Update Alias Programmatically

Question

I have a large website with 240 urls that need to be updated. I would like to do this programmatically to avoid making errors. I created the following function which seems to work. There seems to be a good bit of complexity here for what I am trying to accomplish. Is there a simplier way to update the url of a node?

function alias_replace($path, $lang, $new_alias) {

  $path_alias_manager = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('path_alias');

  $alias_objects = $path_alias_manager->loadByProperties([
    'path'     => $path,
    'langcode' => $lang
  ]);
  
  foreach($alias_objects as $alias_object) {
    $alias_object->delete();
  }

  $path_alias_manager->create([
    'path'     => $path,
    'alias'    => $new_alias,
    'langcode' => $lang
  ])->save();

}

Answer 1

A slightly simpler way I found is that you don't need to delete and create the alias object as you can just update its object properties in place with ->save() like this:

function alias_replace($path, $lang, $new_alias) {

  $path_alias_manager = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage('path_alias');

  $alias_objects = $path_alias_manager->loadByProperties([
    'path'     => $path,
    'langcode' => $lang
  ]);
  
  foreach($alias_objects as $alias_object) {
    $alias_object->alias = $new_alias;
    $alias_object->save();
  }
}