interface ContentEntityInterface in Drupal 8

Defines a common interface for all content entity objects.

Content entities use fields for all their entity properties and can be translatable and revisionable. Translations and revisions can be enabled per entity type through annotation and using entity type hooks.

It's best practice to always implement ContentEntityInterface for content-like entities that should be stored in some database, and enable/disable revisions and translations as desired.

When implementing this interface which extends Traversable, make sure to list IteratorAggregate or Iterator before this interface in the implements clause.

Hierarchy

• interface \Drupal\Core\Entity\FieldableEntityInterface; interface \Drupal\Core\Entity\TranslatableRevisionableInterface; interface \Drupal\Core\Entity\SynchronizableInterface
  • interface \Drupal\Core\Entity\ContentEntityInterface extends \Drupal\Core\Entity\Traversable

See also

\Drupal\Core\Entity\ContentEntityBase

\Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface

Related topics

Entity API

Describes how to define and manipulate content and configuration entities.

73 files declare their use of ContentEntityInterface

BatchUserAction.php in core/modules/views/tests/modules/user_batch_action_test/src/Plugin/Action/BatchUserAction.php

BlockContentInterface.php in core/modules/block_content/src/BlockContentInterface.php

comment.tokens.inc in core/modules/comment/comment.tokens.inc

Builds placeholder replacement tokens for comment-related data.

comment.views.inc in core/modules/comment/comment.views.inc

Provide views data for comment.module.

CommentInterface.php in core/modules/comment/src/CommentInterface.php

... See full list

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/ContentEntityInterface.php, line 24

Namespace

Drupal\Core\Entity

interface ContentEntityInterface extends \Traversable, FieldableEntityInterface, TranslatableRevisionableInterface, SynchronizableInterface {

