By mcdruid on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
7.x
Introduced in version: 
7.90
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/3212398
Description: 

See \FieldSqlStorageTestCase::testFieldSqlSchemaForEntityWithStringIdentifier for an example of programmatically adding a field with a string ID:

    $field_name = 'string_id_example';
    $field = array('field_name' => $field_name, 'type' => 'text', 'settings' => array('max_length' => 255), 'entity_id_type' => 'string');
    field_create_field($field);
Impacts: 
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