Cockpit: How to get single collection entries?

Created on 5 Jul 2018 · 5Comments · Source: agentejo/cockpit

Hi, how do I get single collection entries for single pages? Using a collection for case studies but don't understand how to get the content of a single entry based on slug for example.

// all entries
collections/get/Case?token=mytoken

// get single entry
how?

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jesperlandberg

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^ sure you could make a POST request, but why? It won't be cacheable and you'll have preflight overhead. Also it's semantically incorrect as you're not POSTing data you're GETting data. _I have argued with Artur about this before, I don't think he should put the snippet you've included here on his website because IMO it's bad practice_

gryphonmyers on 19 Jul 2018

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Hi @jesperlandberg,

I am not sure if I properly understood your requirement but it seems to me that you are looking for Singletons (only available in the @next branch). Singletons are useful for single entry points (e.g. Home, About us, etc) since they provide a single, translatable page.

If you still want/need to use collections, you'll have to get the first entry of the collection in the response data. E.g.

response.data.entries[0]

ricardobrandao on 16 Jul 2018

hi @ricardobrandao

To make it clearer. Imagine a blog. You would have a list with blog posts, and for each a "read more" link, which takes you to an article page. On this page I would like to retrieve only the data for this particular entry.

jesperlandberg on 17 Jul 2018

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// all entries
collections/get/Case?token=mytoken

// get single entry
collections/get/Case?token=mytoken&filter[_id]=myentryid

gryphonmyers on 17 Jul 2018

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// all entries
collections/get/Case?token=mytoken

// get single entry
collections/get/Case?token=mytoken

const options = {
    method: "POST",
    headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      filter: {
        _id: myentryid
      }
    })
  };