Unable to add Question Type

Sorry, this screen isn't supposed to appear. Question types can only be created in code.

Are you trying to add questions to a quiz? Do you have any of the question type modules enabled (quiz_truefalse, quiz_multichoice)?

Hello!
I was trying to reproduce the error, and this page is showing when trying to access /admin/quiz/quiz-question-types/add, but I think the only way to get to this page would be writing the url manually. The path /admin/quiz/quiz-question-types is working and doesn't have any redirect to the /add page.
But is the /admin/quiz/quiz-question-types/add supposed to exist if "Question types can only be created in code."?
Tested on Drupal 8.9.16 and Quiz 6.x-dev

'n order to make a Quiz, it is necessary to have questions. In order to make a question, it is necessary to have a Question Type'

Hi, The only way to create a question type is to create it in code. There are question types that come 'ready-made' and that you can use. But you have to enable the modules for them. Go to /admin/modules and filter on 'quiz'. Then enable the quiz_multichoice and/ or the quiz_truefalse module.

Then you will be able to create questions and so create quizzes.

If the existing question types are not what you require you will have to code yourself your own.

Hello!
Adding a patch to remove the quiz-question-types/add route from the module, as it is not being used. Please review.

The title of the issue 'Unable to add a question type' seems to have been answered for you in previous comments: you can, but you have to do it in code. It is not a problem, that is an intentional decision that was made by the module maintainer at some point.

If you want to remove the 'add' route then why not remove the 'delete', 'edit' etc routes too? But perhaps it should be dealt with under a new issue.

By removing the routes the root problem is not removed since those who choose to type in the 'add' etc route will be met with a 404. Would be better to retain the routes and print an informational message stating e.g. 'Question types can only be created in code.'

Hello @andrew.farquharson,

The edit and delete routes do exist within the module ( although i didn't understand what happened under the delete route ), that's why i just removed the 'add' route, but about "Would be better to retain the routes and print an informational message stating..." I don't think this should be a problem for the module to solve... for every module you can change things with code, but that doesn't mean we should have to create a route for every content type used specifying that it should be created/edited/deleted only with code, if a certain route doesn't exist, than the user knows it is not possible to create the content via UI.

I think for this issue specifically we could also change the README of the repository to give the users a clearer tutorial on how to use it, some of the module I saw they have in the README a 'Usage' subject for this. And maybe we can create another issue for the patch or just change this one to include the unused routes problem.

Thanks, the routes were just there because they are part of boilerplate Drupal Entity classes.

Even if you could add new question types in the UI there would be no way to implement any sort of grading behavior. So it makes sense to remove them.

Hi @hmendes,

I agree with @djdevin that it will do not harm to remove the entries for 'add' in the entity annotations since as he says they are only 'bolierplate.'

The routes are provided by AdminHtmlRouteProvider, so removing the entries in links means they will go away too.

@hmendes Your patch makes sense

I created an issue fork pulled it to local, applied @hmendes patch. The /admin/quiz/quiz-question-types/add path now shows 'page not found'.

The patch seems fine. i created a merge request.

Finally fixed merge requests failing due to #3194156: Patches and Merge Requests lead to different test results