Storing things to state from a plugin controller

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System Information
  • Strapi Version: 4.1.12
  • Operating System: Windows 10
  • Database: sqlite
  • Node Version: ‘14.16.0’
  • NPM Version: ‘6.14.11’
  • Yarn Version: 1.22.10

Hi all,

Hoping someone can shed some light on this for me.

I am trying to store a google API token to state in a strapi controller, so that it will be stored until strapi is restarted.

  async getEvents(ctx) {
    try {
      
      if ( ctx.state.jwtClientToken ) {console.log(ctx.state.jwtClientToken)} else {
        ctx.state.jwtClientToken = "token"
      }
    } catch (err) {
      ctx.throw(500, err)
    }
  }

But I have to redefine it every time the controller is called, is there any way in strapi of saving things to state or something similar to that? I have considered creating a dataype and storing it in there, but doesn’t really seem like the correct option.

I was hoping to achieve something similar to this:

but have been unable to successfully port this to strapi. Does anyone know any way of achieving this?

Please let me know if I should provide further information.