Add "no_ui = true" to the definition of deprecated action plugins

Created on 15 November 2019, over 4 years ago

Updated 30 January 2023, over 1 year ago

Problem/Motivation

In the Feeds module I expose action plugins in the UI and I do that in the following way:
$action_definitions = \Drupal::service('plugin.manager.action')->getDefinitionsByType($entity_type);
The issue is that also deprecated action plugins show up in the UI, without the user knowing. The action plugins only conditionally get instantiated and that happens at a totally different level (not in the admin UI).

Some of the deprecated action plugins are documented on https://www.drupal.org/node/2919303 → , but in the definitions of these you cannot see that they are deprecated:

node_publish_action’ => array(6)
    ‘confirm_form_route_name’ => string(0) “”
    ‘type’ => string(4) “node”
    ‘id’ => string(19) “node_publish_action”
    →‘label’ => Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\TranslatableMarkup(5)
    ‘class’ => string(37) “Drupal\node\Plugin\Action\PublishNode”
    ‘provider’ => string(4) “node”

Proposed resolution

@andypost pointed me to the following documentation: https://www.drupal.org/core/deprecation#how-plugin →

Add no_ui = true to the plugin definition. If the plugin does not support no_ui but is selectable in a UI then an issue will be needed to add it.

However I see also some discussion on #2922451: [policy no patch] Make it possible to mark plugins as deprecated → that the no_ui key won't cover plugins that are extending deprecated action plugins. But I think having at least the ones in Drupal Core not showing up in the UI would already be a great win.

Remaining tasks

User interface changes

The deprecated action plugins in Drupal Core no longer show up in the UI when developers iterating over action plugins check for the no_ui key.

API changes

The action plugin definition get a new property called $no_ui.

Data model changes

None.

I'll work on a patch.

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Status

Needs work

Version

9.5

Component

Plugin →

Last updated about 18 hours ago

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Created by

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