Drupal 8 Module Development

Reading entities

So, we have our entity loaded and we can now read its data. For content entities, this is where the TypedData knowledge comes into play. Before we look at that, let's see quickly how we can get the data from configuration entities. Let's inspect the Article NodeType for this purpose:

/** @var NodeType $type */$type = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('node_type')->load('article');

The first and simplest thing we can do is inspect the individual methods on the entity type class. For example, NodeType has a getDescription() method which is a handy helper to get the description field:

$description = $type->getDescription();

This is always the best way to try to get the field values of configuration entities, because you ...