Add possibility to display machine name fields

And that's why it doesn't show up in a view or an Automatic Entity Label
+1 for this feature.

And to do this add the following to machine_name.module

/**
 * Implements hook_field_formatter_info()
 */
function machine_name_field_formatter_info(){
	return array(
			'machine_name_default' => array(
					'label' => t('Default'),
					'field types' => array('machine_name')));
}

/**
 * Implements hook_field_formatter_view().
 */
function machine_name_field_formatter_view($entity_type, $entity, $field, $instance, $langcode, $items, $display) {
	$element = array();
	switch($display['type']){
		case 'machine_name_default':
			// Taken from text.module
			foreach ($items as $delta => $item) {
				$element[$delta] = array('#markup' => strip_tags($item['value']));
			}
			break;
	}
	return $element;
}

I'll work on a patch when I'm on this again later this week. A much simpler workaround is using hook_field_formatter_info_alter to simply associate text_plain with 'machine_name' field types.

function MODULE_NAME_field_formatter_info_alter(&$info){
        if(!array_search('machine_name', $info['text_plain']['field types'])){
                $info['text_plain']['field types'][] = 'machine_name';
        }
}

This is needed for #1549276: Port default issue queue views to views 7.x-3.x.

Hi, I've upgraded to the dev version so that I can use this field formatter to render the machine name field. However, the formatter doesn't display, I assume because I already have the machine_name module installed before changing to the --dev version. I don't want to uninstall, because I will lose the machine name fields I've already setup. Is there a way to manually update the database to add the field formatter info?

For now I've added this snippit to the machine name module:

function machine_name_field_formatter_info_alter(&$info){
        if(!array_search('machine_name', $info['text_plain']['field types'])){
                $info['text_plain']['field types'][] = 'machine_name';
        }
}

However, I'm concerned that if the module ever gets updated this will be replaced and the field won't render. So, would like to get this sorted properly, since the dev version does register this formatter on install.

Cheers!