Allow to bulk overwrite or replace existing media

Re-patching for the correct branch

Reroll

Updated patch.

Updated Patch

Repatching

There is a patch available. Changing status.

Would be nice if patch goes into a merge request, so it is visible if patch still applies.

Changing status to "Needs work".

also the use case could be a duplicate off: ✨ Prevent duplicates Active

I have created a PR based on the patch supplied in #6 with some coding standards improvements.

This could be considered a duplicate although that doesn't have a solution as yet. The original request is slightly different however, that is asking for a skip if exists feature, this is a replace if exists feature request, both have merit and should exist in and of themselves, I think, so one solution may fix both and it may be that we end up with a selection on the upload form requesting how to handle duplicates.

There still needs to be some investigation into whether https://www.drupal.org/project/media_duplicates → works combined, this issue can be closed, I think.

One thing I did spot when doing the patch to MR conversion

    $duplicates = [];

    // Loop through each of the uploaded files
    foreach ($fileNames as $fileName) {
      $pattern = $realpath . '/*/' . $fileName;
      $matches = glob($pattern);

      if (count($matches) > 0) {
        // If there is already a file in the public directory with the same name
        $duplicates[] = $fileName;
      }
    }

    if (!empty($duplicateUris)) {
      // Load the file entities by their URIs.
      $existingFileIds = \Drupal::entityQuery('file')
      ->accessCheck(TRUE)
      ->condition('uri', $duplicateUris, 'IN')
      ->execute();

The array of duplicates is never used once populated, and I wonder if the $duplicateUris variable is a typo as it is never populated that I can see.

Perhaps the $duplicates is meant to be used in place of $duplicateUris

FYI: I have installed the media_duplicates module and
a) It doesn't seem to work with media_bulk_upload as you are still able to upload media while duplicates exist
b) When using the media upload only, the new module throws a form error which stops you creating a new media item while the same file exists, it doesn't then update the existing media item instead.

No point reviewing, the duplicates thing is a problem and stops this working