Add ability to alter rows in xls export (#3370352) · Issues · project / xls_serialization

Add ability to alter rows in xls export

>>> [!note] Migrated issue   Reported by: [lubwn](https://www.drupal.org/user/3104239) Related to !50 >>> <h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3> I needed to alter individual rows, because xls_serialization module does not support hook_views_view_field() where all my alterations have been already made. So I borrowed solution from parent views_data_export module and added the hook to the code. <h3 id="summary-proposed-resolution">Proposed resolution</h3> I do not know how to write the patch so I will post the code here, if someone can create patch it would be highly appreciated! 1. File /xls_serialization/src/Plugin/views/style/ExcelExport.php Added render() function at the bottom of the file: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php /**    * {@inheritdoc}    */   public function render() {           // This is pretty close to the parent implementation.     // Difference (noted below) stems from not being able to get anything other     // than json rendered even when the display was set to export csv or xml.     $rows = [];     foreach ($this->view->result as $row_index => $row) {       $this->view->row_index = $row_index;       $output = $this->view->rowPlugin->render($row);       \Drupal::moduleHandler()->alter('xls_serialization_row', $output, $row, $this->view);       $rows[] = $output;     }     unset($this->view->row_index);     // Get the format configured in the display or fallback to json.     // We intentionally implement this different from the parent method because     // $this->displayHandler->getContentType() will always return json due to     // the request's header (i.e. "accept:application/json") and     // we want to be able to render csv or xml data as well in accordance with     // the data export format configured in the display.     $format = !empty($this->options['formats']) ? reset($this->options['formats']) : 'json';     return $this->serializer->serialize($rows, $format, ['views_style_plugin' => $this]);   } ?></pre></div> 2. Added new file xls_serialization.api.php where I put following code since hook_xls_serialization_row_alter() should now be available: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php /**  * @addtogroup hooks  * @{  */ function hook_xls_serialization_row_alter(&$row, \Drupal\views\ResultRow $result, \Drupal\views\ViewExecutable $view) {   if ($view->id() == 'my_view') {     $row['custom_field'] = my_function($result['nid']);   } } /**  * @} End of "addtogroup hooks".  */ ?></pre></div> What I am struggling with is cacheability of the hook. It looks like hook is being executed only once and the code is being cached. I guess this is not a problem since even row alterations should be cached in order to speed up the rendering process but it is pain to debug and work with. I was unable to remove caching though. I hope it helps someone in the future.

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