>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #3554660. --> Reported by: [pbabin](https://www.drupal.org/user/3603799) >>> <h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3> <p>I'm inquiry about a high-level challenge where I believe the issue lies with Crop API and its support of the JSON API; however, I need some additional information about how entity share registers that there is a change. </p> <p>If Crop Api added fields like 'changed' and 'created' how would Entity Share pick up that there is a change? I went down a little of rabbit hole today to do this but even after changing the schema to support these new fields and validating that these entries changed and were available in a json request when I went to pull the entity there was no registered change.</p> <p>This is on a content type where we embed media and then have crop api applied to the media.</p> <p>I eventually got this to work by using a custom entity update hook, but my gut makes me feel this is a hack rather than a Drupal way especially since the way I found depends on entity_usage.</p> <p>Should I be looking at a plugin or crop processor for Entity Share?</p> <p>Any feedback is greatly appreciated</p> <p>This is the hook that eventually got everything working.</p> <pre>/**<br> * Implements hook_entity_update().<br> */<br>function uclahs_custom_entity_update(EntityInterface $entity) {<br>&nbsp; if ($entity-&gt;getEntityTypeId() === 'crop') {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $uri = $entity-&gt;get('uri')-&gt;value;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (!$uri) {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // Load the file entity from the URI.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $files = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&gt;getStorage('file')<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&gt;loadByProperties(['uri' =&gt; $uri]);<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (empty($files)) {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; return;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $file = reset($files);<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // Get usages of the file.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $usages = \Drupal::service('file.usage')-&gt;listUsage($file);<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; foreach ($usages as $module =&gt; $usage) {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; foreach ($usage as $entity_type =&gt; $entities) {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; foreach ($entities as $entity_id =&gt; $count) {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $used_entity = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()-&gt;getStorage($entity_type)-&gt;load($entity_id);<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; // If the file is used in a Media entity, find where that Media entity is used.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if ($used_entity &amp;&amp; $used_entity-&gt;getEntityTypeId() === 'media') {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $referencing_entities = \Drupal::service('entity_usage.usage')-&gt;listSources($used_entity);<br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; foreach ($referencing_entities as $source_type =&gt; $source_ids) {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; foreach ($source_ids as $source_id =&gt; $records) {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $parent_entity = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()-&gt;getStorage($source_type)-&gt;load($source_id);<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if ($parent_entity &amp;&amp; $parent_entity-&gt;hasField('changed')) {<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $parent_entity-&gt;set('changed', \Drupal::time()-&gt;getRequestTime());<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; $parent_entity-&gt;save();<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \Drupal::logger('uclahs_custom')-&gt;notice('Updated parent entity from media usage: ' . $parent_entity-&gt;id());<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>&nbsp; }<br>}</pre>