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Drupal 8 Module Development - Second Edition
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Drupal 8 Module Development - Second Edition

by Daniel Sipos
March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
580 pages
15h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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What is TypedData?

The TypedData API is a low-level and generic API that essentially does two things from which a lot of power and flexibility is derived.

First, it wraps "values" of any kind of complexity. More importantly, it forms "values". This can be a simple scalar value to a multidimensional map of related values of different types that together are considered one value. Let's take, for example, a New York license plate: 405-307. This is a simple string but we "wrap" it with TypedData to give it meaning. In other words, we know programmatically that it is a license plate and not just a random PHP string. But wait, that plate number can be found in other states as well (possibly, I have no idea). So, in order to better define a plate, ...

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