changed_fields
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API for developers that allows reacting on changed fields in a node (any entity since 8.x-3.x) when the node has been updated. It includes two demo modules: changed_fields_basic_usage and changed_fields_extended_field_comparator.
Use cases
- You use services and services_client modules to deploy nodes on different sites and you want to avoid false positive requests (when node saved but nothing changed inside the node)
- You want to modify node object depends on changed fields values.
- You want to know which fields have been changed before node would be saved
- Some other useful things
Supported field types for Drupal 8/9/10/11
All core's field types
Usage for Drupal 8/9/10/11
Please consider this Changed Fields API Drupal 8 usage guide.
What's new in 8.x-3.x?
- Drupal 11 compatible (since 8.x-3.7 release)
- Drupal 10 compatible (since 8.x-3.5 release)
- Drupal 9 compatible (since 8.x-3.4 release)
- Any Drupal 8/9/10/11 entity support!
- Class
NodeSubjectis replaced by more genericEntitySubjectclass.
Please see detailed description here.
Supported field types for Drupal 7
All core's field types
Additional field types:
- date (date module)
- datestamp (date module)
- datetime (date module)
- phone (phone module)
- email (email module)
- link_field (link module)
- entityreference (entityreference module)
- field_collection (field_collection module)
Usage for Drupal 7
Please consider this Changed Fields API Drupal 7 usage guide.
Difference between 7.x-2.x and 7.x-3.x branches
- Branches are not compatible.
7.x-3.xis built onspl interfacesinstead of custom ones.- In
7.x-3.xyou can define different observers with different observable bundles and its fields. In7.x-2.xall the attached observers could observe only that bundles and its fields that were defined in subject object.
If you already use 7.x-2.x and you don't need new feature then you can stay on this version. If you haven't used this module yet but want to use it then install 7.x-3.x version.
Please see detailed description here.