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Define Resources

Resources are a collection of methods for a given data model.

Entities and Schemas declaratively define the data model. Endpoints are the methods on that data.

npm install --save @data-client/rest

createResource() constructs a namespace of RestEndpoints

TodoResource
import { Entity, createResource } from '@data-client/rest';

export class Todo extends Entity {
  id = 0;
  userId = 0;
  title = '';
  completed = false;

  pk() {
    return `${this.id}`;
  }
  static key = 'Todo';
}

export const TodoResource = createResource({
  urlPrefix: 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com',
  path: '/todos/:id',
  schema: Todo,
  searchParams: {} as { userId?: string | number } | undefined,
  paginationField: 'page',
});

/** Methods can be called as functions or used in hooks */

// GET https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/5
TodoResource.get({ id: 5 });
// GET https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos
TodoResource.getList();
// GET https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos?userId=1
TodoResource.getList({ userId: 1 });
// POST https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos
TodoResource.getList.push({ title: 'my todo' });
// POST https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos?userId=1
TodoResource.getList.push({ userId: 1 }, { title: 'my todo' });
// GET https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos?userId=1&page=2
TodoResource.getList.getPage({ userId: 1, page: 2 });
// PUT https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/5
TodoResource.update({ id: 5 }, { title: 'my todo' });
// PATCH https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/5
TodoResource.partialUpdate({ id: 5 }, { title: 'my todo' });
// DELETE https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/5
TodoResource.delete({ id: 5 });

To aid in defining Resources, composable and extensible protocol specific helpers are provided for REST, GraphQL, Image/binary, Websockets+SSE.

To use existing API definitions, or define your own protocol specific helpers, use Endpoint and schema.Entity from @data-client/endpoint. [See Async/Promise tab above]