Pass entity through AJAX request

Problem/Motivation

I need a reference to the current entity in my entity reference selection handler to be able to do things like exclude the current entity.

Steps to reproduce

Set a break in the default selection handler while the Autocomplete Deluxe widget is configured. Try doing an autocomplete and see that "entity" is not something passed in the "$selection_settings".

Proposed resolution

Work is being done to fix this in the core entity reference handling ( https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2826826 🐛 Entity autocomplete widget does not pass along entity to AJAX request Fixed ). Mirror those changes in this module to keep pace.

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