I have a theme component where it sends a request to an external API to fetch some data during a page load. However, the Bearer token I use to fetch this data is naturally loaded in the script that the client has access to. Is there a way to create a plugin or something that will enable me to hide t…

Yes, you should indeed create a plugin, and define a controller method that fetches the data for you. Then, from the frontend code, call the controller method, which injects the bearer token server side, inaccessible for any third party, and makes the call to the external API.

[image] Richard - Communiteq: you should indeed create a plugin, and define a controller method that fetches the data for you. Rather than creating a new controller to do it (which isn’t clearly what Richard recommended) you can fairly easily add it to an existing serializer, something like …

Oh. Well, darn. That does sound true. :person_shrugging: @attj , this is one of many matters in which I trust what Richard says more than what I say. I’m afraid you’ll need to do the work to add a route and such, which is quite a few more lines of code ( probably only dozens). I think that Discour…

I guess I managed to write a plugin but I need to put it to github in order to include it in my app.yml. Which naturally exposes the token as well. Is there a way to get around this?

Just read the token from a site setting and input it there after installation.

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) September 5, 2022, 4:53pm 4

I think it’s a very bad idea to hook an external dependency into a serializer @pfaffman
If the external service goes down or is slow, then your forum will be down as well.

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