Is there a shorthand way of updating a relationship/array field with an `update` call?

tinouti2 years ago

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{
    name: 'messages',
    type: 'relationship',
    relationTo: 'messages',
    hasMany: true,
    required: true,
    min: 1,
},

const thread = await payload.findByID({
  collection: 'threads',
  id: message.thread.id,
  depth: 0,
});
const update = await payload.update({
  collection: 'threads',
  id: message.thread.id,
  data: {
    messages: [ ...thread.messages, message.id ],
  }
});

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  jarrod_not_jared

  2 years ago

  That’s currently the only way to do it. Get the full array, mutate it, then update doc

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  tinouti2 years ago

  Gotcha, wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a hidden method to update it directly. Thanks Jarrod! 🙏

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  superwafflepuffslast year

  Any possibility of us getting access to something that scales better? I'm trying to use this for a memberships section.

  Organizations { members: Relationship<Users> }

  and in order to make access handling easier I also want to store an array of memberships on the user object

  Users { memberships: Relationship<Organizations> }

  Would be great if we could get access to all the power of mongo $push, $pull, etc...