How to customize Strapi backend (content-manager) controllers, services and validation?

[DMehaffy]

@gustavpursche

Do you think something like the following would work (pseudocode):

I believe so, I’ll be honest I have only lightly played with the conditionals since my engineering team advised me they are very unstable and subject to change quickly. We originally built that system for the features we were building are slowly starting to tweak it to allow for better user control.

@gustavpursche

Yeah, I went into that rabbithole, but it’s not as easy as I imagined it to be (because the docs don’t mention anything about controllers not being executed by the content manager). Isn’t that a very basic usecase, to be able to change a previously set owner of an entity?

Indeed, the v4 will make an even clearly distinction since we are completely splitting what we call the “Content API” (End-user code) and the “Admin API” (Admin panel).

@gustavpursche

Do I understand you correctly: there will be a new hook system in v4, which will allow to hook into content manager actions?

I believe that’s the plan, I haven’t seen any of our internal information about it (I don’t believe we have built it yet since we are still working on the database/query layer and design system right now).