Receiving Access Denied with altered CRUD paths in ECK

Question

I have altered the CRUD paths for entity types and bundles created with Entity Construction Kit. The change propogates correctly, all views which use the ECK provided views fields (Link, Edit, Delete) are now using the correct URL.

The issue is when trying to hit those URL's, the page is always access denied. What I have found in my troubleshooting:

1. The menu is built within eck.entity.inc. I have used the following test code, inserted at line #93

   if ($bundle->name == 'inventory_item' && $action_label == 'Edit') {
     print_r($access_args);
     die();
   }
   // result = Array ( [0] => edit [1] => inventory_item [2] => inventory_item [3] => 5 )
   

   Note that the $access_args does contain the correct entity id (index 3 in the result array).

2. The menu access callback is eck__entity_menu_access() which is found in eck.module and I have included the following there, inserted at line 762:

   if ($action == 'edit' && $bundle_name == 'inventory_item') {
     print_r(func_get_args());die();
   }
   // result = Array ( [0] => edit [1] => inventory_item [2] => inventory_item [3] => )
   

   Note that index 3 ($entity_id) is null now.

I can't figure out where the entity id is lost. I don't think it matters, but I did check the loader, eckentity_load() and it is loading the correct entity.

Any ideas why the entity id is not making it to the access callback?

Answer 1

It would be helpful to see an example of an original ECK path (for a single entity), and then your updated one. If you re-arranged the arguments, or changed their quantity, the access arguments passed to the access callback will not be correct.

You will almost certainly need to implement hook_menu_alter to update the access arguments property of ECK paths.