Is it possible to create an action with derivatives?

Question

Is it possible to create an action in Drupal 8 and point it at a deriver class to generate them automatically?

For example with Custom Publishing Options I have a ConfigurableActionBase action that lets a user create an advanced action, select the publishing option and the value, and save the action.

Ideally, I would like to have a generic action derived from all existing publishing options so that admins don't have to create the action manually every time they add a new custom publishing option. Along with that, if they deleted the entity, I would want the action to be removed as well.

I was able to create a class extended DeriverBase and define plugin derivatives, but was having issues getting it to pick up in my class extending ActionBase with deriver set in the annotation. My example code is on my home laptop, will post it when I have a chance.

Answer 1

You've probably figured this out by now as this was asked in 2016, but you can indeed use a plug-in deriver to create actions. The part that trips people up (including myself) is that you also need to create an action config for Drupal to even list the action, as mentioned in this answer by mpp. I think there's some additional trickery that might be required to make it work with derivatives that I haven't figured out entirely yet.