Consider an input format that uses only a single filter. Suppose you uninstall the module that provides this one filter. The input format will be left with no filters.

The input format should be automatically deleted.

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johanneshahn’s picture

johanneshahn commented

anybody move this to feature request please?

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Version: 6.1 » 8.x-dev
Category: bug » feature

This came up in bug bingo...

I'm not certain this is actually a good idea, but bumping it so someone with deeper knowledge of input formats can comment, or mark as "closed (works as designed)".

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David_Rothstein commented
Title: Uninstalling module should also delete input formats » Uninstalling a module should also delete text formats
Component: install system » filter.module
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Yup, agreed.

A text format (a.k.a. input format) with no filters is a completely reasonable (and actually sometimes quite useful!) configuration, so I don't think this makes sense. Not to mention that deleting/disabling a text format is a pretty scary operation that should not be done lightly; it can wreak havoc with the display of your site's content, etc.

If anyone's interested in the general issue of what happens when a module that provides a filter is turned off, though, see #562694: Text formats should throw an error and refuse to process if a plugin goes missing.

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d_l commented

As an example .. I was testing migrate module (in drupal 7.8), decided to uninstall, and I'm now left with a redundant "Migrate example format" text format which I don't see how I can delete. Do I have to look into the DB or drush to remove this?

Postscript: I inspected the database and I saw that it was cluttered with different tables (including migrate text filter) created by migrate module. To the extent that I have decided to upgrade to drupal 7.9 (core only) and created a fresh database with drupal core only as a starting base. I'll now be more careful in testing modules which appear not to fully uninstall.