Override users-permissions controller?

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1

I need to modify the user-permissions controller for updating(PUT) some user account data. There is no default controller folder or controller to use to override these actions. If i create /controllers/user.js that has no effect either. Is there an easy to do this in Strapi?

2

Nevermind, i was able to get it working by creating the controllers/user.js directory and file. Not sure why it didnā€™t work the first few times i tried thatā€¦

Is there not an update function available? I tried await strapi.plugins['users-permissions'].services.user.update({ id }); but it throws error that update is not a function.

3

There is an ā€œeditā€ functionā€¦

async edit(params, values) {
    if (values.password) {
      values.password = await strapi.plugins['users-permissions'].services.user.hashPassword(
        values
      );
    }

    return strapi.query('user', 'users-permissions').update(params, values);
  },
4

So i was able to get it to update the Postgres db with:

async update(ctx) {
    const entity = await strapi.query('user', 'users-permissions').update({ id }, ctx.request.body);

    return sanitizeEntity(entity, { model: strapi.models.user });
},

The problem is now that sanitizeEntity(entity, { model: strapi.models.user }); returns a 404. Cant seem to find the model with that name. Iā€™ve tried model names ā€˜userā€™, ā€˜usersā€™, ā€˜user-permissionsā€™ and ā€˜users-permissionsā€™ but they all return a 404.

5

strapi.plugins['users-permissions'].models.user should work

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6

Worked perfectly, thanks!

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7

Hey , i did what its recommended here, and it works! but i want the user to be able to update his avatar, and all the text data succeeded but the avatar doesnā€™t change. can someone please help?

8

That will most likely need to be a nested call, do the users have the ability to upload files?

9

So what is the solution to udpate an user my his email with route /user/:email ??

10

@teddyboirin you would need to create your own custom route and controller. Either via extensions inside of the users-permissions plugin, or from the standard api folder (you donā€™t need a model to create a route and controller)

11

Can i only add route /put/:email in a new file to my routes /users-permissions ? without adding controllers ?

12

Same for me !
try to just return entity and sure it will solve the issue .
sanitizeEntity is just for allowing reading private attributes which prohibited with ā€˜users-permissionsā€™ plugin .
I hope that git contributers override it :sweat_smile:

13

Hello there. Excuse me for bringing up an old thread.

Is the file structure correct?
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I have put both edit and update methods but there was no console.log when I ā€œSaveā€ on Admin-UI.

import { factories } from '@strapi/strapi'

module.exports = factories.createCoreController('plugin::users-permissions.user', {
  async edit(params, values) {
    console.log('edit', params, values);
  },

  async update(ctx) {
    console.log('update', ctx.request.body);
  },
});

Thanks.