Strapi : Add element in chid collection - rest

Question

I have two collection type Organizations and Employees.
Its a one to many relationship between Organization and Employee.
I want to add new employee in organization through rest api call in strapi.
Strapi doesn't provide :
http://localhost:1337/organizations/{id}/employees
How to do the update?

Answer 1

There is no already built in solution to do it.
But in Strapi you can create your own controller to match that route and handle all the logic needed in there.
You can check the info about custom controllers here

Answer 2

As Christian said, you will have to create your own route in your Organization API.
Create your route.
Path — api/organization/config/routes.json
{
"routes": [
{
"method": "POST",
"path": "/organizations/:id/employees",
"handler": "organization.cusom",
"config": {
"policies": []
}
},
...
]
}
Create the controller function.
To do so, I will copy the function from the default create one:
https://strapi.io/documentation/3.0.0-beta.x/concepts/controllers.html#core-controllers
Path — `api/organization/controllers/organizaion.js``
const { parseMultipartData, sanitizeEntity } = require('strapi-utils');
module.exports = {
async custom(ctx) {
let entity;
if (ctx.is('multipart')) {
const { data, files } = parseMultipartData(ctx);
entity = await strapi.services.employee.create(data, { files });
} else {
entity = await strapi.services.employee.create(ctx.request.body);
}
return sanitizeEntity(entity, { model: strapi.models.employee });
},
};
And set employee for the creation cause we want to create employee.
Force to use the right organization ID
module.exports = {
async custom(ctx) {
// get the id params from the URL
const {id} = ctx.params;
// force the relation to this specific organisation
ctx.request.body.organization = id;
if (ctx.is('multipart')) {
const { data, files } = parseMultipartData(ctx);
entity = await strapi.services.employee.create(data, { files });
} else {
entity = await strapi.services.employee.create(ctx.request.body);
}
return sanitizeEntity(entity, { model: strapi.models.employee });
},
};