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Harmonize toArray() / getValue() on Entity / FieldItemList / FieldItem

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Created on 10 October 2014, about 11 years ago
Updated 15 August 2025, about 2 months ago

ContentEntities and what lives below notoriously suck at easy debugging. Running dsm() on them just breaks with a fatal. The recommended practice so far was to use ->getValue() (TypedData API) or the more recent ->toArray().

Yet:

On an ContentEntity:
- toArray() OK
- getValue() doesn't exist anymore after #2002138: Use an adapter for supporting typed data on ContentEntities →

On a FieldItemList (subclasses TypedData's ItemList):
- toArray() doesn't exist
- getValue() OK

On a FieldItem (subclasses TypedData's Map):
- toArray() OK part of ComplexDataInterface
- getValue() OK
but both methods have each their own, different implementations (even if they return the same thing for $node->body[0]

1) We should add ItemListInterface::toArray()
2) We should figure out why Map::toArray() and Map::getValue() use different implementations

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Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

typed data system

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.

    Thanks!

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