How to add Gecoder 3.x providers

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@bogdog400:

I tried several solutions here. Finally #56 worked for me. I believe that adding the right provider module from the beginning is essential.

Thanks for all of your help.

Doh. Sorry.

This time you completely wiped the "Issue summary" field. Only post in the comment field, don't change anything else.

Tried everything here but number #56 seems to be the simplest. Running D10.1 with PHP 8.1 and apache (with Seven theme.. don't judge 😏)

Steps that worked for me-
1. Uninstall geocoder_field, geocoder_address and geocoder_geofield
2. If provider is installed it should now show at /admin/config/system/geocoder/geocoder-provider
3. Edit > configure > save provider
4. Reinstall geocoder_field, geocoder_address and geocoder_geofield

The provider is missing again in the select list but is showing under Active Providers as seen in the screenshot. Hope this gets a permanent fix in case I need to switch providers in the future! (I didn't try the patch)

Tried #56, I was able to select Google maps provider but when I tried to configure the geofield, I got the error:
Drupal\Component\Plugin\Exception\PluginNotFoundException: The "googlemaps" plugin does not exist. Valid plugin IDs for Drupal\geocoder\ProviderPluginManager are: random, file, kmlfile, geojsonfile, gpxfile in Drupal\Core\Plugin\DefaultPluginManager->doGetDefinition() (line 53 of /app/web/core/lib/Drupal/Component/Plugin/Discovery/DiscoveryTrait.php)

Phew, this one is still fun to fix if you install geocoder before composer-requiring the providers. I was using just geocoder, and none of the other modules (using the geocoder field in Leaflet maps).

I think the method that finally worked for me was:

1. drush pm:uninstall geocoder
2. drush cr
3. Restart Webserver and PHP processes (Apache, php-fpm, OpenLitespeed, lsphp, etc.)
4. drush pm:enable geocoder

Tried everything.
Only #64 works, thanks @khaldoon_masud

Geocoder 3.47

Talking about the order of installing relevant geo modules my experience was the following:
First step: Install geofield and create a new field of type geofield in your content type.
Second step: After that install/activate geocoder, choose and save a geocoder provider.
Third step: Modify the field created in step one and activate geocoding from the source you apreciate.

Having the same or related issue

Followed instruction in readme, managed to add provider but on enabling geocode_address the provider was removed

I had this problem as well. For me, restarting php did the trick.

Because of some (really few) issues still being posted that relate to some difficulties in adding Gecoder 3.x | 4.x providers, and assuming that possibly related to the conflicting enabling of geocoder_field, geocoder_geofield and geocoder_address submodules (such this latest one: https://www.drupal.org/project/geocoder/issues/3518956 🐛 Geocoder Submodules Preventing Installed Providers from Displaying (e.g., Google Maps) Active )

I further performed a deep insight and QA & test that could try to replicate the reported problematic scenario,
and still I couldn't experience any issues in enabling those Gecoder Providers that I required, and still having them enabled after subsequently enabled those geocoder submodules.

In particular I accomplished the following tasks in the following sequence:

1. I installed a fresh Drupal 10 (or Drupal 11) instance (locally with DDEV);
2. Required and enabled the Geocoder module with the following commands:
ddev composer require drupal/geocoder
ddev drush en drupal/geocoder
all good ... the Geocoder 8.x-4.28 release is installed and enabled.
3. I required the google-maps-provider and arcgis-online-provider Geocoder providers with the following commands (--with-all-dependencies):
ddev composer require geocoder-php/google-maps-provider -W
ddev composer require geocoder-php/arcgis-online-provider -W
ddev drush cr (always better to clear the drupal cache)
all good ... I could then find the required geocoder providers in the Geocoder provider options list, at the admin/config/system/geocoder/geocoder-provider settings page (@see the attached screenshot)
4. I enabled the geocoder submodules geocoder_geofield (after requiring the geofield module) with the following commands:
ddev composer require drupal/geofield
ddev drush en geocoder_geofield
ddev drush cr (always better to clear the drupal cache)
and still all good ... I could still correctly find the required geocoder providers in the Geocoder provider options list, at the same geocoder-providers settings page (@see the same attached screenshot)
5. I also enabled the geocoder submodule geocoder_address (after requiring the address module) with the following commands:
ddev composer require drupal/address
ddev drush en geocoder_address
ddev drush cr (always better to clear the drupal cache)
and still all good ... I could still correctly find the required geocoder providers in the Geocoder provider options list, at the same geocoder-providers settings page (@see the same attached screenshot).

My further established conclusions on this are that all is working fine with the expected workflow to require and add Geocoder Providers with actual Geocoder 8.x-4.28 release

The issue I described in comment #33 https://www.drupal.org/project/geocoder/issues/3153678#comment-14203727 🐛 How to add Gecoder 3.x providers Needs review where you install the plugin using composer, but the autoloader is not rebuilt, so it's not detected, should I think be fixed with:

📌 Use a better container cache key Active