Add more metadata to field type properties to identify text with a format and separate user provided text from machine names

Created on 24 May 2016, almost 9 years ago

Updated 3 February 2023, about 2 years ago

Problem/Motivation

Follow-up from #2725415: Text Editor module fails to track usage of images uploaded in text_with_summary fields, allows uploaded images to be deleted →

Some quotes from there:

WimLeers in #35

_editor_get_processed_text_fields() essentially hardcodes text.module's field types. I'm not sure how we can get around that. I can think of work-arounds that will enable Drupal 8 contrib to inject more field types, but I cannot think of a way to have them being found automatically; the entity/field system metadata is not rich enough for that AFAIK. In the grand scheme of things, I think this is only a small flaw though, and one that is not caused by or inherent to this issue.

Berdir in #36:

In TMGMT, I have a similar but not identical problem. Given an entity with field definitions, I want to extract all translatable text from it. That can be text fields but also string and other field types. (but not list_string, as the values there are machine names, basically, similar to format). Additionally, and that's more related to the problems that editor.module has, I would have to know how format/value/summary are connected and for which properties a format is. See http://cgit.drupalcode.org/tmgmt/tree/sources/content/src/Plugin/tmgmt/S...

Proposed resolution

Add more properties/metadata to data definitions to help solve those use cases.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

✨ Feature request

Status

Active

Version

10.1 ✨

Component

Typed data →

Last updated 9 days ago

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🇩🇰Denmark kasperg
I ran into this issue as well with the FAQ field module. As mentioned there the current approach which is based on extending from the TextItemBase class would require a rebuild of the module.

An alternate approach would be to use an interface which fields could implement and provide a way to return formatted text content. I created a issue fork with an initial implementation of of such a EditorFieldItemInterface. Things are quite primitive but if other people like this approach it might provide a way forward.

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