function EntityReferenceFormatterBase::prepareView

Same name in other branches
  1. 9 core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/Plugin/Field/FieldFormatter/EntityReferenceFormatterBase.php \Drupal\Core\Field\Plugin\Field\FieldFormatter\EntityReferenceFormatterBase::prepareView()
  2. 8.9.x core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/Plugin/Field/FieldFormatter/EntityReferenceFormatterBase.php \Drupal\Core\Field\Plugin\Field\FieldFormatter\EntityReferenceFormatterBase::prepareView()
  3. 11.x core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/Plugin/Field/FieldFormatter/EntityReferenceFormatterBase.php \Drupal\Core\Field\Plugin\Field\FieldFormatter\EntityReferenceFormatterBase::prepareView()

Loads the entities referenced in that field across all the entities being viewed.

Overrides FormatterBase::prepareView

File

core/lib/Drupal/Core/Field/Plugin/Field/FieldFormatter/EntityReferenceFormatterBase.php, line 119

Class

EntityReferenceFormatterBase
Parent plugin for entity reference formatters.

Namespace

Drupal\Core\Field\Plugin\Field\FieldFormatter

Code

public function prepareView(array $entities_items) {
    // Collect entity IDs to load. For performance, we want to use a single
    // "multiple entity load" to load all the entities for the multiple
    // "entity reference item lists" being displayed. We thus cannot use
    // \Drupal\Core\Field\EntityReferenceFieldItemList::referencedEntities().
    $ids = [];
    foreach ($entities_items as $items) {
        foreach ($items as $item) {
            // To avoid trying to reload non-existent entities in
            // getEntitiesToView(), explicitly mark the items where $item->entity
            // contains a valid entity ready for display. All items are initialized
            // at FALSE.
            $item->_loaded = FALSE;
            if ($this->needsEntityLoad($item)) {
                $ids[] = $item->target_id;
            }
        }
    }
    if ($ids) {
        $target_type = $this->getFieldSetting('target_type');
        $target_entities = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage($target_type)
            ->loadMultiple($ids);
    }
    // For each item, pre-populate the loaded entity in $item->entity, and set
    // the 'loaded' flag.
    foreach ($entities_items as $items) {
        foreach ($items as $item) {
            if (isset($target_entities[$item->target_id])) {
                $item->entity = $target_entities[$item->target_id];
                $item->_loaded = TRUE;
            }
            elseif ($item->hasNewEntity()) {
                $item->_loaded = TRUE;
            }
        }
    }
}

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