[TYPO3-ect] Draft: Proposal of a resultbrowser pipe

[Martin Kutschker]

Christian Welzel schrieb:
> Elmar Hinz wrote:
> 
> 
>>All in all we need a more flexible system that makes it possible to
>>provide different types of resultbrowsers as extensions and to combine
> 
> 
> If i remember correctly the resultbrowser if oscommerce does it this
> way: 
> 
> get an instance of the resultbrowser (in typo3 impl as service?)
> call showResults() with a sql-query, the number of results per page
>   and the page-count
> 
> all the stuff for showing a list is now handled by the resultbrowser.
> the page-counter is a internal var of the browser.
> 
> i believe this way is very easy to understand for ext-devs.
> 
> a possible trace of a ext: (pseudo code)
> 
> function main() {
>   b = getInstanceofService("resultbrowser");
>   b->setQuery("SELECT * FROM foo");
>   if(!b->showResults()) {
>     // no page browsing mode
>     // perhaps single view or armageddon.
>   }
> }

Nice, but the browserService should not restrict itself to SQL queries. 
IMHO it's the job of the calling code to provide the data, and not the job 
of the browser.

Masi