October 2012 - Development - lists.drupal.org

Updating custom Views plugins for D8
by Christoph Burschka 12 Oct '13

12 Oct '13

Hey everyone, seeing as Views for D8 is now well on its way and appears to be mostly (or even fully) updated to the new core plugin system, it should theoretically be possible to update plugins written for Views 7.x-3.x to run on Views 8.x-3.x. The only problem is that I can find zero documentation on how to do that. This (http://blog.erdfisch.de/2012/09/hands-introduction-drupal-8-plugin-system) comes closest, but it only explains how to create an empty style plugin, not how to make it do the same stuff an existing D7 plugin does. Anything? Or am I way too early with this? Best regards, -Chris

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Call time pass-by-reference for PHP 5.4
by Earnie Boyd 26 Oct '12

26 Oct '12

What is going to be the best way to handle the removal of call time pass-by-reference as noted at http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.incompatible.php? This affects a lot of code. Based on http://drupal.org/node/1498574 D8 will not be ready for PHP 5.4 but some WAMP and LAMP are already delivering it. My query here though is more looking at preparing for any new modules or converting older modules and getting them ready for PHP 5.4. How do others plan to handle this offensive change? -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd

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Learning More on Apache Solr Attachments
by Austin Einter 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Dear All I want to learn more on apache solr file attachments. My aim is to modify / add code in a way, that will suit my requirements. I have been struggling for quite sometime 1. How to index a file 2. How to store minimal data during indexing and get minimal data during searching 3. How to get results in smaller chunks, such as if my query records count is 1000, I would like to receive only 100 results at a time, in next query 100 more and so on Elaborating more on above points *1. How to index a file * Today when a user uploads his/her document, I create a node programatically, attach the document to node and then Drupal indexes file in next cron run. When a user attaches a new document, I delete the old attached document, attach the new document programatically, then Drupal indexes file in next cron run. That's how today I am indexing a file. I feel, the node creation is not required here, just to get the file indexed, I am creating a node. I want to know whats the best way to index a file (without creating a node). *2. How to store minimal data during indexing and get minimal data during searching *If you see during a file indexing , lots of data are sent to apache solr server and those are getting stored. To be specific here, for my requirement I do not need link, snippet - string, snippet-array, fields array having 22 elements etc etc. I may need to just store UID of user associated with this file . How can I achieve it , or at least where can I get more information on this. *3. How to get results in smaller chunks, such as if my query records count is 1000, I would like to receive only 100 results at a time, in next query 100 more and so on *Lets say a query returns 1000 records, probably I may need only first 100 records first time, when user clicks more link, I may need next 100 records so on. Not sure if such facility is there with apache solr attachment module. So I really will be happy to get more information on above 3 points. If any book, or any links that explains details will be really quite handful to me. Any information in this regard highly appreciated. Thanks Austin

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Process in code when experiencing an install error in a custom module
by Jeff Greenberg 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

I'm curious what others are building into their module install process in the event of an error partway through. For example, if your install script creates one or more bundles, fields and field instances, if an error occurs at some point during that process, do you handle it all like a transaction and back out what you have created to that point? My instinct would be to do that, though I realize it can get complicated, such as the event where some of the fields that were to be created earlier on in the process already existed, etc. I'm asking, though, because of the several modules I've looked at so far, none seem to be doing this. Jeff --- drupal.org/user/367108 linkedin.com/in/jeffrgreenberg accidentalcoder.com / ayendesigns.com @accidentalcoder

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