In today's episode of "there's an hour of my life I'll never get back..."
In the Spark installation profile, I attempted to create an "About Us" page in the little demo module that loads as part of the install profile: #1722802: Add an "About us" page → Simple enough task, right? BZZT. WRONG. Why?
Because as dman so eloquently lays out:
spark_demo is listed as a requirement for spark : so will run its install before the spark install.
But it's the spark.install that creates a 'page' content type after that.
If I'd gotten an error such as "Invalid node type 'page'" when I called this function, I could maybe have figured this out. But with it silently doing nothing, I was completely at a loss, and dman saved my bacon.
Let's be nicer to people in this situation. :)
Needs work
11.0 🔥
base system
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
Surprised to see this is still an issue, and not specific to nodes (tested with block_content as well). Block content will even let you edit the entity, Node throws an error Call to a member function getPreviewMode() on null in Drupal\node\NodeForm->actions()
We should be able to throw an error at the storage level.