Drupal 10 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

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Accessing and Working with Entities

In this chapter, we will go through the create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations of working with entities in Drupal. We will create a series of routes to create, read, update, and delete nodes that are articles.

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• Creating and saving an entity
• Querying and loading entities
• Checking entity access
• Updating an entity’s field values
• Performing entity validation
• Deleting an entity

Technical requirements

This chapter will require a custom module that has a routing.yml file and a controller named ArticleController in the src/Controller directory of the module. In the following recipes, the module name is mymodule. Replace as appropriate. You can find the full ...