Views is a powerful and highly popular feature in most Drupal sites. For today’s blog post, we're going to look at how to create a Views Area plugin that will display sort links at the top of the page.
From time to time you may find you need to extend another module's plugins to add new functionality.
You may also find you need to alter the signature of the constructor in order to inject additional dependencies.
However plugin constructors are considered internal in Drupal's BC policy.
So how do you safely do this without introducing the risk of breakage if things change.
In this article we'll show you a quick trick learned from Search API module to avoid this issue.
