# @cubicweb/data-provider

Originally made for react-admin, this package 
provides a set of utility functions to handle entities
with the API.

It allows to generate RQL requests to get, update and
create entities and send those requests to the API
using @cubicweb/client. See [react-admin documentation](https://marmelab.com/react-admin/DataProviders.html#the-data-provider)
to learn how this interface works.

## Installation

@cubicweb/data-provider is available from NPM:
```bash
# With NPM
npm i @cubicweb/client
# Or with Yarn
yarn add @cubicweb/client
```

## Usage

This library exposes the `createDataProvider` function
to create a new data provider using a specific schema and client
from `@cubicweb/client`.

```js
import {Client, Schema} from "@cubicweb/client"
import {createDataProvider} from "@cubicweb/data-provider"

// First create your schema
import jsonSchema from "./schema.json"
const schema = new Schema(jsonSchema);

// Then your client
const client = new Client(BASE_URL)

// Use those to generate your data provider
const dataProvider = createDataProvider(client, schema)
```

## Future of this package

Please note we are trying to move away from this interface.
While it works for react-admin, the interface is
too restrictive for more complex CubicWeb applications.

We are planning on releasing similar helper functions
in another package without restrictions imposed by
react-admin's data-provider interface.

This data provider will then use those helper functions
se we can still use react-admin with CubicWeb.

## Contribute

All `@cubicweb` libraries are in the [cubicwebjs monorepo](https://forge.extranet.logilab.fr/cubicweb/cubicwebjs).
Please refer to the main README. 

## Get Help

Contact us on [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#cubicweb:matrix.logilab.org) and check the roadmap on the [CubicWeb Repository](https://forge.extranet.logilab.fr/cubicweb/cubicweb).