Content delivery tools in Drupal 8.

1. Drupal 8: content
delivery tools
Oleksandr Medvediev

2. Oleksandr Medvediev
Drupal developer in ImageX
> 7 years in Drupal.
https://github.com/SanyokMedved
https://www.facebook.com/sanyok.medved
https://www.linkedin.com/in/medvedevalexandr

3. Reasons

4. Reasons

5. Agenda
Approaches to deal with content delivery
• Default Content
• Migrate
• Feeds
• Deploy
• Other tools

6. Default Content
Default content gives your module
and install profile a way to ship
default content as well as
configuration.
https://www.drupal.org/project/default_content
What can be done with it?
• Creating content using Drupal interface.
• Saving content into JSON files by entity type, entity id or as nodes with
references.
• Exporting content without writing excessive custom code.
• Using “drush only” way to export created content.

7. Default Content - pros and cons
Pros
• For creating content user doesn’t
need any programming skills.
• Using standard Drupal interface and
tools. Results can be seen right after
publishing.
• Very simple workflow.
• Minimum custom code.
• Saving referenced entities.
Cons
• Saving content in files in codebase as
part of custom module.
• Creating of duplicates of entities if
custom module is enabled again.
• Exported files with content are not
user-friendly (JSON/HAL).
• Nodes can’t be exported by bundle.
• Content can’t be rolled back.

8. Default Content. How to use?
Export single entity
$ drush default-content-export node 11
$ drush dce node 11
$ drush dce taxonomy_term 2 —
file=modules/custom/demo_module/content/taxonomy_te
rm/2.json

9. Default Content - Export referenced
content
Exports an entity and all its referenced entities
$ drush default-content-export-references node 123
$ drush dcer node 123
$ drush dcer node 123 —
folder=modules/custom/demo_module/content

10. Default Content - Structure of custom
module

11. Default Content - Additional modules
Default Content Deploy
This module (DCD) provides content deployment and allows development
and building sites without the need to transfer database between the sites.
$ drush dcdi —force-update

12. Default Content - Additional modules
Default content extra
Default Content Extra is a Drupal 8 only module that adds "extra",
experimental
functionality to the Default Content for D8 module
"path": {
"alias": “/my_awesome_path”
}

13. Drupal 8 Migrate
The Migrate API provides services for migrating data from a source system to
Drupal 8.

14. Drupal 8 Migrate - migration example

15. Drupal 8: Deploy - Content Staging
The Deploy module is designed to allow users to easily stage and preview
content for a Drupal site. Deploy automatically manages dependencies
between entities (like node references).

16. Drupal 8 - module Deploy

17. Drupal 8 - Deploy. How to use?
1.Enable Moderation on your Workspaces.
2.Add/Edit content in the Stage workspace.
3.Publish the Stage Workspace.
4.Content gets replicates to the Live Workspace.

18. Drupal 8 - Deploy. How it works?

19. Drupal 8 - Deploy. How it works?

20. Drupal 8 - Feeds
https://www.drupal.org/project/feeds
What can we done with it?
• One-off imports and periodic aggregation of content.
• Import or aggregate RSS/Atom feeds.
• Import or aggregate CSV files.
• Import or aggregate OPML files.
• Creating nodes, users, taxonomy terms or simple database records
from import.
• Granular mapping of input elements to Drupal content elements.
• Exportable configurations.
• Batched import for large files.

21. Drupal 8 - Feeds roadmap.
Current version - 8.x-3.0-alpha2.
Feeds 8.x roadmap:
• Investigate if Migrate components can be used in Feeds.
• Have an usable CSV parser, an usable XML parser and a working Feeds
Tamper module with at least one Tamper plugin.
• Support for huge data files.
• Chained imports.
• Rollback imports.
• Keep same content ids as in the source.
• Analytic report of import process.

22. Drupal 8 - Other tools
Recreate block content -
(https://www.drupal.org/project/recreate_block_content)
Fixed Block Content - https://www.drupal.org/project/fixed_block_content
Simple block - https://www.drupal.org/project/simple_block
Custom module

23. Summary
1. Analyze your task, define the aim and chose suitable tools and
workflow for it.
1. Less code solutions: Default Content, Deploy, Feeds.
1. Solutions requiring code: Migrate, Custom solutions.
1. One time operation, quick content preview, prototype, feature
testing with required content - Default content.
1. Content import on regular bases - Migration.
1. Additional content moderation workflow and different access
levels to it - Deploy content staging.

24. Questions?

25. Thank you for attention!