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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 content levelIntermediate to advanced
580 pages
15h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Managed file usage service

Now that we have an idea of the available entity CRUD hooks, we can implement three of them to handle our managed file problem. Because, if you remember, managed files are actually represented by the File entity type, so the Entity CRUD hooks get fired for these as well.

To mark a file as being used by something, we can use the DatabaseFileUsageBackend service (file.usage), which is an implementation of the FileUsageInterface. This has a few handy methods that allow us to add a usage or delete it. That is actually what we are going to do next.

What we want to do first is add a file usage whenever a new Importer entity gets created (and a file uploaded with it):

/** * Implements hook_ENTITY_TYPE_insert() for the ...
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