Rules support for file_entity

Now that I realize it, everything except for the 'view' rules event needs to be submitted as a patch to add core support for file entities since core already provides file_presave/insert/update/delete hooks. File entity would provide support for the file view action.

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If the goal is to have fields implementing file_entity available in Rules, I think those implementing modules may be the proper place to do Rules integration. I just submitted a patch to media module that exposes mediafield to Rules - see #1321600: Entity API (and Rules) integration for mediafield.

Of note, I was able to successfully apply this patch to 7.x-2.x-dev and the actions did appear, but I think exposing the fields is a better approach than creating rules events. For instance, instead of triggering on every file_entity CRUD action, you can react to a node save and then add a condition on the specific field.

Mediafield module is deprecated in 7.x.2.

See the related issue in Rules: #826986: File API events

I think that that issue is for file field in core, there's no event in rules for when a entity of type file is created

File field in core uses file entities natively. So #826986: File API events is the proper issue and officially closing this as a duplicate.