Problem/Motivation
When you try to import files and you have the option "Autocreate entity" turned on for it, the import fails with the following message:
Missing bundle for entity type file
For the file target, files are already get created automatically, so the option has no use for it. It does disrupt the import process instead, because the file target is implemented a bit differently from other entity reference targets.
Steps to reproduce
- Install modules Node, File, Feeds.
- Create a content type with a file field.
- Create a feed type that imports nodes for this content type.
- On the mapping page, map to the file field, click the wheel icon in the "Configure" column for this target, and enable the "Autocreate entity" option.
- Add a feed and import an item that has a url to a file.
After import, something like the following messages appear:
Feed has been created.
Missing bundle for entity type file
Feed: Failed importing 1 Article.
Proposed resolution
Make sure that the option "Autocreate entity" is not available for the file target. I propose to do that as follows:
- Add a method called
hasAutocreateSupport() to EntityReference.php to check if autocreate is possible, for now let that method return TRUE.
- Override the method in File.php and return
FALSE there.
- Adjust EntityReference.php so that the the autocreate option is only defined/checked when that method returns
TRUE: update findEntities(), defaultConfiguration(), buildConfigurationForm() and getSummary(). Call hasAutocreateSupport() from there.
Remaining tasks
- Implement the proposed solution.
- If unit tests fail after implementing the solution, check if the tests either need to be updated or that a new bug is introduced.
- Update tests if needed.
User interface changes
The option "Autocreate entity" is no longer visible in the user interface for the file target.
Introduced terminology
API changes
The EntityReference class gets a new method which child classes could override.
Data model changes
The option "autocreate" in existing saved feed types for the file target will be ignored.
Original report by irinaz
I created CSV Upload import feed for content type Article (http://dev-feeds8.pantheonsite.io/admin/structure/feeds/manage/article_i...)
Images for article are downloaded from url and need to be Autocreated. When I run import, new images are created as temporary files and I get the following warning, and import of those articles is skipped.
field_image.0.target_id: This entity (file: 17) cannot be referenced.
field_image.0: You do not have access to the referenced entity (file: 17).
In case when I reference images by filename and these files are already in the system, I do not have this problem and images are correctly attached to articles.
There was a module
https://www.drupal.org/project/view_unpublished →
that allows to reference unpublished node, but I cannot find anything similar for temporary images.
Thanks in advance for looking into this issue.