Support for resource nesting

Question

I am wondering, is it possible to configure DataProvider/Resource/List to support REST urls like api/users/1/roles?

For RESTful API it is very common us

Answer 1

TL;DR: By default, React Admin doesn't support nested resource, you have to write a custom data provider.

This question was answered on a past issue: maremelab/react-admin#261

Detailed Answer

The default data provider in React Admin is ra-data-simple-rest.

As explained on its documentation, this library doesn't support nested resources since it only use the resource name and the resource ID to build a resource URL:

In order to support nested resources, you have to write your own data provider.

Nested resources support is a recurrent feature request but, at the time, the core team don't want to handle this load of work.

I strongly suggest to gather your forces and write an external data provider and publish it like ra-data-odata provider. It would be a great addition and we will honored to help you with that external package.