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ECA integration support

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Created on 8 February 2025, about 2 months ago

Problem/Motivation

There was a discussion opened (and closed) about 2 years ago here 💬 Name of main property missing Closed: works as designed regarding the use of DataField with the ECA module. Since ECA is gaining increasing popularity as a veritable Rules successor, I think this issue would deserve a second thought.

I would like to use a multifield solution with ECA, but also make use of Views in certain workflows. Now, the Views integration of DataField is excellent, but it cannot (yet) collaborate with the ECA module. The Custom Field module, similar to DataField, can work with ECA 💬 suport for @custom_field Active , but has no satisfactory Views support (yet).

While trying to implement ECA integration with DataField, I received this error:
Error: Call to undefined method Drupal\datafield\TypedData\EntityDataDefinition::getMainPropertyName() in Drupal\eca_content\Plugin\Action\FieldUpdateActionBase->getTypedProperty() (line 132 of /var/www/html/mysite/web/modules/contrib/eca/src/TypedData/PropertyPathTrait.php).

Following the lead from this discussion 💬 suport for @custom_field Active , i modified the TypedData/EntityDataDefinition.php, as follows:

namespace Drupal\datafield\TypedData;

use Drupal\Core\TypedData\DataDefinition;

/**
 * {@inheritDoc}
 */
class EntityDataDefinition extends DataDefinition {
  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function getMainPropertyName() {
    return NULL;
  }
}

Now the error is gone, but ECA's Entity Set field value would still not set the subfields of an DataField. Neither [node:mainfield:subfield], nor mainfield.subfield would populate the DataField subfield (a la body.value with regular fields, or customfield.customsubfield with the CustomField module) . Neither with textfield, nor with entity reference fields.

I would appreciate any hints leading to a solution. Thanks!

✨ Feature request
Status

Active

Version

2.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇮🇪Ireland marksmith

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  • Comment about 2 months ago →
    🇫🇷France lazzyvn paris

    If you have any contributions to the module, please send a patch and I will review and update as soon as possible.
    With data fields, the subfields will be dynamic so you cannot know in advance and create full schemas for it, so there is no mainPropertyName set (it returns always null).
    Unfortunately, I do not have any knowledge about ECA, it may have changed now, but I tried it before and abandoned it because it was a bit difficult to use. Currently, none of my customers have requested integration with ECA, so I do not think I will spend more time supporting ECA. The automation solutions I use are n8n simple and easy to use. I have supported datafields that can be exported to json on views and on graphql. You see, n8n only needs to map the input data as a json to perform the next tasks.
    I am currently researching to create a module n8n for drupal that can do automation in a simple way.

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