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I am trying to use entity export to move existing entitys from a live to dev site. I tried the code below and it returned 

NULL int(1)
However, when I did a dump of the $node object, it did dump the object correctly, so I know that the entity exists

$query = new EntityFieldQuery(); $query ->entityCondition('entity_type', 'node') ->entityCondition('bundle', 'events') ->propertyCondition('status', 1) ->propertyOrderBy('created', 'DESC'); $result = $query->execute(); $nids = array_keys($result['node']); //var_dump($nids, 1); $node = node_load($nids[0]); var_dump($node,1); //dpm(entity_get_info()); $entity = entity_export('node', $node); var_dump($entity,1);
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The entity_export function comes with the following caveat:

Note: Currently, this only works for entity types provided with the entity CRUD API.

This means that if your entity type does not come with this, a call to entity_export() will return NULL.

This seems to be the case with node.

I am not sure, but I think the core team never got around to adding CRUD API to core entities.

If you inspect a node entity with dpm(), there is nothing. If you do:

 debug($node->delete, 'node->delete');

it prints NULL.

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  • I assumed that node would, as it comes with drupal core. Is this not the case? If not, is there a different way of exporting it? Commented Apr 2, 2014 at 16:48

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