Problem/Motivation

From entity.api.php:

- defaults: For entity form routes, use _entity_form rather than the generic _controller or _form.

Unfortunately we do not follow this directive and have some places where we define an entity form through a controller, which then retrieves the form through the entity form builder.

Actually we don't need the controller at all, as _entity_form takes care of everything.

This is also a contributed project blocker. autosave_form gets active only on _entity_form routes. This is the case for the entity.node.edit_form route. However there is the feature request to make autosave_form active also for new entities on the add page. As the node.add route is defined through _controller instead through _entity_form this is not possible.

Proposed resolution

Switch from _controller to _entity_form and deprecate the controller. The change should be completely safe as we don't have any logic inside \Drupal\node\Controller\NodeController::add().

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

Release notes snippet

CommentFileSizeAuthor
#13 3084030-13.patch1.68 KBhchonov
#13 interdiff-2-13.txt781 byteshchonov
#2 3084030-2.patch1.38 KBhchonov

Comments

hchonov created an issue. See original summary.

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hchonov
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new 3084030-2.patch1.38 KB
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hchonov
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Related issues: +#2924006: Autosave not working on content creation
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hchonov
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Issue tags: +Novice
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Issue tags: +Needs change record

+1 to RTBC. probably needs a CR?

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hchonov
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Done - https://www.drupal.org/node/3084856

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jibran
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+++ b/core/modules/node/src/Controller/NodeController.php
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ public function addPage() {
   public function add(NodeTypeInterface $node_type) {

We need to trigger the warning pointing to the change record to let people know to stop using it and we also need deprecation tests for this as well.

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+++ b/core/modules/node/node.routing.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ node.add_page:
 node.add:

We can also move the rotue defination to \Drupal\node\Entity\NodeRouteProvider. Or maybe a followup.

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Related issues: +#2723579: NodeRouteProvider should extend DefaultHtmlRouteProvider

Seems like a duplicate of #2723579: NodeRouteProvider should extend DefaultHtmlRouteProvider.

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This issue here is pretty small and blocking a contrib project. Let's please not mix it up with a much bigger one.

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Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community
Issue tags: -Needs change record +Quickfix

I guess we can reroll #2723579: NodeRouteProvider should extend DefaultHtmlRouteProvider on top of this. Setting it RTBC so that we can unblock contrib.

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Discussed briefly with @alexpott, I don't think we need a deprecation test because controllers are internal (it's a similar change to when we add bc for constructors), but this does need a @trigger_error() within the deprecated method.

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hchonov
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Status: Needs work » Reviewed & tested by the community
StatusFileSize
new interdiff-2-13.txt781 bytes
new 3084030-13.patch1.68 KB

Oh, right. Setting back to RTBC as this is actually a very minor change.

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RTBC++

I agree with this being fine to go in independently of #2723579: NodeRouteProvider should extend DefaultHtmlRouteProvider. In fact that would need to deprecate the controller as well, so at least with that part this issue will actually make that smaller.

  • catch committed 78251c4 on 8.8.x 
    Issue #3084030 by hchonov, jibran: route node.add should be defined...
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catch
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Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Committed 78251c4 and pushed to 8.8.x. Thanks!

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Published the change notice as well.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.