Create API for view provider modules to provide entity labels and bulk form keys

Ok, thought about this a bit more after meeting with Maciek recently, the issue is about search_api only actually (maybe other view providers that don't include entities in result rows as well I'm not aware of as well). I'm willing to commit this but the admin config needs to be conditional. I think it'll be enough to check if search_api is in $this->view->getDependencies(). If not we'll just set the config value to an empty string. Also, the last patch is incomplete.

Still needs work but almost there if someone is willing to spend a bit more time on this.

Re-rolling patch against 4.2.x + an attempt to implement the proposal in #14.

The last submitted patch, 15: views_bulk_operations-checkbox_avoid_loading_entity-3106177-15.patch, failed testing. View results →
- codesniffer_fixes.patch Interdiff of automated coding standards fixes only.

I'm glad this patch works for search_api views Raf but with it all core views with VBO are broken so it may be good only for sites that don't have any other type of views. I remember that's the case on your project but If you don't want to re-roll forever, please come up with a more universal approach.

Let's also have a feature branch and a MR here if possible so it'll be easier to review and show places that cause errors.

Sigh.. I think the only way to go here is to extend search_api and VBO API so instead of entity getter we have an entity info getter with 3 methods:

• get entity label,
• get bulk form key
• get entity properties from bulk form key

Wish I (or drunkenmonkey) thought about this earlier..

I'll do the VBO work when I'll have time and deprecate the old entity getter method.. then we can start sorting out Search API side.

Search API would have to know how to get the label so the proposed solution is also not good.
Let's just add a hook / dispatch an event so you can solve this in a custom module by providing that label and bulk form key.

Ok, please test by creating an event subscriber that'll subscribe to Drupal\views_bulk_operations\ViewEntityDataEvent::NAME and provide those bulk form keys and entity labels with Drupal\views_bulk_operations\ViewEntityDataEvent::setViewEntityData().
In case of no activity for a month this'll be merged at some point and handled in a follow-up if needed.

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

Filing a potential regression caused by this one, see 🐛 Missing checkboxes in 4.2.6 Active .

Hi Graber,

I was able to replace the code from the patch in #15 📌 Create API for view provider modules to provide entity labels and bulk form keys Fixed with custom code but I would still add this to your codebase if possible.

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