How do I remove a particular resource from the response entirely? about json-api HOT 10 CLOSED

it seems as though the way to do it is to replace the resource with undefined, but that logic is only applied to Collections

Yes, this is intentional, if I remember my thought process correctly. Basically, it's ok to remove a single resource from a response that returns a collection, because the resulting response (just the collection minus one item) is still a valid response. By contrast, a single resource request that doesn't return a resource needs to be an error (probably, but not necessarily, a 404; could also be a 403 etc).

So, I think the way to do what you want is to have your beforeRender transform throw an APIError with the appropriate details. Try that, and let me know if for some reason it doesn't work :)

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What I'm doing to getting /users which right now returns all users, but should return just the authenticated user (or more, depending on privileges). beforeRender is being called once on each of the users found.

Is this what you're talking about with throwing an APIError?

var APIError = require('json-api').types.Error

module.exports = {
    urlTemplates: {
        self: 'https://localhost:3000/users/{id}',
        relationship: 'https://localhost:3000/users/{ownerId}/relationships/{path}'
    },

    beforeRender: function(resource) {
        throw new APIError(500, undefined, 'Nope')
    }
}

This just hangs for me. Same result if I return the error.

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Ahh, ok. Then the fact that returning undefined doesn't work is just a bug. I think I know where it's coming from, and will push a fix in a sec.

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This is fixed now, so you should be able to just return undefined for the resources you want to remove. See the commit message if you're curious about what the bug was.

Edit: of course, you'll have to update to the newest version, 2.8.2

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Works perfectly. Thanks so much!

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Absolutely! Please lmk if you hit any other problems. Ideas for the library are also always welcome!

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Do you want me to report hangs when I find them? I've bumped into a few while doing things wrong. Now that I have things set up correctly it's all working fine, but it might be nice to give proper errors in those cases.

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Yeah, reporting those would be much appreciated! I definitely coded this library for the happy path, so the code isn't great about throwing errors where it should (though that's starting to improve as we add more tests).

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Sweet, I'll open some more issues. I'll send in a PR or two as well If I manage to get my head around generators

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Awesome! Thank you! I'll take a look at those issues later tonight :)

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