How intertwined is this module with the "references" module?

I recently decided to switch to the "entity references" module because of the following notification on the "references" module:

References will most probably be deprecated in the near future in favor of Entity Reference, which should probably be considered first on fresh D7 projects. Another, more radical, alternative would be the Relation module.

The only functionality i'm missing is the one provided by this module.
Though I have no clue if it is possible to make a simple rewrite of this module to make it work for entities..

  • do we only have to assign the widget to the entity reference and build in a check to see whether taxonomy terms are used as an entity reference?
  • does the entire module have to be refactured?
  • do we have to create an entirely new module based on this one?

I'm not a die-hard coder but i'd love to help to make this module work with taxonomy entity references.

Comments

arpieb’s picture

Version: 7.x-1.0-alpha2 » 7.x-1.x-dev
Assigned: Unassigned » arpieb

This is totally beyond the current functionality of this module as it was only ever intended to be a drop-in replacement for the core Term reference autocomplete widget. It would require a whole new widget be built on top of the entity reference field, which is non-trivial but not outside the scope of this module.

I'd have to look into how much of the existing code might be reused, because obviously the basic functionality of this widget would be nice to keep intact.

I'll have a look at this over the weekend and see what could be done. Thanks for the suggestion!

Rustan’s picture

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)