I encountered an issue on a Drupal 11 site recently where I had a block that was rendering an entity to display on a page.
There was nothing unusual about what was going on in the rendering process, but in this case I needed to add some attributes to the entity markup and I found that this process wasn't that simple. The solution was to intercept the rendering process half way through using a pre-rendering callback method.
As it wasn't that simple I took some notes and decided to convert them into an article to show how to do the same. In this article we will look at using the view builder to generate a renderable view of an entity and then look at how to alter the attributes of the view mode without using a preprocess hook.
Rendering An Entity
To get a content entity ready for rendering we need to use the entity_type.manager service to get the correct view builder for the entity in question. Once we have the view builder object we can use the view() method to get our renderable array.
For example, assuming that we have a Media entity of some sort, we get that entity ready for rendering using the following.
The $mediaView variable will now contain the array needed to render the entity using the "default" view mode for the entity. The contents of the array depends on what you are rendering, but if its a media entity then the entity object will be present, along with the view builder object, the view mode and theme of the entity, and some cache information.
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