Relationship Object String to ObjectID

rarcif

7 months ago

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  7 months ago

  Hey @rarcif — we store object IDs as strings intentionally, and there is no real easy way to store them as full ObjectIDs. This is for a few reasons, but we could certainly evaluate a way to be able to "opt in" to ObjectIDs instead of string representations in a new feature

  
  

  
  

  there are a few places in the code that would need to be adjusted, but technically, this could be doable with a PR

  
  

  
  

  right now, it's not possible though

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  gokulsck

  6 months ago

  @jmikrut Is there a way to handle this with custom code? Example, by using hooks?

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  6 months ago

  probably yes

  
  

  
  

  maybe a

  beforeChange

  collection hook and a

  beforeRead

  collection hook

  
  

  
  

  the

  beforeChange

  to transform any relationship field string IDs to ObjectIDs before storage, and the

  beforeRead

  to convert them back to strings

  
  

  
  

  Hey @gokulsck — I just looked into this and built a plugin to do exactly what you thought - - just add a field hook to each relationship / upload field to convert to ObjectIDs before storage:

  
  

  
  

  https://www.npmjs.com/package/@payloadcms/plugin-relationship-object-ids
  

  
  

  nice and simple 👍 good question! this is a nice thing to have!

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  gokulsck

  6 months ago

  Thanks will check it...

  
  

  
  

  @jmikrut This solution is working. Thanks for the quick fix. Still just wanted to know if this is under testing or not? Because I did not see the details updated in the payload documentation of the relationship. Could you confirm this is an official release or not?

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  6 months ago

  This is an official release, but it is a plugin, so it won't be listed in the Payload docs directly as it's not a part of "core" specifically. But it is officially supported and will continue to be

  
  

  
  

  in the future, we will be listing all of our official plugins in the Payload docs, and this one will be listed as well

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  gokulsck

  5 months ago

  Hey @jmikrut I have noticed an issue, the filter is not working as expected for relationship field. Could you confirm that, the plugin you implemented works or not for relationship fields filtering?

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  5 months ago

  let me check on this immediately

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  denolfe

  Payload Team

  5 months ago

  @gokulsck It appears relationship filtering is not working as expected. Looking into a fix now.

  
  

  
  

  Issue logged here. Expect this to be taken care of in a day or two.

  
  https://github.com/payloadcms/plugin-relationship-object-ids/issues/1
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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  5 months ago

  hey @gokulsck - just a heads-up, we fixed this!

  
  

  
  

  you shouldn't need to update your plugin, instead, you should just update your Payload version to the newest

  
  

  
  

  i also added a test suite to the plugin to make sure that it's nice and covered