Lifecycle hooks relation problem

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1

When I use the lifecycle hook, only connect and disconnect appear in the relation named bank in the data parameter how can i get the data of the bank

2

I am having the same problem.

If I have something like this:

export default {
    async beforeUpdate(event) {
      console.log(event.params.data.blog_post)
    },
};

In a content type like that:

{
  "kind": "collectionType",
  "collectionName": "abstract_pages",
  "info": {
    "singularName": "abstract-page",
    "pluralName": "abstract-pages",
    "displayName": "Abstract-page",
    "name": "abstract-page",
    "description": ""
  },
  "options": {
    "draftAndPublish": true
  },
  "pluginOptions": {},
  "attributes": {
    "blog_post": {
      "type": "relation",
      "relation": "oneToOne",
      "target": "api::blog-post.blog-post"
    }
  }
}

I get in the console log this:

{
  disconnect: [
  ],
  connect: [
  ],
}

But in Strapi I can see the relation is there normally.

I am looking for a work around but no luck so far.
Anyone with a possible solution for this?

3

This issue seems to still exist on the latest Strapi version v4.11.0 as well. Kindly create an issue on strapi git hub if it’s not fixed yet.

4

After further investigation I found that on update life cycle hooks, it only populates the data of a relation, if the relation data or value is changed/updated. Try putting the below console log to print the value.
console.log(“Item is relation field here>>>>>”, data.item.connect);
It prints as below:
[ { id: 1, position: { end: true } } ]

Hope this helps.

5

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6

Thank you very much for you answers!

You are correct @Deepak_Kumar, it is only populating the data that has changed, in the end I settled for the approach @pdhruv93 provided when the relations that did not change are needed.