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Hey folks, for a module (a pagebuilder based on PageTable) I need to save some settings as JSON. The values are saved for each page table item (a pw page). It's working well, but I am looking for ways to improve the structure I have. As I'm not that experienced with JSON, maybe someone more experienced can take a look and tell me if my approach is good practice. My goal is to make all the items accessible by page id, without looping over them (using objects instead of arrays): // access from template with pw page var $jsonObject->items->{$page}->cssClass; Her is an example of my JSON structure: { "items": { "3252": { "id": "3252", "cssClass": "pgrid-main", "breakpoints": { "base": { "css": { "grid-column-end": "auto", "grid-row-end": "auto", "grid-column-start": "auto", "grid-row-start": "auto", "align-self": "auto", "z-index": "auto", "padding-left": "60px", "padding-right": "60px", "padding-top": "60px", "padding-bottom": "60px", "background-color": "rgb(255, 255, 255)", "color": "rgb(0, 0, 0)" }, "size": "@media (min-width: 576px)", "name": "base" } } }, "3686": { "id": "3686", "cssClass": "test_global", "breakpoints": { "base": { "css": { "grid-column-end": "-1", "grid-row-end": "span 1", "grid-column-start": "1", "grid-row-start": "auto", "align-self": "auto", "z-index": "auto", "padding-left": "0px", "padding-right": "0px", "padding-top": "0px", "padding-bottom": "0px", "background-color": "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)", "color": "rgb(0, 0, 0)" }, "size": "@media (min-width: 576px)", "name": "base" } } }, "3687": { "id": "3687", "cssClass": "block_editor-3687", "breakpoints": { "base": { "css": { "grid-column-end": "span 2", "grid-row-end": "span 1", "grid-column-start": "auto", "grid-row-start": "auto", "align-self": "auto", "z-index": "auto", "padding-left": "0px", "padding-right": "0px", "padding-top": "0px", "padding-bottom": "0px", "background-color": "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)", "color": "rgb(0, 0, 0)" }, "size": "@media (min-width: 576px)", "name": "base" } } }, "3696": { "id": "3696", "cssClass": "block_editor-3696", "breakpoints": { "base": { "css": { "grid-column-end": "span 2", "grid-row-end": "span 1", "grid-column-start": "auto", "grid-row-start": "auto", "align-self": "auto", "z-index": "auto", "padding-left": "0px", "padding-right": "0px", "padding-top": "0px", "padding-bottom": "0px", "background-color": "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)", "color": "rgb(0, 0, 0)" }, "size": "@media (min-width: 576px)", "name": "base" } } } }, "breakpointActive": "base", "breakpointActiveSize": "@media (min-width: 576px)" }

I try to integrate Flarum forum with PW via JSONAPI. First tests are fine (register user, create discussions, get data, ...). To get a valide token I send the username and password as a api call. If auth was successful I'll get the uid and a token back. This token have to be renewed after 30 minutes. To get the token I need username and (plain!) password. So how should I save the user credentials / handle the users? Just additional fields in the user profile username, password, token and uid as array (serialized + base64 encoded) Sync PW users with the remote app (hook PW auth and send a auth request via API call -> token returned = login OK) 1 and 2 would be flexible, but user credentials are saved as plain text! 3 is a secure solution (no plain credentials needed), but PW have to use a remote user backend / auth and maybe some things could be less flexible... Do you see any problems with that solution? Could it break features / modules?

At the moment I do some tests with a jsonapi and wrote a simple client before I found the WireHttp module: https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/blob/master/wire/core/WireHttp.php jsonapi needs also PATCH (edit, update) and DELETE method. I opened an issue at github for that. Maybe Ryan could add these two methods. WireHttp isn't hookable. That was my second feature request, because it would be great to hook into the module to check response and renew the api token if needed. patch() and delete() could be added as hook or by extend the WireHttp class, but added as native feature would be great. Anyone use the WireHttp class? I wrote a simple module to handle api requests before I found the WireHttp class. Would you recommend to switch to the WireHttp or use a custom json api module (based on file_get_contents() for example)?