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Entity API

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Access on entities (TBD)

Last updated on
17 May 2017

Initial stub page, just to outline the different child-pages we need.

For now, see https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core%21lib%21Drupal%21Core%21Entity%21entity.api.php/group/entity_api/8.

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