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Drupal 8 Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Drupal 8 Development Cookbook Harness the power of Drupal 8 with this practical recipe-based guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788290401
Length 430 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Up and Running with Drupal 8 FREE CHAPTER 2. The Content Authoring Experience 3. Displaying Content through Views 4. Extending Drupal 5. Frontend for the Win 6. Creating Forms with the Form API 7. Plug and Play with Plugins 8. Multilingual and Internationalization 9. Configuration Management - Deploying in Drupal 8 10. The Entity API 11. Off the Drupalicon Island 12. Web Services 13. The Drupal CLI

Implementing custom access control for an entity

All entities have a set of handlers that control specific pieces of functionalities. One handler handles access control. When the access handler is not specified, the base \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityType module will implement \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityAccessControlHandler as the access handler. By default, this will check whether any modules have implemented hook_entity_create_access or hook_entity_type_create_access and use their opinions. Otherwise, it defaults to the admin permission for the entity type, if implemented.

In this recipe, we will provide an admin permission for our entity and implement the access handler and permission provider available through the Entity API module. We will base this on an entity called Message.

This recipe specifically uses the functionality from the Entity API module because it has been tested...
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