Merge pull request #19342 from strapi/v5/model-api

chore: add a simple model registry

packages/core/core/src/Strapi.ts

@@ -198,7 +198,8 @@ class Strapi extends Container implements StrapiI {
       .add('sanitizers', registries.sanitizers())
       .add('validators', registries.validators())
       .add('content-api', createContentAPI(this))
-      .add('auth', createAuth());
+      .add('auth', createAuth())
+      .add('models', registries.models());
 
     // Create a mapping of every useful directory (for the app, dist and static directories)
     this.dirs = utils.getDirs(rootDirs, { strapi: this });
@@ -461,6 +462,8 @@ class Strapi extends Container implements StrapiI {
   async register() {
     await loaders.loadApplicationContext(this);
 
+    this.get('models').add(coreStoreModel).add(webhookModel);
+
     // init webhook runner
     this.webhookRunner = createWebhookRunner({
       eventHub: this.eventHub,
@@ -481,17 +484,15 @@ class Strapi extends Container implements StrapiI {
   }
 
   async bootstrap() {
-    this.db = await Database.init({
-      ...this.config.get('database'),
-      models: [
-        ...utils.transformContentTypesToModels([
-          ...Object.values(this.contentTypes),
-          ...Object.values(this.components),
-        ]),
-        coreStoreModel,
-        webhookModel,
-      ],
-    });
+    const models = [
+      ...utils.transformContentTypesToModels([
+        ...Object.values(this.contentTypes),
+        ...Object.values(this.components),
+      ]),
+      ...this.get('models').get(),
+    ];
+
+    this.db = await Database.init({ ...this.config.get('database'), models });
 
     this.store = createCoreStore({ db: this.db });
     this.webhookStore = createWebhookStore({ db: this.db });

packages/core/core/src/registries/index.ts

@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ export { default as config } from './config';
 export { default as apis } from './apis';
 export { default as sanitizers } from './sanitizers';
 export { default as validators } from './validators';
+export { registry as models } from './models';

packages/core/core/src/registries/models.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { Model } from '@strapi/database';
+
+export const registry = () => {
+  const models: Model[] = [];
+
+  return {
+    add(model: Model) {
+      models.push(model);
+      return this;
+    },
+
+    get() {
+      return models;
+    },
+  };
+};

packages/core/core/src/services/core-store.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { toString } from 'lodash/fp';
-import type { Model, Database } from '@strapi/database';
+import type { Database, Model } from '@strapi/database';
 
 const coreStoreModel: Model = {
   uid: 'strapi::core-store',

packages/core/database/src/index.ts

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import { createConnection } from './connection';
 import * as errors from './errors';
 import { Callback, transactionCtx, TransactionObject } from './transaction-context';
 import { validateDatabase } from './validations';
-
 import type { Model } from './types';
 
 export { isKnexQuery } from './utils/knex';
@@ -169,4 +168,5 @@ class Database {
   }
 }
 
-export { Database, errors, Model };
+export { Database, errors };
+export type { Model };

packages/core/database/src/metadata/index.ts

@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ export const createMetadata = (models: Model[] = []): Metadata => {
   for (const model of _.cloneDeep(models)) {
     metadata.add({
       ...model,
-      attributes: model.attributes,
+      attributes: {
+        ...model.attributes,
+      },
       lifecycles: model.lifecycles ?? {},
       indexes: model.indexes ?? [],
       foreignKeys: model.foreignKeys ?? [],