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Drupal

How to programmatically load a View?

sea26.2

10/23/22, 1:24 AM

I have created a View that I want to fetch the output from within a module. On drupal.org, the latest recommendation seems to be

$entity = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()->getStorage($entity_type)->load(1)

So, this is my code.

/** @var \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityTypeManagerInterface $entity_type_manager */
$view = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()
  ->getStorage('view')
  ->load($view_id);
$view->getDisplay('latest_blog');

It seems to be getting me very close - in debug, I'm seeing properties that clearly indicate I'm getting the object.

Am I on the right track and just missing one little piece? Loading a taxonomy term, or a node is easy. But this View thing is stumping me and I can't find anything much beyond the old Drupal 7 way of doing this.

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Les Lim

10/23/22, 1:46 AM

Getting the output of an entity is probably rendering the entity. Generally, *loading* is used to only mean *fetching an entity from its storage*.

sea26.2

10/23/22, 1:53 AM

@LesLim I disagree... A search for that (which I did, incidentally) will show how to "render" the view. That is not what I want. The answer using the same context yields the results I would expect for a node. The same, it seems, should apply to a View.

Les Lim

10/23/22, 3:10 AM

Then I suppose I'm not sure what you're expecting to see on the loaded entity, that you're not seeing.

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4uk4

10/23/22, 6:29 AM

You probably want to load a ViewExecutable:

class ViewExecutable

Represents a view as a whole.

An object to contain all of the data to generate a view, plus the member functions to build the view query, execute the query and render the output.

$executable = $view->getExecutable();

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sea26.2

10/23/22, 3:27 PM

Thank you @4x4. I dug around core and also found that. My working code that produces the resulting node from the query is this.

  $view = \Drupal::entityTypeManager()
    ->getStorage('view')
    ->load($view_id)
    ->getExecutable();

  // Get the NID from the View result.
  $view->initDisplay();
  $view->setDisplay('latest_blog');
  $view->execute();
  $result = $view->result;

With the NID from that, we can easily get the path - which was what I needed.

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No Sssweat

11/17/22, 9:24 AM

If you just wanted to the result, a little shortcut [views_get_view_result](https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/core%21modules%21views%21views.module/function/views_get_view_result/9.3.x)