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It's confusing that "Block/$block" sometimes refers to the entity and sometimes to the plugin

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Created on 16 January 2013, over 12 years ago
Updated 26 August 2025, about 2 months ago

Spin-off from #1871696-109: Convert block instances to configuration entities to resolve architectural issues → :

- We have the 'block' plugin type, plugins of this type are referred to as "block" plugins, they implement BlockInterface and possibly extend BlockBase. So far so good.
- #1871696: Convert block instances to configuration entities to resolve architectural issues → introduces Block as a config entity class. So a Block $entity has an associated plugin object, but itself does not implement BlockInterface nor extends BlockBase. --> misleading naming WTF :-)

As a possible clarification:
Go with : 'blocks' are the entities; plugins are not blocks, but block handlers ?
Thus,
BlockManager -> BlockHandlerManager,
BlockBase -> BlockHandlerBase,
BlockInterface -> BlockHandlerInterface
...

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Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

block.module

Created by

🇫🇷France yched

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  • Comment about 2 months ago →
    🇺🇸United States smustgrave

    Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

    We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

    Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

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