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useSaveContext

useSaveContext grabs the save callback prepared either by useEditController or useCreateController. It is used by <Form> to provide a default submit handler.

import { useSaveContext } from 'ra-core';
const { save, saving, mutationMode } = useSaveContext();

You can create a custom SaveContext to override the default save callback:

import { SaveContextProvider } from 'ra-core';
const MyComponent = () => {
const save = data => {
console.log(data);
}
const saving = false;
const mutationMode = "pessimistic";
return (
<SaveContextProvider value={{ save, saving, mutationMode }}>
<MyForm />
</SaveContextProvider>
);
}

useSaveContext returns an object with the following keys:

const {
save, // Create or update callback which receives form data and calls dataProvider
saving, // Boolean, true when dataProvider is called
mutationMode, // Current mutation mode, either 'undoable', 'optimistic' or 'pessimistic'
} = useSaveContext();