EntityStorageSchemaInterface.php in Drupal 8

Namespace

Drupal\Core\Entity\Schema

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/Schema/EntityStorageSchemaInterface.php

<?php

namespace Drupal\Core\Entity\Schema;

use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeListenerInterface;

/**
 * Defines the interface for entity storage schema handler classes.
 *
 * An entity type's storage schema handler is responsible for creating the
 * storage backend's schema that the entity type's storage handler needs for
 * storing its entities. For example, if the storage handler is for a SQL
 * backend, then the storage schema handler is responsible for creating the
 * needed tables. During the application lifetime, an entity type's definition
 * can change in a way that requires changes to the storage schema, so this
 * interface defines methods for that as well.
 *
 * @see \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageInterface
 */
interface EntityStorageSchemaInterface extends EntityTypeListenerInterface {

  /**
   * Checks if the changes to the entity type requires storage schema changes.
   *
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface $entity_type
   *   The updated entity type definition.
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface $original
   *   The original entity type definition.
   *
   * @return bool
   *   TRUE if storage schema changes are required, FALSE otherwise.
   */
  public function requiresEntityStorageSchemaChanges(EntityTypeInterface $entity_type, EntityTypeInterface $original);

  /**
   * Checks if existing data would be lost if the schema changes were applied.
   *
   * If there are no schema changes needed, then no data needs to be migrated,
   * but it is not the responsibility of this function to recheck what
   * requiresEntityStorageSchemaChanges() checks. Rather, the meaning of what
   * this function returns when requiresEntityStorageSchemaChanges() returns
   * FALSE is undefined. Callers are expected to only call this function when
   * requiresEntityStorageSchemaChanges() is TRUE.
   *
   * This function can return FALSE if any of these conditions apply:
   * - There are no existing entities for the entity type.
   * - There are existing entities, but the schema changes can be applied
   *   without losing their data (e.g., if the schema changes can be performed
   *   by altering tables rather than dropping and recreating them).
   * - The only entity data that would be lost are ones that are not valid for
   *   the new definition (e.g., if changing an entity type from revisionable
   *   to non-revisionable, then it's okay to drop data for the non-default
   *   revision).
   *
   * When this function returns FALSE, site administrators will be unable to
   * perform an automated update, and will instead need to perform a site
   * migration or invoke some custom update process.
   *
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface $entity_type
   *   The updated entity type definition.
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface $original
   *   The original entity type definition.
   *
   * @return bool
   *   TRUE if data migration is required, FALSE otherwise.
   *
   * @see self::requiresEntityStorageSchemaChanges()
   */
  public function requiresEntityDataMigration(EntityTypeInterface $entity_type, EntityTypeInterface $original);

}

Interfaces

Name	Description
EntityStorageSchemaInterface	Defines the interface for entity storage schema handler classes.