TYPO3 Core

This issue was raised during the T3MC session "Zap the gremlins".

The issue has been discussed in April 2022 in the #typo3-cms-coredev channel (https://typo3.slack.com/archives/C03AM9R17/p1650369198186799). The following is the result of the discussion.

General requirements¶

• preferred format: YAML * core uses it already * can be commented
• definitions can be shipped with extensions
• the functionality can be compared with the handling of Site configuration * Site configuration (still) has implicit dependencies on UID values in `rootPageId` and `limitToPages` (for route enhancers) * replacing those UIDs by distinct / universally-unique seems to be a good way to go
• events should be provided * as with the Site configuration * allows extension authors to hang in there dynamically before / after the cache building
• overwriting / modification should be simple * it is a no-brainer to inherit the default "news editor" and remove some fields or add another backend module
• error handling * handle defined but missing relations to groups and mounts

User Groups¶

• groups should be understood as roles, e.g. "news editor"
• a role * includes corresponding permissions (= contains the access control) * should be assigned to a group (= collection of roles)
• a group * will be assigned to a user * contains the DB and file mounts
• be_groups needs an additional string identifier to avoid relying on autoincrement IDs
• we recommend a human readable string identifier which helps to handle those definitions

Problems to be discussed¶

• using string identifiers do not guarantee uniqueness -> having a UUID could solve the problem but causes additional work on datahandler (which considers everything not a UID to be a new record placeholder, if it starts with NEW)

Users¶

• handling of one or more user records

Problems to be discussed¶

• handling of sensitive data (passwordl, name, email address)

Handling user groups would solve a big problem and would be a huge improvement. The import and export of users is rather complex, the value small.

There are some solutions already out there:

• https://packagist.org/packages/maxserv/yaml_configuration
• Benni Mack might have a PoC somewhere :)