Releases for Entity API

The main feature of this new release is compatibility with PHP 8.0 and PHP 8.1 (rc).

There are also a small number of bug fixes, and a lot of documentation and coding standards improvements.

Changes since 7.x-1.9:

Query access improvements, bugfixes, Drupal 9 compatibility fixes

Contributors (6)

kristiaanvandeneynde, thalles, mrinalini9, Berdir, mglaman, fago

Changelog

Issues: 5 issues resolved.

Changes since 8.x-1.0:

Contributors (8)

anpolimus, bojanz, joachim, AardWolf, thalles, marthinal, jsacksick, bradjones1

Changelog

Issues: 6 issues resolved.

Changes since 8.x-1.0-rc2:

Requires Drupal 8.6.x. Contains the new Query Access API: https://www.drupal.org/node/3002038

Contributors (9)

bojanz, temkin, kristiaanvandeneynde, Wim Leers, gabesullice, dawehner, imshivani, Aanal.addweb, tstoeckler

Changelog

Issues: 8 issues resolved.

Changes since 8.x-1.0-beta4:

Changes since 8.x-1.0-beta2:

• #2952495 by alexpott, bojanz: [beta2 regression] Undo class removal, deprecate them instead

This release is a security release. See Entity API - Moderately critical - Information Disclosure - SA-CONTRIB-2018-013 for more information.

Changes since 7.x-1.8:

Changes since 8.x-1.0-alpha3:

Changes since 8.x-1.0-alpha2:

• Merge pull request #44 from dawehner/fix-test
• Fix the broken testcase
• #2709489 by CTaPByK, slashrsm: RevisionsOverviewDeriver uses wrong base_route
• #2709483 by CTaPByK, slashrsm: EntityRevisionRouteAccessChecker doesn't correctly handle local tasks

This release only works with Drupal 8.0.x.
It is the heir to 8.x-1.x-alpha1, now that 8.x-1.x requires Drupal 8.1.x.

Changes since 7.x-1.6:

Nightly development snapshot of Entity API for Drupal 8.1.x

Changes since 7.x-1.4:

See SA-CONTRIB-2014-001.

Changes since 7.x-1.2:

Changes since 7.x-1.0:

Changes since 7.x-1.0-rc2:

Developers please note the change records applicable for this release: link

Changes since 7.x-1.0-beta11:

Changes since 7.x-1.0-beta9:

changes since beta7:
removed the deprecated entity metadata module.
#1093918 improve entity property query support
#1081188 patch by drunken monkey: entity_view() for comments is broken
#1071814 patch by klausi: Type of boolean fields is int
#1092240 patch by scor: Minor code style tweak.
#1062358 patch by klausi, fago: Delete should be more robust with an empty array of ids.
#1066398 patch by sun, fago: Reverse entity relationships for Views integration.

API changes since BETA5:
* Exportable entities have been overhauled, so that all entities are stored in the database. Modules providing an exportable entity type need to be updated. See #1008810-8: Store all exportables in the db-
* Entity metadata wrappers: The value() method now doesn't throw an exception for not set properties any more, but returns NULL - see #708268.

Complete list of changes since BETA5:
* #1006664 fixed call to undefined function errors occurring without the entity metadata module
* #1007542 removed the empty .info file for the upgrade, as it causes troubles with the update-manager
* #708268 some metadata wrapper improvements, in particular fixed property updates to be properly reflected in parent data structures. API change: value() now doesn't throw an exception for not set properties any more, but returns NULL.
* #708268 added image and file field support, including tests.
* #708268 improved property info for text fields to also support summaries and added tests.
* #1010144 patch by drunken monkey: fixed information for anonymous authors
* #1013240 patch by aspilicious: Remove unnecessary files[] declarations from .info file
* #1008810 overhauled exportable entities so that all entities are stored in the database. Upgrade for modules making use of exportable entities is required, see #1008810-8.

This release is compatible with D7-RC2. If you use a more recent Drupal 7 version, use the entity API dev version instead.

