Talking Drupal #459 - Off The Cuff 8

Today we are talking about Config Actions, The Panels Favorite
Drupal Modules, and Drupal Contribution. We’ll also cover
Transform API as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/459
Topics

New Config Action: Place Block

Favorite Contrib modules

Slack channels

Preparing for Drupal 11

Drupal events

Resources

Config Action Place Block

Front End Editing Drupal Module

Gin Admin Theme

Migrate Boost

Keysave

Navigation

Matt Glaman Smart Date Code Blog Post

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu
Baddý Sonja Breidert - 1xINTERNET baddysonja
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted to expose your Drupal site’s data as
JSON using view modes, formatters, blocks, and more? There’s
a module for that.



Module name/project name:

https://www.drupal.org/project/transform_api

Transform API



Brief history

How old: created in Sep 2023 by LupusGr3y, aka Martin
Giessing of Denmark

Versions available: 1.1.0-beta4 and 1.0.2 versions
available, both of which work with Drupal 9 and 10



Maintainership

Actively maintained, in fact the latest commit was
earlier today

Security coverage

Documentation: in-depth README and a full user guide

Number of open issues: 14 open issues, 3 of which are
bugs, but none against the current branch



Usage stats:

2 sites



Module features and usage

After installing Transform API, you should be able to get
the JSON for any entities on your site by adding
“format=json” as a parameter to the URL

To get more fields exposed as JSON, you can configure a
Transform mode, using a Field UI configuration very similar
to view modes

You can also add transform blocks to globally include
specific data in all transformed URLs, in the same way you
would use normal blocks to show information on your entity
pages. The output of transform blocks is segmented into
regions,

Where Drupal’s standard engine produces render arrays
that ultimately become HTML, Transform API replaces it with
an engine that produces Transform Arrays that will ultimately
become JSON

Where Drupal’s standard JSON:API supports more or less
exposes all information as raw data for the front end to
format, Transform API allows for more of the formatting to be
managed on the back end, where it will use Drupal’s standard
caching mechanisms, permission-based access, and more

Transform API also supports lazy transformers, which are
callbacks that will be called after caching but before the
JSON response is sent

You can also use alter hooks to manipulate the
transformed data