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+<?php
+
+namespace Drupal\user\Plugin\Field\FieldFormatter;
+
+use Drupal\Core\Field\FieldDefinitionInterface;
+use Drupal\Core\Field\FieldItemListInterface;
+use Drupal\Core\Field\FormatterBase;
+use Drupal\Core\Form\FormStateInterface;
+
+/**
+ * Plugin implementation of the 'user_name' formatter.
+ *
+ * @FieldFormatter(
+ * id = "user_name",
+ * label = @Translation("User name"),
+ * description = @Translation("Display the user or author name."),
+ * field_types = {
+ * "string"
+ * }
+ * )
+ */
+class UserNameFormatter extends FormatterBase {
+
+ /**
+ * {@inheritdoc}
+ */
+ public static function defaultSettings() {
+ $options = parent::defaultSettings();
+
+ $options['link_to_entity'] = TRUE;
+ return $options;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * {@inheritdoc}
+ */
+ public function settingsForm(array $form, FormStateInterface $form_state) {
+ $form = parent::settingsForm($form, $form_state);
+
+ $form['link_to_entity'] = [
+ '#type' => 'checkbox',
+ '#title' => $this->t('Link to the user'),
+ '#default_value' => $this->getSetting('link_to_entity'),
+ ];
+
+ return $form;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * {@inheritdoc}
+ */
+ public function viewElements(FieldItemListInterface $items, $langcode) {
+ $elements = [];
+
+ foreach ($items as $delta => $item) {
+ /** @var $user \Drupal\user\UserInterface */
+ if ($user = $item->getEntity()) {
+ if ($this->getSetting('link_to_entity')) {
+ $elements[$delta] = [
+ '#theme' => 'username',
+ '#account' => $user,
+ '#link_options' => ['attributes' => ['rel' => 'user']],
+ '#cache' => [
+ 'tags' => $user->getCacheTags(),
+ ],
+ ];
+ }
+ else {
+ $elements[$delta] = [
+ '#markup' => $user->getDisplayName(),
+ '#cache' => [
+ 'tags' => $user->getCacheTags(),
+ ],
+ ];
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ return $elements;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * {@inheritdoc}
+ */
+ public static function isApplicable(FieldDefinitionInterface $field_definition) {
+ return $field_definition->getTargetEntityTypeId() === 'user' && $field_definition->getName() === 'name';
+ }
+
+}