Support for Drupal 7 is ending on 5 January 2025—it’s time to migrate to Drupal 10! Learn about the many benefits of Drupal 10 and find migration tools in our resource center.I recently ran into this rather cryptic error message:
Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$_entity in Drupal\system\Plugin\views\row\EntityRow->pre_render() (line 123 of core/modules/system/lib/Drupal/system/Plugin/views/row/EntityRow.php).
In Drupal\system\Plugin\views\row\EntityRow:
public function pre_render($result) {
parent::pre_render($result);
if ($result) {
// Get all entities which will be used to render in rows.
$entities = array();
foreach ($result as $row) {
$entity = $row->_entity;
$entity->view = $this->view;
$entities[$entity->id()] = $entity;
}
// Prepare the render arrays for all rows.
$this->build = entity_view_multiple($entities, $this->options['view_mode']);
}
}
The initial value of $row->_entity is FALSE I believe, and if that's not populated with an entity by the time this code runs, the initial value of $entity is FALSE. What's crazy, is even if $entity is FALSE, $entity->view = $this->view will turn $entity into a stdClass.
Perhaps this is a symptom of a larger issue, but I'd think views could use more validation around this since this error message is always going to be confusing.
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tim.plunkettTagging
Comment #10
LendudeCleaning up old bugs.
Wow, some of this code still exists. The most common way to run into $row->_entity not being set is #2457999: Cannot use relationship for rendered entity on Views and since this doesn't have specific steps to reproduce it in this case, I'm going to close this as a duplicate of that.
If this had another origin, then please feel free to reopen this.