function hook_user_role_presave

7.x user.api.php hook_user_role_presave($role)

Inform other modules that a user role is about to be saved.

Modules implementing this hook can act on the user role object before it has been saved to the database.

Parameters

$role: A user role object.

See also

hook_user_role_insert()

hook_user_role_update()

Related topics

Hooks: Allow modules to interact with the Drupal core.

1 invocation of hook_user_role_presave()

user_role_save in drupal-7.x/modules/user/user.module: Save a user role to the database.

File

drupal-7.x/modules/user/user.api.php, line 400: Hooks provided by the User module.

Code

function hook_user_role_presave($role) {
  // Set a UUID for the user role if it doesn't already exist
  if (empty($role->uuid)) {
    $role->uuid = uuid_uuid();
  }
}