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+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\Core\Entity\Schema;
+
+use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface;
+use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeListenerInterface;
+
+/**
+ * Defines the interface for entity storage schema handler classes.
+ *
+ * An entity type's storage schema handler is responsible for creating the
+ * storage backend's schema that the entity type's storage handler needs for
+ * storing its entities. For example, if the storage handler is for a SQL
+ * backend, then the storage schema handler is responsible for creating the
+ * needed tables. During the application lifetime, an entity type's definition
+ * can change in a way that requires changes to the storage schema, so this
+ * interface defines methods for that as well.
+ *
+ * @see \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityStorageInterface
+ */
+interface EntityStorageSchemaInterface extends EntityTypeListenerInterface {
+
+ /**
+ * Checks if the changes to the entity type requires storage schema changes.
+ *
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface $entity_type
+ * The updated entity type definition.
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface $original
+ * The original entity type definition.
+ *
+ * @return bool
+ * TRUE if storage schema changes are required, FALSE otherwise.
+ */
+ public function requiresEntityStorageSchemaChanges(EntityTypeInterface $entity_type, EntityTypeInterface $original);
+
+ /**
+ * Checks if existing data would be lost if the schema changes were applied.
+ *
+ * If there are no schema changes needed, then no data needs to be migrated,
+ * but it is not the responsibility of this function to recheck what
+ * requiresEntityStorageSchemaChanges() checks. Rather, the meaning of what
+ * this function returns when requiresEntityStorageSchemaChanges() returns
+ * FALSE is undefined. Callers are expected to only call this function when
+ * requiresEntityStorageSchemaChanges() is TRUE.
+ *
+ * This function can return FALSE if any of these conditions apply:
+ * - There are no existing entities for the entity type.
+ * - There are existing entities, but the schema changes can be applied
+ * without losing their data (e.g., if the schema changes can be performed
+ * by altering tables rather than dropping and recreating them).
+ * - The only entity data that would be lost are ones that are not valid for
+ * the new definition (e.g., if changing an entity type from revisionable
+ * to non-revisionable, then it's okay to drop data for the non-default
+ * revision).
+ *
+ * When this function returns FALSE, site administrators will be unable to
+ * perform an automated update, and will instead need to perform a site
+ * migration or invoke some custom update process.
+ *
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface $entity_type
+ * The updated entity type definition.
+ * @param \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeInterface $original
+ * The original entity type definition.
+ *
+ * @return bool
+ * TRUE if data migration is required, FALSE otherwise.
+ *
+ * @see self::requiresEntityStorageSchemaChanges()
+ */
+ public function requiresEntityDataMigration(EntityTypeInterface $entity_type, EntityTypeInterface $original);
+
+}