By berdir on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
8.x
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/1637370
https://www.drupal.org/node/1720784
Description: 

UUID support has been added to entities. By specifying an uuid entity key in entity annotation, the default entity controller generates a new UUID automatically. This allows to uniquely identify an entity across multiple sites.

An entity can be loaded by the UUID with the function entity_load_by_uuid(). The EntityInterface::uuid() method can be used to get the UUID of an entity.

Impacts: 
Module developers

Comments

naught101’s picture

naught101 commented

First link should presumably point to the D8 version of hook_entity_info, but there is no real info there on how this should be used.

drunken monkey’s picture

drunken monkey
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Location Vienna, Austria
commented

hook_entity_info() doesn't really seem to be used anymore, or at least not as the main method of entity type definition. Instead, this change record should probably be referenced, or some of its content inserted here. It already contains the uuid field.