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20 Aug 2025

How to Detect Entity Changes in Drupal the Right Way

The following code snippets should be compatible with Drupal 10+.

Challenges in detecting meaningful entity changes

One working with entities in Drupal answering of the following seemingly simple questions can pose a challange:

Has this entity meaningfully changed since its last revision? Has it changed meaningfully since it was last saved?

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