Revert a Drupal feature during deployment

November 14, 2010

To revert a features module during deployment, add an update hook and call features_revert with the name of the module and the component you want to revert.

function my_module_update_6001() {
 features_revert(array('my_module' => array('panels_mini')));
}

This will revert panels_mini in the features module called "my_module" when you run update.php

You can find the name of the components in the features .info file, as follows:

features[component][] = "name"

So for a mini panel called "my_mini_panel", the .info file would have this line:

features[panels_mini][] = "my_mini_panel"

Now once you have deployed your feature to a new server, you just need to run update.php. The feature will revert to its code version. You would do this if you have changed a feature in your development environment and re-exported to code.

Comments

Submitted by Cameron Tod (not verified) on Mon, 27/02/2012 - 18:05.

This is handy, thanks a lot! Here's a little utility function which makes it a bit easier to completely revert features in an update hook:

https://gist.github.com/1925886

Submitted by Blair Wadman on Sun, 04/03/2012 - 13:09.

Thanks for the link to your gist Cameron. Looks good, I'm sure I'll use it. There is also a Drush hook to revert all features, which is handy if you want to revert everything in a deployment/rebuild.

Submitted by Chris Archer (not verified) on Sat, 31/03/2012 - 16:05.

Hi,

I what location would this code go in?

Submitted by Blair Wadman on Fri, 13/04/2012 - 18:39.

In the .install file of a custom module