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Drupal 9 Module Development

You're reading from   Drupal 9 Module Development Get up and running with building powerful Drupal modules and applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800204621
Length 626 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Daniel Sipos Daniel Sipos
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Developing for Drupal 9 2. Chapter 2: Creating Your First Module FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Logging and Mailing 4. Chapter 4: Theming 5. Chapter 5: Menus and Menu Links 6. Chapter 6: Data Modeling and Storage 7. Chapter 7: Your Own Custom Entity and Plugin Types 8. Chapter 8: The Database API 9. Chapter 9: Custom Fields 10. Chapter 10: Access Control 11. Chapter 11: Caching 12. Chapter 12: JavaScript and the Ajax API 13. Chapter 13: Internationalization and Languages 14. Chapter 14: Batches, Queues, and Cron 15. Chapter 15: Views 16. Chapter 16: Working with Files and Images 17. Chapter 17: Automated Testing 18. Chapter 18: Drupal Security 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Batch operations

In order to demonstrate how batching works, we are going to rebuild the way our product JsonImporter plugin processes the product data it retrieves. Currently, we simply load all the products into an array of objects and loop through each, saving them to the database. So, if there are 100,000 products in the JSON response, we might get into trouble with this approach. To be fair, if the remote provider has so many products, it usually provides a paginated way of requesting them by passing an offset and a limit. This keeps the payloads smaller (which is good for both communicating servers) and makes it easier on the processing. On our side, we can treat it as we would treat a database. But for now, we'll go with the assumption that the number of returned products is large, but not too large as to pose problems with the communication or with the ability of PHP to store them in memory.

Moreover, while illustrating the Batch API, we will also perform an operation...

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