Create custom route

Help me!
#1

Hello,

I trying to override the user creation route.
I want to use my api to create the user.
I have managed to throw an error if something goes wrong by tweaking the user file in the route folder.
But I didn’t find a way to tell forest admin that everything went right and that it doesn’t need to create a user since I’ve already done it (sending a request with status 200 triggers an error).
Is it possible to do it ?

Thank you for your help,
Best,
Ilias

#2

Hello @Ilias_El-mhamdi,

I am not sure to understand what you mean by “creating the user” yourself. Could you please elaborate? Maybe sharing the modifications you made to the user file would help.

Thank you

#3

Hi

It was for my category table.
Here is what I’am trying to do.

routes/category.js


// Create a Category
router.post(
  "/category",
  permissionMiddlewareCreator.create(),
  async (request, response, next) => {
    // Learn what this route does here: https://docs.forestadmin.com/documentation/v/v6/reference-guide/routes/default-routes#create-a-record
    console.log("create category");
    const categoryData = request.body.data;
    let departementId;
    try {
      departementId = categoryData.relationships.department.data.id;
    } catch (err) {}
    console.log(departementId, "dep id");
    let categoryToCreate = {
      departmentId: departementId,
    };
    try {
      //creating the category using my backend api 
      let res = await network.createCategory(categoryTocreate);
      console.log(res);
    } catch (err) {
      //error during the creation 
      response.status(500).send("can't create category");
      return null;
    }
    //telling forest that the creation was successful 
    response.status(200).send("category created");
    return null;
    next();
  }
);

Tell me if it’s not clear or if you need more infos
Thank you for your help and fast reply

Ilias

#4

@Ilias_El-mhamdi,

Could you try to replace the end of you function by just

   response.status(200).send("category created");

If you compare you code with our documentation. The return and next statements are not required.

Do you have an error message to share?

I think you should also use the res value as a parameter to response.send to share the created record with your admin panel. It may need some data transformation to have the expected format.

#5

Hello,
Thank you for your help.
It’s starting work when I give res as then send parameter. I have the notification creation success but I still get an error.

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It may be because my res Json dosesn’t have enough info, I just have the id of the created category. And I see that in the documentation :
.then(recordSerialized => response.send(recordSerialized))
What info should be in the recordSerialized, the problem might lie there.

Thank you,
Best,
Ilias

#6

This might add some processing delay, but you can try using the RecordGetter. See this: Smart field reference link

The process can be similar to:

  1. call await network.createCategory(categoryTocreate);
  2. call const record = await recordGetter.get(res.id) (or res depending on how the id is returned by your API)
  3. finish by response.send(recordGetter.serialize(record))

This is just guess-coding, but the idea is: create via you API, and then get it via Forest API and return it.

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#7

It’s working !!!
I had to import
const {
RecordGetter,
} = require(“forest-express-sequelize”);
add
const recordGetter = new RecordGetter(category);
and add an await before the serialisation
const serialized = await recordGetter.serialize(record);
But it’s working !!

Thank you !

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