SquidexClientLibrary Update Singleton Content

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I have…

I’m submitting a…

  • [ ] Regression (a behavior that stopped working in a new release)
  • [ ] Bug report
  • [ ] Performance issue
  • [x] Documentation issue or request

Current behavior

I want to create a new app with the SquidexClientLibrary from nuget. After that I want to copy all contributers, schemas and contents from an existing template-app to the new app. This is all working well but after that I want to set the api client to a role that I can only get the client secret of the “reader”-client so that the api client cannot change content anymore or copy it a second time. Is this possible or should I save the secret of the reader client in another database before I delete him?

I found no method to update a contributers role.

Also it would be great if the methods of the library would have documentation comments. But I know that this would be much work…

Expected behavior

  1. API-Client creates new app
  2. API-Client copies contributers, schemas and contents from “template-app”
  3. API-Client sets own user to readonly, but needs to get the secret of user “reader” in future

Minimal reproduction of the problem

Environment

  • [ ] Self hosted with docker
  • [x] Self hosted with IIS
  • [ ] Self hosted with other version
  • [ ] Cloud version

Version: SquidexClientLibrary 6.4.0

Browser:

  • [x] Chrome (desktop)
  • [ ] Chrome (Android)
  • [ ] Chrome (iOS)
  • [ ] Firefox
  • [ ] Safari (desktop)
  • [ ] Safari (iOS)
  • [ ] IE
  • [ ] Edge

Others:

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Hi,

first about comments: The generated clients already have comments, but I need to enable them in the build I guess.

In the IAppsClient you should have all methods that you need, for example this method to change the contributor role: https://github.com/Squidex/squidex/blob/master/backend/tools/TestSuite/TestSuite.ApiTests/AppTests.cs#L169

But if you change the permission you might loose access, so you have to store the secret somewhere.

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Hi Sebastian,

thank you for your response.

But It looks like it’s not working. I’m getting this error: “You cannot change your own role.”

Maybe I should not change the user role and make some checks to not changing content on an existing app. This has one advantage: I can still get the secret of the reader client without writing it in another db.

Greetings
Chris

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If you are self hosting you can create admin client, I would use this for automation.

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Yes, you are right. I think so too, but my team leader said that he want to have the new app readonly for the service I am developing, after creating and copy of content is done. I solved it with proxy classes calling some methods only if the app does not exist. Now everything is working as expected. :+1:

Now I see on github, that there are comments in the generated code. It would be great if they are shown in the next release.

Thank you for your help!

Greetings Chris

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