nowdatabase/documentation/functionality/put_requests_for_db_entries.md

Entries to database

Both editing and creating new entries go via same route in the app. Following things are needed for an entry (examples are from species) to work:

• Backend:

  • A put-route in corresponding routes file that calls requireOneOf to check user rights, a validation function to check the data and the writer function to insert the data to the database and return the id of the entry if all checks pass.
  • A validator and a write functions in services for the route to call.

• Frontend:

  • Specific validators are defined here.
  • An api-endpoint for edit needs to be defined in reducers (this serves for creating a new entry as well)
  • An onWrite-function needs to be defined with the help of the api-endpoint and call navigate-function to end up in the details-view of the edited/created entry. (At the moment there's a 15ms time-out before the navigation for species as sometimes it tried to navigate before knowing where to (no id yet). This could be investigated if this is a more general bug or something weird happening only in species)