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