[PP-4] JSON:API DELETE support for config entities

Created on 23 February 2024, 9 months ago

DELETE support was descoped from that, because:

DELETE is less commonly needed for config: typically, config mostly grows/evolves, usually content exists that depends on it. IOW: creating/updating config is more important (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle).
Config dependencies make this tricky:
1. Deleting a config entity that has other config entities depending on it should not be allowed.
2. Or should it be allowed and should there be a way to delete a config entity and all its dependencies?
3. Or … when deleting a config entity that nothing depends upon, but itself depends on another, should that result in the deletion of that other if it was the only one depending on it? (For example: FieldConfig depends on FieldStorageConfig, what if the last FieldConfig that depends on a given FieldStorageConfig is deleted; should that result in the deletion of that FieldStorageConfig too? Perhaps by specifying an optional deleteDependentsIfNoMoreDependees flag? 🫠 Same thing with Editor depending on FilterFormat and others.)
4. Config entities may be necessary for content entities: 📌 Prevent the deletion of a bundle entity if there are existing content entities of that bundle Needs work .
This is blocked on 📌 [PP-2] JSON:API relationship/related support for config entities Active for a good DX, see #3.

Even if this is technically possible today, there clearly is a whole can of worms wrt the DX of config entity deletion via JSON:API.

The scope of this issue is to figure out that DX.

N/A

TBD

Discuss, propose!

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

✨ Feature request

Status

Active

Version

11.0 🔥

Component

JSON API →

Last updated about 4 hours ago

Created by

🇧🇪Belgium wim leers Ghent 🇧🇪🇪🇺

Live updates comments and jobs are added and updated live.

API addition
Enhances an existing API or introduces a new subsystem. Depending on the size and impact, possibly backportable to earlier major versions.

Comments & Activities

Issue created by @wim leers
Comment 9 months ago →
🇧🇪Belgium wim leers Ghent 🇧🇪🇪🇺
Comment 9 months ago →
🇧🇪Belgium wim leers Ghent 🇧🇪🇪🇺
Having created 📌 [PP-2] JSON:API relationship/related support for config entities Active , I now think that this should be postponed on that as well. Because once that is solved, the error response when for example trying to delete node.type.article would be able to provide a much richer validation error: it could say Deleting this while the <sensible relationship name thanks to #3423462> field still exists (and depends on the Article content type) is not possible because <reason>., for example.
Comment 9 months ago →
🇧🇪Belgium wim leers Ghent 🇧🇪🇪🇺

Production build 0.71.5 2024