Content Moderation fatals when a moderated entity is re-saved on hook_insert()

Created on 9 November 2020, about 4 years ago
Updated 13 February 2023, almost 2 years ago

Problem/Motivation

When using Group module together with Content Moderation and when adding moderated content (e.g. a node) to a group before Content Moderation's hook_entity_insert() has run, the following exception is thrown:

PDOException: SQLSTATE[23000]: Integrity constraint violation: 1062 Duplicate entry 'node-1-1-editorial-en' for key 'content_moderation_state__lookup'

This is because Group module (re-)saves the entity when it is being added to the group (see 🐛 Node update hook is triggered upon group content create Needs work for some background/discussion on that). That "inner" save then causes the content moderation state entity to be created, so that it already exists when content_moderation_entity_insert() is triggered for the original save. Content Moderation then tries to create a new content moderation state entity which causes the problem.

Content Moderation already tries to be smart and load any existing content moderation state for the given entity, but that fails because the loaded revision ID is not set at this point, so it looks for a database record with the content_entity_revision_id set to NULL but there is a record with content_entity_revision_id set to (e.g.) 1. Since it cannot find what it is looking for it creates a new entity to INSERT (instead of UPDATE) which then triggers the exception.

See \Drupal\content_moderation\Entity\ContentModerationState::loadFromModeratedEntity().

Steps to reproduce

  • Add contrib Group module to codebase: composer require drupal/group
  • Apply patch from #2872697-41: Node update hook is triggered upon group content create to Group module: curl https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2020-11-06/2872697-41.patch | git apply
  • Add a custom module that:
    1. Has a lower weight than Content Moderation (which has 0)
    2. Does $group->addContent() in hook_node_insert()
  • Install Content Moderation and Group: drush en content_moderation group
  • Enable Content Moderation for a given node type
  • Add a node of that type

Expected result: Node is created
Actual result: SQL Exception (see above)

Proposed resolution

When attempting to load the existing content moderation state entity when there is no loaded revision ID, but there is a revision ID, use the revision ID instead.

The ("not loaded") revision ID is what will be set on the content moderation state entity anyway, so it is what causes the duplicate key exception, so it seems appropriate to check for that.

Remaining tasks

Review the patch.

User interface changes

None.

API changes

None.

Data model changes

None.

Release notes snippet

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🐛 Bug report
Status

Fixed

Version

9.5

Component
Content moderation 

Last updated 24 days ago

Created by

🇩🇪Germany tstoeckler Essen, Germany

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