Modify Response Object in strapi

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I would like to get a modified response object. For example I dont know how to get the user object without the roles.

The default response is:

{
    "id": 6,
    "username": "username",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "provider": "local",
    "confirmed": true,
    "blocked": false,
    "role": {
        "id": 2,
        "name": "Authenticated",
        "description": "Default role given to authenticated user.",
        "type": "authenticated"
    }
}

Now I want to get the same response without the role attribute.

{
    "id": 6,
    "username": "username",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "provider": "local",
    "confirmed": true,
    "blocked": false
}

capaci · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-03 02:09:24Z

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Currently you cannot do this in the Rest API unless you change the UserController provided by permissions plugin, which is not recommended.

What you can do then is to use the GraphQL plugin provided by Strapi, so you can query only the fields you need on client side.

The docs about how to use GraphQL plugin are here.

answered Mar 3, 2019 at 2:09

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jens van lierop · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-11 10:56:50Z

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For anyone still struggling with this problem:

The latest versions of strapi do support custom queries, you can pass an array containing all the names of relations you wish to populate (only relations!).

If you don't want to populate any relationships, you can keep it empty, your controller would then look something like this:

module.exports = {    
UserWithoutRoles: ctx => {
      return strapi.query('user').findOne({ id: ctx.params.id }, ['']);
    }
}

If you do wish to populate it, it would be like this:

module.exports = {    
UserWithoutRoles: ctx => {
      return strapi.query('user').findOne({ id: ctx.params.id }, ['role']);
    }
}

Also see: [https://strapi.io/documentation/3.0.0-beta.x/concepts/queries.html#api-reference][1]

answered May 11, 2020 at 10:56

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Fjallbacka Over a year ago

Is there any way of returning a custom object as reponse? for instance, instead of returning the sanitized object from a query, I want to return an object containing that response and other properties. If I do return {i: obj, j: obj} I get an unauthorized error

jens van lierop Over a year ago

Access to new custom routes is restricted by default. Have you tried enabling permission to these routes? This can be either done programmatically (see strapi.io/documentation/3.0.0-beta.x/plugins/…) or in the admin panel under 'Roles and Permissions'

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