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public function FieldDefinitionInterface::getDefaultValue in Zircon Profile 8.0

Same name and namespace in other branches
  1. 8 core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/FieldDefinitionInterface.php \Drupal\Core\Field\FieldDefinitionInterface::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).

See also

FieldDefinitionInterface::getDefaultValueLiteral()

FieldDefinitionInterface::getDefaultValueCallback()

2 methods override FieldDefinitionInterface::getDefaultValue()
BaseFieldDefinition::getDefaultValue in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/BaseFieldDefinition.php
Returns the default value for the field in a newly created entity.
FieldConfigBase::getDefaultValue in core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/FieldConfigBase.php
Returns the default value for the field in a newly created entity.

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/FieldDefinitionInterface.php, line 230
Contains \Drupal\Core\Field\FieldDefinitionInterface.

Class

FieldDefinitionInterface
Defines an interface for entity field definitions.

Namespace

Drupal\Core\Field

Code

public function getDefaultValue(FieldableEntityInterface $entity);