By larowlan on
Change record status: 
Draft (View all draft change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
8.3.x
Introduced in version: 
8.3.0-dev
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/2577923
Description: 

Prior to 8.3.x, normalized representations of menu link content entities and link fields that pointed to entities used the serial ID of the entity.

This meant that deployment was not possible as the serial ID is environment specific.

#2577923: MenuLinkContent entities pointing to nodes are not deployable: LinkItem should have a "target_uuid" computed property added new normalizers for LinkItems and MenuLinkContent entities. When a link points to a content entity, the normalized output also includes the UUID of the target entity.

When denormalizing, these normalizers attempt to resolve the entity by UUID and update the URI to point to the matching entity when found.

This makes deployment of entities that contain link fields that reference content entities possible.

Impacts: 
Site builders, administrators, editors
Module developers
Updates Done (doc team, etc.)
Online documentation: 
Not done
Theming guide: 
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Module developer documentation: 
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Examples project: 
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Coder Review: 
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Coder Upgrade: 
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