Adding global data to FoF User Directory

nxmndr

Hi, I would like to add a total count of users in the FriendsOfFlarum /users page. I'm having kind of a hard time with this.

I see the /users API is called. I assume I should extend the ListUsersController with something like Extend\ApiController, correct ? Otherwise if I add a separate route, then other extensions who need to do similar things would end up with a lot of HTTP requests.

But I only see ways to add new columns, not separate/global data.

clarkwinkelmann

The /api/users endpoint doesn't indicate the user count natively, and adding this information might be more complex than it seems. It might require a middleware to add additional attributes into the JSON:API payload of the response.

A simpler solution is probably to calculate and cache this value globally, then return it as an attribute on the forum serializer. This is what this extension already does https://discuss.flarum.org/d/28403-afrux-forum-stats-widget

If you want to show the counter on the User Directory page, I'd suggest writing a javascript-only extension that reads the value from the Forum Stats Widget payload and injects it into the users page template.