When an entity translation is deleted, add support for also deleting its translated menu item

/** * Implements hook_entity_translation_delete(). */ function mmodule_entity_translation_delete(\Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface $translation) { $menu_link_manager = \Drupal::service('plugin.manager.menu.link'); $result = $menu_link_manager->loadLinksByRoute('entity.node.canonical', [ 'node' => $translation->id() ]); foreach ($result as $id => $menu_link_content) { /** @var \Drupal\menu_link_content\Entity\MenuLinkContent $menu_link_content */ $uuid = $menu_link_content->getDerivativeId(); /** @var \Drupal\Core\Entity\TranslatableInterface $link */ $link = \Drupal::service('entity.repository')->loadEntityByUuid('menu_link_content', $uuid); if ($link->hasTranslation($translation->language()->getId())) { $link->removeTranslation($translation->language()->getId()); $link->save(); } } }

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🇦🇺Australia larowlan 🇦🇺🏝.au GMT+10
Comment almost 2 years ago →
🇺🇸United States dww
Evil English: "it's" == "it is". For possessive, we need "its".

Meanwhile, I'm not so sure this is a feature request. How can leaving a stale menu item be the right behavior in the original case? This sure seems like a bug to me, but I'm asking in Slack for clarification / discussion.

Thanks,
-Derek
Comment almost 2 years ago →
🇺🇸United States dww
Via Slack, @larowlan replied:

There isn't a 1:1 relationship between menu links and nodes (or any entities)

I'm not sure we can safely delete a translation of a menu item just because a node had its translation removed for that language

If we had #2315773: Create a menu link field type/widget/formatter → , sure

That makes sense to me. I suppose the menu items could be really essential for the navigation of the site. If a given translation of a page is now gone, we don't necessarily want to break the menu structure in the other language, but maybe that 1 link now goes back to the original language version of the page it links to. Or whatever. Core can't really know what you expect to happen here, so it's not a bug that we don't do this cleanup automatically for you. But it could be slick and useful to give you a way to clean this up while you're at it...