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Store UUIDs in configuration instead of entity IDs

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Created on 8 July 2020, over 4 years ago
Updated 31 August 2024, 4 months ago

Problem/Motivation

To support the model of deployable configuration, any site configuration containing entity IDs should switch to using UUIDs instead.

This is basically ✨ Make it possible to link to an entity by UUID Active , but we don't care about linking to entities here (that can happen later), only storage.

Current proposal

On the front-end, keep everything using entity IDs. On the back-end (storage), store IDs as UUIDs, and convert them when passing between the front-end. The implementation would be the same as that in ✨ Have Views' taxonomy term filters use UUIDs instead of entity IDs Needs work .

What's included

  • Allow UUIDs to be stored for front page, 403 and 404 pages.
  • Allow UUIDs to be stored for the page condition for e.g. block-placement.
  • ...

Long-term plan?

Maybe a long-term implementation plan for all of this stuff, in order, could be:

  1. This issue. (Just change the storage for now.)
  2. ✨ Make it possible to link to an entity by UUID Active (Allow linking, but keep entity IDs canonical.)
  3. #1726734: Replace serial entity IDs with UUIDs in URLs, or even globally? → (Make UUIDs canonical, but allow for linking from entity IDs.)
✨ Feature request
Status

Active

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
Configuration  →

Last updated 3 days ago

Created by

🇨🇦Canada colan Toronto 🇨🇦

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  • Comment over 1 year ago →
    🇬🇧United Kingdom maseyuk

    This would be very useful

  • Comment 4 months ago →
    🇩🇪Germany donquixote

    I just noticed a workaround:

    • When you save the site config that has the urls for front, 403 and 404, even if you specify an alias, it stores the `/node/123` url.
    • However, if you then manually edit the config files, put the alias instead of `node/123`, and import the config, that actually works.
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