rocketship_core-8.x-2.0-alpha11/src/Plugin/Field/FieldFormatter/PostDateRender.php

<?php

namespace Drupal\rocketship_core\Plugin\Field\FieldFormatter;

use Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Field\FieldItemListInterface;
use Drupal\Core\Field\FormatterBase;

/**
 * Plugin implementation of the 'post_date_render' formatter.
 *
 * @FieldFormatter(
 *   id = "post_date_render",
 *   label = @Translation("Created date render"),
 *   field_types = {
 *     "boolean"
 *   }
 * )
 */
class PostDateRender extends FormatterBase {

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function settingsSummary() {
    $summary = [];

    $summary[] = t("Output the parent's post date when the field value evaluates to true");
    // Implement settings summary.
    return $summary;
  }

  /**
   * {@inheritdoc}
   */
  public function viewElements(FieldItemListInterface $items, $langcode) {
    $elements = [];

    /** @var \Drupal\Core\Render\Renderer $renderer */
    $renderer = \Drupal::service('renderer');

    foreach ($items as $delta => $item) {
      if ($item->value != TRUE) {
        continue;
      }
      $entity = $items->getEntity();
      /** @var \Drupal\Core\Entity\ContentEntityInterface $entity */
      $entity = $this->getHighestLevelParentEntity($entity);

      if (!method_exists($entity, 'getCreatedTime')) {
        continue;
      }

      // Why the fuck does this not work? Well, until it does just output the
      // value
      // $build = $entity->get('created')->view('default');.
      $build = [
        '#markup' => \Drupal::service('date.formatter')
          ->format($entity->getCreatedTime(), 'custom', 'j F Y', NULL, NULL),
        '#cache' => [
          'contexts' => [
            'languages',
          ],
        ],
      ];

      $renderer->addCacheableDependency($build, $entity);
      $renderer->addCacheableDependency($build, $items->getEntity());

      $elements[0] = $build;
      return $elements;
    }

    return $elements;
  }

  /**
   * Get highest parent.
   *
   * Recursively fetches the parent entity until top is reached and then
   * returns that one.
   *
   * @param \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface $entity
   *   Entity.
   *
   * @return \Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface
   *   Parent.
   */
  protected function getHighestLevelParentEntity(EntityInterface $entity) {
    if (method_exists($entity, 'getParentEntity')) {
      $parent = $entity->getParentEntity();
      if ($parent) {
        return $this->getHighestLevelParentEntity($parent);
      }

      // Empty parent, assume this level is fine.
      return $entity;
    }

    // Already highest level as far as we can tell.
    return $entity;
  }

}