Entity API 7.x-1.0-rc1

This project holds entity related APIs. * Entity CRUD API - Simplifies creating new entity types. Provides full CRUD functionality for new entity types. It offers an optional Entity class providing basic methods like save() and delete() as well as a suiting EntityController for mass loading or deletion. The Entity class can be extended and customized to fit special needs. Furthermore if the provided entity type is declared to be fieldable, the API automatically invokes the required hooks for you too. Apart from that entities built upon this API can be exportable just by activating a flag in hook_entity_info(). If activated, entities get machine names and may be defined in code. entity_load() automatically invokes the default hook and correctly deals with both - entities defined in code or the database. Therefore the API is useful to create any kind of object needing CRUD functionality, but moreover it eases the creation of exportables entities and fieldable entities. It also supports using entities as bundle for fieldable entities (like node types for nodes), for which the appropriate field API callbacks are automatically invoked too. In addition to providing full CRUD support, entity types defined via the API are automatically integrated with Rules, Entity metadata (see below) and Features, whereas the provided defaults may be customized and extended. * Entity Metadata - Provides a unified way to deal with entities and their properties. Provides metadata about entity relationships and properties as well as an API to easily get and set the properties. The metadata includes generic info about how to deal with entities (CRUD) and their properties (get/set) as well as metadata about the properties itself (label, description, data type, ..). That way it provides a unified interface to deal with entities and their properties regardless of the entity type (node, comment, terms, ..) or whether a property is a field. Thus it may be useful for any module that wants to deal with entities in a unified way, but in particular modules doing import/export or format conversion could easily rely on the provided property metadata. Furthermore the module provides data wrappers that make use of the metadata to provide simple and unified access to entities and their properties. For usage examples have a look at the README or the provided tests. The module introduces a hook (have a look at the provided API docs) where modules can provide the metadata, which in turn can be used easily by other modules. Also modules can use the hook as a central place to annotate and share further information about entity properties. E.g. the Rules module heavily leverages the provided metadata, thus adding metadata about your entity properties makes Rules and other modules buildings on it aware of them. The module comes with support for all core entities and unit tests. Additionally it provides tokens for all entity properties that don't have tokens yet - thus it ensures token replacements are available for any field.This project is developed on github, which is automatically synced with the drupal.org CVS. So you can use either git or CVS for developing.If you encounter problems with a recent Drupal 7 development version, using Drupal 7 HEAD + Entity API HEAD should work.This project is sponsored by epiqo. Visit us at epiqo.com or contact us.

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Platforms:	PHP
Keyword:	Automatically,  Defined,  Easily,  Entities,  Entity,  Fieldable,  Metadata,  Module,  Modules,  Project,  Properties,  Provided,  Rules,  Types,  Unified
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