Closing the Circle: How to use drush views export for something that hook_views_default_views() can use

actually, I'd prefer this be 'fixed' with:

1) Custom filename extension (rather than .view) would be good, optionally.
2) (optionally) Add a php start tag to the beginning, and "$views[$view->name] = $view;" to the end of the file

The above additions would mean I could export right into my custom views export directory(ies) (there is a path setting already) and just use my already existing file reading code for hook_views_default_views (which is stock code used by dozens of modules which already do views including in this way)...

This would help support best practices for views rollout in a production environment.

+1 to sethcohn's request!

Also see http://drupal.org/node/626876

+1, this would be very useful.

Attached patch is against 6.x-3.x-dev. It adds an --as-include option to to the drush vwex command. This option will export the file as a .inc in a format that hook_views_default_views() can load, as described in #1.

Works great for me!

(By default, without the --as-include flag, files will still be exported in the .view format that drush_views imports.)

For the uninitiated, here's an example of how to include these files after you export them using the patch. I have a teensy module I made called views_cache.module that contains only the following hook:

function views_cache_views_default_views() {
  $views = array();
  $path = drupal_get_path('module','views_cache') . "/files";
  $files = drupal_system_listing("\.inc$", $path, 'name', 0);
  drupal_set_message(print_r($files,true));
  foreach ($files as $file) {
    include_once($file->filename);
  }

  return $views;
}

So, I would run the following command to export the "view_name" view to my module's directory, and would see the following output:

$ drush vwex --target-path=sites/all/modules/views_cache/files --as-include view_name
Exporting 1 views to directory sites/all/modules/views_cache/files/: [ok]
- Exporting view view_name to file                                   [ok]
sites/all/modules/views_cache/files/view_name.inc.
Done.                                                                [ok]
$ _

Thanks for comments and code, but I consider this issue to depend on #626876: New export syntax: allow export by tag, export to stdout, function header: once that one is closed, it could fulfill this need too; your patch could possibly be reused there as well. Anyway, #626876: New export syntax: allow export by tag, export to stdout, function header will be closed before this one and then it will be possible to better evaluate this issue.

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Thanks, this functionality is now committed to the 3.x branch, with a more general syntax than the one outlined here.

If you want to export, say, the two views "og_members" and "og_unread", you will use something like:

drush vwex og_members,og_unread --output=includes

to produce a file-based export as individual .inc PHP files that can be included by hook_views_default_views().

The old, still default, functionality will use something like:

drush vwex og_members,og_unread --output=files