Problem on ExtensionArchitecture > Extbase > Persistence

[cweiske]

Current behavior

The page title is "Persistence: Saving Extbase models to the database" but the page does not talk about how to actually save a domain model in the database.

Expected behavior/output

The page should show me the PHP code to save a domain object in the database. ($repository->update() maybe)

TYPO3 versions

14

Links

https://docs.typo3.org/m/typo3/reference-coreapi/main/en-us//ExtensionArchitecture/Extbase/Reference/Domain/Model/Persistence/Index.html

Additional context

I am updating a powermail Answer domain object in a finisher and don't know how to persist it in the database. When Powermail redirects to a target page, the data are not persisted - even though $repository->update() was called. I came to the documentation page to see what I missed.

[linawolf]

So if you are working on a repository why would you expect the solution in the persistance chapter, not the repository chapter https://docs.typo3.org/permalink/t3coreapi:extbase-repository?

The latter also misses information about creating and updating models however

[cweiske]

To persist something means to save it permanently, so from the page title I thought that this would be the right one.

[linawolf]

I see, and you are correct, that is what it does. This page deals with how to map models to database tables in order to persist them, which is also an important topic however not yours at the moment. Wondering how we can make that more clear. Maybe with a seealso box once the other topic has been described in the Repositotry section.