How to create automatic url alias for taxonomy/term/%tid/feed

Question

How can I set automatic URL aliases for taxonomy feeds?

Say I have a term with tid=1, named holidays, with a system URL of /taxonomy/term/1 that is accessible by the URL alias /holidays. Then I want the rss feed for that term to be accessible on the URL alias /holidays/feed or /holidays/rss.xml. That sounded rather easy when I first thought about it, but it seems that pathauto is not supporting that (or I missed it). I know I can create the alias manually, but given a number of X terms on the site, I'd rather use a pattern for automatic generation.

The only issues about this topic that I could find are both outdated:

• https://www.drupal.org/forum/support/post-installation/2011-08-12/change-rss-feed-link-taxonomyterm4feed-to-human-friendly
• https://www.drupal.org/project/path_alias_xt (Drupal 7 only)

Anything I missed or any contrib module I didn't see that provides this functionality?

Answer 1

Based on suggestions by @4k4 in the comments section of the question I have solved this problem by implementing a custom PathProcessor.

I'll share the bare minimum code for making this work in form of a custom module (called term_feed_alias for the purpose of this example) for which you need 3 files.

term_feed_alias.info.yml

name: 'Term feed alias'
description: 'Provides automatic aliases for taxonomy term feeds'
version: '8.x-1.0'
core_version_requirement: ^8.8 || ^9
type: module
dependencies:
  - 'path_alias:path_alias'

term_feed_alias.services.yml

services:
  term_feed_alias.path_processor:
    class: Drupal\term_feed_alias\PathProcessor\PathProcessorFeedAlias
    arguments: ['@path_alias.manager']
    tags:
      - { name: path_processor_inbound }
      - { name: path_processor_outbound }

The service tags can also receive a priority, see https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/api/services-and-dependency-injection/service-tags This might be needed to integrate the alias logic correctly with other services like translations for example. Also see first comment by @4k4.

scr/PathProcessorFeedAlias.php

<?php

namespace Drupal\term_feed_alias\PathProcessor;

use Drupal\Core\PathProcessor\InboundPathProcessorInterface;
use Drupal\Core\PathProcessor\OutboundPathProcessorInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Render\BubbleableMetadata;
use Drupal\path_alias\AliasManager;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

/**
 * Provide a path processor to handle aliases for taxonomy term feeds.
 */
class PathProcessorFeedAlias implements InboundPathProcessorInterface, OutboundPathProcessorInterface {

  /**
   * The alias manager that caches alias lookups based on the request.
   *
   * @var \Drupal\path_alias\AliasManager
   */
  protected $aliasManager;

  /**
   * Constructs a new PathProcessorFeedAlias instance.
   *
   * @param \Drupal\path_alias\AliasManager $alias_manager
   *   The alias manager.
   */
  public function __construct(AliasManager $alias_manager) {
    $this->aliasManager = $alias_manager;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function processInbound($path, Request $request) {
    $args = explode('/', trim($path, '/'));
    if (end($args) == 'feed') {
      array_pop($args);
      $system_path = $this->aliasManager->getPathByAlias('/' . implode('/', $args));
      return $system_path && strpos($system_path, '/taxonomy/term/') === 0 ? $system_path . '/feed' : $path;
    }
    return $path;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function processOutbound($path, &$options = [], Request $request = NULL, BubbleableMetadata $bubbleable_metadata = NULL) {
    $args = explode('/', ltrim($path, '/'));
    if ($args[0] == 'taxonomy' && $args[1] == 'term' && end($args) == 'feed') {
      array_pop($args);
      $alias = $this->aliasManager->getAliasByPath('/' . implode('/', $args));
      return '/' . $alias . '/feed';
    }

    return $path;
  }
}