Directus Flow for Multiple Unique Indexes

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Directus Flow for Multiple Unique Indexes

Context:

• owners collection

• sellers collection

• countries collection

• shipping_rates collection

  • Fields:

    • seller_id: Many-to-One Relationship Field -> Sellers (key = seller_id)

    • country_id: Many-to-One Relationship Field -> Countries (key = country_id)

    • shipping_rate: Input Field (for shipping rate)

Sellers are only assigned one shipping rate per country.

For example:

• Assume there are currently two sellers in the sellers collection; Seller A and Seller B.

• Assume two countries are currently available in countries collection; Egypt and United States.

• Assume an owner can add shipping_rates to sellers.

• Owner creates two shipping rates. One rate is Seller A, Egypt, $5 and another rate of Seller A, United States, $6 (two items now created in shipping_rates collection for Seller A.)

• Once both Shipping Rates are created for the two Countries, owner should try to add a third shipping rate to Seller A, for either Egypt or United States, resulting in an error being thown and error message displayed in a modal.

• Same scenario for owner creating shipping rates for Seller B and so on.

Basically, only one shipping rate, per country AND per seller is allowed.

Create New Flow -> Event Hook -> Filter (Blocking)

Note: do not select a Response Body, leave it blank.

Read Data operation (key: unique_indexes)

{
  "filter": {
    "seller_id": {
      "_eq": "{{ $trigger.payload.seller_id }}"
    },
    "country_id": {
      "_eq": "{{ $trigger.payload.country_id }}"
    }
  }
}

Note: we use this query to check if seller_id and country_id both already exists.

Run Script operation (key: script)

module.exports = async function (data) {
  return { output: data.unique_indexes.length === 0 ? true : false };
};

Note: checking unique_indexes array if it's empty return { output: true } else return { output: false }

unique_indexes comes from previous Read Data operation's key.

Update: the following steps can be removed if you do the following in the Run Script Operation^: https://gist.github.com/Natetronn/9bafd1722a2b67b9bf4528e45992baa2?permalink_comment_id=4762238#gistcomment-4762238

Condition operation

{
  "script": {
    "output": {
      "_eq": true
    }
  }
}

Note: script is the key from the previous operation's and output is the object key from the returned value of its code. If condition is true create item (don't block). If condition is false run script to throw error; payload isn't passed and item isn't created; instead an error modal is displayed with the throw new error message.

Run Script (throw_error):

module.exports = async function (data) {
  throw new Error("This country already exists, add another one!");
  return {};
};

The Completed Flow:

This is in response to no composite key support currently in Directus.

We're using a Flow to avoid the creation of an extension; as cube-dan suggested in the same discussion here.

The following discussion assisted in checking for empty payload array.

A cooperative effort by Abdallah-Awwad and myself.

great !!!

Hello there, thank you for this great example. As we will be using this a lot in our instance. I had a look at reducing the complexity of the flow.
I was able to remove the last condition and run_script instance, by putting the check directly into the first script instance:

module.exports = async function (data) {
    if (data.unique_indexes.length !== 0) {
  		throw new Error("An entry for this key already exists (duplicate).");
    }
}

My flow looks like this now:

In my test, this achieved the same output.

Hello there, thank you for this great example. As we will be using this a lot in our instance. I had a look at reducing the complexity of the flow. I was able to remove the last condition and run_script instance, by putting the check directly into the first script instance:

module.exports = async function (data) {
    if (data.unique_indexes.length !== 0) {
  		throw new Error("An entry for this key already exists (duplicate).");
    }
}

My flow looks like this now:

In my test, this achieved the same output.

That actually makes more sense, thanks for sharing!

@BI-MarcB nice! That simplifies it a bit, thanks for sharing.

Thanks to both of you.

I know it's been a long time, but since in the recent releases, Directus doesn't support showing the error messages to non admin users in the flows issue link
Here is an extension doing the same thing to avoid the issue:
https://github.com/DatacenturiesDataC/directus-extensions-validate-two-dates