duplicate via the rest api?

Hendrik

7 months ago

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  thisisnotchris

  7 months ago

  By default, I don't think so, but you can easily add a custom endpoint to your REST api.

  https://payloadcms.com/docs/rest-api/overview#custom-endpoints
  

  
  

  I imagine you'd look up an existing post by ID, then you would copy the field data and create a new post and let the ID populate.

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  Hendrik

  7 months ago

  @thisisnotchris yeah, have already done this, but thought it would be nice not to produce two endpoinst for the same behaviour 🙂

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  thisisnotchris

  7 months ago

  That's true, if the aren't any side effects, you could create a reusable utility to do this

  
  

  
  

  But i agree, built in duplicate would be nice

  
  

  
  

  🙂

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  Jarrod

  7 months ago

  Hey @Hendrik just catching up here. I think the custom endpoint is the right solution for now, we are not sure if this is something we will provide out of the box yet. A couple things you will want to keep in mind when doing this:

  
  

  const accessibleDoc = await payload.findByID({
    collection: 'pages',
    id: req.query.id,
    showHiddenFields: true,
    overrideAccess: false,
    user: req.user,
  })

  
  

  
  

  You will want to pass the user through, turn off the overrideAccess, and show hidden fields. Then you should check if a doc comes back, if it does, the user has access and should be allowed to duplicate, if not then the user does not have access and should return an error. You will want to include showHiddenFields so all fields are duplicated onto the new doc

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  Hendrik

  7 months ago

  yeah did exactly this

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  Jarrod

  7 months ago

  perfect

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  Hendrik

  7 months ago

  thanks! 🙂

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  Jarrod

  7 months ago

  np 🙂