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I am trying to use the deriver key in a migration yml to have dynamically build migrations for each bundle of an Entity Type (Drupal 9).

I read this and I am trying to use the deriver key to point to a Deriver class in my migration. However it seems that the deriver key is just ignored.

Is there something else that I need to do beside using the deriver key and create a deriver class that inherits from Drupal\Component\Plugin\Derivative\DeriverBase?

This is the migration yml:

id: person_roles
label: Import 
deriver: Drupal\my_module\PersonRoleImportDeriver
migration_group: my_group
source:
  plugin: url
  data_fetcher_plugin: http
  data_parser_plugin: xml
  urls: public://this.xml
  fields:
    -
      name: position_name
      label: person role name
      selector: funktion
  ids:
    position_name:
      type: string
destination:
  plugin: 'entity:my_entity'
process:
  name:
    -
      plugin: skip_on_empty
      method: row
      source: position_name
      message: 'Empty source person role'
    -
      plugin: make_unique_entity_field
      entity_type: my_entity
      migrated: true
      field: name

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It's a plugin, so you need to respect the plugin directory structure and namespace.

Your class should be in my_module/src/Plugin/migrate and have the namespace Drupal\my_module\Plugin\migrate.

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  • Hm, I think a Deriver is not a plugin? It has no annotation though. Anyway, if I put the Deriver in the plugin folder it still seems not get called. Feb 7, 2022 at 16:48
  • So your deriver class implements getDerivativeDefinitions() and that method never gets called?
    – Lambic
    Feb 7, 2022 at 16:55
  • Yes, that seems to be the problem. Feb 8, 2022 at 5:33
  • Not sure why that would be, I use the same pattern. Does your class include the MigrationDeriverTrait?
    – Lambic
    Feb 8, 2022 at 13:48
  • it seems its about where the config yml for the migration lives. If it lives in config/install folder the deriver will not get caught, but if it lives in the migrations folder it will work. The Deriver class itself could live anywhere in the namespace. I am just currently understanding the difference between config/install and migrations in that case. Feb 8, 2022 at 16:31

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