External Entities Multiple Storages

This module is now part of External Entities module v3. No further development will be done here (only security fixes for people still using External Entities v2 with this plugin).

Synopsis

Enables the combination of multiple data storage plugin for a same external entity type. Instead of building an external entity from a single external source, you can add as many sources as you want and may use a field value of a source as an identifier to load data from another source. It is also possible to override or not field values across sources and select which source can be updated when the external entity is edited.

Requirements

• External Entities
• Other external entity data source plugins

Recommended modules

• External Entities Wikibase plugin
• External Entities Database plugin
• External Entities Files plugin
• External Entities Image File (exif) Storage plugin
• External Entities TSV Files Storage plugin
• External Entities JSON Files Storage plugin
• External Entities Yaml Files Storage plugin
• External Entities XML Files Storage plugin
• External Entities Breeding API (BrAPI) plugin

Roadmap

• Improve documentation
• Stabilize code and add tests

Known problems

• XNTT Files Index generation does not work with multiple entities

Credits

The Alliance Bioversity - CIAT.