[TYPO3-core] RFC #16332: cObject CONTENT does not allow to fetch records that have no translation parent

[Helmut Hummel]

Hi Benni,

Am 10.11.2010 16:29, schrieb Benjamin Mack:
>
> Problem:
> When you fetch records through the TypoScript object "CONTENT" (or,
> let's say through ".select" in general), you have an option called
> "languageField" in order to fetch only records that match the current
> language.
>
> What "select" does here is that it fetches all records in the default
> language ("0,-1") and then overlays them with the records of the current
> language.
>
> However, it's not possible to fetch the records that don't have a
> localization parent.

This is only true if you set
config.sys_language_overlay to true (or hideNonTranslated)

To understand your RFC right:

Do you need to override this setting for special TypoScript objects 
(currently you can only set this globally for a page)

or do you want to overlay records that have a l10n parent but 
additionally also show records that do not have a l10n parent?

What your patch currently does is, if TYPO3 is configured to be in 
overlay mode, select records in the given language, or the default 
language and perform a language overlay on all of them (which does not 
make much sense for records which are already in the right language imho).

So there're either superfluous calls to 
$GLOBALS['TSFE']->sys_page->getRecordOverlay or the override of the 
overlay mode does not work correctly, depending on you intention with 
this RFC.

Or do I miss something?

Regards Helmut