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Adds support for creating & injecting view presenters on top of entity classes

Why?

Presenters are a principle taken from Model-view-presenter, a software design pattern similar to Model-view-controller. We use it to transform data before displaying it. Some example use cases:

• Concatenating names and prefixes/suffixes into a person's full title
• Displaying a fallback image in case an image field is empty
• Converting a set of opening hours to a format that's easier to consume in Twig

Installation

This package requires PHP 7.1 and Drupal 8 or higher. It can be installed using Composer:

 composer require wieni/wmpresenter

How does it work?

Creating presenters

Presenter classes should implement PresenterInterface.

AbstractPresenter is the recommended base class, it provides magic methods allowing you to call methods of the entity class directly on the presenter class. The @mixin docblock can be used to tell IDE's about this behaviour. The @property docblock can be used if you don't like magic and prefer to call the entity's methods directly on the entity.

<?php

namespace Drupal\wmcustom\Entity\Presenter\Node;

use Drupal\wmcustom\Entity\Model\Node\Page as PageModel;
use Drupal\wmpresenter\Entity\AbstractPresenter;

/**
 * @mixin PageModel
 * @property PageModel $entity
 */
class Page extends AbstractPresenter
{
}

Presenters should be registered as services. It's important to set shared: false on the presenter service, otherwise all presenters of the same type will work with the same entity.

Presenters can be assigned to entities by making the entity class implement HasPresenterInterface. The getPresenterService method should return the presenter service ID.

Entities having presenters don't have to implement EntityInterface. Any class can be used.

Automatically injecting presenters

Entities are automatically converted to their presenter counterparts when including them in a Twig template. Some examples:

• The entity is passed as argument to the view method of wmcontroller controllers.
• The entity is passed to other Twig components using functionalities like include or embed.

Manually loading presenters

In code, presenters can be loaded using PresenterFactoryInterface::getPresenterForEntity.

In Twig, presenters can be loaded by passing the entity through the p or presenter filters. When passing an array of entities, all entities will be converted to their presenter counterparts.

Twig\Sandbox\SecurityError: Calling method on a <presenter> object is not allowed

Twig has a whitelist feature that prevent people from calling methods on unknown classes in Twig templates. In order to allow you to use presenters in Twig templates, you'll have to change the whitelist by adding the following to your settings.php:

$settings['twig_sandbox_whitelisted_classes'] = [
    \Drupal\wmpresenter\Entity\PresenterInterface::class,
];

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in the CHANGELOG file.

Security

If you discover any security-related issues, please email security@wieni.be instead of using the issue tracker.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.