public function EntityStorageBase::delete

Deletes permanently saved entities.

Parameters

array $entities: An array of entity objects to delete.

Throws

\Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageException In case of failures, an exception is thrown.

Overrides EntityStorageInterface::delete

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/EntityStorageBase.php, line 440

Class

EntityStorageBase

A base entity storage class.

Namespace

Code

public function delete(array $entities) {
  if (!$entities) {

    // If no entities were passed, do nothing.
    return;
  }
  $entities_by_class = $this
    ->getEntitiesByClass($entities);

  // Allow code to run before deleting.
  foreach ($entities_by_class as $entity_class => &$items) {
    $entity_class::preDelete($this, $items);
    foreach ($items as $entity) {
      $this
        ->invokeHook('predelete', $entity);
    }

    // Perform the delete and reset the static cache for the deleted entities.
    $this
      ->doDelete($items);
    $this
      ->resetCache(array_keys($items));

    // Allow code to run after deleting.
    $entity_class::postDelete($this, $items);
    foreach ($items as $entity) {
      $this
        ->invokeHook('delete', $entity);
    }
  }
}