How to override a contrib module's FieldType plugin?

Patrick Kenny

8/20/24, 5:36 PM

I'm trying to override a FieldType plugin provided by the Field Encrypt module:

class EncryptedFieldStorageItem extends FieldItemBase {

I created my own class, MyModuleEncryptedFieldStorageItem, and put it in my_module/src/Plugin/Field/FieldType/MyModuleEncryptedFieldStorageItem.php.

Now I need to inform Drupal that I want to override the Field Encrypt module's EncryptedFieldStorageItem class with my MyModuleEncryptedFieldStorageItem class, right? In the past, I've done this using MyModuleServiceProvider to set the class, but here, I don't want to override the field type plugin class; I want to override the class of one specific plugin. How can I do that?

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4uk4

8/20/24, 6:32 PM

The FieldType plugin manager provides an alter hook mymodule_field_info_alter().

Example from the core language module:

/**
 * Implements hook_field_info_alter().
 */
function language_field_info_alter(&$info) {
  // Change the default behavior of language field.
  $info['language']['class'] = '\Drupal\language\DefaultLanguageItem';
}

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Patrick Kenny

8/20/24, 7:10 PM

For anyone specifically trying to change the field Encrypt module's class, note that it isn't always the module's name. In this case, it's `$info['encrypted_field_storage']['class']`.

4uk4

8/20/24, 10:29 PM

Yes, this is a coincidence that the language module is changing the language field. You find the plugin's ID in the class annotations, in this example `* @FieldType(id = "language" ...` in /core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/Plugin/Field/FieldType/LanguageItem.php.

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