[development] How could everyone win and get Views in Drupal 8?

[Jamie Holly]

Learn something new every day! I haven't started playing with D7 yet, 
but I can see that becoming a very handy hook.

By the way, do you have a decent reference to the new Database layer for 
D7? I got some stuff to start converting and I would like to start that 
in the near future.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net 
http://www.hollyit.net



larry at garfieldtech.com wrote:
> Um.  hook_query_alter() went into core nearly a year ago as part of 
> DBTNG.  It only applies to dynamic SELECT queries, which is a small 
> minority of the queries Drupal runs.
>
> Jamie Holly wrote:
> > Yeah I agree we really need to keep Drupal lean. I wouldn't want to see 
> > the entire Views package integrated as-is. I wouldn't mind some of the 
> > functionality included though that would give an easy way to alter some 
> > core queries. One that comes to mind is the comment query. Sometimes 
> > there are needs for extra data from the user table to be pulled in, and 
> > currently there really isn't an easy way to alter that query in 
> > comments.module.
> > 
> > I've thought in the past about a hook_query_alter, but that could really 
> > add some overhead - especially on sites with a large number of queries.
> > 
> > Jamie Holly
> > http://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >> Quoting Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net>:
> >>
> >> > I really like that whole idea. Then we could have handy hooks to  > 
> >> easily modify those queries if someone wishes, like maybe an easy  > 
> >> way to add index hinting.
> >> >
> >>
> >> But we can have those hooks maintained in a contrib module as well.   
> >> We just need to have a api.contrib.drupal.org or  
> >> drupal.org/contrib/api.  I am with the crowd of keep Drupal core 
> >> lean.    The less optional modules Drupal has to consider the better 
> >> it would  be.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Earnie
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> >>
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