TIL: How to Set a Relationship on Golang Pocketbase
Pocketbase is a backend as a service, it is very nice because it is written in Golang it can compile down to a single binary. It also allows us to extend it using Golang and use it as a framework. In my case, I needed some extra logic before adding data to the database so I decided to extend Pocketbase and write some of my business logic.
Part of the code involved adding some entries to the Database including a relationship. However, I noticed that the relationship looked different in the Pocketbase GUI as compared with the ones I created using the Pocketbase client in the SvelteKit part of my app.
The other relationships showed up a bit differently, they didn’t include the id of the relationship (as a foreign key) but rather a field
on the other collection. In the example below the relationship field I am referencing is the bookmark_metadata. Which uses the title field.
Where the bookmark metadata may look like:
We can achieve this using the following code:
bookmarkRecord := models.NewRecord(collection)
bookmarkRecord.Set("bookmark_metadata", []string{metadataRecord.Id})
bookmarkRecord.Set("favourite", false)
bookmarkRecord.Set("collection", collectionID)
bookmarkRecord.Set("custom_order", math.MaxInt32)
The key being that we set bookmark_metadata as a slice (array).
However, if we did:
bookmarkRecord.Set("bookmark_metadata", metadataRecord.Id)
In the GUI the record would look like this:
Both options will work for setting up a relationship between two collections. I just wanted to show you how you can set it so it shows up like relationship created via the JS SDK. You can read more about creating records with Golang here.