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Drupal 8 Module Development

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Module Development Build modules and themes using the latest version of Drupal 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612363
Length 580 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Developing for Drupal 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Module 3. Logging and Mailing 4. Theming 5. Menus and Menu Links 6. Data Modeling and Storage 7. Your Own Custom Entity and Plugin Types 8. The Database API 9. Custom Fields 10. Access Control 11. Caching 12. JavaScript and the Ajax API 13. Internationalization and Languages 14. Batches, Queues, and Cron 15. Views 16. Working with Files and Images 17. Automated Testing 18. Drupal 8 Security 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Batch operations

Now that we have a basic understanding of Drupal's capabilities of doing multi-request processing, let's switch gears and look at the Batch API.

In order to demonstrate how this works, we are going to rebuild the way our product JsonImporter plugin processes the product data it retrieves. Currently, we simply load all the products into an array of objects and loop through each, saving them to the database. So, if there are 100,000 products in the JSON response, we might get into trouble with this approach. To be fair, if the remote provider has so many products, it usually provides a paginated way of requesting them by passing an offset and a limit. This keeps the payloads smaller (which is good for both communicating servers) and makes it easier on the processing. On our side, we can treat it as we would treat a database. But for now, we'll go...

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