By claudiu.cristea on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal core
Introduced in branch: 
11.4.x
Introduced in version: 
11.4.0
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/3568087
Description: 

The _contextual_links_to_id() & _contextual_id_to_links() functions are deprecated and their functionality has been moved to a new Drupal\contextual\ContextualLinksSerializer service.

Before

$variables['title_suffix']['contextual_links'] = [
  '#type' => 'contextual_links_placeholder',
  '#id' => _contextual_links_to_id($element['#contextual_links']),
];
...
$element = [
  '#type' => 'contextual_links',
  '#contextual_links' => _contextual_id_to_links($id),
];

After

use use Drupal\contextual\ContextualLinksSerializer;
...
// Inject when possible.
$service = \Drupal::service(ContextualLinksSerializer::class);

$variables['title_suffix']['contextual_links'] = [
  '#type' => 'contextual_links_placeholder',
  '#id' => $service->linksToId($element['#contextual_links']),
];
...
$element = [
  '#type' => 'contextual_links',
  '#contextual_links' => $service->idToLinks($id),
];
Impacts: 
Module developers
Site templates, recipes and distribution developers