Convert default content to YAML format

Created on 26 May 2021, over 3 years ago

Updated 7 September 2023, about 1 year ago

At the moment default content is exported in the JSON format. It is very verbose and hard to read and modify by a human.

Default Content module uses YAML by default since version 2. Let's use it. Some of the benefits are:

A more compact YAML-based normalization format
Identifiers like ID, revision id, changed and revision timestamps and other fields are no longer exported
Built-in support for composite entities like paragraphs in a single file
User 0/1 are no longer exported but referenced by ID
Support for translations
Support for files (stored as files in the same folder as the normalized file enitties, filename must be unique)
Support for entity references in link fields
Improved support for path fields including the pathauto skip flag

Add missing content UUIDs to sector_default_content.info.yml - Done
Replace code created users with export by adding UUIDs to to sector_default_content.info.yml - Done
Replace all local IDs used in code/configuration with local ID resolved based on UUIDs - example block.block.contentfield_8.yml references term ID 4
Run drush default-content:export-module sector_default_content - Done
Remove old JSON files - Done
Commit new YAML files and real files added to modules/sector_default_content/content/file - Done
Blocked by 🐛 Store UUID for exportability Fixed ?

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Status

Closed: duplicate

Version

9.3

Component

Code

Created by

🇳🇿New Zealand RoSk0 Wellington

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🇳🇿New Zealand heiket
Sorry that this took so long for us to pick up! All done now and released to 9.5.7. Info in https://www.drupal.org/project/sector/issues/3381553 →

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