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I have defined a config entity in my module (schema and class that extends ConfigEntityBase) - MyConfigEntity.
When I use config factory to get config, Drupal returns instance of Config or ImmutableConfig. How can I retrieve instance of MyConfigEntity instead?
$config = \Drupal::config('my_module.config.something');
// Now $config is instance of ImmutableConfig.
Retrieves a configuration object.
This is the main entry point to the configuration API.
The configuration API is a different system than the entity API.
$entity = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()
->getStorage('my_config_entity')
->load($id);
Configuration entity types should be used to store configurable content like content types or other site builder-esque things that you want to deploy from environment to environment that is not managed content (Something a content author would write).
If you're looking for a complex configuration object, then you should define that in config/mymodule.settings.yml and use the configuration API like in your question.
Check this out configFactory.
You just need to do:
\Drupal::configFactory()->getEditable('my_module.config.something');
