Update the text format and process the body field of existing nodes programmatically

Question

I am trying to resave a number of nodes to apply the text format changes to the body field. I’ve written a drush command to do this. The command does update the text format, but the text in the body field remains unprocessed.

public function saveNode() {
    $result = $this->entityTypeManager->getStorage('node');
    foreach ($result as $node) {
        $node->save();
      }
    }
  }

If I manually edit and save the node the text in the body field is correctly processed, but not when saved programmatically.

Notes: By "unprocessed" I mean the body field is still showing faulty HTML. If I manually edit and save the node the faulty HTML is fixed.

Answer 1

I’m not sure that I understand what you code is doing. Something like this might work.

$html_format = 'full_html';
$type = 'some_type';

$nodes = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()
            ->getStorage('node')
            ->loadByProperties([
                'type' => $type,
            ]);

foreach ($nodes as $node) {

    $current_body_data = $node->get('body')->getValue();
    $current_body_value = $current_body_data[0]['value'];

    $new_body_data = [
            'value' => $current_body_value,
            'format' => $html_format,
        ];
    
    $node->set('body', $new_body_data);

    $node->save();

}