Parent field entity in plugin interface
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<p>I don't think this was being done before, but might have missed it.</p>
<p>I've made a few settings plugins for my own use cases, things like 'sticky to top' and 'hide exposed form' etc, having the plugin interface is really good.</p>
<p>I found adding the parent field to the view very handy. From there you can get parent entity, which in my case is a paragraph, and therefore all the other sibling fields. This data/context can be useful.</p>
<p>I added :</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #DD0000">'field' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$item</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>to</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br> $view</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">element</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'#viewsreference'</span><span style="color: #007700">] = [<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'field' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$item</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'data' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$data</span><span style="color: #007700">,<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'enabled_settings' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">array_filter</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$this</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getFieldSetting</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'enabled_settings'</span><span style="color: #007700">)),<br> ];<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>in viewsreference/src/Plugin/Field/FieldFormatter/ViewsReferenceFieldFormatter.php</p>
<p>This allows me to access the parent field and entity in my plugin's <code>alterView</code> function using :</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br> $parent </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$view</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">element</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'#viewsreference'</span><span style="color: #007700">][</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'field'</span><span style="color: #007700">]-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">getEntity</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
<p>I've attached a patch that I'm applying to the "2.x-dev" version in composer.</p>
<p>Might be useful to someone else.</p>
>>> [!note] Pre-migration files
- [viewsreference\_add\_field\_to\_element.patch](https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/2019-10-29/viewsreference_add_field_to_element.patch)
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