No warning before referenced image is deleted (softref not working correctly?)

[biedert]

Question Maybe I misunderstood the purpose of the RteImageSoftReferenceParser, but my expectation would be to get a warning when I try to delete an image which is referenced in a tt_content element with an image reference in the bodytext field. At least in my fresh installation of TYPO3 11.5 with rte_ckeditor_image installed, this is not the case. Am I missing something here?

Environment

• TYPO3 version: 11.5.13
• PHP version: 8.0
• Extension version: 11.0.11

Documentation Have you checked the readme/documentation?

• [x] Yes, but I couldn't find anything helpful

[Patta]

I can confirm, that image reference is not working anymore. counter is 0. a warning log i written: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 14:20:12 +0200 [WARNING] request="0487ed6f1fbbe" component="TYPO3.CMS.Core.DataHandling.SoftReference.SoftReferenceParserFactory": No soft reference parser exists for the key "images". - {"parserKey":"images"}

[magicsunday]

I just tried this with version 11.0.13.

After adding an image in the RTE editor and saving it:

A new entry should appear in the "sys_refindex" table. Filter the “softref_key” column for “rtehtmlarea_images” for instance.

When I try to delete the image via the backend, I get the following warning:

[Gitsko]

@biedert. @Patta can you please check if the problem still exists with the current version ? (v11.014)

[sypets]

After saving an element, the reference index should be updated automatically. You can check this by

1. Looking in the file list - in the right column, the number of references is displayed und you can also click on it to get details

2. (or) check table sys_refindex

I have noticed 2 problems so far with images inserted with rte_ckeditor_image and references:

1. Saving the reference index did not always work. I think this should be fixed, not sure. (I am using a patched version, which works in TYPO3 v11). Ideally test with latest release!
2. If you are using images in other RTE fields besides tt_content.bodytext: The softref parser'rtehtmlarea_images'must be added to the softref field in the TCA for all affected fields. (If the fields are enabling images to be inserted depends on your RTE configuration, so only necessary to do this where you need it). This is up to you to configure, it will not work out of the box! If you do not do this, the references will not be saved AFAIK.

e.g. Configuration/TCA/Overrides/tx_news_domain_model_news.php:

$softref = explode(',', $GLOBALS['TCA']['tx_news_domain_model_news']['columns']['bodytext']['config']['softref'] ?? '');
    if (!in_array('rtehtmlarea_images', $softref, true)) {
        $softref[] = 'rtehtmlarea_images';
        $GLOBALS['TCA']['tx_news_domain_model_news']['columns']['bodytext']['config']['softref'] = implode(',', $softref);
    }

You can also compare Configuration/TCA/Overrides/tt_content in rte_ckeditor_image.

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If you have the possibility to debug, try setting a breakpoint in RteImageSoftReferenceParser::parse and findImageTags

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Related issue: https://github.com/netresearch/t3x-rte_ckeditor_image/issues/45

[Patta]

@Gitsko this issue is solved for me, yes. update the softref tca as @sypets explained, also fixed this issue with third party extensions.