Derivative actions can be created for Media Use terms with no URI

[qadan]

I actually am not 100% sure what direction to go in with this, but here's the case:

• Create a Media Use term with no URI (since it's not a required field)
• Create a new, let's say 'Generate an image derivative' action
• In that new action, fill in either the Source Term or Derivative Term fields with the new Media Use
• Save the new action
• Edit the action; you'll see the Source Term or Derivative Term fields are empty

Reason it happens is simple enough; the form submit handler attempts an IslandoraUtils::getUriForTerm(), which just tosses back NULL with no complaint, and the submit handler accepts this and pops it back into the config.

Like I say, not 100% on the best way to handle this. Would be simplest to handle this in the validation handler for the form, but then you're placing a requirement on Media Use terms that Media Use terms themselves don't have. Could make the URI required in Media Use terms, but I expect that's not the case for a reason? Possibly to not strictly tie Media Use to PCDM? It also may be worth using the nullable property in stuff like the different action config schemata to ensure strict conformance

[qadan]

This actually brings up another issue; since actions aren't using uniquely identifiable properties for the terms, you're not actually guaranteed to get the correct term back. There's nothing enforcing unique URIs either; not sure this is a use case that would ever exist, but I dunno, would it not be more correct to store the term's ID in the action?

[seth-shaw-unlv]

@qadan, we use the URIs because they allow us to share the configs across repositories. We can't rely on a term having the same tid across Drupal instances, but we can rely on the URI since we define them with the term migration.

[ajstanley]

I've set up a set of actions that extend directly from EmitEvent instead of AbstractGenerateDerivative, that don't use Media Use tags at all. I select Entity Bundle and Media Source File Mimetype in the Context selection instead. For the use cases I was using at the time I found it to be more dependable since it doesn't require the user to enter the right tag on ingest.

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@qadan https://github.com/qadan, we use the URIs because they allow us to share the configs across repositories. We can't rely on a term having the same tid across Drupal instances, but we can rely on the URI since we define them with the term migration.

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[qadan]

So I guess the point then perhaps is that if those URIs are intended to be unique to terms, this isn't really enforced in any way or communicated through UI (i.e., with a 'required' field or with validation)? Currently the forms seem volatile, or at least don't communicate their intentions, or if things go south