Custom Resource

Adonis Cockpit has been build with extensibility in mind by giving you a BaseResource abstract class to connect with any kind of datasource.

// title: app/cockpit/custom_resource.ts
import { BaseResource } from 'adonis-cockpit'
 
type Record = {
  id: string
  name: string
}
 
export default class CustomResource<Record> extends BaseResource {
  name() {
    return 'custom'
  }
 
  // ...
}

// title: start/cockpit.ts
import cockpit from 'adonis-cockpit/services/main'
import CustomResource from '#cockpit/custom_resource'
 
cockpit.register(CustomResource)

Keys

id

The idKey correspond to the propertyKey of your record identifier.

export default class CustomResource<Record> extends BaseResource {
  idKey() {
    return 'id'
  }
}

title

The titleKey is used to display the title/name of a record.

export default class CustomResource<Record> extends BaseResource {
  titleKey() {
    return 'name'
  }
}

Labels and Slug

slug

The slug is used to generate the different routes in your Cockpit panel. It is optional as it defaults to the pluralized name of your resource.

export default class CustomResource<Record> extends BaseResource {
  slug() {
    return 'customs'
  }
}

label & labelPlural

The labels are the friendly name of your resource. It is optional as it defaults to the capitalized name of your resource.

export default class CustomResource<Record> extends BaseResource {
  name() {
    return 'Custom'
  }
 
  namePlural() {
    return 'Customs'
  }
}

CRUD Operations

Retrieve

The retrieve method is used to retrieve a single record using the idKey.

export default class CustomResource<Record> extends BaseResource {
  retrieve(id: RecordId): Promise<Record> {
    return customApi.find(id)
  }
}

Create

The create method is used to create a single record.

export default class CustomResource<Record> extends BaseResource {
  create(data: any): Promise<Record> {
    return customApi.create(data)
  }
}

List

The list method is used to list records. It must return a SimplePaginator containing your records.

export default class CustomResource<Record> extends BaseResource {
  list(params: ApiIndexParams): Promise<SimplePaginator<Record>> {
    const result = customApi.list(params)
    return new SimplePaginator(result.total, result.perPage, result.page, ...result.items)
  }
}

Delete

The delete method is used to delete one or multiple records with their ids.

export default class CustomResource<Record> extends BaseResource {
  delete(...ids: RecordId[]): Promise<void> {
    const promises = ids.map((id) => customApi.delete(id))
    return promises.all()
  }
}

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