Since beta3, the entity CRUD API and entity metadata modules have been merged into a single module. Also there is now a new module "entity tokens", which just provides token replacements for entity properties that have no tokens and are known to the entity API (as previously entity metadata).

Beside of lots of small improvements and bug fixes, the most important improvement since BETA 1 is the addition of an (optional) admin interface for entity types implemented with the entity CRUD API. Modules may make use of that to provide their UI on top of it, whereas the defaults can be easily customized.

Entity CRUD API changes since BETA 1:
#973116 Entity CRUD API: fixed throwing exceptions in case of errors during saving or deletion. API change: In case of errors, an exception is thrown instead of returning FALSE.
Entity CRUD: do not export the 'is_new' flag
#970338 Entity CRUD: fixed module name of the entity test module
#976348 make entity_forms() more efficient to prevent unnecessarily loading UI controllers
#976346 Entity CRUD API: fixed notices entity_has_status() + improved the API docs
#976360 Entity CRUD: document that the access callback is required for the admin UI
Entity CRUD API: some small doc improvements
Entity CRUD: implemented the recently introduced hooks entity_view and entity_view_alter
Entity CRUD: added hook_file_download_access() implementation for entities provided via the CRUD API.
#962026 Entity CRUD: patch by klausi: fix entity URI links in the UI
Entity CRUD: patch by klausi and me: add a FAPI validation handler to ease validation of machine names for exportables

Entity CRUD API changes since ALPHA 5:
* improved exportable entity status description texts - thanks to Bojhan for coming up with those.
* #836754 patch by Island Usurper: API change: entity_invoke() got removed
* moved tests to the Entity API group now defined by core

Entity Metadata changes since ALPHA 5:
* simplified saving of a user account, as user_save() got improved in the meantime
* #796380 patch by jrguitar21: fixed entity metadata token integration errors when tokens with a set language are used
* added node revision log and "creates revision" properties
* API change:
renamed key for additional metadata for data structures from 'data info' to 'property info' to reflect its content equals the returned info of hook_entity_property_info(). Therefore also removed the dataInfo() method, instead use getPropertyInfo() without arguments.
added method entityInfo() to the entity wrapper.
* added the possibility to specify a property info alter callback, that is invoked right before the property info is used. This is used by the Rules module for injecting metadata that has been asserted by conditions.
* improved entity_metadata_get_properties() to return all known properties in case no argument is given
* added metadata to mark properties, which stem from a field.

Entity CRUD API changes since ALPHA 3:
* overhauled the entity CRUD API to be a full module dependency, thus using it without introducing the dependency isn't possible any more. That way we are able to roll out updates much easier and to provide multiple EntityDB base classes, one being extendable via faces and one not.
* added entity_(create|delete|save) API functions and a test for them
* fixed API docs as full CRUD is also possible with usual functions leveraging the controller
* updated faces.inc
* applied the changes from #731426 to the controller, making it work with HEAD again.
* fixed default entities to not be added in when all ids were served from cache
* fixed deletion by names
* moved the full CRUD implementation to the controller, so it can be easily swapped out and improved saving and deletion to make use of transactions and to properly support db replication

Due to recent changes to the Entity Controller in Drupal 7.x you need drupal 7.x ALPHA 3 or later.

Entity Metadata changes since ALPHA 3:
* #716060 Provide tokens for entity properties that don't have tokens yet. Thus this adds tokens for single-valued fields.
* #706620 Clear the cache after adding or changing fields
* fixed caching entity property info to be per language as implemented first in #503550 and added a cache clear function

changes since 1.0-alpha2:

Entity API:
* Entities created with the entity API can be now exportable.
* Improved class naming of entity API. Update your controller class name!
* Improved entity API test module to test exportables.

Entity Metadata:
* added the possibility to specify an options list for a property
* enhanced node module integration and fixed field API integration to work with current HEAD.
* various small bugfixes and improvements