How to access Category custom fields in Plugins

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Prefacing, this is for a plugin that needs to know Category custom_fields for creating a button in the before-create-topic plugin-outlet. I also need to use this in the after-topic-footer-main-buttons connector.

I’m likely missing something incredibly simple here…

I can use the following in the initializer to get the category class… sortof

const controller = api.container.lookup("controller:navigation/category");

When I print that out, I can see various properties. In the devconsole, I can see category: (...). When I click (..) I can see custom_fields and the field I’m looking for. How can I get to this from plugin API??

I’ve tried various forms of “getting” the property, but all return undefined.

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You might back up and say what you’re trying to do. Mostly, the data you need is already available. If not, you might use Ajax to pull it in, in a theme, or add it to the serializer, in a plugin.

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I’m trying to get a custom field from my category. Sorry that wasn’t clear before. I’ve updated the OP with more information.

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That’s more information than I understood before… . . Something like this in plugin.rb:

  add_to_serializer(:category, :your_plugin) do
    some_stuff
  end

I think what you want to do, though, is look for some other plugins that are likely to add stuff to the serializer. I think that Topic Ratings Plugin or Topic List Previews should be good ones to look at, and hopefully it’ll be “obvious” (but only after you’ve spent hours doing a bunch of other “obvious” things, if you’re llike me).

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The variable is already added to the serializer. I’m trying to access these within JS. I thought I’d get it from the controller variable I mentioned in the original post, but I don’t understand how to get to it.

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