Add config action for EntityDisplayBase::setComponent()

on reviewing, I am not sure what needs to be done to validate the code changes. Can we get some steps to reproduce or test instructions please.

As a developer of a site, I need to be able to add an entity reference field to a tags taxonomy from an article content type.

Validations steps/Acceptance criteria

1. Create a "Tags" taxonomy
2. Create a recipe that creates/installs an Article Content type and uses the setComponent config action to add a field_tags reference field from the content type's entity_view_display and entity_view_form configs to the taxonomy term
3. Apply the recipe and validate that it installs successfully and creates the field, and adds it to the content type's display and form

Several of us a DrupalCon Pittsburgh are looking into this one (and trying to figure out how to review it).

I was able to verify that this config action works by doing the following:

• Cloned the issue branch/fork locally
• Adapted some of the work-in-progress recipes from this issue (modified versions attached to this comment)
• Installed Drupal minimal install profile
• Ran php core/scripts/drupal recipe <recipe-name> for the article_content_type and tags_taxonomy recipes
• Ran php core/scripts/drupal recipe <recipe-name> for the article_tags recipe
• Verified that field_tags had been added to the displays for the article content type

I also pushed the important changes related to this action that I had to make to the WIP reciped copied from the #3301370: Model core's standard install profile as recipes → issue branch up to that branch. The diffs can be seen here:
https://git.drupalcode.org/issue/distributions_recipes-3301370/-/commit/...
https://git.drupalcode.org/issue/distributions_recipes-3301370/-/commit/...

For testing this MR, I also removed the image field from the article recipe (see the zip file) to simplify things.

Thanks Joe! Will try to get this reviewed and merged this week.

Config Action setComponent added! Thanks all!

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

I'm trying to use this to add a field to existing form and view displays using the sample action here, but I get this error:

In YamlSymfony.php line 40:

  Mapping values are not allowed in multi-line blocks

My bad! Pro tip: use spaces rather than tabs in yaml.

Also, the machine name of the field has to be in quotations.

    core.entity_view_display.node.page.default:
      setComponent:
        'field_content'
        -
          type: entity_reference_label
          label: above
          settings:
            link: true
          third_party_settings: {  }
          weight: 10
          region: content

This adds the field, but it strips out all of the settings and third party settings. I'm wondering if there's another function I can use to add those...

https://git.drupalcode.org/project/distributions_recipes/-/blob/11.x/cor...

I have an open issue to update the docs:

https://www.drupal.org/project/distributions_recipes/issues/3395840 →

But yours is a little different.

Does this work plural also?

This works:

core.entity_view_display.node.page.default:
  setComponent:
    name: field_content
    options:
      type: entity_reference_revisions_entity_view
      label: hidden
      settings:
        view_mode: default
        link: ''
      third_party_settings: {  }
      weight: 10
      region: content

This works with setComponents(): from here

core.entity_form_display.user.user.default:
      setComponents:
        -
          name: field_last_password_reset
          options:
            type: datetime_default
            weight: 4
            region: content
            settings: {  }
            third_party_settings: {  }
        -
          name: field_password_expiration
          options:
            type: boolean_checkbox
            weight: 3
            region: content
            settings:
              display_label: true
            third_party_settings: {  }

Updating issue summary with the final code.