Building a vod portal with the flow @ Inspiring Flow 2013
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Building a VOD portal with the Flow
Inspiring Flow 2013 Inspiring people to
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About our agency
ttree ltd pronounced “tea-tree”
Small but nice webagency based in Lausanne, Switzerland
More that 10 years of experience with TYPO3 CMS
VOD solutions providers for major film festivals since 2008
Inspiring people to
A short story about a real life projet share
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About myself
Dominique Feyer
Cofounder of ttree agency
One of the men behind the TYPO3 CMS XLIFF support
Leader of the translation team
Work with TYPO3 since 2000 and with TYPO3 Flow since 2012
Member of a nice family, a girlfriend and a 5 years old daughter
Inspiring people to
A short story about a real life projet share
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About this presentation
A short introduction and history of the project
How TYPO3 Flow help us
Live demonstration of the current development version
Questions & Answers
Inspiring people to
A short story about a real life projet share
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First real life projet with TYPO3 Flow
Short development period
Kickoff of the project in september 2012
First private beta in mid november
Release of the 1.0 early in 2013
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What’s the goal of the project ?
Hey men, that’s simple ...
I just need to watch movies, you understand ?
Look like a simple domain ...
So we can start with it with a really fresh framework !
First user story
User need to watch movie
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But the real domain is a bit more complex ...
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Key features
Multi-domain support in the same datastore
Handle security access (PlayToken) for our
Wowza Streaming Server cluster
Clear backoffice with easy to use forms
“Auto discoverable” features
Customizable frontend & notifications templates
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Time to code
Rapid prototyping
Focus on the domain
No authentication, no log, no security, ...
But a full working prototype
Validated learning
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First contact with Flow
✓ Really clean code base
✓ A lots of new concept to learn
✓ But the learning curve is not so strong
✓ Documentation in constant improvement
✓ Awesome community support
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Feedback Loop
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Does TYPO3 Flow support the loop ?
No, he did not support it,
it’s just a framework ! But ...
+ TYPO3.Flow
+ TYPO3.Surf
+ GIT
+ Continous Intergration Server
That support the loop well !!
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Quality Assurance
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✓ Unit Test
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Private Beta & Continous Improvement
We code to solve real problems
Who know the problems ?
Ask or challenge your final user
Understand the problems, discuss & adapt
3 real customers during 2 sprints of 2 weeks each
A really intensive period
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Multi domain in the same datastore
Any DO can be “private” or “shared”
Features that help us
AOP + Domain object Annotations
Content Security
Missing features
A way to extend TYPO3FlowSecurityAccount
Property introduction with AOP don’t work
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Contributions during the project
TYPO3.Soap Flow 2.0 support
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Multi level administration roles
Our clients need to delegate some administration task, like user
management & content management.
Features that help us
Content Security & Policy
Missing features
A brain capable of correctly understanding policy configuration
More documentation around this subject, with real life exemple
A solution to disable content security for a specific query
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Backoffice & Complex form
Form need to be composed by
multiple DO
Features that help us
TYPO3.Fluid awesome form support
PropertyMapper & Validator flexibility
Aloha Editor
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Custom Interface Vocabulary
Client must be able to customize vocabulary used by the service.
Features that help us
Aloha Editor + RestController
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Custom Notifications
Notifications template can be
edited with Aloha Editor
Features that help us
Aloha Editor + RestController
TYPO3.Fluid + Custom Parser
What’s next
TYPO3 Flow package to
use this in any project
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External webservice
Modern webapplication can use a lots of different API over HTTP
Features that help us
TYPO3FlowHttpClientBrowser + Curl Engine
Contributions during the project
Ttree.Oembed - oEmbed Consumer with auto discovery
Ttree.Tmdb - Client Interface for The Movie Database API
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Public API
A clean and modern RESTFull interface to
integrate the service with external applications
Features that help us
RestController + JsonView
