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I have table of my entity with structure:

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eid | myfield1 | myfield2 | myfield3
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And also an additional table with primary key being foreign key to my entity id:

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eid | myfield4 | myfield5
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I would like to expose values in my second table to view of fields, of my entity, but I don't want to join second table with first, every time, but only if I will use one of its fields.

I believe it should be doable with views_join class modifying a query at handler level, but is it possible on hook_views_data_alter() level?

Is it possible to do this transparently - so I wouldn't need to add any relationship to view (just like the field values are pulled from fields tables - yes, you can think a bit about it as about creating fields alternative ;) ) ?

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Technically it's possible, using hook_views_query_alter(), you can adapt the view query to add or change conditions. So you could add a join with something like this:

function modulename_views_query_alter(&$view, &$query) {
  $join = new views_join();
  $join->table = 'mytable';
  $join->field = 'eid';
  $join->left_table = 'entity_table';
  $join->left_field = 'eid';
  $join->type = 'left';
  $query->add_relationship('relationship_name', $join, 'entity_table');
}

But a better approach would be to use hook_views_data() to expose your table to views, and then add the relevant fields when needed (with a relationship though), but in practical terms is no different than altering the query.

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