By alexpott on
Change record status: 
Draft (View all draft change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
8.2.x
Introduced in version: 
8.2.0
Description: 

Configuration object are always supposed to be namespaced to an installed module's name. For example, if a module is called my_module only config called my_module.something.yml is created when placed in the config/install. Names like my_module_data.something.yml are NOT supported.

There are two reasons this is important:

  1. configuration dependencies have to be determine without a module with installed for configuration synchronisation to work.
  2. cleaning up on module uninstall depends on the name matching. Modules which have incorrectly named config can not be re-installed

If your module supplied configuration with an incorrect name you will need to write a hook_update_N() to rename the configuration.

Impacts: 
Module developers
Updates Done (doc team, etc.)
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