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Drupal 10 Module Development - Fourth Edition

By : Daniel Sipos
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Drupal 10 Module Development - Fourth Edition

By: Daniel Sipos

Overview of this book

Embark on a journey of Drupal module development with the latest edition of this must-have guide written by Daniel Sipos – a Drupal community member! This fourth edition is meticulously revised to cover the latest Drupal 10 enhancements that will help you build custom Drupal modules with an understanding of code deprecations, changing architecture, data modeling, multilingual ecosystem, and so on. You’ll begin with understanding the core components of Drupal 10 architecture, discovering its subsystems and unlocking the secrets of creating your first Drupal module. Further, you'll delve into Drupal logging and mailing systems, creating theme hooks, and rendering a layout. As you progress, you'll work with different types of data storage, custom entities, field types, and work with Database APIs for lower-level database queries. You'll learn to reap the power of JavaScript and ensure that your code works seamlessly on multilingual sites. You'll also learn to create custom views, automate tests for your functionalities, and write secure code for your Drupal apps. By the end of this book, you'll have gained confidence in developing complex modules that can solve even the most complex business problems and might even become a valuable contributor to the Drupal community!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Chapter 3: Logging and Mailing

Entities in Views

Views and entities are very closely linked and it’s a breeze to expose new content entities to Views. If you’ve followed along with Chapter 7, Your Own Custom Entity and Plugin Types, and have the Product entity type set up, you’ll notice that if you try to create a View, you will have no option to make it based on products. That is because, in the entity type definition, we did not specify that it should be exposed to Views. That’s all there is to it, actually. We just have to reference a new handler:

"views_data" = "Drupal\views\EntityViewsData"

That’s it. Clearing the cache, we are now able to create Views with products that can show any of the fields, can filter and sort by them, and can even render them using view modes. All of them work consistently with the other entity types (at least fundamentally, as we will see in a moment).

You’ll notice that we referenced the EntityViewsData data handler...