By maxocub on
Change record status: 
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Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
8.4.x
Introduced in version: 
8.4.0
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/2893061
Description: 

Summary

A new migrate process plugin, ProcessField, has been added. This plugin will instantiate a migrate field plugin based on a given field type and then call a given method on it for the return value. It replaced the FieldType plugin with the static map in the d7_field migration.

Before

  plugin: field_type
  source: type
  map:
    date: datetime
    datestamp: datetime
    datetime: datetime
    ...

After

  plugin: process_field
  source: type
  method: getFieldType
Impacts: 
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