Generate attached field (uid) on POST request

sunnyson · December 15, 2020, 8:04am

That’s because from Strapi Admin it makes a few extra requests to the /content-manager/explorer/uid/generate route to generate the slug and another request to the /content-manager/explorer/uid/check-availability to check if it’s available. You can take a look in your browser what data it exactly sends to them and use the same services

You can find these services here:

github.com

strapi/strapi/blob/38126d9a32ea1504f249006c8f2435f4150be4d6/packages/strapi-plugin-content-manager/services/uid.js

'use strict';

const _ = require('lodash');
const slugify = require('@sindresorhus/slugify');

module.exports = {
  async generateUIDField({ contentTypeUID, field, data }) {
    const contentType = strapi.contentTypes[contentTypeUID];
    const { attributes } = contentType;

    const { targetField, default: defaultValue, options } = attributes[field];
    const targetValue = _.get(data, targetField);

    if (!_.isEmpty(targetValue)) {
      return this.findUniqueUID({
        contentTypeUID,
        field,
        value: slugify(targetValue, options),
      });
    }

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These are accessible with: strapi.plugins['content-manager'].services.uid