Custom FlowQuery Operations

The FlowQuery EelHelper provides you with methods to traverse the ContentRepository. Implementing custom operations allows the creation of filters, sorting algorithms and much more.

Warning

This has not been declared a public api yet and still might change a bit in future release. Nevertheless it is an important functionality and this or a similar mechanism will still be available in the future.

Create FlowQuery Operation

Implementing a custom operation is done by extending the Neos\Eel\FlowQuery\Operations\AbstractOperation class. The Operation is implemented in the evaluate method of that class.

To identify the operation lateron in Fusion the static class variable $shortName has to be set.

If you pass arguments to the FlowQuery Operation they end up in the numerical array $arguments that is handed over to the evaluate method.

namespace Vendor\Site\FlowQuery\Operation;

use Neos\Eel\FlowQuery\FlowQuery;
use Neos\Eel\FlowQuery\Operations\AbstractOperation;

class RandomElementOperation extends AbstractOperation {

        /**
         * {@inheritdoc}
         *
         * @var string
         */
        static protected $shortName = 'randomElement';

        /**
         * {@inheritdoc}
         *
         * @param FlowQuery $flowQuery the FlowQuery object
         * @param array $arguments the arguments for this operation
         * @return void
         */
        public function evaluate(FlowQuery $flowQuery, array $arguments) {
                $context = $flowQuery->getContext();
                $randomKey = array_rand($context);
                $result = array($context[$randomKey]);
                $flowQuery->setContext($result);
        }
}

In Fusion you can use this operation to find a random element of the main ContentCollection of the Site-Node:

randomStartpageContent = ${q(site).children('main').children().randomElement()}

Note

For overriding existing operations another operation with the same shortName but a higher priority can be implemented.

Create Final FlowQuery Operations

If a FlowQuery operation does return a value instead of modifying the FlowQuery Context it has to be declared $final.

namespace Vendor\Site\FlowQuery\Operation;

use Neos\Eel\FlowQuery\FlowQuery;
use Neos\Eel\FlowQuery\Operations\AbstractOperation;

class DebugOperation extends AbstractOperation {

        /**
         * If TRUE, the operation is final, i.e. directly executed.
         *
         * @var boolean
         * @api
         */
        static protected $final = TRUE;

        /**
         * {@inheritdoc}
         *
         * @param FlowQuery $flowQuery the FlowQuery object
         * @param array $arguments the arguments for this operation
         * @return void
         */
        public function evaluate(FlowQuery $flowQuery, array $arguments) {
                return \Neos\Flow\var_dump($flowQuery->getContext(), NULL, TRUE);
        }
}

Further Reading

  1. For checking that the operation can actually work on the current context a canEvaluate method can be implemented.

  2. You sometimes might want to use the Fizzle Filter Engine to use jQuery like selectors in the arguments of your

    operation. Therefore you can apply a filter operation that is applied to the context as follows: $flowQuery->pushOperation('filter', $arguments);.