public function FieldDefinition::getDefaultValue in Drupal 10

Same name and namespace in other branches

1. 8 core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/FieldDefinition.php \Drupal\Core\Field\FieldDefinition::getDefaultValue()
2. 9 core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/FieldDefinition.php \Drupal\Core\Field\FieldDefinition::getDefaultValue()

Returns the default value for the field in a newly created entity.

This method computes the runtime default value for a field in a given entity. To access the raw properties assigned to the field definition, ::getDefaultValueLiteral() or ::getDefaultValueCallback() should be used instead.

Parameters

\Drupal\Core\Entity\FieldableEntityInterface $entity: The entity for which the default value is generated.

Return value

array The default value for the field, as a numerically indexed array of items, each item being a property/value array (array() for no default value).

Overrides FieldDefinitionInterface::getDefaultValue

See also

FieldDefinitionInterface::getDefaultValueLiteral()

FieldDefinitionInterface::getDefaultValueCallback()

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/FieldDefinition.php, line 209

Class

FieldDefinition

A class for defining entity field definitions.

Namespace

Drupal\Core\Field

Code

public function getDefaultValue(FieldableEntityInterface $entity) {

  // Allow custom default values function.
  if ($callback = $this
    ->getDefaultValueCallback()) {
    $value = call_user_func($callback, $entity, $this);
  }
  else {
    $value = $this
      ->getDefaultValueLiteral();
  }
  $value = $this
    ->normalizeValue($value, $this
    ->getFieldStorageDefinition()
    ->getMainPropertyName());

  // Allow the field type to process default values.
  $field_item_list_class = $this
    ->getClass();
  return $field_item_list_class::processDefaultValue($value, $entity, $this);
}