Custom API endpoint

[ruihildt]

Hello,

I'm trying to create and install a custom API endpoints (as documented here: https://docs.directus.io/extensions/endpoints.html)

So I compiled the example given in the Directus doc, and put it in a file named index.js placed in /app/data/extensions/endpoints/test-endpoint/:

var a=a=>{a.get("/",((a,e)=>e.send("Hello, Word!!")))};export{a as default};

I restarted the Directus app and tried to go to https://example.com/test-endpoint and nothing happens.

What do I need to do to make it work?

[robi]

do you need a / at the end?

[ruihildt]

Doesn't improve.

[robi]

what does the app log say?

[ruihildt]

It's a standard 404, the route is not registered. It seems the file is not taken into consideration by Directus.

[robi]

The entrypoint of your endpoint is the index file inside the src/ folder of your extension package.

Try moving the index into test-endpoint/src/

[ruihildt]

@robi Same result.

[robi]

check their forum/github issues?

[nebulon]

Have you tried to give it an explicit id as mentioned in the docs?

[ruihildt]

Just tried, no dice.

[ruihildt]

I appreciate you're trying to help by asking me to do the basic checks, but the reason I ask for support here is because the whole plugin integration in Cloudron is different from the standard. (I started by checking the docs and other threads)

The closest I could find on the forum is someone struggling but then not answering @girish when asked for more details and this one where placing the files in the correct spots just worked.

[girish]

@ruihildt This works for me:

• First , create index.mjs (export keyword requires module support which is signaled by mjs extension)

• Then , in index.mjs, I have:

export default {
	id: 'helloworld',
	handler: (router) => {
		router.get('/', (req, res) => res.send('Hello, World!'));
		router.get('/intro', (req, res) => res.send('Nice to meet you.'));
		router.get('/goodbye', (req, res) => res.send('Goodbye!'));
	},
};

*IMPORTANT: Note the id above. This is the REST API route path

• Then, visiting via browser works:

/helloworld/goodbye and /helloworld/goodbye also works fine.

[girish]

@ruihildt said in Custom API endpoint:

I appreciate you're trying to help by asking me to do the basic checks, but the reason I ask for support here is because the whole plugin integration in Cloudron is different from the standard.

AFAICT, it's very much the same as the standard. The docs are not very clear and I had to tinker a bit to make it work . For example, it talks about some src subdirectory, I am not sure what that is. It says index, but it's actually index.mjs . So, there's a bunch of errors in their docs.

[ruihildt]

Thank you for helping me make it work.

Strange this .mjs thing with them, I'm going to open an issue with them.