[TYPO3-ect] upcoming MVC library

[Nikolas Hagelstein]

Hi,

I am currently trying to get an overview about the basic concepts 
off the upcoming MVC FE plugin lib. So i decided to create a tiny
extension
using tx_lib and tx_div.

There are a bunch of issues i eigther do not understand or i am not
clear about 
where they head for.


Model:
Currently the model isnt very well equipt at all.
(which goes without saying since it is at a real early state atm).

I would expect the model class being armed with most of the common
datasource
functions (e.g find, findall, getby"field", insert update etc).
Are there any plans about this?

Normally there is a appropriate  TCA segment existing for almost every 
table (i.e model) will this be used to provide additional information to
the model?
(e.g i18l information,relations etc)?


Controller:
ATM the controller seems to be very flexibel regarding its "application
flow" are there any 
plans of integrating a defined course of operations (e.g before/after
filters, validation etc)?

Are there any plans about "action chaining/forwarding/requesting" ?

Furthermore the current way of passing data from the controller to the
view and vice versa needs
to be thought over IMHO (see Views beyond).


Views:
Regarding the "articles" sample the current way of passing data is to
use the exchangeArray function 
filled up wiht a bunch of dataobjects which are accessed via e.g
"this->get('field')" withhin the view.
IMHO this is'nt quite sufficient, because:

-It restricts the view form interacting with different datasources.
-Objects are not nessarilly native datastructurs which may break MVC
rules 
(at least from a pedantic point of view ;) )

Another great improvment to the view would be to have a helper class
containing 
things like HTML functions etc.
ATM it is quite unhandy to define nested views due to the lack of action
chaining.


In generall i would suggest to have a look at already existing MVC libs 
(Cake,struts, mojavi, onrails etc) and see how they solve issues instead
of reinventing the wheel.

Just to clearify things i do not what to complain. I like to see T3 and
its api becoming better. 
I hope the above is picked as what it is thought for and nobody feels
offended by the above mentioned.

cheers,
                  Nikolas