DataMapper, Validation, Crud issues

[eluser]freshfutures[/eluser]
[quote author="WanWizard" date="1310485062"]It is related to issue #59.

There isn't any progress at the moment.

Main issue is that the reactor team is very busy "sealing" all core classes, i.e. making class properties and/or methods protected or private.

This means that you can't access these properties anymore from outside the class, the only way to do something is via the creation of a MY_ extension.Which is a nightmare for all external libraries, as you can only have one extension. How are you, as a CodeIgniter user, going to deal with this?

Suppose you use both HMVC, Datamapper, and some other libraries. As of now (CI 2.0.2+) you're stuck having to merge the functionality of the MY_Lang, MY_Loader and possibly more that each of these solutions provide to work around this issue. And when you have merge conflicts (which you will), you're on your own.

Imho it was very wrong to start doing this without thinking about CI's architecture. Towards the future, it will make it nearly impossible to provide 3rd party libraries if there is no proper way to integrate into CI's core.[/quote]

I've noticed that when I was integrating the Ocular template library into my project.

Having worked in Zend exclusively for the last few months, it's been a bit difficult coming back to CI. The framework feels limited; especially when compared to the complete flexibility you get with Zend.

What would you suggest as a temporary work around for now?