Filtering on user data

A common use case is the ability to store some representation of your Users resource and/or use a user_id as a filter for retrieving and managing data in your Clarabase instance.

For example, let's say you have a resource called BlogPosts , and each of your users has their own collection of BlogPosts. To retrieve the BlogPosts for a particular user, you would need to do the following:

• Add a field to the resource that you will key on doing filtering (i.e., `user_id`), and make it a required field

• When you make a requesst to GET or LIST the resource, add a filter by user_id. For example, given a user with id: 123, you can retrieve their posts like so:

  • GET /posts?q=user_id:123

If you're using GraphQL, you would set the "q" field in your "list" function, for example:

query listposts(q: String) {
    listposts(q: $q){
       ...
    }
}

# And in your data, you would send:
{
    "q": "user_id:123"
}

For more information on filtering, check out the Pagination & Filtering docs.

Note: currently there is no support for sensitive fields like passwords, all values are stored and transfer in plain text, so you should not store sensitive information like this in your Clarabase instance.