weitzman/drupal-config_import_n

proof of concept hook_post_config_import_NAME module

Config Import N

Introduction

Drupal core has a hook_update_N() mechanism with which developers can fix the database. But often we also want to abuse it to deploy other changes. This can lead to the situation that we would like to import the configuration before running the update hooks. But this is a very bad idea and will not be possible in the future.

This module introduces two new hooks which should be intuitive to use: hook_pre_config_import_NAME and hook_pre_config_import_NAME.

The functions are defined in a file called <module>.pre_config_import.php and <module>.post_config_import.php respectively, analogous to post_update hooks. In fact this module uses cores classes to detect and load the functions.

Each function will be run once before or after the configuration import. A