Entity::access

public Entity::access($operation, AccountInterface $account = NULL, $return_as_object = FALSE)

Checks data value access.

Parameters

string $operation: The operation to be performed.

\Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface $account: (optional) The user for which to check access, or NULL to check access for the current user. Defaults to NULL.

bool $return_as_object: (optional) Defaults to FALSE.

Return value

bool|\Drupal\Core\Access\AccessResultInterface The access result. Returns a boolean if $return_as_object is FALSE (this is the default) and otherwise an AccessResultInterface object. When a boolean is returned, the result of AccessInterface::isAllowed() is returned, i.e. TRUE means access is explicitly allowed, FALSE means access is either explicitly forbidden or "no opinion".

Overrides AccessibleInterface::access

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Entity/Entity.php, line 332

Class

Entity

Defines a base entity class.

Namespace

Drupal\Core\Entity

Code

public function access($operation, AccountInterface $account = NULL, $return_as_object = FALSE) {
  if ($operation == 'create') {
    return $this->entityManager()
      ->getAccessControlHandler($this->entityTypeId)
      ->createAccess($this->bundle(), $account, [], $return_as_object);
  }
  return $this->entityManager()
    ->getAccessControlHandler($this->entityTypeId)
    ->access($this, $operation, $account, $return_as_object);
}