As I mentioned in the section about Menus, menu links are stored hierarchically inside a menu. This hierarchy is represented via a menu link tree. There are a number of key players here.
We have the MenuLinkTree service, which is the interface used to load and prepare the tree of a certain menu. The loading is deferred to the MenuTreeStorage service, which does so on the basis of a MenuTreeParameters object that contains metadata on certain restrictions to be applied on the menu links that are loaded. We will see some examples of this a bit later.
What comes out of the MenuLinkTree service is an array of MenuLinkTreeElement that is essentially a value object that wraps around the MenuLinkInterface plugins and that provides ...
