Enhance your testing experience with the Migrate Default Content module

Our development process

• Install the project as our development workflow
• For that reason, we can't back up in a DB for content.
• But we need content for testing and QA

Installed site with no content

Installed site with content

Easy to use

• Developer oriented solution
• Use of Migrate API as our base
• Easy to create content
  drush migrate-import <content>
• Easy to remove content
  drush migrate-rollback <content>

Easy to maintain

• Plain text files for content (CSV and YAML atm)
• A new use case for a content is a new line in our text file
• New content for a new entity is a new file

History - Past

• On D7:
  • Bunch of YAML files for entity and field definitions
  • One CSV file for every YAML entity definition
  • Integration with:
    • Node, Comment, Menu, User
    • Organic Groups
    • Field Collection
    • EntityReference

History - Present

• On D8:
  • Content is on YAML files (or CSV atm)
  • Entity definitions are no longer necessary
  • Integration with all entities
  • Multilingual support

Architecture

• Based on Migrate API
• Data source files in a folder out of docroot (recommended)
• Attachments in /files folder
• Auto discovery fields for entities based on labels
• entity.bundle.yml

Simple example

node.page.yml

-
  title: Lorem ipsum
  uid: editor_test
  body:
    value: "
And this is all the lorem ipsum dolor text.
"
    summary: This is a summary
    format: basic_html
  field_attached_documents:
    - image1.png
    - doc2.pdf
  status: 1

Entity reference

node.article.yml

-
  title: This is an entity reference example
  uid: editor_test
  field_related:
    - Lorem ipsum
    - Another example
  field_keywords:
    - news
    - sports
  status: 1

Multilingual example

node.page.ca.yml

-
  title: Lorem ipsum CA text
  body:
    value: "
And this is all the catalan content lorem ipsum dolor text.
"
    summary: This is our CA summary
    format: basic_html
  translation_origin: Lorem ipsum

Roadmap

• Lightweight core
• JSON data source
• Paragraph integration
• UI