entityreference 7.x-1.0-beta4

New beta release, on our road to a full release.

The main change of this release is the addition of the Behavior plugins. Those plugins allow other modules (for example: Organic Groups, Tree...) to extend the behavior of Entity Reference, while reusing all the widgets, formatters, selection plugins available in Entity Reference.

Note: This release changed the schema of the field (dropping the target_type column. Features exporting this field will need to be manually fixed.

API changes

• The selection plugin interface has changed (including its name)
• The schema of the field has changed. Module (incorrectly) storing the schema of the field (for example: Features) will need to be fixed.

Changes since 7.x-1.0-beta3

• Follow-up to #1319040: make the upgrade path a tad more robust.
• #1427040: Behaviors are not instantiated properly.
• #1276272: Don't display bundle selection if the entity type doesn't have a bundle key.
• #1345340: Make the base selection handler more robust to missing entity types.
• Feature #1427032: allow behaviors to override the behavior of entityreference_field_is_empty().
• Feature #1427038: Allow behaviors to alter the views data definition.
• Follow-up to issue #1340748: prevent recursive loops when some module calls drupal_get_schema() inside hook_entity_info().
• #1388650 by David Lesieur: Add an Entity id formatter.
• #1422578: Change the signature of the behavior access method to EntityReference_BehaviorHandler::access($field, $instance) for better consistency.
• #1422578: Invoke the behavior handler for schema and property info.
• #1422580: Implement CTools class support properly to get automatic autoloading of the class plugins.
• #1319040 follow up: update the field's indexes on update, to prevent WSOD when editing an existing field.
• Show behavior plugin's description on field settings.
• #1319040: Remove 'target_type' column form db.
• Massive clean-up of the AJAX integration for the field settings form.
• Prevent validation errors on the field configuration form.
• Revert "Prevent validation errors on the field configuration form."
• #1412572: Fixed No access check when referred items are being viewed.
• #1343854 by Damien Tournoud, Amitaibu: Separate 'Selection' and 'behavior' to different plugins.
• #1340748 by helior and myself: add foreign key information in the field schema for use by various other modules, especially CTools.
• #1386868: Throw correct exception class in update.php.