How to change the response of a find or findOne without having to override all of them?

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I am trying to manipulate the response in the controllers directory, but it keeps asking me to add all the other controllers like update etc… how can I do it only for the finds?

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/**

  • controller
    */

import { factories } from “@strapi/strapi”;

module.exports = {
async find() {
return “strapi”;
},
};

export default factories.createCoreController(
“api::…”
);

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Error: Error creating endpoint GET /xxxxx/:id: Handler not found                                  ││   "api::xxxx.findOne"
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global middlewares is what you’d want to use, similar to my example though mine is route based

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https://github.com/antokhio/strapi-plugin-untransform-response that’s how you override all transformResponse in all controllers

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So if I install this i override them, and on top of that the response is normalized?

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Instead of me having attributes etc?

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You should look at the transformer plugin for v4, that does want you want. In Strapi 5 we are getting rid of the nested attributes

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Yea it does, zero config

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And it should be faster then a middleware

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Ah ant I didn’t know you made a plugin <:ThinkEyes:642567846597230614>

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But no gql

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Yea that was some hack I pick up on discord

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I don’t know what it is that

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graphql, different option than REST

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If you feel like picking up the transformer plugin to maintain ant since Daedalus is gone let me know :stuck_out_tongue:

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Sure, I actually need it but I am still figuring out how to remove that private field

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Azuna-san you could also look at the protected populate plugin if you don’t want to write the custom code