TYPO3 Core

I came to the conclusion that LinkHandler concept looks kind of weird.

I basically wanted to code my own Content-Element Backend Preview and came across the problem that I wanted to display a t3link as Linked Record with icon (edit-link to the backend record for given uid). I know this basically sounds crude, but obviously this is not really comfortable possible.

Initially I thought there is something like this BE/Fluid ViewHelper:
<be:uri.editRecord uid="42" table="a_table" returnUrl="foo/bar" />

But it can't handle t3-links on it's own.

Okay let's try to split the t3link, say it's:
t3://page?uid=24

We have type page and uid 24. Ok sounds simple, but wait ... page is the link-type, NOT the table-name. Of course we could simply trick here and replace it hard-coded, but it's weird that not even TYPO3-Core has some kind of generic Class which will resolve this.

Any other utility-classes like LinkService, TypoLinkCodedService, TypolinkSoftReferenceParser and many more I discovered for a real "resolver" won't work or also require a table-name.

TypolinkSoftReferenceParser::getTypoLinkParts method comes very clearly to what I've been searching, but even there table-name is required and there's nowhere a mapping between table-name to link/record identifier like 'page' is table 'pages'.

I think this should't be hard-coded and always up to developers tricking around with such things and even TYPO3 core seems to poke around this basic problem, instead of providing a LinkHandlerMapper or some type of class we can use to manage/register linkhandlers to/from record table-name or link-identifier to the opposite.

The dirty mapping-logic done in TypolinkSoftReferenceParser::getTypoLinkParts should be refactored to it's own class and in such a way that we don't have to clue what table-name a t3link is ment for. Why is there the link-type 'page' if nowhere we use this to map it to pages table?

There are many core-classes which aim to provide anything for link-handling and we have link-handling configuration.

And additionally if we have t3links in our TYPO3-World it would be awesome to have a simple BE/Core ViewHelper which allows to render a record-link with icon just like be:uri.editRecord, but with argument for t3link, say it could be named be:typolink.editRecord.

It there's anything I didn't find please let me know. If my current view is really the fact, we should clean-up and refactor some things to make the linkhandler-feature better and better useable for developers for such a case I now had.