name: 'slug',
      label: 'Slug',
      type: 'text',
      index: true,
      admin: {
        position: 'sidebar',
      },
      hooks: {
        beforeValidate: [formatSlug(fieldToUse)],
      },

In the same collection, I created a custom REST endpoint for finding by slug, it obviously returns a single document for the respective slug, but since it uses payload.find from the Local API it returns a paginated response. Is there a way to do a findOne in the Local API. What is the best approach for this?

endpoints: [
    {
      path: "/slug/:slug",
      method: "get",
      handler: async (req, res, next) => {
        const data = await payload.find({
          collection: 'pages',
          where: {slug:{equals:req.params.slug}},
          limit:1
        })
        if (data) {
          res.status(200).send({ data });
        } else {
          res.status(404).send({ error: "not found" });
        }
      },
    },
  ],

Oh my God, I'm just finding the documentation for using

where

in the default REST API which means I don't need my custom endpoint. That said the problem remains the same, I get a paginated response with payload's default where API also

dr_mint11 months ago

Change the end of your custom endpoint with

if (data.docs.length === 0) {
  res.status(404).send({ error: "not found" });
} else {
  res.status(200).send(data.docs[0]);
}

ritsu045511 months ago
just send first element of array in the response, or if not exists 404

i still think it's a good case for custom endpoint, so your end user won't need to manually create query on each request and less data in the response
aayush21411 months ago
That worked like a charm. Thank you. I still think payload Local API should add a findOne.
evanion7 months ago
sorry to resurrect this old thread, but @AayushTheRefresher where is the
formatSlug
function coming from?
aayush2147 months ago
Can't remember particularly but I think I wrote a utility function or maybe you can find it in one of the example repos that payload is maintaining.
evanion7 months ago
OK, I just found a plugin that has a slug field (
https://github.com/NouanceLabs/payload-better-fields-plugin/tree/master
)

checking it out now

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