Hi! I have a theoretical question: Is it possible to somehow catch a callback from an external API after executing a file.create:after hook within the panel without the need of a whole field-extending plugin? In detail: After a file(s) has/have been created its URL will be sent to a some other we…

The hook runs server-side, so you cannot make any changes to the frontend from such a hook. The only thing you can do from a hook, is throw an exception, which could also be a success message.

Ah ok thx! If you may: • would the success message be formatted like the native modal overlay or something else? • is it possible to catch the API response from the other server within the hook or do you maybe know of another way to catch the response? Thx!

[image] teh: is it possible to catch the API response from the other server within the hook or do you maybe know of another way to catch the response? If you send a request to a server, you always get a response.

hm yeah, but I don’t really get how to process the response : return [ 'hooks' => [ 'file.create:after' => function ($file) { // the servers credentials require_once('someapi.php'); $someAPIconnection('my_key', 'my_secret'); // url to be …

[image] teh: $response = json_encode($botr_api->call('/videos/create', $params)); What is this supposed to do? Does that call a kirby route?

Sorry, deleted it. It’s more like require_once('/path/to/jwplatform-php/init.php'); $api= new Jwplayer\JwplatformAPI('INSERT API KEY', 'INSERT API SECRET'); which is to communicate with their API It’s actually this library which is supposed to give easy access to their API: [image] jwpl…

Ah, ok, well, you definitely may not json_encode this api call. Then you have to check what you get back, try $response = $botr_api->call('/videos/create', $params); throw new Exception(dump($response)); Or use a debugger to explore the response.

Ah ok thx, I’ll see if this is within the range of my skills otherwise I’ll post it in the Jobs section I guess. Before I try though two questions: • would the file.create:after hook also throw the exception, say 30 seconds, after creating the file. Because the fetching by the other server might t…

Yes, you can try that yourself by letting the hook sleep for a while. The downside is that the exception modal always says error… Try this little hook as example: 'hooks' => [ 'file.create:after' => function ($file) { $response = Remote::get('https://api.publicapis.org/entries'); sleep(10); …

Thanks for the tip! [image] texnixe: Yes, you can try that yourself by letting the hook sleep for a while. But then it kind of makes no sense to use it, no? If it never says “success”. Or am I misunderstanding something?

File.create:after hook – catch callback from external API

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teh January 17, 2021, 1:39pm 14

Yeah that would be a solution as well however, there wouldn’t be any indication for the user that the fetching by the other server succeeded.

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