Support APIs that return data underneath a key

Created on 28 November 2024, 8 months ago

Problem/Motivation

I don't think this is currently possible - if it is, how would I do it? - but a lot of datasets seem to return data under a key. A silly example would be https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/character/ where the info key returns information about the results and the actual results are under a results key.

Steps to reproduce

Try to create a remote select using the https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/character/ result set, with the character ID as the value and the character name as the text. Note that there doesn't seem to be any way to specify that these are contained within the "results" key, so this is not possible.

Also note that if you try to use values that don't exist in the API that the module throws several errors rather than handling them gracefully.

Proposed resolution

Create an additional optional field for "base key" (or whatever wording makes the most sense). When that value is provided, use that as a basis for where to look for the specified value and text options.

✨ Feature request

Status

Active

Version

2.0

Component

Code

Created by

🇨🇦Canada kpaxman

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!19Support APIs that return data underneath a key
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🇧🇷Brazil joaopauloc.dev
updated about 2 months ago

Comments & Activities

Issue created by @kpaxman
Comment about 2 months ago →
🇧🇷Brazil joaopauloc.dev
Hey @kpaxman.
Sorry for the late response.
But it's possible, you can subscribe to the event webform_remote_fields_alter_response_element and do whatever you need.
Take a look at this example

But will check a way to do that by the webform ui API stuff settings.
Merge request !19Adding suport to specify which root property from the json response the... → (Merged) created by joaopauloc.dev
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🇧🇷Brazil joaopauloc.dev
Comment about 2 months ago →
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