Allow reference field properties to be preserved after expanding the values. #252
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Problem description
I am having a file field which has the display field enabled. That means that when we create a new entity, we want to also be able to set the 'display' property of the field.
Now, we are using behat but we have arranged our code to reach the proper structure of the field in the
\Drupal\DrupalExtension\Context\RawDrupalContext::nodeCreate
where the values reach asOne of the values is a multi column value and the rest are simple label references. Of course we take care of creating the files before hand.
However, when reaching
\Drupal\Driver\Fields\Drupal8\EntityReferenceHandler::expand
the entity query fails with the following error:because it simply passes the value in the query.
Proposal
From what I see from the PHPDocBlocks, the
$values
array is supposed to be a field value array and the return is supposed to be a field value array as supposed to be retrieved by the field storage.My assumption as such, is that we need to preserve the columns when querying the values and returning them. Thus, I propose to identify the
target_id
property - or any property used for the reference, and if present, extract the label for the entity instead of blindly passing the$value
in the query.Please, note that this means that we maintain the philosophy of the current functionality, that since the user passes a label as a value to get the entity, if they would like to use a more complex value, then the label would be passed in the reference property key. For example, if we have a reference to a node, the complex array would be
and not
At least that is how I see it.
Remaining tasks
Tests?