Nuxt3 Plugin Strapi: How to return only one result using FindOne with populate parameter?

Question

Using Nuxt3 and the Strapi v4 Plugin to create a blog. Using the findOne function to retrieve ONE article.

However using the populate parameter to also retrieve relational parameters such as images:

findOne<Article>('articles', { populate: "images"}, id)

returns a list of ALL articles. I want only my one article!

How do I get only the result for my given ID including the relations (images) when using the findOne function with the populate paramter?

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Docs I consulted:

• Strapi Docs on Parameters: https://docs.strapi.io/developer-docs/latest/developer-resources/database-apis-reference/rest/populating-fields.html#field-selection
• Strapi Nuxt Docs: https://strapi.nuxtjs.org/usage

Answer 1

Your query syntax is wrong. findOne takes id as the second parameter and options as the third parameter as below:

Syntax:

findOne(uid: string, id: ID, parameters: Params) ⇒ Entry

Solution in Strapi:

const entry = await strapi.entityService.findOne('api::article.article', 1, {
  fields: ['title', 'description'],
  populate: { category: true },
});

Solution in Nuxt Strapi:

const entry = await findOne<Article>('articles', 1, {
  fields: ['title', 'description'],
  populate: { images: true },
});

Reference:

• Entity Service Api
• findOne - Nuxt Strapi