Filament•2mo ago

how to integrate existing APIs with filament

I have existing API app that I use for mobile applications. I want to integrate filament for some pretty views, but I want to integrate filament (create,update,list) with my existing API and not to default filament CRUD operation directly with eloquent models. For example I want to send submit form to my API p.s Route::post('/teachers', [TeacherController::class, 'store']); and edit to Route::put('/teachers/{id}', [TeacherController::class, 'update']); is it possible ? if Yes how can I do it, because Im not familiar with filament.

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Dennis Koch•2mo ago

Filament wasn’t made to work without Eloquent models. Some people fill the gap with the Sushi package by Caleb. We are trying to fix this with v4

AgonK•2mo ago

Also I worked with eloquent models, but while inserting and editing data a have a lot of business logic behind it, and i create custom services and because of that I want to send request directly to my endpoint to solve the issue Do you have any idea to do that ? @Dennis Koch

Dan Harrin•2mo ago

You can override the page classes which hold all the logic for saving etc you can call services from places like handleRecordCreation()

AgonK•2mo ago

Yes its work perfect with handleRecordCreation. But this method returns model instance. What if I need to get other type of response like status and message from api. How can I integrate it within this method @Dan Harrin

Dan Harrin•2mo ago

you can use a notification to do that, right? you can send a notification and still return the model alternatively you can step up a level and override the entire create() function, check out the parent class

AgonK•2mo ago

Hmm no I think I don’t need for override entire method. What I need is to make compatible with APIs response conventions. If status is false I want to show the message property and tell the user the error Without doing anything How can I do that in short term @Dan Harrin

Dan Harrin•2mo ago

throw a validation exception, which will halt the method?

AgonK•2mo ago

Sounds good! How can I throw? Inside the handle method ?

Dan Harrin•2mo ago

yup throw ValidationException::withMessages([]) etc

Frans•2mo ago

Looking forward on this! Thanks!

AgonK•2mo ago

@Dan Harrin this throw doesnt show any message like notification message. Did I miss something Throw break the request but message doesn’t appear

Dan Harrin•2mo ago

try this instead

Notification::make()
    ->title('Message here')
    ->danger()
    ->send();

throw new Halt();

Notification::make()
    ->title('Message here')
    ->danger()
    ->send();

throw new Halt();

throwing a validation exception will work but you need to prefix field names with data. to get the errors in the form. notification is probably cleaner, and the Halt exception is Filament\Support\Exceptions\Halt and Filament can catch that

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