Drupal & Drink Montpellier "Medias in drupal 8"

09 mai 2018 Meetup Drupal Montpellier
Alexandre Todorov
Medias in Drupal 8
● History
● Drupal 8 Initaitive
● Now in core
● Upgrade path
● 8.6+, Standard profile
● Contrib ecosystem

Alexandre Todorov
Medias in Drupal 8 (History)
● D7 History
– Scald Module : RTE + media library for reuse
– Media Entity Module
● Scald D8
– Media Entity will replace scald_atom
– Scald interface should be as entity_browser plugin
● Media Entity D8
– Media in Drupal 8 Initiative
● Early D8 History (< janvier 2016)
– The Drupal 8 Media Handbook

Alexandre Todorov
Media in Drupal 8 Initiative
● Background and Problem
– Basic file and image support
– External media cannot be embedded easily
– Media cannot be reused
● Proposed resolution
– Media Essentials (MVP for Media in Drupal 8 core)
– Media Extras (more complex media needs)
● Move relevant pieces to core when they are stable enough
– Media Extend (Not in scope, very advanced media functionality)
● Third party media tools for large libraries of media assets

Alexandre Todorov
Media Essentials (now in core)
● 8.4.0
– Bring Media entity module to core as Media module
– Media Entity Document in core (Added a File media source)
– Media Entity Image in core (Add "Image" MediaSource plugin)
● 8.5
– FAQ - Transition from Media Entity to Media in core
– Plan for contributed modules with Media API in core
● Additional core issues for media embedding experience
– Image style selection in Text Editor's image dialog
– Support drag-and-drop image uploads in CKEditor (done ?)
● Roadmap of First round of improvements in core

Alexandre Todorov
Media Essentials (Upgrade Path)
● Increase reliability of upgrade path to Media in core
Still open « Could have »
– Improve automatic tests
– Core fails on absent column revision_uid
– Image type : convert file source field into file sources during
migrate
– Token relacement for media
● Media: Migration integration Stable migration path
– Core File and Image fields ==> media reference fields
● Smoother transition for the contrib ecosystem
– Should ensure that ports are unblocked

Alexandre Todorov
Media Essentials (8.6+, Standard profile)
● Encourage entity reference fields to Media entities
instead of File / Image fields, but leave the last one untouched
– Create file field widget on top of media entity
[module will be shown through the UI]
– remote media assets as first-class citizens
[experimental core] Media source plugin via oEmbed :
format for embedding of a URL on third party sites
● Support WYSIWYG embedding of entities other than files
[stable core]
● [META] Create an MVP for adding and re-using Media
[experimental core]
● [Draft] Proposed product goals for Drupal 8.5/8.6(+) core

Alexandre Todorov
Media Extras (contrib ecosystem)
● Media bundles « media_entity_* »
– Image, Document : In core
– Audio, Video : 8.x-2.0-alpha1 for media core
– D8 eary history : file_entity bundles & formatters (image,
audio, video, document)
● URL Embed : Any website supporting the oEmbed protocol, but
not limited to
● Video Embed Field (8.x-2.0 for media core)
– video_embed_* or media_entity_* remote providers ?
● Entity Embed (WYSiWYG)
– Use a browser when embedding

Alexandre Todorov
Media Extras (contrib ecosystem)
● Entity Browser : 8.x-2.0-alpha2 for media core
– Views for medias selection
– Dropzonejs : 8.x-2.0-alpha3 for media core
« file » and « media entity image » upload
● Media Entity Browser : 8.x-2.0-alpha1 for media core
– Inspired from File Entity Browser
● Crop API : 8.x-2.0-rc1 for media core
– Image widget crop : Uses the Cropper library
– Focal Point : Specify the important portion of the image
● Field Formatter : Only a specific field of the referenced entity
● Fallback Formatter : The first one that returns output wins

Drupal & Drink Montpellier "Medias in drupal 8"

More Related Content

Similar to Drupal & Drink Montpellier "Medias in drupal 8" (20)

Recently uploaded (20)

Drupal & Drink Montpellier "Medias in drupal 8"