how to correctly access nested fields

[MartinConde]

I feel like I'm missing something obvious but after not being able to figure it for a while, I figured I'd ask here.
I have some nested blocks, which when using the "regular" sdk, I can get like so:

...
fields: [
  "*",
  {
    blocks: [
      "collection",
      {
        item: {
          block_hero: ["*"],
          block_intro: ["*"],
          block_cards: ["*"],
          block_image: ["*"],
          block_gallery: ["*.*"],
        },
      },
    ],
  },
];

However when I try to do the same thing using this module and following the useAsyncData example in the docs, it doesn't return any of the blocks, only the first set of "first-level" fields that it grabs using '*'.`
Doing something like

fields: ['*.*.*.*']

does return everything but I'd just like to figure out how to properly return the selected data.

Any pointers on what I might be missing to get this working would be much appreciated!

[sandros94]

That is indeed an SDK only feature, for now.

Since version 5.x of this module (and the current rewrite, still unreleased, at #273 ) are based on Nuxt's $fetch we must work with the normal RestAPI syntax, this means that in your usecase you would have something like:

fields: [
  '*',
  'blocks.collection',
  'blocks.item.block_hero.*',
  'blocks.item.block_intro.*',
  'blocks.item.block_cards.*',
  'blocks.item.block_image.*',
  'blocks.item.block_gallery.*.*',
]

Please remember that you can have * wildcard in-between levels, like: *.item.* or blocks.*.*.id

This might be something I will experiment with in a later date.

[MartinConde]

Thanks a lot! Just in case anybody else stumbles upon this, the simplest way to get a list of all the blocks with the respective collection name for conditional rendering and whatnot, was simply:

fields: [
      'blocks.collection',
      'blocks.item.*',
]

[sandros94]

I'm going to close this for now, since I would like to focus on an initial release of the rewrite and revisit this in a later date.

Please do comment or re-open it if something might come to mind!