hook_field_storage_delete

Delete all field data for an entity.

This hook is invoked from field_attach_delete() to ask the field storage module to delete field data.

Parameters

$entity_type: The entity type of entity, such as 'node' or 'user'.

$entity: The entity on which to operate.

$fields: An array listing the fields to delete. The keys and values of the array are field IDs.

Related topics

Hooks

Allow modules to interact with the Drupal core.

Field Storage API

Implement a storage engine for Field API data.

2 functions implement hook_field_storage_delete()

1 invocation of hook_field_storage_delete()

File

modules/field/field.api.php, line 1857

Code

function hook_field_storage_delete($entity_type, $entity, $fields) {
  list($id, $vid, $bundle) = entity_extract_ids($entity_type, $entity);

  foreach (field_info_instances($entity_type, $bundle) as $instance) {
    if (isset($fields[$instance['field_id']])) {
      $field = field_info_field_by_id($instance['field_id']);
      field_sql_storage_field_storage_purge($entity_type, $entity, $field, $instance);
    }
  }
}