Add isRawAttribute to entity config

packages/core-data/src/entities.js

@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ import { STORE_NAME } from './name';
 
 export const DEFAULT_ENTITY_KEY = 'id';
 
+const POST_RAW_ATTRIBUTES = [ 'title', 'excerpt', 'content' ];
+
 export const defaultEntities = [
 	{
 		label: __( 'Base' ),
@@ -41,6 +43,7 @@ export const defaultEntities = [
 		key: 'slug',
 		baseURL: '/wp/v2/types',
 		baseURLParams: { context: 'edit' },
+		rawAttributes: POST_RAW_ATTRIBUTES,
 	},
 	{
 		name: 'media',
@@ -184,6 +187,7 @@ function* loadPostTypeEntities() {
 				selection: true,
 			},
 			mergedEdits: { meta: true },
+			rawAttributes: POST_RAW_ATTRIBUTES,
 			getTitle: ( record ) =>
 				record?.title?.rendered ||
 				record?.title ||

packages/core-data/src/selectors.js

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import deprecated from '@wordpress/deprecated';
 import { STORE_NAME } from './name';
 import { getQueriedItems } from './queried-data';
 import { DEFAULT_ENTITY_KEY } from './entities';
-import { getNormalizedCommaSeparable } from './utils';
+import { getNormalizedCommaSeparable, isRawAttribute } from './utils';
 
 /**
  * Shared reference to an empty array for cases where it is important to avoid
@@ -205,14 +205,18 @@ export const getRawEntityRecord = createSelector(
 		return (
 			record &&
 			Object.keys( record ).reduce( ( accumulator, _key ) => {
-				// Because edits are the "raw" attribute values,
-				// we return those from record selectors to make rendering,
-				// comparisons, and joins with edits easier.
-				accumulator[ _key ] = get(
-					record[ _key ],
-					'raw',
-					record[ _key ]
-				);
+				if ( isRawAttribute( getEntity( state, kind, name ), _key ) ) {
+					// Because edits are the "raw" attribute values,
+					// we return those from record selectors to make rendering,
+					// comparisons, and joins with edits easier.
+					accumulator[ _key ] = get(
+						record[ _key ],
+						'raw',
+						record[ _key ]
+					);
+				} else {
+					accumulator[ _key ] = record[ _key ];
+				}
 				return accumulator;
 			}, {} )
 		);

packages/core-data/src/test/selectors.js

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import {
 	__experimentalGetEntityRecordNoResolver,
 	hasEntityRecords,
 	getEntityRecords,
+	getRawEntityRecord,
 	__experimentalGetDirtyEntityRecords,
 	__experimentalGetEntitiesBeingSaved,
 	getEntityRecordNonTransientEdits,
@@ -204,6 +205,76 @@ describe( 'hasEntityRecords', () => {
 	} );
 } );
 
+describe( 'getRawEntityRecord', () => {
+	const data = {
+		someKind: {
+			someName: {
+				queriedData: {
+					items: {
+						default: {
+							post: {
+								title: {
+									raw: { html: '<h1>post</h1>' },
+									rendered:
+										'<div id="post"><h1>rendered post</h1></div>',
+								},
+							},
+						},
+					},
+					itemIsComplete: {
+						default: {
+							post: true,
+						},
+					},
+					queries: {},
+				},
+			},
+		},
+	};
+	it( 'should preserve the structure of `raw` field by default', () => {
+		const state = deepFreeze( {
+			entities: {
+				config: [
+					{
+						kind: 'someKind',
+						name: 'someName',
+					},
+				],
+				data: { ...data },
+			},
+		} );
+		expect(
+			getRawEntityRecord( state, 'someKind', 'someName', 'post' )
+		).toEqual( {
+			title: {
+				raw: { html: '<h1>post</h1>' },
+				rendered: '<div id="post"><h1>rendered post</h1></div>',
+			},
+		} );
+	} );
+	it( 'should flatten the structure of `raw` field for entities configured with rawAttributes', () => {
+		const state = deepFreeze( {
+			entities: {
+				config: [
+					{
+						kind: 'someKind',
+						name: 'someName',
+						rawAttributes: [ 'title' ],
+					},
+				],
+				data: { ...data },
+			},
+		} );
+		expect(
+			getRawEntityRecord( state, 'someKind', 'someName', 'post' )
+		).toEqual( {
+			title: {
+				html: '<h1>post</h1>',
+			},
+		} );
+	} );
+} );
+
 describe( 'getEntityRecords', () => {
 	it( 'should return null by default', () => {
 		const state = deepFreeze( {

packages/core-data/src/utils/index.js

@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ export { default as ifNotResolved } from './if-not-resolved';
 export { default as onSubKey } from './on-sub-key';
 export { default as replaceAction } from './replace-action';
 export { default as withWeakMapCache } from './with-weak-map-cache';
+export { default as isRawAttribute } from './is-raw-attribute';

packages/core-data/src/utils/is-raw-attribute.js

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+/**
+ * Checks whether the attribute is a "raw" attribute or not.
+ *
+ * @param {Object} entity    Entity data.
+ * @param {string} attribute Attribute name.
+ *
+ * @return {boolean} Is the attribute raw
+ */
+export default function isRawAttribute( entity, attribute ) {
+	return ( entity.rawAttributes || [] ).includes( attribute );
+}

packages/core-data/src/utils/test/is-raw-attribute.js

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/**
+ * Internal dependencies
+ */
+import { isRawAttribute } from '../';
+
+describe( 'isRawAttribute', () => {
+	it( 'should correctly assess that the attribute is not raw', () => {
+		const entity = {
+			kind: 'someKind',
+			name: 'someName',
+		};
+		expect( isRawAttribute( entity, 'title' ) ).toBe( false );
+	} );
+	it( 'should correctly assess that the attribute is raw', () => {
+		const entity = {
+			kind: 'someKind',
+			name: 'someName',
+			rawAttributes: [ 'title' ],
+		};
+		expect( isRawAttribute( entity, 'title' ) ).toBe( true );
+	} );
+} );

packages/editor/src/components/provider/index.native.js

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ const postTypeEntities = [
 	mergedEdits: {
 		meta: true,
 	},
+	rawAttributes: [ 'title', 'excerpt', 'content' ],
 } ) );
 import { EditorHelpTopics } from '@wordpress/editor';