Imagine the following menu structure:

• Page 1 type: article
• Page 2 comes from a view
  • Page 3 type: desirable < want this
    • Page 4 type: random
      • Page 5 type: random
• Page 6 type: article

Lets say I’m on Page 5. I want to know if any parent menu item’s node has the content type desirable.

I got a menu item id menu_link_content:uuid for Page 5. My current approach is the following:

<?php  $values['menu_parent'] = 'main:menu_link_content:uuid'; list($menuName, $entityName, $uuid) = explode(':', $values['menu_parent'], 3); $menuLinkManager = Drupal::service('plugin.manager.menu.link'); $parents = $menuLinkManager->getParentIds($entityName . ':' . $uuid);  foreach ($parents as $parentPluginId) {    $mlc_ids = Drupal::database()     ->select('menu_tree', 'mt')     ->fields('mt', ['route_param_key'])     ->condition('route_name', 'entity.node.canonical')     ->condition('id', $parentPluginId)     ->execute()     ->fetchCol();    // menu_tree gives back node=nid   if ($mlc_id && strpos($mlc_id, 'node=') !== false) {     // split node=nid into separate values     list($entityString, $nid) = explode("=", $mlc_id, 2);      // load the respective node and see if it is a project     $parentNode = Drupal::entityManager()->getStorage('node')->load($nid);      if ($parentNode) {       $parentType = $parentNode->getType();        // we found the parent project node       if ('project' == $parentType) {         $node->set('field_project_ref', $nid);         $node->save();         drupal_set_message(           t("The content was automatically added a project reference due to it's parent menu items."),           'status'         );          break;       }     }   } } 

So I would go on and load the node if the database statement found something and check the node type etc. I just wonder if there was a more performant/ better, out of the box way of doing that?

Something like

$menuLinkContent->getTargetEntity()->getType() 

or

entityManager()->loadEntityFromMenu() 

would be nice.