Act on a user role being inserted or updated.

Modules implementing this hook can act on the user role object before it has been saved to the database.

Parameters

$role: A user role object.

See also

hook_user_role_insert()

hook_user_role_update()

Related topics

1 invocation of hook_user_role_presave()
user_role_save in modules/user/user.module
Save a user role to the database.

File

modules/user/user.api.php, line 408
Hooks provided by the User module.

Code

function hook_user_role_presave($role) {

  // Set a UUID for the user role if it doesn't already exist
  if (empty($role->uuid)) {
    $role->uuid = uuid_uuid();
  }
}