stevanfreeborn•2y ago

How to call public query from action?

This seems like it should be super obvious, but I can't see to understand how to reference the public query within the runQuery method.

6 Replies

ballingt•2y ago

hm, what syntax are you trying to use? ctx.runQuery(api.file.myQuery) should do it

stevanfreebornOP•2y ago

Is that still valid if the action and query are in the same file?

jamwt•2y ago

Yep

stevanfreebornOP•2y ago

Okay I’ll try that. Thank you!

Cam•12mo ago

I noticed in the docs that internal queries are used in the examples, no security concerns with importing queries and calling them from an action like this?

import {api, internal} from "./_generated/api";

export const getWillyWeather = action({
    args: {locationID: v.number()}, handler: async (ctx, args) => {
        // Check if weather conditions exist, and are recent (no older than 20 minutes)
        const weatherLocation = await ctx.runQuery(api.weatherQueries.queryLocationByID, {id: args.locationID});
        const weatherConditions = await ctx.runQuery(api.weatherQueries.queryConditionsByLocationForeignKey, {locationID: weatherLocation._id});
        ...
    },
});

import {api, internal} from "./_generated/api";

export const getWillyWeather = action({
    args: {locationID: v.number()}, handler: async (ctx, args) => {
        // Check if weather conditions exist, and are recent (no older than 20 minutes)
        const weatherLocation = await ctx.runQuery(api.weatherQueries.queryLocationByID, {id: args.locationID});
        const weatherConditions = await ctx.runQuery(api.weatherQueries.queryConditionsByLocationForeignKey, {locationID: weatherLocation._id});
        ...
    },
});

lee•12mo ago

@Cam (maybe this could be another support thread?) it doesn't look like you're using internal queries in that example. Public queries are available for anyone to call. If the queries don't check auth and expose secure information, then that would be a security concern

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