Using Local API inside plugin

Ysione

3 weeks ago

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  3 weeks ago

  Payload needs to be initialized before you can use its local API - so when your plugin instantiates, that is

  before

  Payload becomes fully initialized

  
  

  
  

  you should use the

  onInit

  method of the config instead if you need to interact with the local API inside of a plugin

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  Ysione

  3 weeks ago

  So I can make function for onInit that will save reference to payload and use that reference instead?

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  3 weeks ago

  payload

  comes through as an argument to that function

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  Ysione

  3 weeks ago

  yes, but I need to use payload in other functions, that were added to collections as hooks before onInit

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  3 weeks ago

  that's fine too

  
  

  
  

  because when those hooks are actually executed, payload will

  have been already initialized
  

  
  

  note that you can also get payload off

  req.payload
  

  
  

  where

  req

  is an arg to hooks

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  Ysione

  3 weeks ago

  thats actualy better

  
  

  
  

  Yep, that helped, thank you!