Yesterday, I found myself trying to update a package (SimpleSAMLphp) using Composer from version 1 to 2 because of a security issue in one of the v1 dependencies.
Sadly, tears resulted and these notes:
Here’s something… funny aka painful.
I tried to take a shortcut in determining a dynamic permission for a workflow by just looking at the names of the classes on the permssions page and I saw this:
Before I wrote this code the “documentation” on this was in one of the two treasure troves (the other being the actual Drupal code itself) of the change records, specifically Write update functions for entity schema updates, automation removed.
As often happens the change record didn’t quite cover what I wanted to do and it specifically didn’t mention a couple of mind bending gotchas.
