Associate Every Displayed User Name With Corresponding users.data Table Row

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I would like data from the users.data table displayed with every "User Name" however it is displayed.

As an example, I have this in hook_preprocess_page_title():

function hook_preprocess_page_title(&$variables) {

  if (\Drupal::routeMatch()->getRouteName() == 'entity.user.canonical') {

    $gUD = \Drupal::service('user.data');
    $routeUID = \Drupal::routeMatch()->getRawParameter('user');
    $gudValue = $gUD->get('module', $routeUID, 'name');

    if ($gudValue = $moduleValue)) {
      kpr('Success!');
    }

  }

}

The route entity.user.canonical allows me to reference the viewed user, and so I can use \Drupal::routeMatch()->getRawParameter('user') to get the non-current user ID. (it's not the route that counts, but my ability to reference the users.data table for the displayed user)

And this in hook_preprocess_username():

function hook_preprocess_username(&$variables) {
  $gUD = getUsersData();
  $gudValue = $gUD->get('module', $variables['uid'], 'name');
}

So what I am looking for is something like:

hook_preprocess_HOOK() {
  $UID = // From displayed user name.
  \Drupal::service('user.data')->get('module', $UID, 'name');
}

for each displayed user name.

The problem here: get user id from username or email without logging in, is that I don't know, and cannot manually enter the username value.

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A couple of examples where the username is displayed on a page without using the username field:

1. Views field Name (not linked to user, uses views field base)
2. User type entity reference field (format display label, uses field base)

hook_preprocess_page_title() and hook_preprocess_username() are pretty straight-forward. And I believe I know where/when this template/hook will be used, but I am still having trouble defining a couple of other instances, and determining the best hook to alter the output as needed.

Answer 1

It sounds like you should start with what you don't want.

Drupal::currentUser()->id() will retrieve the current user's UID. From there, you can use the UserStorage::loadByProperties() method you referenced to pull the UID by user name. The last step is add code to check Drupal::currentUser()->id() doesn't match the UID found from UserStorage::loadByProperties()