TableMappingInterface.php

<?php

namespace Drupal\Core\Entity\Sql;

use Drupal\Core\Field\FieldStorageDefinitionInterface;

/**
 * Provides a common interface for mapping field columns to SQL tables.
 *
 * Warning: using methods provided here should be done only when writing code
 * that is explicitly targeting a SQL-based entity storage. Typically this API
 * is used by SQL storage classes, or other SQL-specific code like the Views
 * integration code for the Entity SQL storage. Another example of legal usage
 * of this API is when needing to write a query that \Drupal::entityQuery() does
 * not support. Always retrieve entity identifiers and use them to load entities
 * instead of accessing data stored in the database directly. Any other usage
 * circumvents the entity system and is strongly discouraged, at least when
 * writing contributed code.
 */
interface TableMappingInterface {
    
    /**
     * A property that represents delta used in entity query conditions.
     */
    const DELTA = '%delta';
    
    /**
     * Gets a list of table names for this mapping.
     *
     * @return string[]
     *   An array of table names.
     */
    public function getTableNames();
    
    /**
     * Gets a list of all database columns for a given table.
     *
     * @param string $table_name
     *   The name of the table to return the columns for.
     *
     * @return string[]
     *   An array of database column names for this table. Both field columns and
     *   extra columns are returned.
     */
    public function getAllColumns($table_name);
    
    /**
     * Gets a list of names for entity fields stored in the specified table.
     *
     * The return list is contains the entity field names, not database field
     * (i.e. column) names. To get the mapping of specific entity field to
     * database columns use ::getColumnNames().
     *
     * @param string $table_name
     *   The name of the table to return the field names for.
     *
     * @return string[]
     *   An array of field names for the given table.
     */
    public function getFieldNames($table_name);
    
    /**
     * Gets a mapping of field columns to database columns for a given field.
     *
     * @param string $field_name
     *   The name of the entity field to return the column mapping for.
     *
     * @return string[]
     *   The keys of this array are the keys of the array returned by
     *   FieldStorageDefinitionInterface::getColumns() while the respective values
     *   are the names of the database columns for this table mapping.
     */
    public function getColumnNames($field_name);
    
    /**
     * Gets a list of extra database columns, which store denormalized data.
     *
     * These database columns do not belong to any entity fields. Any normalized
     * data that is stored should be associated with an entity field.
     *
     * @param string $table_name
     *   The name of the table to return the columns for.
     *
     * @return string[]
     *   An array of column names for the given table.
     */
    public function getExtraColumns($table_name);
    
    /**
     * Gets the list of columns that can not be used as field type columns.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function getReservedColumns();
    
    /**
     * Generates a column name for a field property.
     *
     * @param \Drupal\Core\Field\FieldStorageDefinitionInterface $storage_definition
     *   The field storage definition.
     * @param string $property_name
     *   The name of the property.
     *
     * @return string
     *   A string containing a generated column name for a field data table that is
     *   unique among all other fields.
     */
    public function getFieldColumnName(FieldStorageDefinitionInterface $storage_definition, $property_name);
    
    /**
     * Gets the table name for a given column.
     *
     * @param string $field_name
     *   The name of the entity field to return the column mapping for.
     *
     * @return string
     *   Table name for the given field.
     *
     * @throws \Drupal\Core\Entity\Sql\SqlContentEntityStorageException
     */
    public function getFieldTableName($field_name);

}