I've got a problem I've been working on a few days, with my admin on rest implementation. We've got a request to make our filter input behave more like a "contains" than an "equal"
My API supports a lookup like that, on GET, by passing in % characters with your input (eg /app?foo=%25bar%25 returns apps where foo is like %bar%)
While in an ideal world, I could tell my users to provide the %s in the filter's TextInput fields, the great masses can't be troubled with inserting special characters.
So, my question is, where can I inject something to wrap the wildcard characters around the input being entered in the objects in my object?
I've tried re-implementing TextInput and updating the input.value on OnChange, render, etc but the restClient is still using the pre-altered input value.
Heres my crack at a custom inputComponent
class ContainsTextProps {
public addField?: PropTypes.bool.isRequired = true;
public elStyle?: PropTypes.object;
public input?: PropTypes.object;
public isRequired?: PropTypes.bool;
public label?: PropTypes.string;
public meta?: PropTypes.object;
public name?: PropTypes.string;
public options?: PropTypes.object = {};
public resource?: PropTypes.string;
public source?: PropTypes.string;
public type?: PropTypes.string = 'text';
public onBlur?: PropTypes.func = () => {};
public onChange?: PropTypes.func = () => {};
public onFocus?: PropTypes.func = () => {};
}
class ContainsTextInputInternal extends React.Component<ContainsTextProps, {}> {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.handleBlur = this.handleBlur.bind(this);
this.handleFocus = this.handleFocus.bind(this);
this.handleChange = this.handleChange.bind(this);
}
public handleBlur = (eventOrValue) => {
// this.props.onBlur(eventOrValue);
this.props.input.onBlur(eventOrValue);
}
public handleFocus = (event) => {
// this.props.onFocus(event);
this.props.input.onFocus(event);
}
public handleChange = (eventOrValue, newvalue) => {
// this.props.onChange(eventOrValue);
this.props.input.onChange(eventOrValue, newvalue);
}
public render() {
const {
elStyle,
input,
label,
meta: { touched, error },
options,
type,
} = this.props;
if (input && input.value && input.value.length > 0 && input.value.indexOf('%') < 0) {
input.value = `%${input.value}%`;
}
return (
<TextField
{...input}
onBlur={this.handleBlur}
onFocus={this.handleFocus}
onChange={this.handleChange}
type={type}
// floatingLabelText={<FieldTitle label={label} source={source} resource={resource} isRequired={isRequired} />}
floatingLabelText={label}
errorText={touched && error}
style={elStyle}
value={input.value}
{...options}
/>
);
}
}
export const ContainsTextInput = pure(ContainsTextInputInternal);What you need is a custom REST client that detects the query and injects the special characters into the input.
https://marmelab.com/admin-on-rest/RestClients.html#writing-your-own-rest-client
This should get you started. If you only have 1 special case where you only need to inject the special characters then you can also use a REST wrapper.