Experimental project

This is a sandbox project, which contains experimental code for developer use only.

Description:

The Field Widget Storage API module is a storage engine that can be used by any field widget that needs to save extra configurations alongside a field. Developers are able to leverage the modules API so they don't have to worry about implementing CRUD functionality for their field widget.

Use Case:

Hypothetically, say you need to collect a class attribute from a user when an image is uploaded on a given entity. Currently the Image field type doesn't expose a way to define class attributes. We're going to have to accomplish this by defining a new field using the Field API, and rebuild the image uploading capabilities inside that module. Then implement the code for collecting the class attribute. That seems like a lot of development time just to allow a user to input a class attribute for an image.

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