Apiato REST Data Provider For React-Admin

Apiato REST Data Provider for react-admin.

Installation

npm install --save ra-data-apiato-rest

REST Dialect

This Data Provider fits REST APIs using simple GET parameters for filters and sorting. This is the dialect used for instance in FakeRest.

Method	API calls
getList	GET http://my.api.url/posts?limit=10&page=1
getOne	GET http://my.api.url/posts/123
getMany	GET http://my.api.url/posts
getManyReference	GET http://my.api.url/posts
create	POST http://my.api.url/posts/123
update	PUT http://my.api.url/posts/123
updateMany	Multiple calls to PUT http://my.api.url/posts/123
delete	DELETE http://my.api.url/posts/123
deteleMany	Multiple calls to DELETE http://my.api.url/posts/123

Note: The Apiato REST data provider expects the API to include a Content-Range header in the response to getList calls. The value must be the total number of resources in the collection. This allows react-admin to know how many pages of resources there are in total, and build the pagination controls.

Content-Range: posts 0-24/319

If your API is on another domain as the JS code, you'll need to whitelist this header with an Access-Control-Expose-Headers CORS header.

Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Content-Range

Usage

// in src/App.js
import React from 'react';
import { Admin, Resource } from 'react-admin';
import apiatoRestProvider from 'ra-data-apiato-rest';

import { PostList } from './posts';

const App = () => (
    <Admin dataProvider={apiatoRestProvider('http://path.to.my.api/')}>
        <Resource name="posts" list={PostList} />
    </Admin>
);

export default App;

Adding Custom Headers

The provider function accepts an HTTP client function as second argument. By default, they use react-admin's fetchUtils.fetchJson() as HTTP client. It's similar to HTML5 fetch(), except it handles JSON decoding and HTTP error codes automatically.

That means that if you need to add custom headers to your requests, you just need to wrap the fetchJson() call inside your own function:

import { fetchUtils, Admin, Resource } from 'react-admin';
import apiatoRestProvider from 'ra-data-apiato-rest';

const httpClient = (url, options = {}) => {
    if (!options.headers) {
        options.headers = new Headers({ Accept: 'application/json' });
    }
    // add your own headers here
    options.headers.set('X-Custom-Header', 'foobar');
    return fetchUtils.fetchJson(url, options);
};
const dataProvider = apiatoRestProvider('http://localhost:3000', httpClient);

render(
    <Admin dataProvider={dataProvider} title="Example Admin">
       ...
    </Admin>,
    document.getElementById('root')
);

Now all the requests to the REST API will contain the X-Custom-Header: foobar header.

Tip: The most common usage of custom headers is for authentication. fetchJson has built-on support for the Authorization token header:

const httpClient = (url, options = {}) => {
    options.user = {
        authenticated: true,
        token: 'SRTRDFVESGNJYTUKTYTHRG'
    };
    return fetchUtils.fetchJson(url, options);
};

Now all the requests to the REST API will contain the Authorization: SRTRDFVESGNJYTUKTYTHRG header.

License

This data provider is licensed under the MIT License, and sponsored by marmelab.