}

Members

Name	Modifiers	Type	Description	Overrides
AccessibleInterface::access	public	function	Checks data value access.	9
CacheableDependencyInterface::getCacheContexts	public	function	The cache contexts associated with this object.	34
CacheableDependencyInterface::getCacheMaxAge	public	function	The maximum age for which this object may be cached.	34
CacheableDependencyInterface::getCacheTags	public	function	The cache tags associated with this object.	27
EntityInterface::bundle	public	function	Gets the bundle of the entity.	2
EntityInterface::create	public static	function	Constructs a new entity object, without permanently saving it.	2
EntityInterface::createDuplicate	public	function	Creates a duplicate of the entity.	2
EntityInterface::delete	public	function	Deletes an entity permanently.	2
EntityInterface::enforceIsNew	public	function	Enforces an entity to be new.	2
EntityInterface::getCacheTagsToInvalidate	public	function	Returns the cache tags that should be used to invalidate caches.	2
EntityInterface::getConfigDependencyKey	public	function	Gets the key that is used to store configuration dependencies.	2
EntityInterface::getConfigDependencyName	public	function	Gets the configuration dependency name.	2
EntityInterface::getConfigTarget	public	function	Gets the configuration target identifier for the entity.	2
EntityInterface::getEntityType	public	function	Gets the entity type definition.	2
EntityInterface::getEntityTypeId	public	function	Gets the ID of the type of the entity.	2
EntityInterface::getOriginalId	public	function	Gets the original ID.	2
EntityInterface::getTypedData	public	function	Gets a typed data object for this entity object.	2
EntityInterface::hasLinkTemplate	public	function	Indicates if a link template exists for a given key.	2
EntityInterface::id	public	function	Gets the identifier.	2
EntityInterface::isNew	public	function	Determines whether the entity is new.	2
EntityInterface::label	public	function	Gets the label of the entity.	2
EntityInterface::language	public	function	Gets the language of the entity.	2
EntityInterface::link Deprecated	public	function	Deprecated way of generating a link to the entity. See toLink().	2
EntityInterface::load	public static	function	Loads an entity.	2
EntityInterface::loadMultiple	public static	function	Loads one or more entities.	2
EntityInterface::postCreate	public	function	Acts on a created entity before hooks are invoked.	2
EntityInterface::postDelete	public static	function	Acts on deleted entities before the delete hook is invoked.	2
EntityInterface::postLoad	public static	function	Acts on loaded entities.	3
EntityInterface::postSave	public	function	Acts on a saved entity before the insert or update hook is invoked.	2
EntityInterface::preCreate	public static	function	Changes the values of an entity before it is created.	2
EntityInterface::preDelete	public static	function	Acts on entities before they are deleted and before hooks are invoked.	2
EntityInterface::preSave	public	function	Acts on an entity before the presave hook is invoked.	2
EntityInterface::referencedEntities	public	function	Gets a list of entities referenced by this entity.	2
EntityInterface::save	public	function	Saves an entity permanently.	2
EntityInterface::setOriginalId	public	function	Sets the original ID.	2
EntityInterface::toLink	public	function	Generates the HTML for a link to this entity.	2
EntityInterface::toUrl	public	function	Gets the URL object for the entity.	2
EntityInterface::uriRelationships	public	function	Gets a list of URI relationships supported by this entity.	2
EntityInterface::url Deprecated	public	function	Gets the public URL for this entity.	2
EntityInterface::urlInfo Deprecated	public	function	Gets the URL object for the entity.	2
EntityInterface::uuid	public	function	Gets the entity UUID (Universally Unique Identifier).	2
FieldableEntityInterface::baseFieldDefinitions	public static	function	Provides base field definitions for an entity type.	2
FieldableEntityInterface::bundleFieldDefinitions	public static	function	Provides field definitions for a specific bundle.	2
FieldableEntityInterface::get	public	function	Gets a field item list.	1
FieldableEntityInterface::getFieldDefinition	public	function	Gets the definition of a contained field.	1
FieldableEntityInterface::getFieldDefinitions	public	function	Gets an array of field definitions of all contained fields.	1
FieldableEntityInterface::getFields	public	function	Gets an array of all field item lists.	1
FieldableEntityInterface::getTranslatableFields	public	function	Gets an array of field item lists for translatable fields.	1
FieldableEntityInterface::hasField	public	function	Determines whether the entity has a field with the given name.	1
FieldableEntityInterface::isValidationRequired	public	function	Checks whether entity validation is required before saving the entity.	1
FieldableEntityInterface::onChange	public	function	Reacts to changes to a field.	1
FieldableEntityInterface::set	public	function	Sets a field value.	1
FieldableEntityInterface::setValidationRequired	public	function	Sets whether entity validation is required before saving the entity.	1
FieldableEntityInterface::toArray	public	function	Gets an array of all field values. Overrides EntityInterface::toArray
FieldableEntityInterface::validate	public	function	Validates the currently set values.	1
RefinableCacheableDependencyInterface::addCacheableDependency	public	function	Adds a dependency on an object: merges its cacheability metadata.	1
RefinableCacheableDependencyInterface::addCacheContexts	public	function	Adds cache contexts.	1
RefinableCacheableDependencyInterface::addCacheTags	public	function	Adds cache tags.	1
RefinableCacheableDependencyInterface::mergeCacheMaxAge	public	function	Merges the maximum age (in seconds) with the existing maximum age.	1
RevisionableInterface::getLoadedRevisionId	public	function	Gets the loaded Revision ID of the entity.	1
RevisionableInterface::getRevisionId	public	function	Gets the revision identifier of the entity.	1
RevisionableInterface::isDefaultRevision	public	function	Checks if this entity is the default revision.	1
RevisionableInterface::isLatestRevision	public	function	Checks if this entity is the latest revision.	1
RevisionableInterface::isNewRevision	public	function	Determines whether a new revision should be created on save.	1
RevisionableInterface::preSaveRevision	public	function	Acts on a revision before it gets saved.	1
RevisionableInterface::setNewRevision	public	function	Enforces an entity to be saved as a new revision.	1
RevisionableInterface::updateLoadedRevisionId	public	function	Updates the loaded Revision ID with the revision ID.	1
RevisionableInterface::wasDefaultRevision	public	function	Checks whether the entity object was a default revision when it was saved.	1
SynchronizableInterface::isSyncing	public	function	Returns whether this entity is being changed as part of a synchronization.	1
SynchronizableInterface::setSyncing	public	function	Sets the status of the synchronization flag.	1
TranslatableInterface::addTranslation	public	function	Adds a new translation to the translatable object.	1
TranslatableInterface::getTranslation	public	function	Gets a translation of the data.	1
TranslatableInterface::getTranslationLanguages	public	function	Returns the languages the data is translated to.	1
TranslatableInterface::getUntranslated	public	function	Returns the translatable object referring to the original language.	1
TranslatableInterface::hasTranslation	public	function	Checks there is a translation for the given language code.	1
TranslatableInterface::hasTranslationChanges	public	function	Determines if the current translation of the entity has unsaved changes.	1
TranslatableInterface::isDefaultTranslation	public	function	Checks whether the translation is the default one.	1
TranslatableInterface::isNewTranslation	public	function	Checks whether the translation is new.	1
TranslatableInterface::isTranslatable	public	function	Returns the translation support status.	1
TranslatableInterface::removeTranslation	public	function	Removes the translation identified by the given language code.	1
TranslatableRevisionableInterface::isDefaultTranslationAffectedOnly	public	function	Checks if untranslatable fields should affect only the default translation.	1
TranslatableRevisionableInterface::isLatestTranslationAffectedRevision	public	function	Checks whether this is the latest revision affecting this translation.	1
TranslatableRevisionableInterface::isRevisionTranslationAffected	public	function	Checks whether the current translation is affected by the current revision.	1
TranslatableRevisionableInterface::isRevisionTranslationAffectedEnforced	public	function	Checks if the revision translation affected flag value has been enforced.	1
TranslatableRevisionableInterface::setRevisionTranslationAffected	public	function	Marks the current revision translation as affected.	1
TranslatableRevisionableInterface::setRevisionTranslationAffectedEnforced	public	function	Enforces the revision translation affected flag value.	1