Why does the afterRead hook run multiple times for just one page load?

alessiogr

2 years ago

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  jessrynkar2 years ago

  Hey

  @360823574644129795

  , I just tried this out and got 6 times... which seems a lot, all of them had siblingData however

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  alessiogr

  2 years ago

  hey hey, is there a reason why it runs multiple times? Or should it only run one time.

  
  
  

  Will test it out later again - maybe it got better in a newer version of payload

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  jessrynkar2 years ago

  Okay I've done a bit of learning from the team - if you are reloading the page in the admin UI it is not unexpected behavior, this is because there are many other variables that can cause it to run extra times including versions, preferences, access control, doc relationships etc.

  
  
  

  If you hit the api route directly, you should see it only run once (which I found to be the case when I tested it).

  
  
  

  If you get a chance to test again let me know what you find

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  notchrlast year

  @360823574644129795

  I have a collection with multiple items. The collection config has a field with an afterRead hook

  
  
  

  Is it normal that it fires for every item on the collection when viewing the items of the collection

  
  
  

  / Is there a way to make it only run when viewing a particular item

  
  
  

  like not a specific item, but just when editing an item

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  tinoutilast year

  Out of curiosity, what's your use case

  @1049775120559898725

  ? 👀

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  alessiogr

  last year

  With items, do you mean documents?

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  notchrlast year

  @360823574644129795

  Yess

  
  
  @233209174069084161

  We have a separate API that stores some user information

  
  
  

  We want to call that API, pass an id stored on the payload user, and get back an array of some data

  
  
  

  For each item in the array, we want to display a field

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  tinoutilast year

  Interesting, definitely sounds like the perfect application for afterRead field hook 😅

  
  
  

  Is there anything in

  req

  that might be different when on the edit page maybe, that you could use to condition the hook? 🤔

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  hristo600411 months ago

  @486710146651652106

  sorry for bumping this old topic, but did you find a solution on why is it firing up in the list view? I have the same issue,

  afterRead

  fires for every item in the collection and it's not necessary. I'd like it to fire only when I open the item for editing. Did you find a way to fix this? Thank you. 🙂

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  maykonoliveira.11 months ago

  I was talking about that point yesterday on 3.0 feedback channel. My hook runs 3 times if I force a reload, but if I do a http request it runs only once.

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  hristo600411 months ago

  Thanks

  @535474572586254338

  In my hooks I'm using the local API to create and update collection items. The updating part is what's causing issues, it's executed every time I open the item itself or the collection list view. I'll try to do it over HTTP.