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Drupal 8 Configuration Management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783985203
Length 148 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Understanding Configuration Management FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuration Management for Administrators 3. Drupal 8's Take on Configuration Management 4. The Configuration Management API 5. The Anatomy of Schema Files 6. Adding Configuration Management to Your Module 7. Upgrading Your Drupal 7 Variables to the Drupal 8 Configuration 8. Managing Configuration for Multilingual Websites 9. Useful Tools and Getting Help Index

What are schema files in Drupal?


With schema files, you can describe the contents of a configuration file. You can determine which configuration keys are allowed in a specific configuration object and which data type configuration data needs to have. Drupal 8's schema files are inspired by Kwalify.

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Kwalify (http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kwalify/) is a parser and schema validator for YAML and JSON. It adds a schema to YAML and JSON as, for example DTD does for XML.

The format used by Kwalify was slightly modified to fit the needs of the structure needed in Drupal 8 but, generally, it is largely identical.

Schema files were not introduced for validation purposes only. The primary use case for schema files was to support multilingual configuration in Drupal 8. It was necessary to create a tool to identify all translatable strings within the configuration files, so the entire configuration, views, menu items, and user roles that you may define in a custom module or theme could be offered as translation...

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