Provider for custom link type

LinkProvider services are used to resolve data for different types of internal links. The services are used in different parts of the system, including the Link content-type (see Link), the internal link plugin of the CKEditor and the <sulu-link> tag inside of twig-templates (see sulu-link).

The LinkProvider::preload method is responsible for resolving an array of LinkItem instances for the given arguments. Each LinkItem consists of the following properties:

• id

• title

• url

• published

Example

To register a LinkProvider service for a custom link type, you create a service that implements the LinkProviderInterface and tag it with the respective resource key: <tag name="sulu.link.provider" alias="{resourceKey}"/>

If the entities of the new link type should be selected via a list in the administration interface, the LinkProvider::getConfiguration method must return the configuration that is used for the list.

<?php

namespace AppBundle\Link;

use Sulu\Bundle\MarkupBundle\Markup\Link\LinkConfigurationBuilder;
use Sulu\Bundle\MarkupBundle\Markup\Link\LinkItem;
use Sulu\Bundle\MarkupBundle\Markup\Link\LinkProviderInterface;

class LinkProvider implements LinkProviderInterface
{
    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function getConfiguration()
    {
        return LinkConfigurationBuilder::create()
            ->setTitle($this->translator->trans('sulu_page.pages', [], 'admin'))
            ->setResourceKey('...') // the resourceKey of the entity that should be loaded
            ->setListAdapter('column_list')
            ->setDisplayProperties(['title'])
            ->setOverlayTitle($this->translator->trans('sulu_page.single_selection_overlay_title', [], 'admin'))
            ->setEmptyText($this->translator->trans('sulu_page.no_page_selected', [], 'admin'))
            ->setIcon('su-document')
            ->getLinkConfiguration();
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function preload(array $hrefs, $locale, $published = true)
    {
        if (0 === count($hrefs)) {
            return [];
        }

        $items = ...; // load items by id
        foreach ($items as $item) {
            $result[] = new LinkItem(...); // create link-item foreach item
        }

        return $result;
    }
}

If the entities of the new link type cannot be selected via a list, the LinkProvider::getConfiguration method of your service must return null and you need to register a custom overlay via the linkTypeRegistry Javascript service:

import linkTypeRegistry from 'sulu-admin-bundle/containers/Link/registries/linkTypeRegistry';

linkTypeRegistry.add('custom_resource_key', CustomLinkTypeOverlay, translate('app.custom_translation_key'));