In order to ease access to the properties (in default language) we plan to implement magic getters, so that e.g. You may notice that no language is in there - the idea is that this all just works with a reasonable language default, while it’s possible to get properties in a certain language by specifying an optional language parameter in the property getter. Thus, an entity consists of multiple entity properties, which consist of one or more property items (just as field API $items), which each have one or more values (just as field API’s columns). So let me shortly explain the overall architecture of what we currently have or plan for: The idea is that *every* entity has to follow the following data model: Once this works out, the plan is to convert the first entity type and post a patch for further review to the core queue ( here). Work on that is currently done in a sandbox, where we’ll flush out the API with a test entity type. See the Entity Property API meta issue for a more complete list of planned features. So there will be no need for entity wrappers - all the easy API and information will be directly available in $entity. If you know the Entity property information system of the Drupal 7 Entity module, it’s a bit similar to that, but instead of adding an extra layer above the existing entities, it’s about supporting it natively. The API should allow for introspection, so that it’s possible to look up the defined properties of an entity type in advance. What?Īs we’ve outlined in the WSCCI Web Services Format Sprint report we want to have a modern OOP, interface based API for properties. But furthermore, with classed entity objects as the basis we can improve the developer facing API and make it easier to access property and field values (I’m looking at you, $entity->field_body). So fields will be entity properties working with the same API as well! Then, it’s about being able to introspect what’s going to be in an entity - regardless of whether it has been added by a module or by the user via field UI. That is what the new Entity Property API is supposed to change: It’s about providing a unified interface to entity properties *and* fields, avoiding the split between fields and non-field properties. For those points, we need to know what’s in an entity! Yes, we can look up the fields, but there are also base entity properties and further stuff modules put on entities, which both are no fields so we do not know anything about them. The methodolgy decribed in this article will work for any field type.While the conversion to full CRUD for entities and classed objects for Drupal 8 made good progress, we’ve not yet reached the goals of fully translatable entities and having a default entity serialization for import/export, content staging and web services. Additional modules can be used to augment the field display into slideshows, accordians, and other formats. This module and its many extension modules provide a media library with support for many video sites such as You Tube and Vimeo, images, audio. With CiviCRM Views on Contact Page, developed by Skvare, the Drupal field data can be displayed either on the contact summary page, or as a new tab on the contact page.ĭid I tell you need to know zero code to do this? Its a site building task, and if you've added fields to a content type or created Views before, then is a simple matter.įirst install CiviCRM Entity and CiviCRM Views on Contact Page and their dependencies Views and Entity API.įor this example, we're going to use the Drupal 7 Media module. This means that we can add YouTube videos, images, slideshows, audio, and WHATEVER to your CiviCRM Contact. Fields can be displayed in Views, used in Rules, indexed by Search API, and manipulated by all the rest. So any field type, provided by either Drupal Core, or any contributed module can be attached to CiviCRM data and created, read, updated, or deleted with the corresponding CiviCRM record. It exposing CiviCRM data as proper Drupal entities, and because of that, the full power of the Drupal Entity API can be leveraged in conjuction with your CiviCRM data. The 2.x branch of CiviCRM Entity has added capability to add Drupal fields to CiviCRM entities. This includes many commonly used modules such as Views, Rules, Search API, Entityqueue, and many more. That means that almost any module that can use Drupal entities, can access and manipulate CiviCRM data, Drupal style. This is great, but what if I want to add data to my CiviCRM contacts that is not one of these field types? What to do? CiviCRM Entity to the rescue!ĬiviCRM Entity is a Drupal module which exposes many CiviCRM entities as true Drupal entities. CiviCRM comes out of the box with custom field functionality, and supplies several useful field types.
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