Bundle Classes for the Win

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Mohit Aghera Drupal Developer Bundle Classes for the Win 📦

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I’m Mohit Aghera Who am I? Today I’ll cover: Drupal Developer at PreviousNext. Drupal.org: mohit_aghera Twitter: mohit-rocks ● Introduction to Bundle classes ● How we can use the bundle classes ● Various methods to use the bundle classes

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Established in early 2009 to provide full service consulting, design and development for large scale Drupal websites. Who is PreviousNext? Successfully delivered many Drupal based projects for Government, Higher Education, Media and Communications clients. Very experienced team with long term staff members. Strong contribution and involvement in the Drupal community.

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Who have we worked with?

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What are the bundle classes? ● Essentially they are business objects ● Unique class for each entity bundle

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How to define Bundle Classes? Implement hook_entity_bundle_info_alter()

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How to define Bundle Classes? ● Use “bca” contrib module ● Leverage annotation based discovery

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Improvements in Twig templates 🌱

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Using methods in Twig

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Implementation in Bundle classes

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Using methods in Twig & TwigSandboxPolicy ● Default allowed method prefixes ○ “get” ○ “has” ○ “Is” ● Override “twig_sandbox_allowed_prefixes” in settings.php for more

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Improvements in Theming 🎨🖌

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Usage in template_preprocess methods node.html.twig Template pre-process in node.module

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Usage in template_preprocess method ⚡ node.html.twig Bundle Class

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Prepare additional template variables Method in Bundle class Preprocess function in theme/module

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Encourages reusable methods ♻

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Build abstract classes ● Introduce common functionality to abstract base classes ● Even define generic methods in the abstract class like ○ getBody ○ getTags

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Generic methods ● A few more example of generic methods like: ● Fetch the file from the media entity ● Prepare the array for featured Header ● Get the generated image url from the media using image styles ● Get taxonomy tags

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Traits ● Create generic traits that allows reusability ● Include traits in bundle classes whenever required ● https://github.com/dpi/drupal-entity-traits