Strapi doesn't have any endpoint to get random data for this purpose you should write some custom code for your endpoint
- custom route for that endpoint you want
// path: ./src/api/[your-endpiont]/routes/[custom-route].js
module.exports = {
"routes": [
{
"method": "GET",
"path": "/[your-endpiont]/random", // you can define everything you want for url endpoint
"handler": "[your-endpiont].random", // random is defined as a method
"config": {
"policies": []
}
}
]
}
now you have to run yarn develop or npm ... to display a random method in your strapi panel
Save this setting and retry to reach the random endpoint.
- create a function as a service for getting random data in your endpoint API services.
// path: ./src/api/[your-endpiont]/services/[your-endpiont].js
'use strict';
/**
* news-list service.
*/
const { createCoreService } = require('@strapi/strapi').factories;
module.exports = createCoreService('api::news-list.news-list', ({ strapi }) => ({
async serviceGetRandom({ locale, id_nin }) { // these parametrs come from query
function getRandomElementsFromArray(array, numberOfRandomElementsToExtract = 1) {
const elements = [];
function getRandomElement(arr) {
if (elements.length < numberOfRandomElementsToExtract) {
const index = Math.floor(Math.random() * arr.length)
const element = arr.splice(index, 1)[0];
elements.push(element)
return getRandomElement(arr)
} else {
return elements
}
}
return getRandomElement([...array])
}
const newsListArray = await strapi
.db
.query("api::news-list.news-list")
.findMany({
where: {
locale: locale, // if you have multi-language data
$not: {
id: id_nin, // depend on where this endpoint API use
},
publishedAt: {
$notNull: true,
},
},
sort: [{ datetime: 'asc' }],
limit: 10,
populate: {
content: {
populate: {
thumbnail: true,
},
},
},
//? filter object throws an error when you used populate object, everything you want to filter properly best write into where{}
// filters: {
// publishedAt: {
// $notNull: true,
// },
// locale: locale
// }
})
if (!newsListArray.length) {
return null
}
return getRandomElementsFromArray(newsListArray, 2)
}
}));
explain code:
Strapi provides a Query Engine API to interact with the database layer at a lower level
strapi.db.query("api::news-list.news-list").findMany({})
The Query Engine allows operations on database entries, I wrote this for my purpose probably you should change based on what you needed
{
where: {
locale: locale,
$not: {
id: id_nin
},
publishedAt: {
$notNull: true,
},
},
sort: [{ datetime: 'asc' }],
limit: 10,
populate: {
content: {
populate: {
thumbnail: true,
},
},
}
}
when you get data from your query, passed it to that function getRandomElementsFromArray(newsListArray, 2) to get some random item (how many random items do you want ? pass the second parameter)
At least if your array is null return null otherwise return data
- create the controller
Controllers are JavaScript files that contain a set of methods, called actions, reached by the client according to the requested route so we going to call our services in this section
// path: ./src/api/[your-endpoint]/controllers/[your-endpoint].js
'use strict';
/**
* news-list controller
*/
const { createCoreController } = require('@strapi/strapi').factories;
module.exports = createCoreController('api::news-list.news-list', ({ strapi }) => ({
async random(ctx) { // name of this methods related to something we define in route ("handler": "[your-endpiont].random",)
const entity = await strapi.service('api::news-list.news-list').serviceGetRandom(ctx.query) // call our services, you can send all query you get from url endpoint (notice that you should write your endpoint api in strapi.service("your-endpoint"))
const sanitizedEntity = await this.sanitizeOutput(entity, ctx);
return this.transformResponse(sanitizedEntity);
// console.log(entity);
}
}));
I call this endpoint in my project nextjs & stapi cms
export const getRandomNewsItem = (id, locale) => {
return API
.get(`/news-list/random?locale=${locale}&id_nin=${id}`)
.then(res => res.data);
};
That's it, I'll hope you all get what to do
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