`<EditGuesser>`

Use <EditGuesser> to quickly bootstrap an Edit view on top of an existing API, without adding the inputs one by one.

Just like <Edit>, <EditGuesser> fetches the data. It then analyzes the response, and guesses the inputs it should use to display a basic <SimpleForm> with the data. It also dumps the components it has guessed in the console, so you can copy it into your own code.

Guessed Edit

Usage

You can use the <EditGuesser> component to determine which fields to use based on the data returned by the API.

// in src/App.js
import * as React from "react";
import { Admin, Resource, EditGuesser } from 'react-admin';
import jsonServerProvider from 'ra-data-json-server';

const App = () => (
    <Admin dataProvider={jsonServerProvider('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com')}>
        <Resource name="posts" edit={EditGuesser} />
    </Admin>
);

Then browse to the edition page for that resource, open the console, copy the code, paste it in a dedicated file (e.g. PostEdit.jsx in this example), and start tweaking it.

React-admin provides guessers for the Edit view (<EditGuesser>), the List view (<ListGuesser>), and the Show view (<ShowGuesser>).

Tip: Do not use the guessers in production. They are slower than manually-defined components, because they have to infer types based on the content. Besides, the guessers are not always perfect.