By MircoDrupal on

In Drupal 8 (8.7.6), I would need to import several terms in a taxonomy dictionary. It is easy to create the terms at the “root” level, but when I try to create a term with a parent, the term is not created under the parent (but in the root).

Do you have any idea on how to solve the issue?

Thanks

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sam711’s picture

sam711 commented 
Not sure what you mean by 'import', but something like this might help:
$term = Term::create([
  'name' => 'new_term_name',
  'vid' => 'your_taxonomy',
  'parent' => $root_term->id(),
])->save();
MircoDrupal’s picture

MircoDrupal commented

Dear Sam711,
thank you for your answer. I would need to use the REST Api (as explained on https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/core/modules/rest/3-post-for-creating-cont...), but if I do not find a solution soon, I will use your approach.
Best regards,

sam711’s picture

sam711 commented

I understand now. So, following the Guzzle example, as the parent is an entity reference you could do something like this.

$serialized_entity = json_encode([
  'name' => [['value' => 'new_term_name']],
  'vid' => [['target_id' => 'your_taxonomy']],
  'parent' => [['target_id' => $root_term->id()]],
]);

MircoDrupal’s picture

MircoDrupal commented

I figured out the solution: it is necessary to send the parent UUID.
This is the complete JSON request:

{

        "_links": {

               "type": {

                       "href": "[Server]/rest/type/taxonomy_term/[Taxonomy Dictionary]"

               },

               "[Server]/rest/relation/taxonomy_term/[Taxonomy Dictionary]/parent": [{

                               "href": "[Server]/taxonomy/term/[ParentId]?_format=hal_json"

                       }

               ]

        },

        "vid": [{

                       "target_id": "[Taxonomy Dictionary]"

               }

        ],

        "name": [{

                       "value": "RESTtag",

                       "lang": "en"

               }

        ],

        "_embedded": {

               "[Server]/rest/relation/taxonomy_term/[Taxonomy Dictionary]/parent": [{

                               "_links": {

                                      "self": {

                                              "href": "[Server]/taxonomy/term/[ParentId]?_format=hal_json"

                                      },

                                      "type": {

                                              "href": "[Server]/rest/type/taxonomy_term/[Taxonomy Dictionary]"

                                      }

                               },

                               "uuid": [{

                                              "value": "[ParentUUID]"

                                      }

                               ]

                       }

               ]

        }

}