...A Design Pattern

Converter & Populator

Intent

In some situations we have to transform Pimcore Objects into a different world.

Typical example are View objects or Elastic search engine objects.

Bayer 04

DSV

Multi-Type Conversion

Jerseys

Vouchers

Soccer School

Different Product Types

Different Product Views

ProductView

VoucherView

JerseyView

SoccerSchoolView

Single-Type
Conversion

In our DSV Project we had:

9 nations (each one site)
8 cultures
(Getreide, Mais, Raps,...)
with several sub-cultures
and different varieties
Each variety had over 50 attributes
About 150 BSA-Criteria,
- containing digit values (0-9)
- represented by different texts

Pimcore
Model

7 different Product Classes
over 50 attributes per Class
Advanced-Many-to-Many-Relations with over 150 other objects

Different Views

Single-Type
Conversion

class SorteView extends BaseSorteView
{
    ...
    
    /**
     * @var TableView[]
     */
    private array $tables = [];

    /**
     * @var LongTextView[]
     */
    private array $longTexts = [];

    ... // Getters & Setters
}