Issue #3372097 by srishtiiee, lauriii, larowlan, longwave, tedbow: Consider...

plain_text:

  label: 'Plain text'

  description: 'Text field that does not support markup.'

  weight: -50

number:

  label: 'Number'

  description: 'Field to store number. I.e. id, price, or quantity.'

  weight: -40

reference:

  label: 'Reference'

  description: 'Field to reference other content.'

  weight: -30

date_time:

  label: 'Date and time'

  description: 'Field to store date and time values.'

  weight: -10

general:

  class: \Drupal\Core\Field\FallbackFieldTypeCategory

  Drupal\Core\Block\BlockManagerInterface: '@plugin.manager.block'

  plugin.manager.field.field_type:

    class: Drupal\Core\Field\FieldTypePluginManager

    arguments: ['@container.namespaces', '@cache.discovery', '@module_handler', '@typed_data_manager']

    arguments: ['@container.namespaces', '@cache.discovery', '@module_handler', '@typed_data_manager', '@plugin.manager.field.field_type_category']

  Drupal\Core\Field\FieldTypePluginManagerInterface: '@plugin.manager.field.field_type'

  plugin.manager.field.field_type_category:

    class: \Drupal\Core\Field\FieldTypeCategoryManager

    arguments: [ '%app.root%', '@module_handler', '@cache.discovery' ]

  Drupal\Core\Field\FieldTypeCategoryManagerInterface: '@plugin.manager.field.field_type_category'

  plugin.manager.field.widget:

    class: Drupal\Core\Field\WidgetPluginManager

    arguments: ['@container.namespaces', '@cache.discovery', '@module_handler', '@plugin.manager.field.field_type']

<?php

namespace Drupal\Core\Field;

/**

 * Fallback plugin class for FieldTypeCategoryManager.

 */

class FallbackFieldTypeCategory extends FieldTypeCategory {

  /**

   * {@inheritdoc}

   */

  public function __construct(array $configuration) {

    $plugin_definition = [

      'label' => $configuration['label'] ?? '',

      'description' => $configuration['description'] ?? '',

      'weight' => $configuration['weight'] ?? 0,

    ];

    parent::__construct($configuration, $configuration['unique_identifier'], $plugin_definition);

  }

}

<?php

namespace Drupal\Core\Field;

use Drupal\Core\Plugin\PluginBase;

use Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\TranslatableMarkup;

/**

 * Default object used for field_type_categories plugins.

 *

 * @see \Drupal\Core\Field\FieldTypeCategoryManager

 */

class FieldTypeCategory extends PluginBase implements FieldTypeCategoryInterface {

  /**

   * {@inheritdoc}

   */

  public function getLabel(): TranslatableMarkup {

    return $this->pluginDefinition['label'];

  }

  /**

   * {@inheritdoc}

   */

  public function getDescription(): TranslatableMarkup {

    return $this->pluginDefinition['description'];

  }

  /**

   * {@inheritdoc}

   */

  public function getWeight(): int {

    return $this->pluginDefinition['weight'];

  }

}

<?php

namespace Drupal\Core\Field;

use Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\TranslatableMarkup;

/**

 * Provides an object that returns the category info about the field type.

 */

interface FieldTypeCategoryInterface {

  /**

   * Returns the field group label.

   *

   * @return \Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\TranslatableMarkup

   *   The category label.

   */

  public function getLabel(): TranslatableMarkup;

  /**

   * Returns the field group description.

   *

   * @return \Drupal\Core\StringTranslation\TranslatableMarkup

   *   The category description.

   */

  public function getDescription(): TranslatableMarkup;

  /**

   * Returns the field group weight.

   *

   * @return int

   *   The weight.

   */

  public function getWeight(): int;

}