Create TemplateDiscovery for plugin managers to use

Created on 16 August 2019, about 5 years ago
Updated 23 August 2024, 3 months ago

Problem/Motivation

#3064854: Allow Twig templates to use front matter for metadata support introduced the ability for templates to provide metadata using front matter.

This can potentially allow plugin managers that associate plugin definitions with templates (examples: layouts, help_topics) to inline the plugin definition with the template itself. Otherwise, you would need to put definitions into separate files and discover them using YamlDiscovery.

Proposed resolution

Introduce a new TemplateDiscovery abstract class that can be extended to discover plugins from Twig templates.

Use the template filename as the plugin ID, and allow extending classes to define what to do with extracted FrontMatter metadata.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

None

API changes

New API will be introduced; no changes to existing APIs.

Data model changes

None

Release notes snippet

A new plugin discovery method has been added that discovers plugins in Twig templates. See https://www.drupal.org/node/3212845 for more information.

📌 Task
Status

Needs work

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
Theme 

Last updated about 13 hours ago

Created by

🇺🇸United States markhalliwell

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