Issue #1765046 by damiankloip, dawehner: Create a 'real table' property similar to real field.

lib/Drupal/views/Plugin/views/HandlerBase.php

@@ -120,6 +120,11 @@ public function init(&$view, &$options) {
       $this->table = $options['table'];
     }
 
+    // Allow alliases on both fields and tables.
+    if (isset($this->definition['real table'])) {
+      $this->table = $this->definition['real table'];
+    }
+
     if (isset($this->definition['real field'])) {
       $this->realField = $this->definition['real field'];
     }

lib/Drupal/views/Tests/Handler/HandlerAliasTest.php

+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Definition of Drupal\views\Tests\Handler\HandlerAliasTest.
+ */
+
+namespace Drupal\views\Tests\Handler;
+
+use Drupal\views\Tests\ViewTestBase;
+
+/**
+ * Tests abstract handlers of views.
+ */
+class HandlerAliasTest extends ViewTestBase {
+
+  public static function getInfo() {
+    return array(
+      'name' => 'Handler alias tests',
+      'description' => 'Tests handler table and field aliases.',
+      'group' => 'Views',
+    );
+  }
+
+  protected function setUp() {
+    parent::setUp();
+
+    // Create a new user for the 'real table'.
+    $this->user = $this->drupalCreateUser();
+
+    $this->enableViewsTestModule();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Overrides Drupal\views\Tests\ViewTestBase::viewsData().
+   */
+  protected function viewsData() {
+    $data = parent::viewsData();
+    // User the existing test_filter plugin.
+    $data['views_test_data_alias']['table']['real table'] = 'views_test_data';
+    $data['views_test_data_alias']['name_alias']['filter']['id'] = 'test_filter';
+    $data['views_test_data_alias']['name_alias']['filter']['real field'] = 'name';
+
+    return $data;
+  }
+
+  public function testPluginAliases() {
+    $view = views_get_view('test_filter');
+    $view->initDisplay();
+
+    // Change the filtering.
+    $view->display['default']->handler->overrideOption('filters', array(
+      'test_filter' => array(
+        'id' => 'test_filter',
+        'table' => 'views_test_data_alias',
+        'field' => 'name_alias',
+        'operator' => '=',
+        'value' => 'John',
+        'group' => 0,
+      ),
+    ));
+
+    $this->executeView($view);
+
+    $filter = $view->filter['test_filter'];
+
+    // Check the definition values are present.
+    $this->assertIdentical($filter->definition['real table'], 'views_test_data');
+    $this->assertIdentical($filter->definition['real field'], 'name');
+
+    $this->assertIdentical($filter->table, 'views_test_data');
+    $this->assertIdentical($filter->realField, 'name');
+
+    // Test an existing user uid field.
+    $view = views_get_view('test_alias');
+    $view->initDisplay();
+    $this->executeView($view);
+
+    $filter = $view->filter['uid_raw'];
+
+    $this->assertIdentical($filter->definition['real field'], 'uid');
+
+    $this->assertIdentical($filter->field, 'uid_raw');
+    $this->assertIdentical($filter->table, 'users');
+    $this->assertIdentical($filter->realField, 'uid');
+  }
+
+}

tests/views_test_config/config/views.view.test_alias.yml

+api_version: '3.0'
+base_table: users
+core: 8.0-dev
+description: ''
+disabled: '0'
+display:
+  default:
+    display_options:
+      access:
+        perm: 'access user profiles'
+        type: perm
+      cache:
+        type: none
+      exposed_form:
+        type: basic
+      fields:
+        name:
+          alter:
+            absolute: '0'
+            alter_text: '0'
+            ellipsis: '0'
+            html: '0'
+            make_link: '0'
+            strip_tags: '0'
+            trim: '0'
+            word_boundary: '0'
+          empty_zero: '0'
+          field: name
+          hide_empty: '0'
+          id: name
+          label: ''
+          link_to_user: '1'
+          overwrite_anonymous: '0'
+          table: users
+      filters:
+        uid_raw:
+          admin_label: ''
+          expose:
+            description: ''
+            identifier: ''
+            label: ''
+            multiple: '0'
+            operator: ''
+            operator_id: '0'
+            remember: '0'
+            remember_roles:
+              authenticated: authenticated
+            required: '0'
+            use_operator: '0'
+          exposed: '0'
+          field: uid_raw
+          group: '1'
+          group_info:
+            default_group: All
+            default_group_multiple: {  }
+            description: ''
+            group_items: {  }
+            identifier: ''
+            label: ''
+            multiple: '0'
+            optional: '1'
+            remember: '0'
+            widget: select
+          group_type: group
+          id: uid_raw
+          is_grouped: '0'
+          operator: '>'
+          relationship: none
+          table: users
+          value:
+            max: ''
+            min: ''
+            value: '1'
+      pager:
+        type: full
+      query:
+        type: views_query
+      row_plugin: fields
+      style_plugin: default
+    display_plugin: default
+    display_title: Master
+    id: default
+    position: '0'
+human_name: test_alias
+module: views
+name: test_alias
+tag: default
+uuid: 3bdfd3e6-15aa-4324-9005-5ad8b321d265

views.module

@@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ function views_get_handler($table, $field, $type, $override = NULL) {
     }
 
     $definition = $data[$field][$type];
-    foreach (array('group', 'title', 'title short', 'help', 'real field') as $key) {
+    foreach (array('group', 'title', 'title short', 'help', 'real field', 'real table') as $key) {
       if (!isset($definition[$key])) {
         // First check the field level
         if (!empty($data[$field][$key])) {