Is there any publically available working example of a custom event hook (extension) so I could understand how they work exactly? I need to add more information to the update and delete events, taken from previous revisions. So something resembling that would be ideal, or else anything at all should do.
#Custom API hooks examples?
kindred knoll
lusty trout
I have a couple of extensions available making use of hooks but not sure how useful those will be for your usecase. Im not completely sure what you mean with "I need to add more information to the update and delete events" but there are examples in the docs on how to listen for the update/delete events and for fetching extra information needed to take action when such events get fired
kindred knoll
Thanks, I did read this https://docs.directus.io/extensions/hooks.html but for me it's not enough to quite get it.
"I need to add more information to the update and delete events" = more than just event/payload/keys/collection
lusty trout
You can fetch extra data as needed in the event handler but you cannot add extra data for other listeners to the event (although with a filter you can manipulate the incoming data before it gets saved to the database)
kindred knoll
for example, can I change the "keys" to values of another field than the primary db key?
lusty trout
With the primary key you can fetch any field you desire 🙂
vocal willow
@lusty trout I’d be very interested to see more examples of hooks. I’m working on a bunch and even if not the same use case I’d find it really helpful just in terms of scaffolding
lusty trout
<@589189049047056395> I’d be very interested to see more examples of hooks. I’m ...
Got a couple public and some more in the works 😉 https://github.com/br41nslug?tab=repositories
vocal willow
Awesome thanks @lusty trout !!!
kindred knoll
With the primary key you can fetch any field you desire 🙂
unless the event is that the item was just deleted*
(*then of course I can retrieve it from the last but one revision, but since i happen to need the very last revision as well, this makes further batch operations all but impossible. if I had the relevant data in the event then I wouldn't need to query the DB for something that's no longer there)
lusty trout
unless the event is that the item was just deleted*
(*then of course I can ret...
indeed there you would need a filter instead of action so ur code runs before the item gets deleted
kindred knoll
indeed there you would need a `filter` instead of `action` so ur code runs befor...
not with the admin interface, where a filter prevents the deleting altogether
kindred knoll