Subclassing Product/Product Controller

[christohill]

I'm trying to create some custom product types by subclassing the base product in the core. The goal is to have additional products with different fields, requirements, etc. but when I subclass the ProductController, the new product page is still using ProductController. Example:

class CustomProduct extends Product {

  private static $db = [
    'TestField' => 'Varchar(255)'
  ];

}

This works fine and I'm able to add the new product page.

class CustomProductController extends ProductController {

  public function init() {
    echo "HELLO!"
  }

}

The new CustomProduct page will not use this controller and always uses the ProductController class. I've used the debug_request variable and I get this in return:

Debug (line 262 of RequestHandler.php): Testing '$Action//$ID/$OtherID' with '' on SilverShop\Page\ProductController

Debug (line 270 of RequestHandler.php): Rule '$Action//$ID/$OtherID' matched to action 'handleAction' on SilverShop\Page\ProductController. Latest request params: array ( 'Action' => NULL, 'ID' => NULL, 'OtherID' => NULL, )

Debug (line 186 of RequestHandler.php): Action not set; using default action method name 'index'

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

[christohill]

Closing this as it's a framework/cms issue and not a SilverShop issue. See: https://github.com/silverstripe/silverstripe-framework/issues/6549