Can I access component data in a lifecycle hook

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I have a beforeCreate lifecycle hook where I want to change a field based on some component data on a collection. However, when debugging the event data, I only see the “__pivot” object that contains the id, component_type and field inside. I was curious if it is possible to populate the component data during the event so Icana ctually access the data inside?

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2

You want to use afterCreate.

3

Since before create has no information about the data in the fields

4

Hm, are you sure? This worked for me

const companySchema = object({
    name: string().min(1, 'form.errors.minLength,${min}'),
    slug: string().required('form.errors.required').min(1),
    website: string().required('form.errors.required').url().min(1),
    phone: string().required('form.errors.required').min(1),
    email: string().required('form.errors.required').email().min(1),
    description: string().required('form.errors.required').min(1),
    thumbnail: string().required('form.errors.required').min(1),
    address: object({
        address: string().required('form.errors.required').min(1),
        zipCode: string().required('form.errors.required').min(1),
        city: string().required('form.errors.required').min(1),
    }),
})

export default {
    async beforeCreate(event: Event) {
        const ctx = strapi.requestContext.get()!
        await validate(companySchema, ctx.request.body)
    },
}

// validate.js
export async function validate<T extends Schema>(schema: T, data: any) {
    const errors = {} as Partial<{
        [K in T['__outputType']]: string[]
    }>

    try {
        return await schema.validate(data, { abortEarly: false })
    } catch (e) {
        if (e instanceof ValidationError) {
            const { inner } = e

            for (const error of inner) {
                set(errors, error.path, error.errors)
            }
        }

        throw errors
    }
}
5

If it works then I was wrong

6

I probebly mixed someting up in my head

7

I dont know about that haha, but found somewhere in the docs that I can use strapi.requestContext.get()