Mike McCaffrey

Hmm... after digging into things a bit, it seems like the preview flag might just be set for all views ajax requests, and the problem is not in this module....

Wait, field groups have not been ported yet or merged into core? We should definitely get this done asap. @klonos Can we keep this ticket limited to the functionality provided...

@klonos I was just apologizing to you, since I was undoing the change that you made in adding Field Collection and Mulitfield to the issue title! But you are right,...

> The downsides are that database-storage is less accessible and visible than the file system for developers. Config files being easily accessible makes the entire operation of Backdrop seem more...

I agree. Despite my philosophical qualms, I've actually started using Entity Metadata Wrappers all the time in D7 since it is much easier to just call $entity->field_something->value() than $entity->field_something['und'][0]. However,...

Well, right now there is a 1-to-1 relationship between how the values are stored in the node and where they can be accessed as an array. As soon as you...

Yeah, and adding accessor functions wouldn't need to wait until 2.x.

The one downside with passing the field name into the accessor functions, is it would not allow for the chaining that is provided by Entity Metadata Wrappers, where you can...

It looks like the ContentEntityBase class in D8 provides similar get and set functions: https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core%21lib%21Drupal%21Core%21Entity%21ContentEntityBase.php/function/ContentEntityBase%3A%3Aget/8.2.x https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core!lib!Drupal!Core!Entity!ContentEntityBase.php/function/ContentEntityBase%3A%3Aset/8.2.x We should look at that class, and the FieldableEntityInterface it is inheriting from, to...

@klonos Shouldn't we not need the entity project, since @quicksketch integrated the Entity API functionality into core in #49?