Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.If using the normal 'Content' rows display plugin (on node views) that comes with the Views module (views/modules/node/views_plugin_row_node_view.inc), it has the following line in the plugin's render function:
$node->view = $this->view;
This is very useful as we can access it in hook_node_view(), template_preprocess_node(), etc.
However, when using the 'Rendered entity' row display, the View object isn't available on $node. In my particular case, I can't use the 'Content' display as the row style as I've a search api search index view. And before you ask, the particular manipulation of the node that I need to do in hook_node_view() or the theme layer, can't be done easily through a view mode - I need the View context.
Anyway, the attached patch adds in support for this.
Comments
Comment #1
stella commentedHere's another version of the patch as I missed making the same change to views/handlers/entity_views_handler_field_entity.inc for the 'show complete entity' field display handler.
Comment #2
alcroito commentedThis is a very important patch to have the context of the view in entity_view, so you can extract various fields in hook_entity_view, without doing additional queries and thus impacting performance.
Re-rolled the patch against latest HEAD.
Also reviewed, and it works!
Comment #3
fagoWhile this migth come handy, it is bad-practice to throw arbitrary stuff on the entity object. If you want to keep something for later I'd suggest setting it in the render array. Also, this could use a comment why we are doing it.
Comment #4
lwalley commentedAdded comments as suggested. I agree this is clumsy, but I'm not sure how else to pass the view object through to the render process so that it can be referenced during render of entity fields?