Entity View content type needlessly requires entity to be saved and reloads it.

Problem/Motivation

When trying to use the entity_view ctools content for a newly created entity (that is not necessarily saved yet) the content plugin throws an exception because it attempts to load the entity from the database, even if it already exists in the context object. This prevents the flexiform module from being able to render previews of an entity in multistep forms.

  $entity_id = $context->argument;
  $entity = entity_load_single($entity_type, $entity_id);

Proposed resolution

Alter the code such that, if $context->data is set, the entity already in $context->data is used instead of attempting to load a fresh copy.

Remaining tasks

• Write patch

User interface changes

None

API changes

None