Lifecycle hooks not being called from POST request

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System Information
  • Strapi Version: 4.5.6
  • Operating System: WSL2 (Ubuntu 22.04) running on Windows 11
  • Database: sqlite
  • Node Version: 18.12.1
  • NPM Version: 9.2.0
  • Yarn Version: 1.22.15

I want the content manager to auto-generate a slug each time I create a new photo entry from a POST /api/photos/ request, so I set up a lifecycle hook to do this. For some reason, it isn’t being called.

src/extensions/photo/content-types/photo/lifecycles.js

module.exports = {
  async beforeCreate(event) {
    const { data } = event.params;
    data.slug = await strapi.plugin['content-manager'].services.uid.generateUIDField({
      contentTypeUID: 'api::photo.photo',
      field: 'slug',
      data: event.params.data
    });
  }
}

I tried to set up another one in src/index.js, but this didn’t work either.

src/index.js

module.exports = {
  bootstrap({ strapi }) {
    strapi.db.lifecycles.subscribe({
      models: ['api::photo.photo'],

      async beforeCreate(event) { /* exact same as above */ }
    });
  }
};

Am I overlooking something?

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Hello!

Did you get any solution? I’m facing the same problem.