk
>>>> 
>>>> Problem:
>>>> Postprocessing and/or modification of page content, CSS, JS and misc.
>>>> HTML tags used for page generation is only doable by XCLASSing
>>>> t3lib_pageRenderer. This solution is not very elegant since XCLASSing is
>>>> limited to a single class extendig the functionality. Due to this I
>>>> propose to implement a hook comparable to render-preProcess that has
>>>> access to some (or even all) relevant variables/content right before the
>>>> markerArray gets assigned.
>>>> 
>>>> Solution:
>>>> The attached patch implements above mentioned hook with access to each
>>>> and every variable used in the process of generating the content for the
>>>> marker array.
>>>> 
>>>> With kind regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Morton Jonuschat
>>>> Buttgereit und Heidenreich GmbH Agentur für Kommunikationsdesign
>>>> www.gute-botschafter.de <http://www.gute-botschafter.de/>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hey Morton,
>>> Thanks for your patch!  Since this is a new hook, we can't add it to the
>>> 4.4 branch.  We've already hit the feature freeze for 4.5, but let's see
>>> if Steffen and Ernesto are OK with hook additions :)
>>> 
>>> Overall, +1 on reading and I agree its nice to have the symmetry of pre
>>> and post processing via hook. I think it would make sense to use the
>>> exact same params array in pre and post processing.  Your new array is
>>> more complete, so it could be defined once at the top of render() and
>>> used for both hooks. Does that sound ok to you?
>> 
>> I am ok with such new hooks in 4.5 still.
>> 
>> But I cannot see that working on some of the params because for example
>> $this->jsFiles is not really used anymore after that hook: a local
>> variable $jsFiles is.
>> 
>> So you should change the $params to include all the variables that are
>> really used *after* that postProcessing happens.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ernesto
> 
> Hi,
> 
> i've updated the bug report in the bugtracker and created a new patch
> which corrected the mentioned variable names. The patch is against the
> current trunk version from this morning.
> 
> Cheers,
> Morton
> 
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