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Make it possible for custom viewsData class to adapt to entity schema changes.

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Created on 23 February 2015, over 10 years ago
Updated 5 May 2025, 4 months ago

Problem/Motivation

The views data is coupled to the SQL schema. So once entity schema changes the views data change. We are automatically
adapting existing views, see #2341323: Adapt the references field / table names in views, when corresponding entity schema changes → but we have no clue yet how we adapt existing code in FooViewsData.

Here is a small excerpt of NodeViewsData which would break in case nodes are not translatable anymore:


    $data['node_field_data']['nid']['field']['id'] = 'node';
    $data['node_field_data']['nid']['field']['argument'] = [
      'id' => 'node_nid',
      'name field' => 'title',
      'numeric' => TRUE,
      'validate type' => 'nid',
    ];

Proposed resolution

Expose the following variables to be used $this->viewsBaseTable; $this->viewsRevisionBaseTable; $this->entityBaseTable

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

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Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

views.module

Created by

🇩🇪Germany dawehner

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  • Comment 4 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!

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

    As far as I know, this is still part of an important rearchitecture that would make Views more compatible with the entity system and the alternate storage backends. Reopening in my capacity as a Views subsystem maintainer.. @lendude can let us know where we're at on the overall goal of decoupling Views from the SQL schema.

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