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ContentEntityBase::toArray should return the whole entity structure by including computed properties

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Created on 28 November 2016, about 8 years ago
Updated 28 March 2024, 9 months ago

Problem/Motivation

ContentEntityBase::toArray will currently only return the field values, but when working with nested entity forms and a lot of references it would be really useful if toArray would return the referenced entities as well.

Where I've noticed the need for this is in the following use case:
We deal a lot with entity references and in hook_entity_presave for new entities we create, save and attach to a specific field other entities.
This looks e.g. like this
$node = $storage->create();
$node->save();

What has happen now is that we have created and saved a node entity with couple dynamically created and saved referenced entities. However none of the entities here is in the static entity cache.

Now the code follows:
$node->addTranslation('en', $node->toArray());

And here we create a translation but when we try accessing the referenced entities they will be loaded newly from the storage instead being the same objects already loaded on the previous node translation. Changing ::toArray to include the computed properties would solve this issue.

Proposed resolution

Add an $include_computed parameter to ContentEntityBase::toArray.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

API changes

Data model changes

✨ Feature request
Status

Needs work

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
Entity  →

Last updated about 16 hours ago

Created by

🇩🇪Germany hchonov 🇪🇺🇩🇪🇧🇬

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