wow 2.0.0-beta2

Beta 2 — Views integration, permissions, admin content pages

This release adds comprehensive Views support across the entire module suite, a dedicated permission system, restructured admin navigation, and multiple data model improvements.

Permissions

• New administer wow permission replaces administer site configuration on all routes and entity types. Sites no longer need to grant broad config access just to manage WoW data.

Admin navigation restructure

• Dashboard moved to /admin/reports/wow (monitoring + sync actions).
• Settings stays at /admin/config/services/wow with tabbed interface — default tab renamed to "API & Core", submodule tabs alongside.
• New /admin/content/wow container page lists all WoW content types (same pattern as core's Content page).

Admin Views (12 new views)

Every submodule now ships an admin content listing under /admin/content/wow/:

• Realms — with region, type, category, locale, timezone, population, server status, login queue columns
• Playable Classes — with icon (WoW icon formatter)
• Playable Races — with faction filter
• Playable Specializations — with role filter, class relationship
• Power Types
• Reputation Factions — with expansion and group hierarchy filters, native taxonomy parent tree
• Achievements — character and guild category pages
• Mounts — with source type and faction filters
• Pets — with source, faction, and pet type filters
• Titles
• Toys — with source type filter

Views infrastructure

• DistinctFieldFilter base class in core — subclasses need only a table name and column name to create a DB-backed select filter. Used by 8+ filters across the suite.
• WoW icon formatter — renders wow_icon string fields as styled images with a game-style dark frame (CSS box-shadows, gold border). Configurable width/height. Shows a red ? placeholder when the icon is
  missing.
• Region name field — computed Views field mapping region slugs to labels via the Region enum.
• Region filter — select dropdown backed by the Region enum.
• Locale label field — computed Views field using PHP Intl (en_GB → "English (United Kingdom)").

Connected realm live status

• New ConnectedRealmStatus service fetches server status, population, and login queue from Blizzard's connected-realm endpoint.
• Supports live (per-request) and cached (State-backed with configurable TTL) modes.
• Three computed Views fields: status, population, has queue.
• Settings tab at /admin/config/services/wow/realm with mode toggle, TTL, and rate-limit notice.
• Graceful fallback: returns stale data on API failure, catches exceptions from deleted/unavailable connected realm groups.

Data model improvements

• Mounts & Pets: replaced is_alliance_only + is_horde_only boolean pair with a single faction string field (ALLIANCE / HORDE / empty). Includes update hooks for data migration.
• Toys: removed should_exclude_if_uncollected field (Blizzard display hint, not useful as stored data).
• Specializations: converted wow_playable_class_id from plain integer to entity_reference targeting the wow_playable_class vocabulary. Views can now follow the relationship natively.
• Reputation factions: converted parent faction storage from a custom entity_reference field to Drupal's native taxonomy parent field. Recursive sync handles 3+ level hierarchy (expansion → group → faction).
• Realm sync: now fetches per-realm detail during index sync (category, locale, timezone, type, connected realm ID, tournament flag). Locale normalized from Blizzard's compact format (enGB → en_GB).
  Localized category field properly resolved.

Uninstall fix

• Fixed "Unknown column in WHERE" errors on MySQL during module uninstall. Our install hooks were calling uninstallFieldStorageDefinition() explicitly, then Drupal core's ModuleInstaller did the same — double-uninstall. Now only
  purges owner-linked rows and lets core handle column removal.

Documentation

• Region API classified as "Won't implement" with rationale in architecture docs.
• Core module now depends on drupal:views.

Test coverage

• 706 tests passing on MySQL.
• New tests for ConnectedRealmStatus service (7 cases: live/cached modes, TTL, stale fallback).
• New kernel test for DistinctFieldFilter base class.
• Realm normalizeLocale tests.
• Specialization class-term resolution tests.
• Updated faction, mount, pet, toy tests for data model changes.