I have the attached array below and need help figuring out how to access the ‘entity’ attribute that is under the protected “properties” array (see screenshot).

background: field_name is an entity reference field. I need to get the EntityReference so that I can call getTarget() to get the EntityAdapter and then call EntityAdapter->getValue().

I have tried the following but they all give errors. The idea is to get the EntityReference which is the ‘entity’ value. How can i do this?

$  offset = $  entity->get('field_name')->offsetGet(0) $  entityReference = $  offset->get('entity') /* failed */ $  entityReference = $  offset->getProperties() /* failed */ $  entityReference = $  offset->getEntity() /* failed */ $  entityReference = $  offset->getValue() /* failed */ 

The error message is: replace getValue() with any of the above

Call to a member function getValue() on null