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I have a custom block building a menu. The cache works fine until a menu item is enabled/disabled in the menu edit, e.g.

admin/structure/menu/manage/main toggle the enabled checkbox and save.

The block does not reflect changes until the cache is cleared.

I have:

            '#cache' => [
                'tags' => [
                    'node_list'
                ],
                'contexts' => [
                    'url.path',
                ],
            ],

which picks up the url / menu text changes and also makes sure the block is valid for each node it is on [i.e. not showing the same block content on every node, but this node's version].

What tag do I need to make sure the cache is invalidated when menu item:enabled is toggled?

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You have to add the cache tag of the menu, in this case the main menu:

  '#cache' => [
    'tags' => [
      'config:system.menu.main',
      ...
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  • Hi @4k4, thank you for the answer. I had tried a few variations of that tag, for example, the last attempt I had was: config:system:menu.main - is there somewhere I can get the patterns for common tags? I looked at drupal.org/docs/8/api/cache-api/cache-tags and saw 'thing:identifier', but did not make the leap to the correct tag format.
    – ice70
    Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 11:00
  • Enable debugging of cacheable reponses and check the response headers in the browser F12 tools. You could for example place a core menu block on the page and see the cache tags added by this block.
    – 4uk4
    Commented Dec 18, 2018 at 11:12

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